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Is £16,500 a fair price for a 'brand new' Cadillac CTS? 29 Jun 2010 (Ask HJ)
I have been offered a 'brand new' Cadillac CTS 3.6 for £16,500. The car appears to be brand new, unmarked, with some transit packaging still in place,... -
Paying alloymoney 20 Feb 2010 (Ask HJ)
My 2005/55 Ford Street Ka has done 45,000 miles. A week ago failed its MoT and needed a broken offside front spring and front arm replaced due to corrosion,... -
Dear diary I ran out of fuel today 4 Feb 2010 (Forum)
Next time I started up the engine management light blinked and went out. Sheer luck, I call it. As has happened before when I have disconnected the battery, it feels like I now have another 20bhp under my right foot before the computer gets used to my turgid driving style again. OK, thank you for listening, you can get back to your lives now. -
Electric shock 30 Jan 2010 (Ask HJ)
I have owned a 2006/56 FIAT Panda 1.2 Eleganza from new, now 7 weeks out of warranty. An intermittent failure of PAS started yesterday. The nearest dealer... -
Volkswagen Polo III (2000 - 2002) - 00 1.0 Engine timing 20 Jan 2010 (Forum)
Ok here i go, I am a new driver and i know some stuff about cars but not everything, it all started with my car losing power at first , my first guess it was the battery, i checked it out at a garage and the guy said the battery is fine it might be my Alternator. After waiting around for some minutes i got bored and i thought that it might have something to do with my fuel tank, so i filled it up wid some Fuel Injection Fluid, Car was working fine after that. -
Filter tip - DPF regeneration 15 Jan 2010 (Ask HJ)
I've run a BMW E60 525SE petrol auto from new. It's 6 years old and I intend to change it for a new F10 5-Series. There are compelling paper reasons for... -
Stop starve technology 5 Dec 2009 (Ask HJ)
I am really interested in the Vauxhall/Opel Ampera. The benefits seem inescapable. However, given a scenario where the car is used on the daily commute... -
CC top 7 Nov 2009 (Ask HJ)
I have decided to buy a CC - convertible with a metal folding roof. Having owned a 3 Series BMW convertible in the past, I find their servicing costs,... -
Executor decision 24 Oct 2009 (Ask HJ)
A friend and client is executor of a deceased relative’s estate and obliged to realise assets for fair value. Amongst them is a Mercedes E280 Auto Estate... -
Galaxy gearbox ecu nightmare 16 Dec 2005 (Forum)
Is it possible they did receive gearbox ecu and fitted it to engine instead?????(dunno even what one looks like...)The ECU we wanted sits beside the battery and is removed by sliding the battery sideways...Are we talking about the same thing even...????please help, running out of options here and the 'customer service' has been terrible, just defensive and hostile - 'closing ranks' and just telling us it's our fault........................:0( :0( -
Peugeot 306 Electrics/lights problem! 10 Apr 2003 (Forum)
This then got worse, they would switch on & off regulary on their own, and I was obviously ending up with a flat battery. Then I had no headlights (or tail lights) for about a week. Everything else worked fine including brake lights,indicators, reverse lights etc, I just had no Side/Dip or main beam & rear lights. I took it to my local garage, who could not find the fault, so I was restricted to driving in daylight hours only. -
Range Rover 1989 3.6L EFI light 11 May 2002 (Forum)
It is a different computer to that used in the 1989 V-8 range Rovers anywhere else in the world due to the US Emission laws I think). My Guess is the the totally Flat Battery has done something to the computer as my gentle 24 hour recharge should have precluded any surge damage that a jump start might have caused. So before I resort to the Homer Simpson \"Fix\" of a patch of black electrical tape over the warning light... -
New Cars - Not enjoyable to drive? 22 Jul 2025 (Forum)
It's nice enough, but it definitely feels heavy and not very nimble. I'm not sure if that's because the hybrid battery was fully depleted, maybe the electric assist wasn’t kicking in? Should it have recharged itself? Hard to tell what the car is doing? Perhaps I just didn’t figure out how to operate it properly. -
Citroen c4 grand picasso - Abs/esp faulty gearbox light's on 25 Apr 2024 (Forum)
After then check cables, cleaned wheel sensors front, replaced second hand abs pump (same part number) did abs bleeding all wheels, new battery, electronic parking brake cannot release i did with scanner. still problems. Want to drive and njoy with Citroen but can't. got scanner and my fault codes is: Automatic or piloted gearbox: U1213 U0415 P0949 P1800 Engine management ECU: P1350 P1394 P1351 ABS/ESP: C1398 C1320 C1330 C139D U1219 Electronic parking brake: U1213 Any advice please. -
2015 Renault Megane DCi - 2015 Megane broken down. Please help. 21 Feb 2024 (Forum)
- Check hill start assist - Check ESC - Check injection system - Check Stop Start I've fitted a new like for like battery and cleared all previous OBD codes and the current permanent codes are - DTC020129 Cylinder 1 injector control circuit invalid signal - DTC926768 Stop start module circuit invalid - DTC407481 Engine torque multiplexed information status - DTC038096 pre heating unit diagnostic connection internal component failure Please can someone advise as I really need my car again. -
Honda Jazz - Getting car on the road after 3 yrs 27 Oct 2023 (Forum)
I understand it would be worth between £1,890 - £2,100 in a road-worthy condition but I'd like to know what work is likely to be required to return it to that state, and hence whether this would give me a better return than just sc***ping it for a few hundred quid. I'm aware that the battery is dead, it has two flat tyres which may well need to be replaced and it will need an oil / fuel change but I guess this would just be the tip of the iceberg. Obviously it would need an MOT as well (and the last MOT included an advisory for 'Macpherson strut pin or bush worn' on both the near and offside front upper). -
Vauxhall Zafira B - Zafira B electrical problems 25 Feb 2023 (Forum)
However, when I towed it to the dealer, the electrics came on ( as soon as I stopped they went off again ). The engine still would not start though. I have tested the battery which is ok, tried the spare key, which still does nothing and tried my fault code reader, which would not even power up. The dealer put it on their computer, and told me "it could be the fuse box" at a cost of £378.00 fitted. -
2019 A3 Tfsi - Audi service 15 Jun 2022 (Forum)
On my return I lifted the bonnet to replenish the windscreen washer and check the oil and found that the engine cover was missing and the battery terminal covers were adrift. The cover had not fallen off because if it had, it would still be in the engine compartment, nowhere else for it to go. Someone in the workshop must wonder why there is an engine cover lying around. -
Can you recommend all-season tyres for my VW ID.3? 31 May 2022 (Ask HJ)
Please would you recommend replacement mid-price all-season tyres for my Volkswagen ID.3, East Derry 19-inch alloys? -
NCAP, safety, smart motorways and safest fuel? 11 Jul 2021 (Forum)
Fortunately the driver got out safely. I don't think an electric car would be any better either, if the fragile lithium battery in a mobile phone can ignite when bent under an airline seat. Maybe diesel is the safest fuel? My brother’s diesel fuel line split, spilling diesel over a hot exhaust. No problem, switch off engine, fix hose, drive away again.
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