December 2013
I am looking for a reversing camera to give as a Christmas present for a 07 Vectra, been looking on ebay mostly and confused as to what should I buy.
How does the monitor that seems to stick on your rear view mirror work, do you need two cameras one for pointing rear and one down for reversing... Read more
My husband recently got pulled over by the police,
And they said he was driving unisured (He has insurance).
They said his insurance is invalid as his licence was revoked
On Sept 1st (we had no notification of this)
He sent his licence off in August for points to put on
But at same time had to change some details on the licence
When posting licence we sent to Dvla Swansea using change of details postcode
DVLA reckon they never received letter (we believe it's there but sitting
In wrong department)
Anyway his car was seized and we have had to now apply
For a new licence at a cost if £50 for revoked licence
My question is shouldn't we have been notified his licence was being
Revoked, and if it's revoked shouldn't he have got done for
Driving with no licence?
I'm smelling a police scam
Anyone know much about The Great SOCPA Section 165 Scam
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Many thanks for that clarification, DVD. (I do carry D/L and photocopy of insurance cert, force of habit from long ago!)
mmm, why the wait...? Read more
Where's the proof? Read more
Hi, I plugged my fault code reader into my 1.2 Corsa C SXI, the reader brought up one fault code P0080 ( Exhaust Valve Control Solenoid Circuit High Bank 1) however I am unsure what this means and what the issue is! I have no clue as to where the solenoid is however I have noticed a power loss but no Cel.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tom
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As our beloved Pound Sterling is at almost a five year high against the mighty US Dollar, does anyone think we might see a fuel price decrease, because at the moment, the cost has risen in recent weeks? Read more
standard unleaded 126.7 Asda Canterbury last night ....
HI,
I have a very simple (i hope) question that i need to be cleared up for future references.... Read more
For "Audi" above read "Mazda" . Sorry
Hello all..
I have a 2007 Grande Punto 1.9 diesel sporting with the engine management light on, car runs perfect no funny hickups etc although the fuel consumption has gone fairly bad. I have had it plugged in, which came back being fault code P0111 and P0101 which indicates that the air flow metre is at fault (lack of voltage supplied). I have had another air flow metre from a car breakers and still the fault is still coming up on the diagnostics. I really must point out that the 4 pin plug that goes into the BOSCH MAF sensor was plugged in back to front which I have only just discovered as I have only had the car a week. I have now plugged it in the right way and I really thought that was going to cure the problem, however after my 3rd plug in diagnostics at my local garage it still says there is the same fault. Being plugged in the wrong way am I know too late, has it blown both MAF sensors?? Or is there something else I am over looking?? Possibly the sensor I purchased was faulty, but surely both sensors being faulty is unlikely.... Read more
Thanks for the reply. I did do a test on the "newer" maf and the earth is not showing any millivolts but rarely it was show 0.1 then would go back to zero. Also when I prodded the volt metre probe down the socket I did here it short out as i must of touched the next one in line to it aswel, then it wasn't showing anything on the volt metre on any of the 4 wire/pins. Which led me to believe maybe the maf sensor give up the ghost from the shorting? I think maybe the plug into the MAF being plugged in the wrong way to start with has done damage to something.
The voltage supply was showing 12.75 or something like that when I first tried it
Cheers
Surprised to see Autoexpress used car of the year is a Vauxhall Insignia. Read more
Good car.
Got a VW polo 2002-2005 model, 1.2 petrol engine, chain driven oil pump and the car has covered 70k miles. Was driving along and the oil pressure warning light came on, along with quite a large loss of power having to rev it more than usual.
So far, I've done the obvious things; changed the oil and filter and changed the oil pressure switch which made no difference and didn't put out the light. In fact I had left the car for a day after I carried out the changes and the car stalled twice which was quite unusual. Trying to find the problem I removed the sump, the oil in there had no sign of any bearing wear (I was told little bits of metal would be present in the sump if this happened) and removed the oil pump. Inspected and took apart the pump, cleaned all the parts including the pick up, strainer and pressure relief valve and all looked ok so fitted the pump back on. I've also had a breif check of the timing chain appears to be fine and not damaged. Managed to borrow a friends oil pressure gauge and tried that out and now it hasn't got any pressure at all. The engine still ticks over and idles but I don't want to rev it so I don't cause any other damage. I am thinking about buying a new oil pump and fitting that to see if that cures the problem but they are £180 to buy as you can only get them from VW so want to try to avoid that if I can.... Read more
Duplicate thread - please use the other one, which I've moved from Motoring, if you want to reply.
There's no need to post the same question twice.
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I was in Canterbury last night with some friends (women) - when I backed into a bay in the car park they both commented on the reversing camera - loved it very much.
The image is always crystal clear, and gives a good representation of what is behind, and how far to the brick wall. The only time I have a problem is when it is dark, the car has only one reversing light and this is not sufficient light - so I have to use the fog lamp to illiminate the way (ban single reversing lights). Nissan take note (yes, the new note has only one reversing light). Car is a Primera by the way. If my next car does hot have a reversing camera I'll look to the aftermarket. ...