Hi, Fairly new to this! I have a 2006 Ford Focus Sport which came with an installed Nokia CK-7W Advanced Car Kit hands free thing which worked from the day I had the car, really impressed. It starts up when I turn the ignition over which is great.

I was driving along this morning when I spotted a car comming towards me suddenly start spewing clouds of blue-white smoke. As it neared, I realised it was an NSU RO80. Judging from the odd whining noise it made as it past me, it still had a rotary engine. It's amazing how such an old car can still look...

Has anybody found with these that the climate control takes a while from when you start the key to actually cooling quickly or heating? For example, outside temperature 25 degrees climate set at 21 degrees, you start the engine and get cool air, but only very slowly, it takes until the car reaches 70 on the temp guage before it goes "Oh right it's actually quite hot!" and kicks in the air con...

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Just picked up a replacement 3.8 engine for Poorly Jag and it has an electronic ignition set up in the distributor - does anyone know who manufactured it? http://www.sweller.dynalias.org/jagign/ The little black box has a cloth sleeved cable with two spade connectors at just the right length to reach the coil and that's all I can make out. Another thing, do the core plugs look recent?

Am buying a VW golf 5 door estate car Thursday. On seller's V5C, its stated to be a VW golf estate 5 door 1.9 litre TDI SE 100PS 2002. When sorting out insurnace, according to the insurance database, giving the reg no says its a golf GL TDI, no mention of a SE or 100PS or PD (pumpe dusse). Searching around on the net for Golf GL's indicate a earlier model year than 2002. so it may be the...

Does anyone own or know of a smart charger that goes into charging cycle the moment mains power is applied, rather than needing to press buttons first like my Lidl one does. Must be 3 stage modern smart charger, not old fashioned transformer and rectifier type. Reason I want this is because I do not use my car for many weeks at a time and I leave battery charger connected to battery most of...

According to my insurers that is. I've bought a digger which can be towed behind a car. So I needed to fit a towing ball and electrics. This according to my insurers is "modifying the car" so I had to declare it to them, they're getting back to me with news about if it will cost me and if so how much. I was going to go for the basic towing flange, but apparently that won't work because I have...

1999 1.8 zetec Mk2 Mondeo. Had this problem since I bought it a year ago. Revs drop slowly when I come of accelerator or changing gear. If I'm in 3rd gear about 1300-1500 rpm and come off accelerator. Revs hardly drop for 3-5 seconds and either forced to wait until they very slowly fall or have to change down or brake to reduce speed. Very tiring to drive around town. It did improve it very...

Merc=broken. Rental company chucks me a 2.0CDTI Astra SRI. Good bits? Engine. Quite perky. Nice dials on the dash. Nice interior illumination. Lots of grip. Looks nice on 18s. Bad bits? Seat base too high. Steering lightness ruins handling. Can't feel changes in road surfact through steering. Monster torquesteer in second. Gearbox still as slow and sloppy as astras always have been. Lots of...

Following up on my Focus 2.0 TDCi issues, I changed the fuel filter today in the hope that a new filter/seal would stop the air which is being drawn into my fuel line somewhere. It was a pig to bleed the system afterwards and it didn't fix the problem. Every 30 seconds or so, I'm getting about 2-3 seconds worth of air bubbles coming out of the fuel filter. Unfortunately, the line from the...

Hi All, does anyone know where I could find the code for Blaupunkt PH/1 as fitted to a 1998 Citroen Xantia only readable number on the radio itself is 96 260 240 80 Any ideas? Or Am I off to the Citroen dealer on Tuesday (or one of the many car audio shops in Slough?)

A neighbour called this morning to say the driver's door on my '97 BMW 528 was open. As it was, and the car had been gone through and the change I keep in the box behind the handbrake gone - only about 5 quid or so for parking meters etc. This isn't the first time this has happened. More like a dozen times or so over the 10 years I've owned the car. The difference is this time I am positive it...

There must be a better way of replacing an instrument bulb than having to take out the dash. Yes? Rob Graham

The Lights on Warning is not working when I open the door of my Mk3 Mondeo. This can sometimes be a PITA during daylight/Lights on conditions when you get out and forget the lights are on. I have been looking all over the drivers side door to find a switch or some other method of actuation and I cannot find anything that would actuate the alarm.The Haynes Manual makes no mention of it. The...

I love doing things that conventional wisdom clealry indicates I shouldn't. Two things happened to the bus of doom recently. First of all, the exhaust rusted right through at a weld between the downpipe and the cat. Cleaned it all up with the wire brush in the grinder (top tool) and fizzed it all back together with my 30 year old Clarke 160E mig and pub co2 gas.

I posted about my Focus 2.0 TDCi and its warm starting problem a few weeks ago. It went through a period of starting normally but now the problem has returned and is getting worse. It now takes two attempts to start from cold. I thought at one point that it could be the battery not giving it a good enough crank but tonight I noticed air bubbles in the line out from the fuel filter when the...

Driving along a country road to work this morning, I was stunned to see another lorry driver down a road that was not suited to lorries at all, obviously just looking at where his sat-nav was telling him was the shortest route. This road is obviously never regularly used by HGV's because he was actually hitting the branches of the trees as he was driving along, raining clumps of leaves...

Hi, I have a year 2000 volvo s80 2.5d (D5252T engine). I need to replace the egr, but do not have a manual with this engine in. Does anybody know the location of the egr or have a manual that is in electronic form that they can send me? Thanks in advance

Car in for MOT. Garage rung to tell me front lower wishbone bushes worn and need replacing. Everything else ok. Just wondered if I would notice this when driving as this Mondy handles very well and everything feels tight. Have agreed to replace whole wishbones. Rockingrabbit

I have been given a set of unmarked, used brake disks which unfortunately have been left out in the wet and are quite rusty. I'm just wondering how to set about cleaning them up. Ideally I would put them in thee lathe, but they are too big - any other suggestions for surface rust removal please? -- Regards,

I'm about to buy a new or second-hand diesel medium-size hatch/saloon. Some time ago (I swear it was here) somebody complained that it cost £1000 to refill an additive tank on a French diesel car (I can't remember which) and I'm anxious to avoid cars which cost this kind of money to service. I do 20,000 miles a year. Do all modern diesels have these additive tanks? Any suggestions about...

Well inner tubes actually... I ordered via 18 x 6.50 for the lawn tractor. What has just been delivered says on the packaging 18/850/950 - before I start trying to fit them, are they the correct size please? -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

When I got back with that Focus I discovered that over the last few days some scrote has stolen the tow hitch and little boat winch from my car trailer. Oh well, looks like it is time for recorded cctv.

0.15% CO, 74ppm HC. Not bad for a 140k mile 1100cc Pug on a carb, eh?

Just got a ticket on 'erselfs Pug - 90/G pikey-spec 1.1 205 - with no problem whatsoever, except for an advisory on the steering column UJ. Apparently, it's "a little loose". It's been flagged as "slight play" and "slightly deteriorated" on the yellow sheet. When we got the car last year, it was the opposite - a bit stiff and notchy, but nothing a quick spray with WD didn't cure. What's the...

OK, it came in because the battery warning light flicked on, so it sounded like charging, but it is actually that the idle goes too low and then recovers. Any ideas on what the likely fault is. W plate 1.6 16v. 78,00 miles. No trouble codes at all. I am going to start with a vacuum leak hunt, go on to a throttle body clean, then see what the MAF is doing and the TPS.

I am looking for the blown fuse for the cigar lighter on a Vauxhall Vectra 2.0DTi reg plate 53 saloon car. There are 2 lighters in the central gear stick floor canopy. The socket in front serving the driver/passenger seats got shorted out with a faulty plug and both this one and the rear one in the same canopy serving the rear seats are no longer working. I removed and tested every fuse in...

Hello I have a '04 Golf and noticed when changing gears the motion is feeling a bit less than smooth. My next step should be? Many thanks Hj

I have to connect this AAA battery holder to a toy. Although I have a small soldering iron, my soldering skills are poor. I can see myself easily melting all the plastic around the contacts before I can get anything to stick to the tabs. (The part of the tabs with the small hole will bend upwards giving some clearence). http://tinypic.com/r/iqx3pf/4 My immediate plan is to poke a few...

I've noticed a Peugeot 206 (2004) that looks good value. I know there have been problems with these cutting out. Does anyone know what years this affects? Any 206 owners out there like them?! Thanks, Ed.

What's so hard with the maintenance of these vehicles? I'm starting to get sick and tired of finding the reason I've been stuck in traffic for an hour is due to a broken down lorry. It's all I every hear on the traffic report."Delays due to a broken down lorry". T Raymond

Firstly because I have bought a French hot hatch (of sorts) - a Citroen Xsara VTS. Quite pokey, handles nicely and in a fetching shade of yellow. Secondly because tomorrow I leave for a trip in the TVR to find some nice driving roads round our beloved country. Plan is to hop into Wales along the motorways to visit a friend near Newport. Then tomorrow midday-ish hop across the Brecon...

Been thinking for some time about buying a Welder, i now have an early VW camper which needs quite a bit of new metal if its ever going to pass an mot. So what do i buy, what would be the easiest to learn too use by a complete novice. Thanks -- Oz

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