November 2018
Hello chaps
It’s another request of yet another radio code that’s been lost!
It’s a 2007 mondeo model the Serial code on the Stereo is
V026220
I know it’s annoying to ask as it’s a common request but it is appreciated if anyone can help.
Thanks
Gary
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Bought the above car from car garage dealer 22 October 2018.Theirs an oil leak that has been present weeks and prior to purchasing car in Mon 22Oct 2018. Oil leak is showing on road surface.
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Take it back straight away - you have a right to reject the car in the first 30 days, Act quickly!!!! It's everything to do with the dealer - you have rights!!:-
I have seen in the Daily Mail recently an offer for an Additive called FTC Catalyst units which are put in the Petrol/Diesel tank and there are claims of better MPG and lowering of Emissions.Has anyone tried these and with what results. Read more
<< left with metal lumps floating about on the bottom of the tank >>
Floating? On the bottom? :-))...
OK-what's an easy way to notionally cost a short 3 mile -and back-shopping/delivery trip by car( 40mpg -average)?... Read more
We are retired which makes our circumstances different from some. We are able to catch the local bus into our nearest town, about 4 miles, using bus passes of course. SWMBO also get most shopping delivered. She either pays £1 or nothing depending when it arrives, nearly always being around means we can accept delivery in its cheapest form, i.e. unsocial hours.
Shopping, like most other activities requires a bit of forethought and planning. Start with a menu for the week and work from there. Also keep the kitchen staples stocked up to prevent a sudden need to dash to the shop. Thirdly we do have a local 'open all hours' which we use for various items, use it or lose it, and although the prices are not really competitive, it is convenient....
Occassionaly the car will start but tick over at 500 rpm and will not respond to the throttle. Shut it down and restart and problem clears mostly first time. Any Ideas welcome. Regards Peter Read more
I would get the battery tested. Low voltage during cranking can cause these problems.
Hi All,
I'm in the fortunate position of having a company car with a fuel card. I've recently had a chargemaster home installation for my Outlander PHEV.... Read more
Unsurprisingly since I recharge my hybrid car I've experienced a significant reduction in the fuel cost, approximately a net benefit £20pw! I would imagine the majority of this saving is lost tax revenue to the Treasury, I wonder if they have a plan to recover this lost tax revenue when we are all driving electric?
My employer has agreed to reimburse the cost of recharging (KW x rate charged by my electricity provider), the recharge cable and I'm negotiating whether they should pay the net cost of the installation £200 after the £500 government grant....
Hi All,
So I've been having some trouble with my 2005 1.9TDI Golf for around 6 months now. The heater in the cabin does not work, only on very rare occasions. To try and resolve this it's had a new temperature sensor and new thermostat. The issue has continued, so the thermostat was replaced again to ensure it was not faulty.... Read more
So stupid question. I assume the waterpump is attached at a point where it doesn't matter if the thermostat is open or not, it will make both sections of the system flow (if the stat is closed, the flow is still fine because the pump is spinning)
Hi All
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If the adjusters have been working ok and the shoes have worn into the drum, there could be a wear lip on the inside of the drum by the backplate, in which case the only way is a lever on one side between drum and backplate(preferably flat bladed screwdriver) and hammer the opposite side working alternate sides
used to be as common as sticky shoes if the drum gets worn as some do...
Hi guys.
My wife is looking at a 2014 Vauxhall Astra 1.6i 16V Limited Edition petrol model.... Read more
It was hard to watch the decline in Vauxhall from the well engineered, mechanically straightforward cars they made in the 80’s and 90’s to the unreliable Fiat engines diesels that dominated their range recently. Electrical gremlins and mechanical woes as the firm desperately sought to cost cut its way to profit.
Saab’s demise was the best example of the folly of this thinking. The quality products they built in the 80’s were light years ahead of the poorly made rehashed Vauxhall’s they were turning out in the later years. Anyone whos sat in a 9000 then tried a 9-5 will agree, the quality was nowhere near up to the standard required of a prestige brand.
You need to invest, speculate to accumulate. Scrimping and cutting only leads downhill in the long run. Hopefully Peugeot will turn things around but I have my doubts.
On my last trip to the UK I had a scary moment on an unsignposted roundabout, one of a series running from Rugby past DIRFT East to the M1 (where the A428 crosses the A5). A very pushy van driver came tearing up the left hand lane and suddenly indicated right. Once on the roundabout he nudged past several cars (including mine) and peeled off on the third exit on the last stretch of the A5 towards the M1 - in other words, he stayed in the LEFT lane to turn RIGHT. (The roundabout has four exits, equally spaced at 3, 6 9 and 12 o'clock.)
As he came quite close to my car at one point I made a very gentle warning toot of the "I say, ahem, cough, would you mind awfully?" variety and was rewarded with numerous hand gestures and unintelligible insults yelled through the passenger window. The driver veered towards my lane a couple of times to reinforce whatever point he was making. My ignoring them seemed to inflame the driver even more.
The roundabout has no signposting or direction arrows; it is wide enough for two lanes, but there are no markings. 90% of the traffic seems to be motorway bound. I have subsequently been informed that drivers are "allowed" to use the left lane to go right, so "Local knowledge" seems to trump the Highway Code. Which is great for local drivers, and madness for everyone else. I can't help wondering how a collision would pan out in a situation like that. The council(s) seem to have abrogated all responsibility, figuring that drivers will just work it out amongst themselves. Read more
After 28 years living and driving here, I could write a thesis on Spanish roundabouts! Years ago an utter nincompoop in a government office looked at the thorny question of roundabouts and decided that rather than treating a roundabout as a junction, it is rather the circular continuation of a general highway, to which existing traffic rules must be applied.
Thus the outside lane has priority, which leads to ridiculous situations, such as the driver taking the final exit who curls around the outside lane centrifugally, asserting his priority over everyone else.
It is also apparently illegal to exit a roundabout in any lane other than the far outside one - even if there are three lanes exiting! - so no cutting-in (lane changing) is allowed. Finally, there are no lane markings to speak of, less still direction arrows - and of course indicators are a total irrelevance.
Santander has introduced "turbo" roundabouts recently with proper lane markings and arrows and people are finally getting used to them, but in the rest of Spain roundabouts are a manic free-for-all. "God knows how they managed to get an Armada together", as Basil Fawlty once said...
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Thank you,
Very much appreciated mate.
Gary