Recent content by skinner

1.5 DCI, when my right foot is to the floor the engine warning light comes on. It goes off again as soon as I stop accelerating hard. No loss of power, no other symptoms. Any ideas? Can anyone recommend a DIY code reader?

Electric window mechanisms snap. ECU bracket will be broken. Rear dampers leak.

Mine does it. Isn't blowing either.

Password? Of course it lowers your emissions if you manage to get more mpg.

At what rpm?

Someone has to pay for a new kitchen in their second home. Looks like it's us.

It's probably the shitty ones Autoglass use. It had an original when I got it, which must have lasted 3 years.

No Rich, I don't want road pricing as they would shaft us. What I also don't want is to have to pay £400+ a year in car tax for a hobby, it is unreasonable. Ditch the car tax, stick 2p or whatever necessary on petrol to cover the lost revenue. All nice and fair then. £400+ road tax is...

So still no real incentive to get much under 120g/km then. This will have remained unchanged for 10 years by 2011. Usual pseudo green nonsense. Going to do wonders for the future classic car market. Who is going to want a big engined 2001 car for the odd sunday outing when you have to pay...

I am going to be getting my 5th screen in 3 years. Every stone that hits it causes a crack.

You have been charged 122 for labour, which is a mistake. Maybe the service counter person fancied you... I wouldn't worry about it being stamped, just staple the receipt into the book.

Perhaps your inlet cam is not phasing. With regard to the compression test, this is going to be a dead end. No garage is going to investigate it FOC, and for you to do it will cost ££. Sure you'd be annoyed if it was a new engine that was just run in and it had a 15psi difference, but...

Snake oil

With Tesco you also get 1% all the time by using a clubcard, plus as Fred says you get the 5p things now and again.

The mk3 ph2 looks pretty ugly, but maybe in a year or two it'll look ok.