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• Merc "Can't find anything wrong" problem 15 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  My theory is that the rear toe-in (which is about 14 minutes toe-in each rear wheel) seems quite significant when you look along the car - you can see the wheel angles - and with the fairly beefy tyres, if one wheel "unsticks" itself (i.e. loses contactdue to a dip, or hits a slippery surface (drain cover), the toe of the other wheel pushes the back end over.
• Please help me buy a van 21 Dec 2002 (Forum)
  Having nearly finished renovating a property and having got through one clutch and some suspension on a previous car I really do feel I need to spend some money on something a little more robust. My requirements are: Load area to carry 8' x 4' sheet material (eg plaster board etc) Reliable enough to cover about 5k miles per year (I am keeping my car for work and family) Not too scruffy, nothing that a builder has wrecked.
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  MINI TLC Package 22 Jul 2015 (Ask HJ)
  My MINI 11 plate with 15,552 miles had its service and mot at MINI Salisbury yesterday. I was advised when I paid the MOT bill that my TLC package had...
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  I'd like to recommend the RAC's breakdown recovery after our Volkswagen Golf broke down in France. 15 Sep 2011 (Ask HJ)
  You recently wrote favourably regarding RAC Foreign Travel. For over 40 years my normal cars have been an XK120 and XK150. Most breakdown firms do not...
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  My Vauxhall Vectra isn't running because I can't get the firing order right. Any ideas? 7 Sep 2010 (Ask HJ)
  I recently replaced a head gasket on a Vauxhall Vectra B 1999 T-reg SRI estate petrol. The car was running nicely before being taken to bits to replace...
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  Fighting over scraps 19 Sep 2009 (Ask HJ)
  I scrapped my car on 29th May for a new VW Polo with VW (Wayside Milton Keynes). The dealer insisted that I hand over the tax disc from my old car which...
• VW Golf Estate TDi 2007 - Please help me find the correct suspension parts 26 Nov 2024 (Forum)
  Hi all, my car is a VW Golf Estate TDi 2007 - Reg CX57 XRL.  Can you help me find out which suspension parts I need to buy to amend the advisories? I've got someone coming to fit them when I have them.
• Renault Laguna - Renault Laguna 1.9 dci starting issues. 15 May 2023 (Forum)
  When the start button is pressed, all you hear is a click. No cranking.  I have had a fiddle with the relays in the car ( what a pig to get to ) and the relays under the bonnet. I added another battery to it with jump leads and it started a couple of times.  I have now put all the covers back and the relays back hoping it was just a loose connection etc, but now it refuses to start etc.
• Audi A4 Avant - Washer fluid 11 Mar 2021 (Forum)
  My rear washer stopped squirting a week or so ago.  I tried probing the nozzles (there are two) with a needle but to no avail so I booked the car into my Audi dealer.  I have an extended warranty, so before you all experience a sharp intake of breath, in theory my costs would be limited to the excess. This morning I have been informed that the issue is more than blocked nozzles.
• Skoda and Hyundai - Millers petrol additive. 17 Dec 2019 (Forum)
    Obviously additives are regularly spoken of and each will have their own experience or opinion and it will have been covered before, although I searched and didn't see reference to this particular product.   HJ did speak of it but I can't see where as we speak ... maybe it was an advert of some sort? Had I not seen it mentioned I wouldn't have gone looking for it - but both my cars return quite poor mpg figures and so after seven or eight years of ownership I thought I'd try it (admittedly a bit late in the day).
• Honda Civic - Honda service, how to annoy a customer 16 Apr 2017 (Forum)
  Then when I took it in, the service manager himself booked me in. He said that the MoT would "only" be £35. I had to point out that, having bought it from them, my car gets free MoTs, as long as they service it. This is in writing as part of tbe sales documentation. On collection the receptionist went through all the paperwork. No free breakdown and recovery cover had been provided even though its part of Honda's long-running service offer.
• Insurance claim from abroad 1 Oct 2015 (Forum)
  The complication is that this happened  a couple of days into an extensive overseas trip (several months - which I am fully comp covered for) and I was getting very ambivalent signals from the person I spoke to on the claims line about when and where I should get it repaired, he suggested at one point I might consider waiting until I returned back home.
• Ford Focus 1.6 tdi 2005 (65k) - turbo problems 5 Jul 2015 (Forum)
  About 2 wweks ago I noticed I'd little or now power especially when tryng to accelarate. I bought the car last July for 6k from a local garage and traded in a petrol 1.8 1999 which was beginning to cause expenive problems, and hoped I wouldn't have to invest quite as much cash in repairs with a newer model.So took thecar into them and was quoted about £700 to replace the turbo (incl vat and labour) wasn't too happy about that but what could I do.
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  Four year old Mazda 6 - keep or sell? 22 Feb 2015 (Ask HJ)
  I have a four year old (2011) Mazda 6 Sport (180) diesel tourer. I've had it from new, covering 126,000 miles and love the car. I've seen a 2012 reg "Venture"...
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  What's wrong with my Audi A3? 18 Jun 2014 (Ask HJ)
  We have a 2008 Audi A3 2.0 TDi which has covered 73,000 miles and is driven twice a week (90 miles on a motorway) with a couple of urban miles at either...
• Vauxhall Astra H 1.7CDTI - Mystery diesel leak. 23 Oct 2013 (Forum)
  The pump itself is dry on the outside, all around the injectors, glow plugs, the high-pressure pipes are all clean and dry; but underneath and behind that there is evidence of a diesel leak. The back of the car also gets covered in diesel when it is leaking, including the rear window, which is how I know when it's happening. It only leaks on warm days when I am driving at about 60 - 70 mph, or if I am accelerating hard up a hill.
• Peugeot 306 (1993 - 2001) - 1997 1.4 Auxilary drive belt configuration 31 May 2013 (Forum)
  Now for the problem! The car only has power steering and no Air con. The power steering pump is located towards the front of the engine and the pulley on the pump has a tensioner type bearing located below. The problem is that these two pulleys are on a completely different centreline to any of the other pulleys and I can't remember where the drive pulley was or is located?
• VW Golf TDi SE PD 110 - Cold start misfire? 4 Nov 2012 (Forum)
  After engine is warmed up (5 miles approx) the light will go out and engine will run fine if the car is turned off and then on again . It clears and pulls strongly from there on. I have had it put on a 'snap-on' diagnostic machine and it threw up a 'cylinder 1 injector fault'. (VW code 18074, genereic code P1666).
• Citroen Saxo - saxo 1.1 spi not starting after service/cambelt 15 Mar 2011 (Forum)
  hi right come here as found some useful info in the past on these cars from here so decided to ask about this problem i have right got a 1.1 with a suspect blown HG! anyway turned out to just be the roker cover vertually none exsistant around the back of the engine so oil was being p***ed out everywhere from it!
• Seat Alhambra 1.9Tdi 115bhp-Limp Mode 26 Sep 2010 (Forum)
  Stopping the car switching off the engine & restarting will correct the problem. Much more infrequently, the engine has been found to be in limp mode straight from start up where the engine has not reved hard however, again the process of turning the ignition off & restarting resets & the turbo is normal.