July 2012
Hi all
Thank you for your help so far however some recent news has led to some more head scratching.... Read more
My mother has had a PAS fault with her 54 Scenic. It has only done about 40000 miles and regulary serviced. The garage has quoted £1700 for the repair which is about what the car is worth. The main cause of the high price is that the whole of the column has to be changed and Renault have to issue a code of some sort to be put into the cars computer. Has anyone found a way round this? Read more
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No mention of a spanner light on dash or in the handbook.The oil pressure light is second from the left in top centre,between battery charge and handbrake/brake warning.hth
hi my tempeture gauge was runing normal it drop down to 0 then up to the red then back down
i have put a new sender unit in put but it still not working
the other thing it does now is it goes up to quarter to 9 then down again
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I purchased a 60 plate Mondeo Zetec TDCi with sport pack in May this year, spent my savings on this car after recovering from a serious illness I promised I'd go and buy myself something decent to drive. Car cost me £9500, its got 41000 on the clock now with 2 ford services and a 3rd service from the independant dealer I bought it from. It had 38000 on when I purchased it.
Last month the gearbox started to feel really stiff when changing gear, not every change only occasionally but in particular when changing to2nd, 4th or 6th there would be resistance and a grinding or rubbing noise as I tried to engage the gear as if the clutch wasn't fully pressed! It happened enough times to warrant dropping the car into my local ford dealer who could find nothing wrong, the car was kept by them overnight as the issue tends to appear on a morning on my way to work.
Anyway its happening again, now I've found its getting more prevalent on a morning and normally during the first 12 or so miles where my journey is a mix of country lanes and villages so obviously the speed varies and gearchanges are fairly frequent. For the rest of the journey (and the return home in the evening) the gear change is quite smooth although I do think the box is slightly notchy but that may be a normal characterisitic, im not sure.
Clutch pedal seems ok, bite is good and progressive and the fluid resevoir is full. Reverse engages ok. I have, daft as this may seem found that if I feel some resistance during a gear change I literally 'waggle' the gearstick in neutral, double de-clutch and then select the gear again it goes in ok. Note the problem is definately more related to changing up (e.g 3rd to 4th 5th to 6th, than for instance 6th to 5th). Any help on this issue would be very welcome. Before I go back to the ford dealer I'd like to be armed with a bit of know how if possible. Read more
Have a look on the Ford Mondeo owners site. There is some comment about this.
I am looking for some advice please. A neighbour bumped our car on 04/07 and damaged the bumper. We went through local solicitors to sort it. They organised a hire car while ours was being fixed. The hire car was returned to the garage that fixed our car on 17/07 on the hire firms advice, and our car was collected. As it was left at a garage, there were no checks done or paperwork exchanged. Today 20/07 we have had a call from the car hire firm saying the car has now been checked and there is damage to the tyre that we are liable for. They have said that they will take the money from our account as they have the details because we left a deposit. They say it will be approx £200.
We are not aware of any damage to the car. As the car was dropped at a garage it must have been driven by somebody else back to the car hire office, and that was 3 days ago. We took no photographs of the car as had no experience of hiring a car. Does anybody have advise on how we dispute this please? Read more
Hi All I am trying to find out how many of the approximate new cars sold each year of 2 million are build to customers orders at the factory or are sold from stock?... Read more
I hope my wife's new company car - A Suzuki Alto- isn't built to order, as the workforce have just tried to burn down the factory in India.
I was promised delivery in August (after the couldn't find a red one for July delivery but could for a month later..) that was two weeks ago - so if it's not in stock who knows when it will arrive (and whether it will be a non smoker!)
At least Red Robbo and co never burnt down Longbridge.
Hope someone can answer this one which is baffling me ? Have replaced element oil fiilter in my daughters focus but can't figure out what the small plastic tab with the small o ring does ?? When you look into the filter housing the only place the element can fit is with the o ring and plastic tab restricting the smaller of the two pipes that come up from the housing. If the centre one of these two delivers the filtered oil to the engine what does the smaller one do ( which is effectively blocked by the filter element O ring as mentioned). The engine runs OK and no low pressure warning. Just can't figure it out ??
Any expaination would be appreciated.Ta Read more
Yup. What caught me out was trying to thread the plastic cap back on. I undid and moved the steel pipe to the intercooler in the end which made it much easier, I'll know next time.
In the preview of the 4th gen Honda CRV, HJ declares:
It has to be emphasised that Honda is probably the most ‘honest’ manufacturer over ‘official’ emissions and CO2 outputs so these figures are probably achievable by real drivers."... Read more
I've often wondered if adding eloys directly to the diesel tank would help solve the problem with DPF regens in low speed driving. I thought the idea of a liquid catalyst was quite neat-spraying fuel into the exhaust seems rather silly. It's a shame that PSA ruined the reputation of eloys by making the refill procedure unduly complex and expensive. They probably thought that it would be a nice little earner for dealereships-but it killed the texchnology stone dead.
Got a question for you experts out there. Looking to buy a 73 stag auto with 3.5 rover v8
from uk to Australia........ Read more
The RAC would be a fat lot of use regarding the installation of a non-standard engine. (It's not on thne tick sheet).
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That sounds like a good plan. A relative of mine gets an expenses allowance from his company in this manner, which he is basically instructed to use for fuel, ityres, insurance, VED etc. It's not enough to put to a car (certainly not with his penchant for top end Audis) but it covers all his fuel for doing very high mileages.