Our Nissan Almera 2.2d won't start, although the remote key will open the doors and let us in. The local Nissan dealer said the ECU (of which the immobiliser is part) had failed –replacement £650. ECU Testing have been able to part test the ECU and report that it is fine, but cannot test the immobiliser. Is there any other way we can try to get the immobiliser fixed without having to spend £650? (The garage's quote) Could anyone break the immobiliser rolling key code and then re-code the key? The car is 7 years and 145K miles old so the other alternative is to scrap it. But I'd like to fix it if I can. Read more

I have just purchased a 1 year old Qashqai 2.00dci 4x4 and can hear what I believe what may be a turbo whine. Should I be concerned and how should I aprroach the dealer or Nissan?. Read more

I recently had my XF 12 month service at my local Jag dealership and was informed that the rear right tyre was on "amber"- the middle section of the tyre measuring 3mm. Is this normal after only 8,000 miles of light driving? Read more

Hi,

Sorry for the rather strange topic title, anyway on Monday I was driving back from work and on my way to my local Tesco station to fill up with Diesel and the fiel guage was reading about a few millimiters above the area where it would normally beep and display fuel low(or something to that effect) I have never intentionally driven my 206 in the reserve for fear of both running out of fuel and also sucking up a load of crap from the fuel tank.

Driving along nicely and then the engine management light came on along with a beep and anti pollution fault(which is something that has popped up ever now and then-my 206 does not have a FAP filter system) so I tried to start it and it wouldn't...I had to call the AA in the end which had to tow me back to my house(less than 2 miles away) but before doing so he tried various things like asking the obvious if there was sufficient fuel in the tank etc etc(which there was according the the guage) and upon connecting it to his computer it came back a fault relating to the error code P1112 fuel rail pressure.

Got it back to my house and after more faffing about he sprayed some easy start in the intake and asked me to turn the engine over and it did for about a second....5 litres of diesel in the tank and the poxy thing started with no problems other than a flattened battery from attempting to crank it over several times by myself and him. However- driving it now it's sluggish, more so in first and second gear(it feels like there is no boost going on) and you feel like your not moving at all sometimes, but once you get it going to can drive along a flat bit of motorway at 70 fine(adding more speed seems to take much longer than usual when driving at speed as I've noticed)

The last 2 days it had illuminated the engine management light and also beeped anti pollution fault on the central display whilst driving it along or from initial startup-this does not happen anymore for some strange reason, I did crap myself when this first happened as it had done this before and cut out, this is not the case now as I have since to see the light appear!!

Could the turbo be on it's way out or gone completely or maybe the injectors?? I could not get the top of the fuel filter housing off as I was going to check the fuel filter to see if that was gunked up and possibly replace the filter. I did notice a little bit of smoke when revving it in first gear to built up speed(albeit slowly) but there appears to be no more after asking a friend to follow me home and keep an eye on things.

Mike. Read more

Hi, people!

I got the timing belt changed in October in a local garage, then a rocker snapped out 27 miles after I took the car out of the garage. The guys took the car back into the service and told me that I had to pay another £500 to get the cam follower replaced. When I took the car out of the garage this second time, it was running OK until last week, when exactly the same ting happened, with the only difference that the engine wouldn't start this time at all. I had to get them to take the vehicle back to the garage and check it once again. Now they come to me saying that another cam follower snapped out, and that they advised me to change them all the previous time (which they didn't). They are now advising me "again" to change all cam followers and want me to pay for the whole service, regardless of the fact that the labour and parts are still under warranty. They say that it is a "coincidence" that the parts snap out one after the other, right after I have changed the timing belt. The car was running perfectly before that (for 102.000 miles). I am only a woman and I don't know much about engines, but it doesn't seem right at all to me.... Read more