April 2011
Can someone advise me on this please? My car which is a 2003 1.9tdi Passat manual 5 speed. Was hit on the passenger front wheel and wing. My car was stationary at the time(parked) waiting for the wife. My car was pushed again'st the kerb and subsequently up it. The car suffered a damaged wing/bumber and the steering is way out. Apart from this the car sounds and drives fine apart from pulling to the right. My insurance has authorised a garage to take the car for estimates. I drove my car after the accident for 5 miles to my home and it drove without any noise. the garage sent a driver to collect the car. He made a list of the damage and gave me a copy. Then he drove it away, with no problems or noise. The garage has been authorised to carry out the repairs, "great i thought, until I phoned the garage to get an approx time of completion" they said to me "is that the car with the flywheel gone" I said that I know nothing about a flywheel problem. Not waisting any time, I went to the garage to see what they were on about. When they started it up it sounded like a box of bolts clanking around loudly. they said it just popped when they were moving it from one part of the car park to another. I said that there was no sign of any noise before it came into their garage. But they said it's common and they can suddenly just go like that. Is this true? my insurance company is going to instruct them to get images of the flywheel, which will mean taking the gearbox off. Then they will get back to me. Regards Pete Read more
i have a peugeot 406 hdi 110 estate , recentley it developed an intermitant fault on the abs , the abs warning light would come on when it felt like it , some times the abs could be opperated when stopping in dry warm conditions , after much searching i found the near side abs sensor ring was lose and cracked , this is on the cv joint , i did not want to replace the joint or the drive shaft as nothing else wrong with it and all the time and trouble to do the job plus the pound notes , the solution is simple , yes you have uesed it glue it back on , but what to use ? not much bonds to metal very well nut there is one compound that is designed to bond to metal , its a bouning agent made by LOCKTIGHT , its LOCKTIGHT 603 , this superceds LOCKTIGHT 601 its green runny when it comes out of the tube , pull the abs ring away from the cv joint , do not clean the rust off as this will aid as a key for it to bond too , coat the cv joint surfaceall around including the bevel part that it butts up on , slide the ring back on and push it up so it rests against the bevel , ( do not clamp the ring up in any way ) now drible the LOCKTIGHT all around the edges of the ring rotating the drive shaft as you do so , capilary actin will draw it under the ring tthus filling the small gap caused by the split in the ring and it expanding ,,leave it over night , do not move the car at all , the LOCKTIGHT will cure over night and set , when it has set you will not be able to move the ring at all , it sets like concreat , to soften it ( should you feel the need ) you will need a blow lamp to get it to unbond , and hey presto job done abs all ok and all for a little over £7.00 and done without removeing anything except the road wheel to gain decent access Read more
yes its holding and no further problems , abs ok , normal breaking ok , all sorted
i have recently had a new alternator and battery fitted and since then my built in sat nav will no longer work .Says (initialising) but gets no further .Any ideas ?Have also tried ejecting disc but will not eject ! Read more
hello again !
Have checked and is 4canbus. Would have taken it back to garage but had a disagreement over work done and price .Would never go there again wish had taken it to vauxhall !!!! Am just off to Halfords for temporary sat nav till hopefully mine gets fixed.Will await your reply...
Hello,
Could I ask for some opinion about my three fault codes? I took my 2005 206 1.4 HDI to the garage yesteday as the engine fault light had come on and we were in limp home mode (although limiting a diesel to 3000r.p.m is hardly limping.....)
The garage brought up the fault codes as follows:
P0087 - fuel rail/system pressure too low
P0480 - Cooling fan 1 control circuit malfunction
P0692 - Unknown fault code.
So, obviously I'd like to know what that last fault code refers to. I'd also like to know which of these faults triggered the engine fault light? Could the car have been running quite happily for some time with one of these faults? I had not noticed anything unusual in the cars behaviour prior to the light coming on.
thanks for your help
Ben Read more
If you google it,it comes up as another cooling fan fault.
Never did get around to saying thank-you. So thanks. Fan control electrics had suffered water ingress and had fallen to pieces. Motor was virtually seized too....
hi my vectra c on 53 plate diesel 2.0 has the spanner light on when you start up and goes out after a few seconds , i put my autel diagnostic machine on it and comes up with code p 1483 , refer to owners service manual , i hope some one can help me thanks Read more
It may be on the rad cowling?
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Maybe that's why it was put into auction in the first place? The CEL puts the fear of God into people-when often the problem is minor and easy to fix. Just glad I don't have one! I decide when the car's sick, not a computer.
can any one tell me how to check if the injectors are working?
can i check the voltage whilst cranking? or how can i tell how much pressure is in the rail? Read more
http://www.ilexa.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12323.20
Very specialist equipment is required to measure the pressure....
I came accross your site by luck, and did find out that we were not the only one troubled by fuel injector failure. When injector 1 failed, the car had only 55k miles and was 6 years old.....and did cost £880 to fix at a local garage. It was repaired but they said that the other 3 are likely to fail soon.
This happened indeed 3,000 miles later. I rang VW customer care (08000 833 920) straight away and they were surprisingly conforting! We had to get the car towed to the nearest VW garage for official diagnostic. Injector N.2 failed and the recommendation was to have the other 2 injectors changed too. Initially, and after a bit of discussion between the garage and VW, they agreed to cover 50% of the total bill for all 3 injectors. But luckily, apparently a new directive within VW regarding this specific issue is to reimburse100% of the cost! If this happens to you, remember to have the car towed to an official VW garage first to start the procedure and rand VW customer care straight away. Hope this post is helpfull! Read more
To the best of my knowledge, only Bosch solenoid actuated injectors were fitted to the US spec. PD engines and sold there. If anyone has more accurate data I would be interested to see it.
My suspicions are that VAG were unsure (or uneasy) of the long term reliability of these Siemens injectors and did not want to risk selling them in the US when the PD engine was introduced there in '05. The Bosch solenoid injectors have been highly relaible in Europe since '00 and must represent a safer option in sensitive market. VAG (in Audi guise) had been kicked very hard in a sensitive spot by their Road Safety Administration at some time previously over allegedly unadmitted safety problems and no doubt VAG had no taste for a repeat showing....
I ve got a misfire on my vectyra at all engine speeds, on closer inspection I found that number 1 and 2 plugs not firing. I had the diagnostic machine pluged in and it said cylinders 1 and 2 misfiring.
I ve replaced the big coil pack (second hand item) on top of the plugs and replaced the plugs but I still have a misfire on cylinders 1 and 2 any ideas anyone? Read more
And make you less attractive to the opposite sex while you're about it.
I can't comment on the ecotec, but I average considerably better than the official fuel consumption, car sails through the MOT emissions test, and has a stable idle. Spark plug is set to .0.03", tiny by today's standards. Engine is on original coil packs after 120,000 miles...
The idea that a big gap gives faster combustion is fanciful. If the mixture is properly prepared, a tiny gap is perfctly sufficient. A big gap is a band-aid to poor mixture preparation. If you need it, use it, otherwise set as low as you can without misfiring at idle.
OK, I just bought a car off eBay, unseen. I thought, that's fine, it's paid for via Paypal and it it doesn't run then I have some protection.
Well, guess what thhe car wasn't road worthy and the dealer wouldn't fix it or give me my money back. So, first thing I do is go to Paypal. Paypal says they can't do anything as I picked it up in person.... Read more
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No the driver never reported it. And he gave me a slip/receipt and that says nothing about it. They did not even call me about it. I called them to get an approximate time for the repairs. That's when they told me the news. They reckon it just popped when they were moving it in their car park.