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My husband has gone out in the car (2002 Ford Focus 1.8 TDCi), stopped, gone into the shop, come out and car refused to start for at least 5 mins. Then it happened again three weeks later. I'm not worried...
On a particularly hot day in July 2010, I noticed that the air conditioning in my Mazda6 MPS had stopped cooling. I rang my local Mazda main dealer who told me that I needed the system re-gassing. This...
My relative has an original 1993 mk1 1275cc Mini which has been sat unused for two years or more. What would I need to do before attempting to restart the car with regard to engine, brakes or anything...
I have an R-plate two-litre petrol Ford Mondeo. For as long as I can remember it has a had a slight hesitancy, which feels like a misfire. It occurs when driving slowly in fourth or fifth gear, and is...
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I have owned a 1996 Peugeot 406 2.0-litre petrol 16v LX from new and for the last year it has had an intermittent fault. It had covered 165,000 trouble free miles up until this fault. Sometimes it will...
I own a 2004 Ford Transit Connect TDCI with 108,000 miles on the clock. The Ford service guide recommends replacing the cam belt at 150,000 miles, but The Ford Transit Connect owners website has many...
My dad has a 1998 Lexus that isn't used very often and so the battery has gone flat a number of times. He now leaves the battery on charge periodically. However, today he found that the car battery would...
Our Toyota Carina estate has ABS on only two wheels, the front. According to the manual it should be on four wheels or none. The ABS has a problem and I want to know what the consequences of removing...
I am now driving with an automatic gear box - at traffic lights should I put the car in neutral, park or just leave it in drive with my foot on the brake? Hearing different advice. What puts less stress...
My car, a Skoda Roomster, repeatedly loses power on roundabouts/bumpy roads. The glow plug and TCS warning lights come on and the car goes into some kind of low speed mode. I stop the car, restart, and...
 

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