Hi,

I've got an intermittent problem with my VW polo

It always starts fine first thing in the morning when it is cold but occasionally if i've gone out in the car and left it some where for anything from 10 minutes to a couple of hours it takes half a dozen attempts to start. Whe it does start it sits at about 500 rpm for about 10 - 20 seconds regardless of whether i press the accelerator then it fires up properly and works fine. It only happens intermittently, i took it to a garage but they couldn't replicate the problem and charged me a lot of money to find nothing. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks
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I've recently bought a 52 Megane Scenic and would like to do some work on the heater and fan.
Is there somewhere on these forums where I can find details of access to the heater and diagrams of the device?
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Over the last week I've had issues getting my car started. Its a 2004 320D tourer on 154000 miles.
When you turn the ignition to position 2 the Engine Warning/MIL light doesn't come on, neither does the oil pressure light and the temperature gauge goes all the way into the red and there is no sound from fuel pump. It will crank fine like this but show no signs of firing. I can get it to start eventually by turning ignition on and off until all lights etc come on the dash as normal, you can then hear the fuel pump working but takes a long time to build pressure - around 13 seconds. It will then fire up and run normally. After a reasonable legth drive (50 miles to work) it will restart no problem, fuel pressure builds in 5 seconds and pump sounds much stronger.

After reading various threads with similar issues I've replaced the fuel pump relay and this made no difference, I'm not inclined to spend £170 or so on a pump just yet as people who have gone this route seem to continue to have problems and I get the feeling its more of an electrical issue i.e. signal to/from ecu or instrument pack etc.

Has anyone found the root cause of this issue?

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I currently have a Mondeo TDCi. This is my second Diesel mondeo, and will be my last. I have been a fan of the blue oval for many years, and my best car to date was my ST200.

I need a diesel car for commuting (or a car on LPG) . I have been looking at Mazda 6's (due to price) and was wondering if they are a reliable car?... Read more

right so the deal is some old biddy didn't see me today how i don't know i'm big enough but anyway ran into me and pretty much killed my car although drivable there is some substantial damage to drivers side and all my air bags went off quoted £1000 for body work alone nevermind air bags with insurance companies writing off cars willy nilly i don't hold much hope for them repairing mine which is pretty heart breaking for me i paid half when bought 2 years ago and the rest was on finance now i know the insurance will pay my finance but what about all the early repayment fees?!? for what i have left to pay on finance plus fees i'm litrally going to have nothing and i can't be without a car for uni, work and other commitments. the accident wasn't my fault and other party took full liability is there any way around the early repayment fees i'd rather carry on paying the monthly payments and just recieve the full payment from the insurance company but no idea if they'll let me (its with black horse) any info on all this would be appreciated i'm only a student and didn't expect to be bumped on my way to uni this morning and havn't got money to be splashin out thanks to someone elses mistake, thanks in advance Read more