January 2015
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HI, I have had work done on my Ford fiesta and now the radio is not working, it is asking for a KEYCODE to be entered. I still have the audio manual and the keycode is showing as 3339, but when I input this as instructed in the manual, it is saying WAIT 30 MINS and then asks for it to be input, so must be a wrong keycode. The serial no. is MO52355 and it is unit type FD 3000. Can anybody HELP, please?? Read more
Sorry, can't do "V" serial number codes, nobody who does codes on this forum can.
Ford Main Dealer or there are people on Ebay who claim they can do them for a fee.
I started having this problem the day after I'd sold the car, when the buyer came to pick it up. Needless to say I still have the it.
Basically I took out the aftermarket stereo, which had never caused any problems, and reinstalled the original one, which began working as it should straight away.... Read more
Yes, check that you ahve about 14.4 volts across the battery with the engine running, if its much less you have an alternator problem.
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The (intermittent) fault code is P0122, "Throttle Position Sensor A/Accelerator Position Sensor A - Low Input" is the explanation.... Read more
Give this company a call-if they don't know nobody does.
The car starts fine from cold. It pulls back and drives jerkily and with no acceleration in lower gears sometimes coming nearly to a halt. If I stop after say ten minutes and leaves the car while I walk the dog when I return after 20 minutes the car won't start for at least 2 hours though the engine turns over. It won't catch. AA have been called out four times and suggested camshaft, crankshaft, temperature coolant sensors all of which have been replaced and made no difference. Lambda sensor also replaced. Ecu stripped down, immobiliser examined. Nothing puts it right, once it does get going it flies along fine. Read more
Driving home tonight, busy 2 lane A road. Traffic ahead of me, behind me and a stream of traffic coming the other way. Coming towards us in the distance, blue lights flashing. Car in front stops dead in the road, I of course have to stop. Resulting chaos.
This is the second time it's happened. I was always taught to continue as normal and if blue lights are behind me to pull over when safe, eg a lay by, but not to stop. The gentleman in front of me nearly caused a pile up. Discuss please!... Read more
If there is a queue of traffic waiting at red signals and the blue light vehicle is obstructed by traffic on other carriageway or reservation, the onus is on that driver to stop, and turn off siren until the lights turn green. They will then turn it back on hoping the front lines of traffic make enough forward progress to allow the blue light vehicle to manoeuvre through the gaps provided. The siren should be turned off to stop drivers going through red lights or panicking.
As has been said earlier, don't stop dead, if you cannot pull over to let pass drive normally. At least the blue light vehicle can travel with you rather than stop. Nothing worse in having to make up speed from a stop, especially a large vehicle like a fire engine.
Never stop opposite a pedestrian refuge.
I might be right in thinking that in certain European countries, the onus is on the civilian driver to yield and make way, by law. Unlike here.
Lastly, there was a trial in the 80s in the NW for fire engines to change traffic lights on route. Which for whatever reason was abandoned and not rolled out.
im looking for radio code which i cant find please can you help my serial no is m120440 Read more
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Girlfriends 55 plate 1.4 40k miles, Fiesta has got a problem with the ABS module reapir cost of £1200 of which about 900 is parts car is worth maybe £2k. We have up to £6k if we need to spend it.... Read more
Get it fixed, part-ex it and get one of the last of the Corsa's which seem to be everywhere heavily discounted.
Some real bargains out there as they are changing the Corsa next month....
I always thought locomotive and ship style generator systems would be the natural development for hybrid systems in cars and no doubt in time other road vehicles.
I think you're right. There have been vehicles with electric transmission in the past, notably Tilling-Stevens petrol-electric buses in the 1920s and 1930s. This made the buses much easier to drive as there was no clutch or gearbox to bother with but their downfall was they were less efficient that normal buses, which in those days had manual gearboxes and at that time diesel engines were superceding petrol ones in large commercial vehicles. ...
Hello all, I hope you can help me.
I had a broken wing mirror on my old first edition Citroen Picasso. I went to the breakers yard and they only had one left, so I took it. Everything appears identical except that the connectors are different, and the new one (on the left) has more wires!
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It's not easy to see, but the 'new' replacement one has 7 wires, 2 brown, 2 red, 1 grey, 1 blue and 1 green. The old one only has 5, 2 brown, 1 green, 1 red and 1 blue.
So I figured I could take off the old connector and put it on the new one, but the question is, how do I map the 7 wires onto the 5?
Thanks in advance. Read more
Did you find the mapping out in the end- having trouble dismantling each- same issue reversed
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He was pressing his luck building it in a Methyr Tydfil washing machine factory!