November 2010
My R reg fiesta keeps blowing fueses, the RAC have said it could be the fuel pump, however it also has a problem of cutting out when slowing down but they said its not related. i have taken to three different garages but beacause it doesn,t do it all the time they can;t find anything wrong. I don't want to buy a new pump if this is not the problem. Please help as it is driving me mad and no one can give me any answers! Read more
if a main dealer is changing a clutch is it policy to change the slave cylinder the vehicle had 60000 miles on the clock Read more
Standard clutch overhaul usually consists of replacing three items:-driven plate,clutch cover and thrust bearing.
Any other clutch-related items are only replaced if showing signs of excess wear or fluid leakage....
Hi all!!! My wee 406 is sick. was driving about town and noticed the temp very high. When i got home i checked the radiator and it had oil in it. I then checked the oil and it was empty with air bubbles on the dip stick..... I need advice on the problem of which i think is the head gasket, and how to source the part cheeply. You know the craic, comin up on Christmas with two kiddies, this needs to be a shoe string fix. thanks for your time
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Just been watching a motoring program on N24 and it explained what the word Mito means,its actually short for Milan and Torino where they apparently make them.
Piece of useless information. Read more
I think it was going to be called 'Milano' but the workers in Turin objected.
Subjectively it looks to me as if Fiats and Alfas are the subject of fewer complaints on this forum than they used to - indeed there are plenty of other makes which feature more often....
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my garage phoned me up earlier and want to offer a brand new 107 for the same, or even slightly less monthly payments. My lease agreement doesn't end until next August??... Read more
Got a similar offer on a sale not lease-offered new car,lower payments(HP),paused long enough to ask "what colours available?".Three days ,later-new car.I can only think that they had a customer for the car I owned and were trying to move what I was offered.However going back to that dealer several years later,I was told that neither the salesman or the sales manager was employed by them any longer-commenting that they made more on their sales than we did!
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recently i have changed the engine of peugeot expert 2003 2.0 hdi engine from 16v to an 8v, now the car starts up and then immediately shuts down. Is there any fix to this problem.... Read more
Did you change all the electrics including the ecu. Your time scale is not clear has it run properly at one time or not.
car four years old 21000 miles and time for a new cambelt. vw maindealer £299
Independent £270... Read more
,time has a great deteriation on belts not nessasarily milage.
Only when measured in decades. The original fan belt on my 1980 TR7 is still satisfactory - as was the cambelt on our ten yr old Passat with more than 240,000m. Modern belts only break if something makes them break. ...
My speedometer is fluctuating and the abs & asr warning lights come on. This is an intermittent fault. Some pne said it could be the gearbox speedo sensor but I have no idea how to take it off and fit a new one. Can any one help? Read more
Thanks. Will do.
Car stalls while driving, Has had new Fuel Filter & oil filters, one day its ok next day will stop, Any one out there had that problem,Ford Garage did Diognostic check and said they could try something which would cost £130 but wouldn't guarentee would solve the problem Read more
I recently advertised my Mitsubishi in Auto Trader for my car to appear in the magazine and the internet. I was contacted by a person who claimed to want buy the car for the full price for his son and he would arrange for a courier to come down to pick the car up. I agreed and asked how he would like to pay for the car? He wanted to use Paypal and sometime later a e-mail came through to me that he had paid in full and I should receive confirmation shortly. The Paypal e-mail followed with all the correct logos and type face, saying the funds had been withheld until a £300.00 fee payable to a guy in Liverpool would have to be made before the transaction could go through. I smelt a rat straight away, the Paypal e-mail was from someone c/o Paypal in the address line and the whole thing was a scam to get a fee before disappearing into the night.
Auto Trader is becoming a popular hunting ground for scams and this one was a bit pathetic to say the least. If you are selling your car through Auto Trader just make sure if someone offers a Paypal method of payment check your account with them before doing anything else. E-mails saying the funds are there just might be fake.... Read more
Ref the payment issue,
im a small time car dealer and regularly take in cash.about 4 years ago i took two thousand pounds to my local bank, included in which were a couple of forged twenties.the bank seized them .b***** annoying. i had no idea....
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Thank you for your reply, i will get my garage to take a look. Would this be the reason for the cutting out when slowing down (although not all the time) as well, as the RAC guy seems to think its a different problem?