My car is supposed to have a fuel tank capacity of 45 litres. The gauge shows" full"," half full", "quarter full" and the red section. I believe the gauge is calibrated incorrectly because it always takes quite a lot less to brim the tank than the gauge would suggest. For example, when it was showing a quarter full, eleven litres on the gauge, I could only get twenty seven litres in to brim the tank so there must have been eighteen litres left. This is a nuisance when I am on a journey as it means I refuel more often than I need to. I always refuel when the gauge goes into the red but I actually have a lot of safe miles left still. The reserve must actually hold a lot of fuel, eleven litres which is a big percentage on a 45 litre tank. Has anyone else experienced this with a 2007 Corsa or is it peculiar to mine? I have never had this problem with any other car I have owned. Thanks in advance. Read more

I found the following post on another website:

I am currently running a Peugeot Partner 1.9D (DW8 engine) for work, on 100% diesel, it has never seen anything other than pump diesel....

However, it has developed a fault whereby it will ALWAYS idle at around 1100rpm, regardless of running temperature. It used to run at 1100rpm on cold start and then drop to 900rpm at idle when warmed up, but this no longer happens. Since this fault has occured, it is also a lot slower than the other vans in the fleet which are identical, in as much as that it is about 5mph slower top speed, will not rev so freely, or over 4000rpm without a real struggle.

I am guessing this is all because it is now constantly always running rich due to being stuck on a cold start setting...

Any ideas on which components would cause this problem on the DW8, as I'm not that familiar with the engine setup on this...... Read more

I live up a road where there is houses up until a certain point only up on side of the road, about 6 houses down there is now houses opposite, but a person living at the house who's right on the end of the opposite side of the road, has around 6 cars, their drive can only occupy 2 cars. The thing that has really annoyed me lately, is that their cars that they can't fit onto the drive they park opposite the drive of my house, so that it is obstructing me from getting out of my drive. They have a long stretch from their house, and there is about 4 houses between mine and their house, and they purposely park opposite the drive, or just infront of the house, so i still, even then struggle to get out of my drive.

Can anything be done about this? Surely this can't be allowed? Read more

Now here's a thing.

Rather nasty tapping noise on cold start (colder = worse) which goes away once warm. This started just after the last service, which included replacement of belts (ancilliary drive belt and cam belt plus pulleys and water pump). Now I thought I'd got to the bottom of this, as a good squirt of engine oil on the business end of the alternator makes it go away temporarily. So, alternator bearing giving up the ghost as a result of the less "stretchy" new belt as a nailed-on cause I thought.... Read more

hi there, i have just joined this site, hope someone out there in the big bad world can help me. i have a v6 xtype, 2litre petrol, o3 plate and i had some fuel from a garage the other day and with in 30 miles it broke down, 200 quid later ( tow truck) an 100 quid to have it looked at , they say it was the pump

so they got me a second hand pump fitted it and off i went GREAT!!!!!!!! UNTIL TODAY 145 miles from home its starts running like a bag of spanners and conks out on me. another garage ( 100 qiud ) opens it up the first garage had bodged it with some hose in the tank after grinding have my chassi away to get to tank. this second garage has replaced it ( the hose ) it starts ok but then dies again. im not happy had a (150 quid taxi home) my cars miles away in a broken down state of mind my wallet is running on empty, is there anyone out there ???????????????????? jim... Read more