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• Should I opt out of Co. car? What car to get? 19 Jan 2009 (Forum)
  Vectra diesel/petrol, any others to consider but don?t really want to pay over £8k for a year old car. Thanks
• Never meet your heroes 19 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  I have always coveted the E39 BMW Touring. Never could quite justify the cost but for various reasons including model replacement, fuel prices and so on they are starting to look reasonable at least on purchase price, if less so on running costs. Anyway, more on a whim than anything I went to see a couple at the weekend. One had the 2.2 petrol engine ( badged 520 ) with a manual box and the other was the 3.0 auto diesel.
• Peugeot 406 (1999 - 2004) - 2003 Hdi 90 hp - engine chugging 16 Feb 2008 (Forum)
  It also seems to be underpowered but we put this down to emissions & Peugeot cutting back on the power to get it into the lower diesel taxation band. The car has been with AP Diesel specialist for a few days & they have checked everything on the injection side, they have put 2 new valves in the injector pump & tried another set of injectors in it but could not find anything wrong in their tests & gave the fuel side an all clear, they suggested that it might be clutch or transmission.
• Ford C-MAX (2003 - 2010) - 06 1.8TDCi - MPG getting worse 26 Nov 2007 (Forum)
  Also it doesn't seem quite as nippy as before. I've switched over to use Shell and BP premium diesel fuels for the last couple of months hoping that it might help clean any unwanted deposits, but it hasn't seemed to make any difference. It's still in warranty and I'm thinking about taking it to a dealer to get them to look at it, but as it's not actually broken down and the problems are fairly subtle, I don't have much confidence they'll be able to do anything about it.
• n reg fiesta diesel starting nightmare 15 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Help!! Car always started 2nd or 3rd time in morning (has for last few years). Last weekend (when first real cold weather arrived) started taking about...
• Thoughts on driving in France 25 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  Travel at 90-95mph and be overtaken by an equally efficient train on an adjacent track. Yes, there are tolls but the fuel is cheaper?a lot cheaper for a diesel driver. (Why is it that the rest of Europe pretty much unanimously agrees that diesel should be cheaper than petrol but we seem to think it dirty and worthy of additional taxes?)
• MPG wanted for 4-6k. 29 Jun 2002 (Forum)
  Preferably, in order to pay off some student debt, i would like to retain some cash out of the car - thus paying 4000 to 4500 for something else. I've been looking at Vectras and Astra diesels, ex fleet T/V/W plate with 100000 miles plus at this money, but feel loathed to spend money on a car with that mileage on the clock. Opinions please?? I've also have looked at Rover 200/400 diesels with less mileage.
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  Ford Tourneo Connect - which engine should I choose? 13 May 2014 (Ask HJ)
  I am thinking about buying a Ford Tourneo Connect and would like your view on the best engine to choose. I will cover 12,000 miles a year, with occasional...
• A4 down the M4 19 Mar 2002 (Forum)
  Pros Build quality - both perceived (interior surfaces) and real (thud of doors) Sports seats - perhaps the best I've tried Refinement - a touchy subject with diesels, but this one was very smooth once moving. Not sure how much of this was due to the transmission. However, you could still tell it was a diesel at idle. Steering wheel transmission controls - change gear like Schumacher.
• audi A3 2.0 TDI 2015 184 - Audi 2.0 TDI 184 H.G issue? 2015 4 Feb 2024 (Forum)
    Ebay sell new ones, but without the cap? MPG has dropped slightly of late, i thought the fuel was watered down!  at least 5MPG less , on average! Had the 'top op oil' light on , the other week! Otherwise car is solid!  87k, recent cambelt and WP, full history, i changed and flushed the oil, last year, never thrashed, never overheated, i use mainly for motorway and A roads, i occasionally add fuel additive, every other tankful.
• Peugeot 106 1.5d 95' TUD5 Rev Hunts, slower starting, performance down Timing? 17 Oct 2019 (Forum)
  Morning all. Posted the other week re air / fuel leak causing cut out. Turned out to be leaky fuel filter/pipe. Now fixed. Thanks to all helping on that one. Now fixed but since this the engine is slower to start (still less than 1.5 seconds but used to be split second) and sometimes the rev's hunt up and down.
• VW Passat TDI 2001 - Starting Problem 25 Nov 2015 (Forum)
  we left it for 5 mins then turned off the engine,tried to start it again but same problem,more easy start and it fired up. The mech gave me a report for my garage which said "diesel fuel possibly being pushed back from the injectors.".?? the car has now been in the garage since the 23/7/07,the mech said he has done a EMU check and it showed no problem ,the fuel pump is okay but the starting problem remains the same..
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  DPF Problem 2 Aug 2015 (Ask HJ)
  The DPF warning light appeared on the dash for the first time with no other issues at all with car. I checked with my handbook for advice which l followed...
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  Black smoke from Mercedes C200 18 May 2015 (Ask HJ)
  I own a Mercedes-Benz C200 2010 model.It has 400,000KM and lately I noticed the following: When i start the car, it works at around 800rpm. When...
• Seat/Audi/Skoda. - Advice, what do you think is best? 11 Feb 2012 (Forum)
  So I was wondering what you would do in this situation? Hold on or trade in? As a side note I am curently only getting 43mpg and my fuel bill is rising by the month (as are most) I pay £180pm in fuel alone so my next car would have to be more economical As for what car I am lookikng at Seat Exeo, Skoda Superb, Or even an Audi A3 sportsback petrol or diesel not really that bothered and it must be no more than 4 yrs old.
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  Why won't my Nissan Primera start? 23 Aug 2010 (Ask HJ)
  When trying to start my Nissan Primera P12 it won't rev, it just splutters and then cuts out after a while. When turning it over it will start but won't...
• How do I get better fuel consumption 3 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  Scenic dci 120 with approx 6k on the clock. The most mpg I am getting is very low 40's whereas the manual says I should be looking at 38.2 / 56.5 / 48.7...
• Daihatsu Skywing (like Mk2 Charade) - Car stumbles and looses power 26 May 2019 (Forum)
  Improves after about a klick but still hesitates a couple of times during the 20k or so trip and is definately running rough and down on power (which it didn't have a lot of before) going over hump-backed bridges. So I'm thinking 1. Back-flush or change the fuel filter.  (There's an abandoned diesel pump with a replacable-element filter holder on nearby farmland which I might salvage but its been flooded many times so may not come off) (The fuel tank has a drain plug but it doesn't seem possible to do it without getting the fuel dirty, so that'd be a last resort) 2.
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  Why is my Mazda 5 cutting out? 21 Feb 2015 (Ask HJ)
  My Mazda 5 1.6 diesel has started to cut out. The car does a 30-40 mile journey once a week and longer ones once a month. I also use Shell V-Power once...
• Calling all engineers and web whizzos? 14 Oct 2002 (Forum)
  However, you can only get UNLEADED fuel at a few fuel stations here in the capital, Amman. UNLEADED is simply not available at all outside the capital. So most people just fill up with the 4 star or 2 star that is widely available and cheaper than unleaded to boot.