March 2016
I have been thinking about buying a petrol Golf 2009-2012. Many seem to have tsi engines. I have done some research and found it refers to stratified injection. Being sceptical of many new developments I would appeciate comment on whether or not it is valuable, or just something else which would be expensive to repair ? Read more
Hello forum folks,
Am wondering if you knowledegable lot out there can offer me some advice on what my next car should be. For many years i I have a small diesel which has been a very reliable and cheap car to drive. However now with the family needs changing I want to buy a newer car suitable for family needs.... Read more
The OP list is split across two size categories. If space is needed then the larger options are best. Of the smaller cars I have direct experience of the Civic and Focus and the Civic is much better for boot space and rear leg room. Our 6'3" (adult!) son is quite happy in the rear of the Civic for an hour or two albeit his head brushes the roof. He found a hired Focus very cramped for leg room in the rear. The Focus hatchback boot is also very small for the class
It might come down to the size of any children to be carried. I used to find toddlers needed much more leg room than you might expect because child car seats push them forward and encourage a straight leg posture....
How can 8 injectors on mondeo fail to inject at the same time, even the injectors that had been working before.
Inpedience compaired with same type (working) are identical.... Read more
Ok ,so now we are talkng common rail diesel system.These work at a different voltage and could be piezo injectors.Did you get (your own) same injectors back or a set of other recon parts?
I picked up for 50p acopy of "Car Mechanics" dated April 1967.
120+ pages of fascinating stuff that took me back to my youth. ... Read more
Car Mechanics is still on sale today.
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hi,i have problem with xantias audio player.i cant find right code anywhere.
serial number:9626024080... Read more
I bought this car from an Audi dealer four an a half years ago, the car is now over six years old. It has always been serviced by the main dealer, almost exactly to the schedule (I do 10k miles pa). It has now done 61500 miles. Ten days ago, the engine stopped without warning, so had it recovered to my local independent garage.
They discovered one of the cam shaft journals had been starved of oil, suggesting a blockage rather than oil pump failure. Consequently, the cam shaft seized causing the timing chain to jump four teeth.
This has written the engine off. No point in replacing the head, trying to find the cause. Stripping the engine to check for further damage would not make economical sense.
The main dealer have said - rightly so - that they would need to examine the engine. This would cost in the region of £500 and around £100 to have the moved to them. They could then report back to Audi Uk to see if they could offer a good will gesture. Worth a £600 gamble?
I know the car is long out of warranty but it has been maintained to the letter. To replace the engine with a Audi re engineered engine, fitted by my garage will cost well over £4000.
This all seems grossly unfair. Surely in this day and age, an engine should be expected to last longer than this. The dealer would have always used the correct grade of oil, I have used the same if topping up. I could understand If the complex gearbox had wrong, but not getting oil to the head is fundamental. Is this a design or manufacturing fault for it to fail at this mileage?
The main dealer say they need to know why it has failed, to me, it is irrelevant, it HAS failed.
Would it reasonable to expect the manufacturer to take some responsibility over this fantastically expensive repair?
I have asked the dealer if they could use their influence in asking Audi to give me a discount on a re engineered engine, expecting an answer tomorrow. Is this best I can hope for?
Is there anything else I can do? I'm guessing you'll say, take it on the chin and buy a vehicle with a 7 year warranty next time!
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Many thanks for looking Cyd. A shame, it isn't the right one but they do have the correct one (possibly 2) in stock. I've emailed them for further details. Regards
Dunno if anyone can verify my query......
The real mpg section does not state whether or not customers/members are logging readings from their own fuel computers or actually basing miles per gallon on refills at the forecourt? ... Read more
My Fiat and Nissan speedometers both read about 10% faster than the GPS and I am certain that the GPS is accurate.
I guess the speedo is using the same distance-travelled computer parameters as the fuel display and the odometer so I would expect the car's mileage and fuel consumption to be both over-stated.
Passenger window opened partly then stopped and would not shut. Opened it fully and still would not shut. Had to drive 130 miles home with window wide open! A neighbour who is a mechanic said they can sometimes be 'reset' by holding the button up/down for a while. He tried this and suddenly the window closed. He wasn't certain he had fixed it so l haven't dared try it since. Any ideas...? Read more
It's a 2014 Modern model.
So surely under warranty? Now it's closed, don't open it again and leave diagnosis to your dealer. Don't mention to them that someone else "fiddled" with it - just say you kept trying and it eventually closed!
Trying to remove instrument panel to replace bulbs. Have removed the two lower screws and according to Haynes the top of panel should be pulled out first, however I can't budge it. Have tried bottom and can pull out 1/2 inch but then sticks. Any advice from someone experienced in this?? Read more
many thanks.....this helped and job done.
What Haynes didn't tell you was that you had to pull the bottom out quite a bit to release the top..they said 'pull out the top first' so not quite accurate!
My son's meriva's electric rear windows both dropped down into the door recently,the local Vauxhall garage quoted some £800 to repair them, we gather that the fault is due to a small plastic clip that becomes brittle , breaks and causes the window to Dr down off its slide,can you recommend an alternative repair method, £800 appears to be excesive Read more
It is possible to buy aftermarket window regulators for less than £100 per side.So i would think an independent garage could do the whole job for less than half the quote from Vauxhall.
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>So are you saying that because Japanese manufacturers tend to give goodwill repairs >they are no more reliable it's just because they have less claims recorded.
No, but these do not count claims against the 3rd party warranty