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• Land Rover Defender (1946 - ) - Land Rover or other 4X4 for a smallholding? 27 Sep 2009 (Forum)
  Rip out the rear seats, blank out the windows, and I've got a low-cost towcar/van. 2) Keep the Almera, and get an old Land Rover for agricultural and towing use. A friend's son recommends a LR 90 200TDI, on the grounds that their lack of an ECU makes them simpler to maintain. 3) Sod the road tax, and get a LWB Pajero/Shogun or a Toyota Hilux Surf and get rid of the car 4) Compromise on a soft-roader like a Suzuki Grand Vitara (2.0 diesel is a more manageable ?
• Ford Fiesta - Fiesta EAC FAIL 28 Sep 2015 (Forum)
  They did a lot of checking and were convinced it was not the tps but first suggested that I needed a new ECU. I immediately got suspicious and lead them to believe that I wouldn't pay to replace that, even though if I knew that was definitely the problem, I probably would. He kept the car overnight because the following day he said they had a ford technician going in to try and sell them some diagnostic equipment.
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  My Hyundai ix35 is seriously delayed - what can I do? 8 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I ordered a Hyundai ix35 4WD in May 2010 for delivery in August. I was told in August that the car would be delayed, but that they had a 2WD option I could...
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  We need a large MPV, but do low mileage - what do you recommend? 1 Jan 2018 (Ask HJ)
  We have four children and are struggling with our Citroen C4 Grand Picasso. We need a secondhand replacement with space and a decent boot, so very few...
• Skoda Yeti - My third Yeti 22 Sep 2015 (Forum)
  It had a few minor issues during its time with me: new cam position sensor ECU flash (went wrong an immobilised the car) timing chain was becoming increasingly noisy (especially on cold start-up) The fuel economy was disappointing and the car was truly dreadful in snow - wide tyres (Pirelli P Zero Rosso) / light front end.
• Peugeot 207 1.6Hdi 110bhp Sport - 35,095miles - DPF Removal 16 Oct 2012 (Forum)
  , but they also bore into & damaged the car's catalytic convertor! Apart from this, they explained to me that s******* Ltd's employee who supposedly carried out the ECU remapping, had increased some of the vehicle's values by between 15 to 17% and, had I continued to drive my car in that condition, I would have done irreparable damage to it which would have resulted in thousands of £s to fix or, at worst, to completely scrap my car!
• Subaru Forester - First 2 months and 2,000 miles of ownership 27 Aug 2020 (Forum)
  Over the first few weeks I was really disappointed with the drive. It hesitated when I tried to take off, It seemed to kangaroo after gear changes. It has two ECU modes - I for “intelligent” and S for “sport”. I tried changing between the two, but no difference. I was when looking through the manual I found the suggested gear change speeds – in essence you need to keep the revs at about 2,000.
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  How can you be so dismissive of the problems caused by the emissions upgrade? 1 Apr 2017 (Ask HJ)
  How can you be so dismissive of the problems your readers are reporting shortly after implementation of the VAG emissions upgrade? We know that soot increases...
• seat leon mk3 1.6tdi - Seat leon electrical gremlins - anyone any thought 6 May 2021 (Forum)
  Extended UDS fault detail is only supported by current gen. interfaces] Intermittent - Confirmed - Tested Since Memory Clear Freeze Frame: Fault Status: 00000001 Fault Priority: 6 Reset counter: 48 Mileage: 108266 km Date: 2021.04.29 Time: 15:15:31 Motor status: 01 System status: Driving mode Supply voltage: 12.00 V Temperature: 27.0 °C KFC: 4D KFA: 00 04 Freeze frame conditions: 21 uAdSensI_U1V2Filtered_gdu16: 1.20 V uAdSensI_U5VFiltered_xdu16: 0.00000 V uioUdNotFilt_xdu16: 12.08 V uAdSensI_SwitchedKl30_xdu16: 12.06 V ASC_CTRL_GET_ILWS_ERR_FLAGS: 00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Address 55: Headlight Range (J431) Labels:| 5Q0-907-357.clb Part No SW: 5Q0 907 357 HW: 6R0 907 357 A Component: LWR-ECU 005 0080 Revision: -------- Serial number: -------------- Coding: 048C000009000000 Shop #: WSC 00049 770 00107 ASAM Dataset: EV_HeadlRegulVWLWRMQB 001110 ROD: EV_HeadlRegulVWLWRMQB.rod VCID: 75E13080D4637323E0-8020 1 Fault Found: 13705985 - Databus U1123 00 [137] - Received Error Message [New feature!
• Dilemma of dilemmas of dilemmas 2 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  DPF/fluid issues Fiat 1.3 and 1.9 also used in Vauxhalls- waterpump seizes, shreds timing belt, bends valves VAG used in Audi, VW, Skoda, Seat and others: piezo injectors, ECU software even in old 110hp 1.9; coolant loss due to porous cylinder heads, oil pump drive fail, Teves ABS issue. Nissan 136hp: Turbo will likely fail Renault: EGR valve, potential to run on sump oil Mazda 2.0: Large potential to run on sump oil.
• Cyclist curfew 11 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  destination=node%2F48199%23comment-form">register to post comments michael knight An Alternative 8 hours 1 min ago James...how about an alternative approach; any motor vehicle driving within a town/city centre is automatically slowed to a maximum 20mph. No idea how to do it, some kind of ECU-jamming perhaps.. but imagine the improvement in our environments. Safety, noise, emissions all improved. As for your initial question. No. But as a cyclist myself there's no excuse for not having lights.