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• Toyota Prius - Toyota Prius 3 test 25 Jul 2011 (Forum)
  This thing is tortuous while accelerating. Verdict - nice car but not that fun to drive. Will get a diesel next time.
• VW Passat TDI - 01-05 Automatic Good/Bad Choice?? 23 Jun 2011 (Forum)
  Both around 100k miles, both TDI and automatic Now the questions... Am I looking at the wrong cars here if im looking for a fuel efficient diesel automatic in and around the passats size. I have a good few of the VAG specific tools collected up by now so naturally VW is where I would look first, but I know absolutely nothing about automatics to be honest except that when they give trouble.... they take your wallet down with them...
• Vauxhall Zafira A - Engine manangement light mystery 11 Apr 2010 (Forum)
  I have started to get a major, and potentially dangerous, problem with my high mileage (150k) 53 reg Zafira 2 litre diesel where, if I have to accerate hard (for instance on a motorway) the engine management warning light comes on and the b***** system puts me into "get home" mode, slowing the car dramatically - which when you are attempting to overtake is disconcerting to say the least.
• Ford Mondeo III (2000 - 2007) - Farewell Mondeo - Great used car. 16 Jan 2010 (Forum)
  Almost two years ago I bought the 2001 Ghia X Estate 2.0 petrol on a whim from friends who'd changed to a people carrier. It's been a bit of a time out from my usual Citroen diesels but what an excellent used car for anyone in the £1k - £7k range. The only real motivation for selling it were the fuel bills at 30mpg average. A smaller factor was the over sharp ride on its 17" alloys with 50 profile tyres.
• Ford Mondeo III (2000 - 2007) - 02 2.0 Cutting out at speed - loss of power 24 Nov 2009 (Forum)
  Hi I have a 52 plate 2.0 TDCI diesel with 128k miles . The problem happened last week when the car cut out at 50/60mph out on a steep hill. Lucky noone was behind me. The car restarted. After it happened a second time - i took it to my local independent garage and the codes are P1211 and PO251.
• BMW - Warranty work or not? 14 May 2008 (Forum)
  . --------------------------------------- *I wasn\'t surprised a) because I\'ve little faith in dealers\' ability to correct such matters, and b) because nearly new demonstrators - 330d and 325i - that I test-drove while I was there had the same problem to much the same or a lesser degree. Incidentally the diesel and the petrol returned almost identical fuel consumptions, according to the readout, on the same test route - same driving style, same traffic conditions.
• Citroen Saxo (1997 - 2003) - 1997 1.5D Problems - Part 2 18 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  Could it be an injector opening to early before the right pressure is reached or is it a sign of the fuel pump on the way out? Many thanks in advance for you help and patience. Styrman
• SAAB - Carbon deposits and sensors 9-3 2001 2.2 TiD 3 Jan 2008 (Forum)
  Has anyone else got any suggestions as to what else they could look for as this sounds like more than the Saab main dealer was going to do for a third the price? Cheers, John p.s. Avoid supermarket fuel is the moral!
• I've turned it upside down 20 May 2007 (Forum)
  So I was stupid I stuffed up I got it wrong Last week I asked you the best way to spend £5k on a 4 mile per day car Quite rightly my dream of a shiny Fiat Panda were torched Diesel 205 you said, £800 you said Thus besmirched and educated I return And I?ve turned it upside down So what happens if wifey takes the Focus to the station and back and I get the second car! So what?
• MPV or estate car for 2+3 family 30 Jul 2006 (Forum)
  We might actually keep the 406 as it's reliable and well-maintained. Whatever we go for it will have to be a diesel - the fuel economy is important. We are currently doing about 12000 miles a year and I don't change cars often (every 5-10 years). I don't really care about it being a bit on the slow side - I'm past all that now and comfort and reliability are much more important (yawn!).
• Mazda 6 TS 2009 diesel 2.0L - Car loses power after engine warms up 1 Dec 2018 (Forum)
  Hi Folks,  So I bought a Mazda 6 TS 2009, 2.0L diesel about 4 months ago. Everything was working fine until about a month ago, the car started losing power while driving. It wouldn't have any boost when you put the foot down on gas, and after a few seconds it would then have boost and work fine, but then when the car slows again it takes a while for the revs to build up.
• Chrysler Grand Voyager 2000 2.5td - electrical faults and loss of power above 2000rpm 20 Mar 2017 (Forum)
  Firstly it is down on power. Initially I thought "well its a diesel, it won't perform like my lovely old V6".  The engine pulls actually quite well up to about 2000, then it sort of holds back, especially so on full or large throttle openings, but it seems to go better if you lift almost right off, and on very small throttle openings it nearly gets a second wind.
• Warrantydirect Confusion 19 Jan 2006 (Forum)
  STEERING Rack and pinion, steering box, idler box, column shaft, couplings, steering column tilt mechanism, power steering unit including pump, pressure pipes and reservoir. FUEL SYSTEM Mechanical and electrical fuel pumps, airflow meter, injectors (including injector cooling system), overrun cut-off valve, pressure regulator, sensors, throttle body, fuel gauge and tank sender unit.
• Please help me choose a diesel estate car 25 Feb 2013 (Forum)
    Born and raised in the US, my family now lives in Germany on Military orders.  I am a diesel fanatic and owned a nice F-350 back home, and a Jetta TDI at one time.  So when we moved here I knew immediately that we'd sell *nearly* all our vehicles state side and buy DIESEL.  We did.
• mazda 6 2.2 sport - madza 6 engine failure under warranty 30 Dec 2020 (Forum)
  Apparently when you get your car serviced with mazda they are told drop the sump and check the strainer as part of the service, this alone tells me that mazda know that there is a problem with there diesels. Every time the DPF filter regenerates it releases some diesel into the engine which again changes the oil and affects its properties, which means it can't keep the metal parts of the engine cool enough, so what happens with the heat and the friction is that the softest part of the engine gives way.
• Civic, Focus, Astra - Advice on car to handle commuting to new job 15 Jan 2014 (Forum)
  So basically, I want a car I can trust to start in the morning (or I'm faced with a two hour train and bus nightmare instead of a one hour drive), that's comfortable and mildly refined, and has enough space in it for my weekend pursuits, but not so large it starts costing me bucket loads in fuel. I think I can easily narrow this down to things like a civic, focus, golf, astra etc but my question is then one of understanding the best tradeoff for my budget.   Based on autotrader then for around £7k to £8k I think I can get a diesel Civic from 2008 maybe 2009 with 40k to 60k+ on the clock.
• Ford Mondeo III (2000 - 2007) - 04 2.0 TDCi Split pipe 22 Sep 2008 (Forum)
  I have a 2ltr 2004 6 gear Mondeo Estate - looking from front of car the pipe is behind the radiator, attached to the bottom of a flat saucer shaped disc with a pipe in the top (a vaccume pipe?) underneath the fuel rail on the left hand side of the engine, more or less level with the glow plugs.... is this the EGR? Do I need to run off the coolant to clean it out (the EGR and is it hard to do)? 5 weeks ago some divvy at Nationwide Autocentre sent it for a diagnostic at some diesel specialist who remapped the sensors and the ecu...
• Veg oil in your tank 13 Jul 2001 (Forum)
  I have read with fascination the pieces in Backroom and on your Telegraph page about the use of salad oil instead of diesel. However, I looked up Auto Bild on the web and went into their archive. I couldn't find any test of a Polo using salad oil over a long period (though there was material about a diesel Polo and its fuel economy) and I think all this must emanate from the following article, which I have pasted in - in both the original German and a Babelfish computer translation, which has a certain surreal quality.
• Any used car - "Sibra" Nanocarbon lubricant 17 Feb 2019 (Forum)
  3. Increase the degree of compression in the internal combustion engine. 4. Reduced fuel consumption. 5. Reducing internal friction losses. 6. Easier start of ICE at low temperatures. 7. In some cases, there is a decrease in oil consumption, improvement of the operation of fuel equipment.
• Ford - 1.0 litre destined for Focus & possibly Mondeo 29 Jan 2012 (Forum)
  Taken from Car magazine website Tomorrow's world: Ford's downsized 1.0-litre Ecoboost By Jesse Crosse Motor Industry 25 January 2012 17:41   Direct injection petrol and diesel, hybridisation, downsizing, turbocharging, twin-charging the list of efficiency-boosting, fuel saving features being offered in new cars is becoming so long, buying a new one is like revising for exams.