June 2019
Loner Arranger - correct. The insurers did what you paid them to do. They paid your claim and gave you a car until they did so and for 7 after that. You should have been shopping around for a replacement as soon as you knew the car would be written off so you could make the purchase when the money came through. It's not their job to ferry you around at your own convenience. Read more
Hi All,
My 2014 Toyota Auris 1.4 diesel is due a new clutch because of slipping issues. Im not sure whether this has a dual mass flywheel or not. I called Toyota and they said it is a dmf but I called two other parts stores and both confidently said it's a single mass flywheel. Can anyone help.... Read more
The 1.4D does NOT have a DMF fitted.
Have a noise which sounds like the pitch of a tuning fork when I touch the accelerator pedal. The noise is a brief but can be every time my foot touches the accelerator say on a motorway at 60 mph etc. Not my shoes or the pedal! Noise stops when I take my foot off. Car seems to drive fine and low mileage and FSH, any ideas appreciated, thanks Read more
Hi I recently bought a new car, the previous owner has private plates on it but he was keeping them for his new vehicle. The dealer replaced the plates with the original registration number on for me. I've just received the v5 back and it has the private reg on it. I can't find anywhere that I can change it, can anyone help?
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Well that would be nice lol Thank you, I'll contact the dealer.
So Newcastle have seen the coffer-filling potential of a clean air zone - and will be rolling that out as soon as they can cover the city in ANPR cameras.
What a farce, as usual the justification is emissions, and their answer is to charge EVERY car a fine to drive through the city. They even claim to have considered (briefly I'm sure) fining more polluting cars only, but there's no money in that, as people will gradually upgrade and replace their cars with more efficient ones. Its such a blatant money grab, as I can understand the idea of a clean air zone, but that's why you'd tackle the biggest polluters, and over time reduce the tolerance to compensate - i.e in 20 years time the tolerance could be less than 50g carbon emissions as EV's will be a lot more commonplace by then.... Read more
The fact remains though that we have multiple city and town locations where levels of local pollutants (NOx, particulates etc) are a direct threat to health. If not LEZs etc then what action do we take instead? ...
Good Morning:
I apologize in advance if this is not the correct place to post. ... Read more
I agree it's not customer-friendly: but sadly it'll be because they don't trust the customers. Possibly they've been stung before by sending parts out and never getting the first one back.
The customer could have put it on Ebay, or even used it on another car....
Not sure where I should post this but my wife has a 1.6 focus company car so I wanted to look at buying a cheap car or classic car to just use occasionally
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Buy a tidy Ford Focus ST170. Fast Ford’s always rocket in value at some point and this is on the cusp of that. A great little hot(ish) hatch. Fun to drive, practical and easy enough to keep it going as long as you buy one that’s solid. I personally wouldn’t modify it (not my taste) as it will increase in value more rapidly if kept nice but original.
Otherwise a Fiesta ST150 for the same reasons as above.
Mazda MX5 1.8 for pure fun.
It has taken some while for us to find what was wrong with the engine breather system on out Picasso. The engine was always turning the oil into a creamy gunge and sucking this mess into the engine throttle body. This causing burnt oil smoke being omitted, sometimes quite badly from the exhaust. After several trips to garages, Citroen specialists too, non could determine the fault. This left us even more determined to find the problem ourselves. Putting what information we had gathered we determined the problem was with the PC Valve. But where is it we wondered. Nowhere to be seen under the bonnet. After further investigation and from photos from the internet we surmised it was probably inside the rear cam cover. Having removed the cam cover it was clear something was amiss. Inside was solid with this creamy, frothy gunge. I decided I would break in to the enclosed area of the cover only to find the offending PC Valve membrane completed hardened and rigid. We preferred to buy a new cam cover, £148, to ensure a secondhand one didn't have the same problem as it can only be seen by breaking it open. Since fitting the new cam cover the problem has been totally eliminated and the Picasso is running as it should. What I don't understand is why didn't Citroen make this PC Valve more accessible and make the membrane in it easy to change if required. I do have a photo of the old cam cover after i broke it open if anyone wants to see it.
I hope this information will help any others who may experience a similar problem.... Read more
Just had my renewal through from the (three letters long ) popular breakdown service. Been a member since 1991. It's been getting progressively more expensive. So just joined Auto A#d. 60 quid. Looks to be about the same cover.
Anyone else use Auto thingy? I've tried really hard to avoid naming companies! Read more
I've just been through my annual negotiations with the AA.
Yet again they have attempted to put my renewal price up by an astronimical amount. After a considerable amount of discussion I've managed to get this price down to just over what I'd paid last year. However, this is still just a fraction under £100 for Roadside and Relay....
Hoping for some pointers with this van, it is a 2004 1.9 with 160k on the clock.
It starts and idles fine, if you gently rev it there is no smoke and sounds OK untill it hits about 2800 rpm, then lots of light coloured smoke and misfire, will continue to rev beyond 3k but same rough running and lots of smoke.
If giving it more load it will start producing the symptoms much lower in the rev range.
The only code present on my solus is 1826 — glow plug circuit.
I have checked voltage at each glow plug koeo and they are all receiving voltage, once started power is cut to them and the negative sign appears on my meter, like the polarity has changed?
Checked resistance of each plug: 1/120/130/3500 ohms
I would say that 3 need changing, but Haynes says replace if infinite resistance.
Also my understanding was on common rail diesels the glow plug continued to function whilst engine running to aid combustion, but Haynes says only used while coolant temp is under 20 degrees?
So not sure if in the absence of any other codes that it could be something to do with this side of things?
Other things I've done :
New fuel filter - old one looked clean and no metal particles that I could see.
New air filter
Spun egr 180
Injector leak off test
Unplugged maf - engine only revs to around 2k
Checked pipe from map to inlet manifold is not blocked
Checked for leaks on map pipe & both pipes going to boost sensor.
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Cheers will have a look
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You will of course, need to keep that 5s plugged in permanently, because the battery only holds enough charge for 5 minutes use.
For an extra tenner, you could buy a brand new budget smart phone with no battery issues.