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Has a whistle when accelerating. Appears to be from the turbo - how concerned ought I to be with this? Disappears when easing off accelerator.
My Citroen C5 is lacking power. The anti polution light comes on, engine power dies to next to nothing so I turn the engine off for a few seconds and turn on the ignition and there seems to be power again,...
My 1 Series engine fires but then resorts to a chugging sound and does not fire up properly. No computer data problems on dash board, fuel all good. Car was towed back to our garage and the mechanic's...
Bought an A4 Avant last August, 08 plate, currently with approx 78k miles on clock. Oil pressure light began flashing, drove on to Audi garage. They have so far spent 4.5hrs labour diagnosing extent of...
Have any other readers experienced a problem after driving through a ford in a Mercedes C Class? I recently drove through a local ford in my MB C250 Cdi and the car cut out on leaving the ford and would...
I want to try and save on my car engine oil, oil/air filters and plugs change. I wanted to find out how I could change the oil, both the filters and plugs, and also the tools would I need. If I could do...
We purchased a Ford Galaxy Zetec 2009 from 'the UK’s leading car and van retailer' about 3 months ago and the vehicle keeps failing into limp mode, with numerous visits back to service bay = new boost...
I have a 2002 Mondeo but the central locking won't lock when using the fob, yet it works fine with the key. By this I mean if u use the fob it just unlocks itself straight away after locking.
How do I bleed the brakes on a Citroen C5? I have replaced the front caliper.
My VW Passat wouldn't move due to 'parking brake fault' and had to tow it to authorised VW dealer (Peter Cooper) as normal garages were not able to decipher the error code using their devices. I could...
 

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