May 2015
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Just about to purchase a used V40 D2 through a large independant. The thing is it's 16 months old and only covered around 7k miles total and less than 1k since January. My use going forward will be 12k plus pa with a good mix of short and long journeys. Is there anything I should look out for and could this low usage have started potential DPF issues?... Read more
hi,I changed the battery and the radio off, it needs to radio code,please
SN:S0CD6X9V001570
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Important information for anyone who is looking for FORD CAR RADIO KEYCODES
1. For radios whose Serial Number begins with an "M", followed by a six digit number, you can use the following link to work out what your Keycode should be:...
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I'm new to this but does anyone know anything about an outfit called Repo? They sell cars repossessed by finance companies at well below market price. They ask for money up front and deliver the car to your door but promise a full refund if you are not happy with the car. These are nearly new vehicles in most cases and the discounts are huge. Possibly to good to be true?
Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Someone who can't afford the repayments on a car isn't likely to have spent too much if anything on maintaining it.
Cars with poor or no history should be bought very cheaply if at all, to take account of the several thousand pounds they may need to bring them back up to scratch if it's possible, the history you cannot legitimately rewrite unless you are in the media or a politician....
Toyota rav 04 d4d diesel starts & idles ok but won't rev up dosn't show any fault codes. The intercooler on this model sits on top of the engine on doing some checking we find that the large pipe that connects the intercooler to the turbo blows outwards when it should have suction.Has any 1 encountered a similar problem Regards Micky-bo Read more
It is likely that the EGR valve is blocked.. or faulty. No fault codes will show.
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i have a ford mondeo 1.60 diesel and the dual mass flywheel has gone 2 times first time fords fixed under warranty about 2 years ago but never changed the clutch now at 29000 the clutch and dmf has gone at a cost to me of £890 pounds 1 month before warranty ends fords refuse to do anything to help.this car has sounded like a farm tractor in mornings since day one what can i do???
since i had new clutch fitted by ford ive herd a load noise like a misfire only once when using stop start fords say they are doing nothing i have even wrote detroit that is my home town no use must be something i can do i have even wrote the judge and cusmer advise... Read more
Every Ford dealer in the country knows of the PAS issues, it is a hot topic on the talkford site, HJ is aware and it is listed in the car by car section. I can only assume that you have a potentially vested interest in making the statements that they do not have PAS issues when the issues are so well documented from multiple sources. All Mondeo's built between certain dates have the issue.
The Engine Management Light on my 2002 1.4i-DSI SE came on, accompanied by the car intermittently losing power and cutting out. The fault code was read as P0336 (Crank Position Sensor) and the sensor was replaced without resolving the issue. I paid for the Honda Dealer to diagnose the problem and the "Master Technician" ensured me that replacing the 4 rear coils and spark plugs would resolve the issue. I took the car away (after a huge quote from the dealer) and had the work done at my local garage but the original issues still persist.
The Honda dealer are claiming that the issue wasn't fixed because the garage that undertook the work did not use official Honda coils, but I (and the mechanic that fitted them) thinks this is highly unlikely.
I would appreciate it if anybody has any advice on what the P0336 / engine cut-out issue could be and whether it really does make a difference if official Honda coils are used. Read more
The bonnet on my car is quite badly marked and I want to get a proper job done on it for a full respray. I have been quoted £760 by BMW and £250 by a local independent - that's quite a difference.
I know that standards vary and that nobody on here knows whether the independent in question is quality or not but is there likely to be such a variance in the quality of a paint job between an independent and a dealer?... Read more
Yes, I have been behind the scenes and seen swatches - hundreds of them. I'm not impressed by the swatch's resemblance to the finished product, but if the paint code is correct for the car's model and year, the result always seems pretty good to me.
When I say swatches, I mean paint sprayout cards which are sprayed with paint that has been mixed up there in the bodyshops own paint mixing room. ...
my car suddenly developed a clunking/knocking noise on my way home from work. it only makes the noise when the car is idle, i took it to a garage that i use and was told that there was a problem with the duel mass flywheel.
he did not check to see if it was the flywheel, he said he could tell it was by the niose it was making.... Read more
its a 2.0 diesel, the milage is 42,250, the car is 4 years old, i drove the car again yesterday with no noise, but i have noticed that the clutch pedal vibrates a bit when i press it in about an inch, i dont know if thats normal or not.
i have no trouble when changing up and down through the gears, and there seems to be no lack of power, like i said the garage i took it too didn't do any checks, and that he could tell by the noise it was making....
We've just spent a week in north west Sardinia and whilst there took to the road for a couple of days to see more than the four walls of an all inclusive hotel.
In short what a great place for a car based touring holiday. Roads were very quiet at this time of year. well surfaced and for Italy not badly signposted, although there are sign posts in very bad poaitions! We did about 300 miles over the couple of days, doing one day to the west coast town of Bosa and a second trip east to the mountains ascending to almost 5,000 ft.
The island has a decent network of dual carriageway auto strada with 80mph limit, but we found the surface on some sections to be so bad to be dangerous, large areas of top surface missing, large potholes and ruts, so doing 80 was for the brave! Outside if these there are good A roads with 90kmh limit. Whilst they are good at showing lower limits, 50kmh is common around junctions, the end of the lower limits tend to not be signposted so you need to make an educated guess! Direction signs can suddenly disappear so satnav, or a good sense of direction are recommended, we had the latter!
Police are hot on bad driving and speeding and we saw plenty of patrols, driving everything from the usual Fiats and Lancias to BMWs and even a couple of Subaru Foresters. Speaking to the hire company rep when I took the car back he said in August traffic police from mainland Italy are sent to Sardinia to increase patrols dramatically and pull Italian holiday makers who have no regard for any aspect of road safety. The varied Sardinian roads offer great opportunities to set free the boyracer, in many ways it reminded me of Scotland, varied roads with little traffic.
Diesel was about €1.50 a litre with petrol slightly higher. Lots of fuel stations are unmanned so you feed cash into what looks like a cash machine, select which pump you are parked at, select the fuel you want, then go and fill up. This involved me moving the car as the pump number wasn't obvious!
The car was an i30 diesel estate with 2500 km on the clock. Great when it was doing the longer A road and autostrada sections, but the severe lack of anything from the engine at less than 1800 rpm made for a very frustrating driving experience on the more involved sections of road. Lots of nothing, a huge limp of boost, change gear, but then revs drop to about 2,000 rpm, a slight drop in speed and you are back to 1700 rpm and needing the lower gear again to gain speed. On not too demanding mountain bends it needed 1st or it would just die, you then get to second to be at the next bend needing to drop into 1st to get round it. The gearchange indicator was also hopelesly optimitistic, suggesting 6th gear from 50 mph. Change at this and the engine would be labouring badly at about 1400 rpm and offering nothing, overtaking was also interesting. 4th always felt too high, but 3rd had it out of poke before completing the manouver. It appears a six speed box is one too many. A five speed would make for a much better drive.
Just like our i20 the biggest fault with the i30 were the seats which offered very little lumbar support,even though it was supposedly adjustable.
The car was indicating 6l per 100km for the whole hire period which is 47 mpg.
If you fancy a road trip the island is definately recommended, over 2-3 weeks you could have an excellent holiday, but try and do it in an Aston V12 and not an i30 diesel and outside of July and August when the Italians pay a visit!
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I drove a new renault scenic with the 1.5 dci engine, similar characteristics, nothing below 2000 rpm. I found it smooth and fairly economical but terrible at rounabouts and junctions. I couldn't live with one and couldn't wait to get my petrol engine back.
Are all small diesels as bad?
There we were in lane 2 on the M25 clockwise this afternoon at about 60 something when an A30 went past us at 70+ mph in lane 4.
And noI hadn't been drinking! Read more
A30 - van - ahhh memories
Many, many, many years ago recovered an A30 van that had been stolen. That vehicle had the sweetest gearbox of any car I have driven. Like silk....
Many thanks for the reply. I've never owned let alone driven a modern diesel and have previously been put off by the various dpf stories out on the web. I'm confident we'll do the right mix of urban and motorway which hopefully will keep those issues at bay.