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  Fiesta problems 17 Feb 2012 (Ask HJ)
  My car looses a lot of water due to something being wrong with the seal for the box where the spark plugs are found. Water gets to the spark plugs and...
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  Bad fuel broke my Honda Civic 16 Nov 2011 (Ask HJ)
  My 57 Honda Civic recently came to a halt and had to be recovered. Roadside diagnosis was fuel pump problem. My local Honda garage finally diagnosed that...
• Honda Accord 2.0 SE Vtec (1999) (auto) - Engine Management light issues 12 Jul 2011 (Forum)
  Went to garage and typically light went off before I got there!! However, diagnostics showed engine misfire, he checked connections etc and had a look at leads/plugs and they were fine, but thought it could simply be because it had been sat for a while, and did say it was a good tidy car. Take it away, drive for a bit, if light comes back on, bring it back.
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  Why can't the DVLA take over the management of the Blue Badge scheme? 2 May 2011 (Ask HJ)
  The Blue Badge Scheme, a much-valued facility, is sadly abused by some. It is mal-administered with varying degrees of inefficiency and bumbledom by County...
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  Intermittent engine misfire 3 Apr 2011 (Ask HJ)
  I have an R-plate two-litre petrol Ford Mondeo. For as long as I can remember it has a had a slight hesitancy, which feels like a misfire. It occurs...
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  Why won't my Volkswagen Golf achieve its quoted fuel economy figures? 14 Oct 2010 (Ask HJ)
  My Volkswagen Golf 1.6 Bluemotion estate, two months old, has done 2,500 miles. This car should do 54/67/78 to the gallon. It does 40mpg round town and...
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  Does my Peugeot 407 really need diesel fuel additive? 9 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  In my 2006 Peugeot 407 SW SE, diesel fuel additive should be checked at 70,000 miles and running out can lead to massive bills. Mine required three litres...
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  How can I stop my Honda HR-V's alarm going off? 17 Aug 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I own a 2000 Honda HR-V three-door hatchback which I purchased in 2002 from our local dealer. At the beginning of this year the alarm started going off...
• Two Linux installations - Windows and Symbian S60 31 Jul 2010 (Forum)
  Will Linux ever take over from Windows, given that Linux is free and an `open` operating system? Here`s where Symbian S60, one of  the worlds leading smartphone operating systems comes into play. Symbian is now open source too, similar to Linux in that aspect, but still needing Windows in certain situations.   Nokia`s PC suite (for example) just won`t run on Linux and you need a Windows box to download the several Gigs of the Ovi maps to the phone.
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  Is this Skoda service plan a good deal for my 2007 Roomster? 20 May 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I own a Skoda Roomster 56-reg and have done since new in January 2007. It has about 28,000 on the clock and has been serviced at the local Skoda dealer...
• Ford Mondeo II (1996 - 2000) - 01 1.8 Running very rough - electrical issue? 22 Feb 2010 (Forum)
  I kill the air con and heated screen etc. I really suspect it's something electrical. I've bought HT leads but not yet fitted them due to only ever remembering mid journey. When it's really stuttering, it interferes with the radio, again leading me to believe it's an electrical fault or a short somewhere.
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  Rental arithmetic 30 Jan 2010 (Ask HJ)
  In May of 2008 we purchased a 2,000-mile Mazda 3 TS2 first registered in March 2008, for £8,400 including VAT of £1,097 from the Mazda main dealer in Tunbridge...
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  Wheel question: What's the insurance implication? 15 Jan 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I own an 06 model Range Rover Sport that came on 20" Continental Summer tyres which are rubbish for anything other than road-driving! As I have horses...
• Renault Clio 1 Petrol (1991 - 1998) - 94 1.4 Emissions Test Failure Causes 19 Oct 2009 (Forum)
  If anyone has any suggestions i would be glad to hear them. I suppose changing the distrubutor cap and sticking some new plug leads on wont hurt. Any questions, feel free to ask.
• Ford Escort (1993 - 2000) - '97 1.8 Seatbelt pretensioner wiring- Airbag light 3 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  The wiring which pokes through the carpet is only long enough to reach halfway across the underside of the seat base so I assume the yellow connector lead has been removed. The 4 wires which hang loose are as follows: Inside a yellow sheath: Purple / orange tracer.
• Most Written off car. 5 Jun 2006 (Forum)
  s most written-off car is revealed by Market Value Manager, a total loss claim settlement system developed by CAP Motor Research, currently being piloted by leading UK motor insurers. Total loss settlement data from August 2005 to April this year was analysed to determine Britain?s top ten motor insurance write-offs, by make, model, age, colour and postcode.
• Faltering Nissan Cherry 4 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  t like it and then they split up and it had been sitting on his drive for 18 months bar a six month period when one of my Dad?s other colleagues borrowed it) to use Lead Replacement ? as the car was running on fumes when I was given it I put £20 of Lead Replacement in it and I?m wondering whether this is the problem as I thought that it would run on Unleaded. We have a 3 acre farm in North Wales that we?
• Indicating when leaving a motorway 21 Aug 2025 (Forum)
  All I can find in the Highway Code is the following: "Rule 273 Unless signs indicate that a lane leads directly off the motorway, you will normally leave the motorway by a slip road on your left. You should watch for the signs letting you know you are getting near your exit move into the left-hand lane well before reaching your exit signal left in good time and reduce your speed on the slip road as necessary."
• VW Golf Mk8 - CarPlay: Golf mk8 and iPhone 7 27 Apr 2025 (Forum)
  The car and the phone see each other via wi-fi but CarPlay doesn't recognize the iPhone as a device it can access. We went to the local Apple store and bought an expensive connector lead. That didn't work either. It may be that the iPhone is just too old. If so, we'll buy a new one. But nothing I've read in the Apple literature suggests that this will be necessary. Am I missing some small piece of setup somewhere?
• Any - How long does an exhaust pipe last? 7 Oct 2023 (Forum)
  Are exhausts just made from more durable metal now, or do more stringent emissions regulations and the phasing out of leaded petrol mean that the gases passing through the exhaust are less corrosive?