March 2013
Many reports of blower motor rehostat femail plug pins overheating and burning out / open circuit..Just recently extended wiring loom ( very difficult working from driver footwell) and linking the red feed to blower motor with orange feed from selector switch to bypass burnt out fematle plug contacts. While the blower motor was out I made a low resistance shunt and with a millivolt meter recorded a current of 30 amps which seems to suggest that the small connection area of the plug / rehostat is ill designed to service the life of the vehicle. The vehicle designer recognised that the power rating of the blower (nearly half horsepower ) was a battery drain and therefore only enabled the fan when engine running. Hence 40 Amp fuse justified. Read more
The car has been running fine for ages but all of a sudden it has lost all power up to about 3thousand revs and struggles to make it up hills, the car is also rocking when it is ticking over. An orange light has come on which I think is the engine light but can't make out the symbol. Is there any advice what cold cause this before I book it into a garage want to have an idea what to ask for so I'm not taken for a ride.
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I am contemplating buying a cooper s from a main dealer 1 owner 36000 there seems to mixed reviews on the car some love it some hate it.. Can anyone advise if these cars are a good buy or really am I throwing my money away.
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If you do buy a Mini be aware of the model change the newer versions apart from being much more reliable there is a tremendous difference in performance have a lowering of the Co2 which means much cheaper road tax along with much higher MPG .
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My car broke down, aux belt went again. I descided it was not worth fixing the car. the breakdown guy said that they tooks cars for recycling. They took the car. The guy from the company phoned me today, talked V5 and exchange of docs. however there was no mention of its scrap value! I asked the guy and he fudged the question.... Read more
He's not doing you a favour by returning the disc .Only the registered keeper ,you, can recover its value from the dvla .
It could be worthwhile having a word with green flag ,its starting to sound like sharp practice on his part .
My CLK's convertible roof is getting a green mould and the stuff I bought at Halfords hasn't done a scrap of good......any tips to get the roof back to a decent standard? Read more
my wife wants to buy a motability car, but is unable to get to the dealer to do the necessary stuff, she heard that i could act as nominee and do it as a proxy, does any one know if this is true? many thanks in anticipation of any replies Read more
Yes, it should be no problem at all. We've just been round this question with Motability, as my mother had a stroke but she was the only nominee on the contract - although to be fair, this was an existing contract.They sent us the very simple form that as needed to add my father, the only issue is that my mother can't sign the authority as she is physically incapable of doing so. I hit one jobsworth at Motability, kept quoting "data protection", but everyone else there applied some common sense in our case. You should have no problem.
Car parked in the street, and this morning spotted damage, (nice gouge) at the top of the wing above the front wheel arch.. no damage any lower....obviously hit by a pickup transit type thingy. about £250 to fix so slightly cheesed off! Read more
If in a town where is the nearest CCTV/ANPR camera?
Door to door enquiries around scene of bump?
Word with Plod?
....you never know?
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Dan Agombar asks an interesting question- Are beloved petrol lovers missing out? Is this the end of manual transmission?
Happily the C7 Corvette is still comes with row-your-own as standard. Even more happily, the majority of Corvette buyers opt for the manual. (its a lot cheaper than most supercars, so you won't look like a hedge fund manager if you buy one either). The OHV V8 is still doling out large slices of humble pie to the quad-cam carbuncles to boot.
Being taught a lesson in driving from the Americans-that is sad!
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Very likely to be a coil/s problem.The most common problems on these.hth