January 2025
i have an audi a4 2004 1.8t that i recently bought, the car has a misfire on cylinder 2 so i replaced the coilpack and the problem went away but only when the car is static, asin not moving and engine running it has no misfire but when you put the car under load after 2000rpm cylinder 2 has a dead misfire, no stuttering or hesitation just goes completly dead, i have ruled out that its not the piston rings as it dosnt smoke i would need to do a compresion test to confirm but im pretty confident it isnt that i know its not a stuck valve as its not constant its only under hard acceleration, i have replaced the coil packs and spark plugs also i checked the coil wires that sit above the exhaust as they are known for splitting due to the heat of the exhaust, cylinder 2 had 2 wires that had the outer case breaking away but not damaged the wire to what i could see so i eletrical taped them to see if the problem persists, which it did. is it the wires that are causing me the misfire, is there damage that i cant see thats caused by the heat and the wires actually need repairing Read more
Another motoring giant leaves us.
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Suzuki will really miss his influence.
RIP.
Bought the car from a main dealer in July 24. Had to have a small warranty repair which was fine but the dash was saying service A in 45 days, five months short of the end of the warranty period. Whilst dong my repair they did a ‘health check’ which is most of an a service anyway as far as I can see. I would obviously like to keep the warranty and am quite ok with paying for an oil and filter job…..£149…but object to paying £382 for the dealer to do again what they have just done. Am I obliged to use the dealer to maintain the warranty or can I use an indie of course using genuine parts, ie, oil filter. Read more
Am I obliged to use the dealer to maintain the warranty or can I use an indie of course using genuine parts, ie, oil filter.
First, talk to the dealer is it a MB approved used warranty or a third party?...
Fancy a different location for skiing this year, without having to leave the uk, or indeed England for many? Then just take a drive to the Norfolk Alps for great skiing and motorsport too.
TV and Film.
They never let facts get in the way of a good story!...
Hi, just wanted to ask about cost of a new passenger door lock. Mine needs replacing and my garage has said they have to get it from a main dealer and have been quoted £365. Is this an average cost? Read more
No barrel in the passenger door on these
Hello i need help with escort it has big problems to get up to operating temp while idling it does get there eventually but when driving it takes like 20 km to get the heater blow warmer air. When idling i can feel that the upper radiator hose is getting warm slowly but it is not under pressure only when it gets up to some tempeature it gets some pressure which tells me that the thermostat is working. I have read about the cvh thermostat housing and it has some kind of plastic ball inside that melts when engine overheats which i think is my problem because last year my engine overheated because of faulty fan when it overheated i replaced the coolant tempeature sensor and the thermostat thinking it would help but it didnt since then i have no heat :( . Now that i know the ball inside is melted i know that coolant is bypassing the thermostat going straight into the radiator. I wanted to get new housing but that is impossible in my country nobody has it anymore so im here to ask if there is any possibility how to repair the housing or maybe partially plug the hole so that it can still flow trough but not so much. Thanks for any suggestions on repair. Read more
Yes i did and i still do but no luck so far.
e learned so much in last few days and written off cars as I want to buy one.
I found this post really helpful and as I sadly don’t have a personal friend in the repair trade I’m hoping that I might get some help on here x
Here’s a pic of my cat S car pre repair. Does this look like a fairly simple fix? Or perhaps you can’t tell enough from just this pic.
I’m trying to clarify that if I got hit in this spot again that the car safety would function still as it should.
It’s passed its MOT and I will test drive tomorrow to confirm it’s all driving smoothly as I’ve been advised.
I know MOT covers suspension and steering checks but do I need to get a more thorough diagnostic and analysis? I will also check for any signs of movement around the car…
I can’t post the pic yet as I’m a new member, it’s on Flickr a/c J FifeXX
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Unless it's stupidly cheap and you know what was done, walk away.
I made a post back in September regards ATS and the fact that they wrote down the wrong mileage in the log book and that they didn't pick up on a broken shocker during a major service.
Before the service , I informed ATS that my car had an advisory with the off side rear service brake binding and that i needed the brake repaired and after the service, I was told that it was due to the cable and it was now repaired. At the time of the service, My car had done 47550 miles On Saturday my car failed its MOT on the very brake that i reported binding ... Read more
It's no help, but personally I wouldn't take my car for servicing at a place which specialises in replacing tyres and batteries - tho I would have hoped they could deal with brakes ! Our local ATS is good at what ATS claims to be good at, so I get my tyres there.
My sons just drove his car for 1st time drove 3 miles fine, went to reverse and wouldnt go into gear. Then wouldnt go into any gear. The only way i can explain is it feels like theres no gap for gears i.e when going for 1st there no gap to go into first same for all. Read more
My 207 (16 years old) refused gears recently after a normal 10-mile journey. Common cause is failing clutch master or slave cylinder. My local indy replaced both to be sure, so I don't know which it was. Parts about £60, 3 hours labpur - it's a diesel, so access is not very convenient.
Car was (sort of) driveable if the clutch pedal was pulled back up and pumped to restore pressure, only temporarily but enough to get us home.
Vauxhall Tigra 1.4L 2009, Plate :LT09UBC VIN: W0L0XCR978E007716
Hey everyone, I recently got told I need both lower control arms replacing as it is making my vehicle creak a lot. Currently, I am trying to learn to fix these things myself and am confident enough I can do the job. However.... Read more
I suspect that you are talking about the anti sway bar drop links which generally cause creaking after about 2 years of use on our r****** roads. They are very easy to change.
Joe...
update, i did some investigating today and the earth wires for the coils that bolts the the rocker cover had started to degrade and break away so i cut them back and added new terminals to the end and rebolted them to the cover, now when checking live data the car no longer counts misfires while its stood running although still misfires on high revs but also checking dtc's showed a code for low fuel level confirmed by the fuel light being on, i did notice this when i bought the car (i know) just never really dawned on me that this could cause such a problem to 1 specific cylinder thinking it would throw misfire codes to all cylinders, could this be my cylinder 2 misfire accompanied by the dead coilpacks i replaced at the start i have yet to do a compression test ill get back with the results from that next week, i did check for vacume leaks even though its one specific cylinder better to be safe than sorry right? and also checked for more split wires but no others apart from the earths to the coils