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How does one solve the problem of the exhaust control valve light being illuminated on the instrument console display?
My car started making a droning noise at speeds of 40mph+. There is no noise when turning left - it begins with the wheels straight and increases with right turns. There is a very slight vibration through...
The timing chain has failed after approx 75000 miles, despite correct servicing. My garage who are currently undertaking repairs (they are in the Good Garage Scheme) contacted Fiat on my behalf but were...
I've recently puchased a 2002 Audi A4 1.8T Quattro. It is a fabulous car and has been garaged during it's ownership by both previous owners. The last keeper lost one of the two sets of keys and I need...
I have a Honda Jazz (registered 3 Jan 2005) and have covered 76,000kms (47,500 miles) to date. I am now getting a noise at the back when driving at 50kms/hour or more, this has been diagnosed as a rear...
When I switch the headlights on steering arm switch, it doesn't come and sometimes it does - I checked all fuses they are fine
We have a 2002 Peugeot 307 Rapier. It had been running fine but finally a day came when it started showing up anti-pollution fault. We got it checked but the local garage couldn't resolve it. We kept running...
The passenger electric window is not working, but the drivers one is, would this be the motor or is there a seperate fuse and could the switch itself be a common fault?
Terrible thumping noise when either heating or cooling used.noise stops immediately when climate control switched off.car has covered 130000 miles,65000 by myself.i have very rarely used the air conditioning...
Bought a new Audi A6 in June 2012 (in Finance). On 29 December 2012, we drove the car and after a mile we noticed a lot of white smoke getting out of the exhaust. The white smoke was so much that we decided...
 

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