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The heater in my Vauxhall Corsa only produces cold air and I don't understand why this is.
I have a noisy air conditioning pump on my BMW 3 Series. An independent garage advises that a new pump is necessary, but not urgent. If I leave it the noise will simply increase. Quoted £753.49 for new...
My wife's 1995 Suzuki Vitara automatic diesel is playing her up. When she puts it in drive it'll auto change to 1st & 2nd gears ok, but then it'll stay in 2nd gear and won't change up to 3rd / 4th. Then,...
During a recent safety recall, when changing a bar between the clutch pedal and master cylinder a substantial spillage of brake fluid (and later leakage due to not re-assembling properly) soaked into...
I've just got my car back from having an MOT and my heating has noticeably deteriorated, prior to the MOT it was working perfectly. On the heating dial, I used to have it one click in the red and it...
The cam belt has broken at 99,000, and repairs are likely to cost us more than £2000. For normal use, the handbook recommends changing at 100,000 miles. Otherwise it is "severe" at 50,000. We have owned...
The high level LED brake light on my 54 plate vRS Octavia Estate ceased to function recently. My local garage, who have serviced the car since I acquired it in 2007, couldn't access it and referred the...
The garage has advised that the DMF is faulty and needs replacing, both of us thought that only diesels had the DMF fitted. Is this something that normally goes wrong on petrol cars?
I'm considering a Fabia with the TSI 1.2 105 ps engine and wondered if this fairly new design with its high pressure injectors and turbo is likely to have the same sort of problems afflicting modern diesel...
I just bought a Vauxhall Vectra 1.9 CDTi 150 bhp. When I'm driving it's not picking up speed, but if I turn the engine off and back on again it will pick up speed. Once I reach a junction it will lose...
 

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