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• French Fuel Prices 10 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  I'm off to Meribel early next month with SWMBO plus the two little birds - driving via chunnel and autoroute all the way to moutiers. I know diesel is...
• MPG: Fuel Consumption on Audi 80 TDi? 23 Feb 2005 (Forum)
  Hi all, Was wondering what average MPG you lot get on average no your Audi 80 TDi. Im getting just about 37MPG on my 1994 Audi 80. I drive on short stop...
• Petrol into diesel mondeo,help! 6 Dec 2004 (Forum)
  Father-in-law managed to put a tank full of unleaded into his 98(s) mondeo 1.8td, car spluttered to a halt.Car went into garage and unleaded drained,fuel filter changed and off he went.However,car now failing to start regularly,only starts after priming fuel pump,seems as if there is air in the system somehow.Could anybody shed any light on what's happening please?
• LRP to be phased out. 3 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Lead Replacement Petrol to be phased out. http://www.theaa.com/allaboutcars/fuel/LRP.html "LRP now (mid 2002) accounts for only 2.7% of total fuel sales, and forecourt managers will increasingly be tempted to switch pumps to more profitable products. Trends indicate that you won't be able to find LRP from the end of 2003 except at a few specialist outlets hoping to keep something no-one else has."
• Leaking diesel fuel injectors 20 Nov 2003 (Forum)
  A straight answer to a straight question (?). Do leaking injectors lead to compression loss and presumably lower power output? This is a follow on question...
• Punto Fuel Engine management Probs 28 Sep 2003 (Forum)
  Hi! Can any one offer any help? My Daughter's 1.2 Punto's 55 Engine Management warning light has come on and the engine is running really rough, I have...
• Golf 1.4E develops quirks 3 May 2002 (Forum)
  Went to fill it up tonight and pressed the button beside the handbrake to open fuel filler cap and nothing happens. I can't get it open! Then driving home at a steady 56 in order to conserve fuel I noticed the gauges dip (rev counter and speedo) momentarily. (I had not changed gear or speed).
• Low Sulphur Petrol - Poor economy 5 Jun 2001 (Forum)
  I've noticed that my fuel economy has dropped by ~2-3mpg, and performance seems to have drooped off, since the forced change to Low Sulphur fuel. Is this normal or should I be looking elsewhere? Exactly the same occured with my previous Diesel car when City Diesel became available.
• Is some diesel fuel REALly better? 12 Mar 2001 (Forum)
  We've all heard the 'anecdotal evidence' - "my car definitely feels zippier on Brand X" etc, but is there any REAL evidence that I should use Texaco,...
• Ford Mondeo III (2000 - 2007) - 2.0 TDCi - Fuel System and Brake Light Despair! 16 Nov 2007 (Forum)
  Had the vehicle checked out under warranty - 3 injectors replaced. Collected the vehicle September 2006 and was returned immediately for the same problem. 2 more fuel injectors replaced. I was told that the reason was "dirty fuel". In November back again all fuel injectors replaced and the injection pump. Again I was accused of using dirty fuel. Dec 2006 guess what back again more injectors replaced.
• KIA Rio Grades 1, 2 and 3 - Impact of tyre width/size/profile on fuel economy? 8 Jan 2014 (Forum)
  Can anyone explain why the impact of tyre choice can have such diverse impacts on fuel economy? I have attempted to extract two tables from the KIA published data for the RIO - summarised below - they appear to show that KIA is 'admitting to' a fuel economy penalty going from standard 185/65 R15 tyres to a lower profile and wider 195/55 R16 tyre for three of the four engine choices but that unexpectedly on the 1.4 CRDI Manual ISG, going from the 195/55 R16 tyre on the Grade 2 Rio to a 205/45 R17 tyre on the Grade 3 RIO actually improves fuel economy?
• Classic cars,bikes older Outboards Chainsaws ETC - Ethanol in Fuel ( by EU Directive ) 11 Mar 2012 (Forum)
  Yet ethanol is also a powerful solvent that, without a suitable additive, attacks many fuel system components including zinc and galvanised materials, brass, copper, aluminium, seals and hoses, cork, polyurethane and epoxy resins. In other words, almost everything used in a vehicle made more than about 20 years ago.
• Vauxhall Corsa D (2006 - ) - Unexpected poor fuel consumption figs. 24 May 2008 (Forum)
  The car was superb and I had no issues with it. In September my circumstances changed and I got a new job with a company van with fully expensed fuel etc so I decided it was time to give my Astra up :-(. During this time my Girlfriends car decided to pack in and we decided to get rid of the astra (Mainly due to the fuel consumption) and downgrade. i went to Vauxhall and asked what they could do for me regarding a possible swap for another Astra (maybe a diesel?).
• `Luxury bloat` small cars, to efficiency priority? 2 May 2008 (Forum)
  It seems that current European `small` cars are fine in the current (or was that last month) want for `luxury small`, but are still larger and bloated in weight than they could be if fuel economy and low purchase cost were paramount. Will the new fuel prices bring about austerity super economical models? Fuel consumption before weigh, bloat and.. dare I say it, aircon ;) Any thoughts?
• Diesel, Cold, stop start fuel consumption figures 20 Dec 2007 (Forum)
  This must be a typical journey for many people in winter, in particular those retired or running children around to school etc. But why do you rarely hear of the big fuel savings on cold, short journey, stop start use with diesel? (Diesels driven care that is and not booted forward at every gear change with maximum torque) Could it be that the official fuel consumption tests flatter Petrol?
• Chrysler Voyager - car keeps breaking down with no prior warning when driving along 26 Sep 2017 (Forum)
  This could be 10 miles from home to 100 miles away from home it just so unpredictable as it happens without any notice, i think this is extremely dangerous as if i was on the motor way my car just stops dead without any notice I tried a new fuel filter but the same kept happening i had it towed to a garage where they put the machine on a diagnostic machine - everything came back fine?? Although the mechanic could hear the tank kicking in he said that the fuel pressure was low- later found out this was due to a crack in the fuel filter housing and leaking, got this changed with a brand new hosuing unit but still no joy We have had a new fuel pump (the one underneath the car next to the tank) fitted drove perfect for a day seemed to have more power then 10 minutes from home the following day the same happened again :( my husband says when it breaks down it always seems as if the car is out of fuel (diesel) although we never let the car get below a quarter of a tank.
• Volkswagen polo bluemotion 2010 - Help my fuel injectors busted a second engine! 10 May 2017 (Forum)
  About a month ago my car broke down with a billowing of white smoke. It was transferred to a fuel specialist where they said one had became trapped open causing unburnt diesel to flood the engine, they replaced this fuel injector (£500) and then transferred my car to another specialist to have a new engine put it.
• ford focus 1.8 tdci - injector/fuel pressure problems? 3 Mar 2014 (Forum)
    i took it to my local diesel specialists,who came highly reccommended who done a full diagnostic and leakage test. the fault came back to injector no 1 exess leakage and they advised replacing no 1 injector and also replacing the fuel filter. this i did at a cost of £220 for injector supply and fit and the fuel filter and the diagnostic was £65.  upon collecting the car yesterday it seemed to run fine until the exact same symptoms started again!
• Volkswagen Polo III (1.4 petrol) - Engine got wet in floods and wont start at all. 8 Jan 2014 (Forum)
  Is there anyway of checking whether fuel is getting through (I can hear the fuel pump working as normal)  or not, just in case the fuel injection electrics are playing up because of the water??   Many thanks in advance,   Dave
• Peugeot 309 (1986 - 1993) - 90 1.9 gti turns over but will not fire 7 Dec 2009 (Forum)
  the car does have an immobilizer near the ignition, the type you put a fob to, so i was unsure what this mystery switch was. after lots of messing round im 99% sure it was some kind of fuel pump immobilizer as when i connected some wires together could hear it working. this still didnt get it started. i have tried everything i can think of, checked the spark, thats good. checked there is fuel getting to the injectors by disconnecting the pipe and turning it over, there was a healthy stream of petrol squirting out. took the plugs out and checked spark again, this time pouring a little fuel into each bore. still, not even a pop out of the engine.surely fuel + spark = fire?