Hi my old santa fe td - 130k miles so quite new really - has some smokey issues - under any sort of load or aceleration and to some degree on tick over - its rather smokey .. not black more grey - not blue or white ... its not using oil or water and has been desooted with cleaner - starts on the button no problems, tick over nice and smooth , and does run ok apart from the smog out the back....doen the usual filters and oil - and a good dose of cleanner but not shifted it... thinking the injectors would be ok otherwise i would not start so easily, SO i am thinking EGR, TURBO or CAT ..Any thoughts out there! Read more

I have intermittent ABS alarm comes on. Diagnostic shows throttle body issue. After replacing throttle body, it was ok for a week or so. Then it comes on again. Each time it happens, i ll will plug out and plug in the sensor for the air intake. This works for a while. I notice it normally happens during traffic jam. Any ideas please? Read more

David Cameron has called for an "urgent" increase in private investment to improve England's road network.

He said tolls for new roads were one option, alongside attracting more money from pension funds and other investors.

Work was also needed to relieve gridlock by widening "pinch points" and allowing traffic to use motorway hard shoulders, the prime minister said.

But Labour said it would be "wrong" to "load extra costs on ordinary families" to pay for improvements to roads.

In a speech on infrastructure, the prime minister said there was an urgent need to repair its "decades-long degradation" and to "build for the future with as much confidence and ambition as the Victorians once did".

He argued it was clear there was not enough capacity on the roads in busy areas. "There's nothing green about a traffic jam - and gridlock holds the economy back," he said.

Part of the solution was to move more people and goods onto the rail network, Mr Cameron said, "but also to widen pinch points, add lanes to motorways by using the hard shoulder to increase capacity and dual overcrowded A-roads".

But the prime minister said "innovative approaches" were needed to finance road improvements at a time of tight government finances.

"Road tolling is one option - but we are only considering this for new, not existing, capacity. For example, we're looking at how improvements to the A14 could be part-funded through tolling.

"But we now need to be more ambitious. Why is it that other infrastructure - for example water - is funded by private sector capital through privately owned, independently regulated, utilities... but roads in Britain call on the public finances for funding?

"We need to look urgently at the options for getting large-scale private investment into the national roads network, from sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other investors."

Mr Cameron also said: "To put it crudely, we've become good in Britain at sweating old assets. But if you do that for too long, there's a price to pay." He promised to move "from a tactical, piecemeal 'make-do-and-mend' mindset to a strategic, comprehensive, systematic vision". Mr Cameron claimed that congestion on roads costs the UK economy £7bn a year. A feasibility study looking at "new ownership and financing models" for roads will be carried out by the Treasury and Department of Transport, to report by the autumn.

Labour leader Ed Miliband: "People are struggling to make ends meet"

Alasdair Reisner, from the Civil Engineering Contractors' Association, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that one option was a system of "shadow tolls", whereby the motorist does not pay the cost but private firms are paid by the government depending on the amount of traffic using a road.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "We will look at the detail of any scheme but I give the prime minister this warning: people are really hard-pressed; people are struggling to make ends meet.

"I think loading extra costs on ordinary families for using our roads would be the wrong thing to do at this time. It would be wrong for them; it would be wrong for the economy.

"If they want to get the economy moving they should be investing in our infrastructure in order to actually help us build up to the future and get economic growth going."

John Cridland, director-general of the CBI employers' group, said: "Congestion on our roads costs the UK economy up to £8bn a year, so the prime minister's ambition to get much-needed private investment into the strategic network could not have come at a better time."

Edmund King, president of the AA, agreed that investment was needed in roads, but added: "We need to be careful about how we go about this."... Read more

1. My partner's 206 (27k miles in 7 years and not due a service) has taken to stalling when D or R are selected immediately after start up and trying to drive away. ECU fault or plug change needed I thought.

2, The headlights are set to Auto and are now on at at all times which is';t right.I have offered to disable the Auto function but, as a lady of a certain age, she likes the Auto function to work properly and doesn't care to use her own judgement to turn them on and off! Read more

The problem is that the gear sometimes refuse to pick up When you press the accelerator, it will only make noise, but after a while, say third time or more it will pick up. The reverse mode is also affected. And when it picks up it suddenly jack back, and sometimes either when in speed or slow movement, it surges forward that you hear the noise. My mechanic changed the oil, but did not abate. Last week the mechanic worked on the gear, cleaning some place with fuel, after that, the reverse mode completely faiied while it also fails to select gear mainting only gear one. Pls kindly iform me on what is the problem and what to do. I forgot to add that it is automatic transmission and 2.0 petrol engine Read more