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a friend of mine has recently had an M20 alarm system installed, but the engineer didnt ask him about setting any of the options when setting it up, and refused to give him the codes to do it himself when he rang up - he wants a call-out charge to come and tweak it, which is ridiculous...

My battery is almost flat, to the point now where it hardly has enough juice to crank the starter motor! How do I tell whether it is just an old battery not holding the charge or it is the alternator not charging the battery?

The day before I really need it for a long haul to Bristol, she goes and stops playing CDs :(. am so desperate i have had it out and have had some careful logical disassembly to see exactly whats wrong... Cd wond feed in anymore, there is no takeup when u push it in. when i had it naked i...

pretty srue i got flashed by one last night in camberwell somewhere - do they give you points or just a fine if they come through? praying no points, cant even afford insurance as it is at themoment, paying for tw*ts who drive round uninsured and untaxed unlicenced etc...

I am getting to grips with all things car at the moment before i start to experiment with engines etc. I am looking at the ECU at the moment, and just need to make sure i understand everything it does: Has an ignition map stored (2D on std, 3d usually if aftermarket) Takes readings from...

now i took a trip on the m-way last night, not been on one for a while, and had a mate drive it on the way back, who said it had incredibly light steering. now i had always thought it did, but didnt think anything of it - now he has mentioned it aswell, i realise it snot standard! what causes this?

I klnow they always get a bad pressbut i cant blame them after going to a local VW parts dept today to get some bits - the woman in front of me at the desk was moaning about needing a new key fob battery for her key had a new badge for her key as the old one is worn (wtf?!). anyway, she then...

Not strictly clio related, but hoping someone can help! am working on a polo to bring up to scratch and sell on. The manifold is cracked and am therefore changing it - however, going to undo one of the manifold-head nuts today, and by just touching (and im not exaggerating here!) the nut, the...

well, what does this do exactly?!

just reading the post about a RRd cup where he chaged the panel filter for an inc of ~4bhp and 4lbft. apart from it being cleaner than the old one, what benefit is there in putting an aftermarket element in there? what is the reasoning behind it? always wondered ysee.

just had a look at the torsion bar i have, was gonna have a crack at it on sat - however, it seems i have an enclosed-type rather than the open that is on the valver (and weights guide!). anyone that has adjusted the torsion bar on this setup, how do you get the spline rotation to work if...

...for the ol RT, my Ktec pads/discs havent worked that well, got "blueies" on the discs and they have warped, with the alloys dont really wanna get standard discs again - any other manufacturers apart from ktec that make straight swaps? also want a different pad,EBC doesnt seem to have the...

my mate has just had one installed on a polo, sigma M20 i think. he has the keypad thingie on his windscreen, but the money-grabbers wont tell him any codes so he can put the auto-arm on, windows up, etc. do any of you know these codes, or where i could find them? cheers steve

ok ben, got the seal nice and tight this time! had to change both rear cylinders and shoes (and o/s brake pipe), put it all together and went to bleed them today...but the sh*tty damn kit doesnt seem to have enough pressure to push through properly...on the fronts its fine, comes out nicely, but...

had the rear drum off today to change a cylinder that was pissing all over the shoes, and when i went to put it back on half the fecking bearing just came apart from the drum and sat on the axle on its own!the lower half (is it the outer race?) is still in the drum, and i have put the top half...

I am in dispute over a crash where a lorry put a lovely hole in the side of my 1.4 RT (95 M) last december. They have just had my vehicle assessed and have given its pre-accident market value as £1450. now i got it in October 02 for £1750 (they dont know this yet) - do you all think this is a...

there appears to be some fluid loss from the gearbox, and looks like it is coming from where the left-hand driveshaft meets with the box. is it possible to remove the driveshaft oil seal on its own, or is it non-renewable (ie will i need a new driveshaft?).

im talkin about small stuff: HTs / dizzy cap / rotor arm/ etc... better from reno or are the patents ok? saying this coz i bought a cap and HTs from a motor spares shop near me today, and ended up with universal fit HTs coz the clio patents they had were a really crap fit. i know this is getting...

am attempting to renew the fluid, tried the eazibleed kit but couldnt get a seal on it, so am doing it the old fashioned way! when you pump the pedal down to expel fluid, the haynes manual says to tighten the nipple each time before you release pressure from the brake pedal, in order not to...

I have had the K-Tec fast road kit on for about 6000 miles now, and afetr about 5000 miles i started noticing a kind of "wobble" in the brake pedal under braking, feels like the disc may have warped? its quite uncomfortable now every time you have to brake! is there any other explanation for...

when you need new bits for your car, where do you go? halfords, local motor spares shop, online? even the dreaded reno;)?! just wondered what you think on the so-called patent parts available from motor spares people, what are they like? always used them before on my old cars, but are they...

Ive had this for a while now, and i just put it down to an over-efficient ECU tryin to save me as much fuel as poss by gettin the mixture as lean as possible. But having sat in other cars (inc. a Mk1 Ph3 clio ) whcih idle smooth, im wondering what may be at fault? It will idle slightly rough...

I tried to flush the system today,but my mate not having any axle stands meant i couldnt get under the car to do the drain plug on the cylinder block. I tried to do it from above but was too bloody hard! gonna have another go tomorrow - is it necessary to undo the plug or can you get away with...

Now i have the odd burn on the roads, but i wouldnt have the confidence to drive the car near its limits, and also dont even know what the feckin limits are!!! reading / watchin the posts / vids around, it got me thinkin - how do you know the limit of your car, be it a cup, valver, RT, etc...

attempted to change my brake fluid today, but it went a bit wrong and i abandoned it! got the gunson eazibleed kit, and put the cap on the reservior in place of the normal one, and all was fine until i connected up the spare tyre to pressurise it (yeah i made sure it was under 20psi). it seems...

ok so it looks like im gonnabe stuck with my 1.4 for a while yet ;) got quite a worrying prob - the stop / warning light intermittently comes on (flickers) while im driving, more so when cold, but occaisonaly when the engine is running, at about 2.8k rpm!!! ive checked the oil, water...

ive been thinking abou this for a while, and today i finally (perhaps stupidly!) decided that im going to do it. now before you all say "get a GTT conveersion" or whatever, the reason i wanna do this is becuase im pplanning to do it myself, and the GTT i know next to sh*t about and know you...

I am after an overview of how the ECU system in general works, ie what sensors look out for what, how the fuel / air is managed, etc. i know it would take forever for someone to explain on here so ill save you that! anyone know any websites that would help with this?

im after seeing how a 60mm drop on my car will look. now i was just thinking that as the wheel is a 15" + 195/45 (is this in mm?), you could do a bit of simple maths to work out the proportional drop needed in pixel terms on the screen. now as im no photoshop genius (and i have no image...

just saw this on the cliosport main site piston heads bit: http://www.pistonheads.com/rants/default.asp?storyId=6342http://www.pistonheads.com/rants/default.asp?storyId=6342 is this for real? if so, this give the feds almost unlimited power over you!!! anyone know anything about this?