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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.

First and second service on any car these days is little more than an oil change. 1/2 hour labour, 5 litres of oil and a filter. A casual look at the brake pads, maybe an air filter. £130 pounds please. It's going to be a similar price at Nissan and Renault.

Who in their right mind would paint their car green and yellow! Of course it looks dated - that's fashion for you. I wonder what will look best in 10 years time, ph1 or ph2?

I think all Ph1 have them. RHS in front of rear wheel and in a bit. You can change it without jacking up the car and it is easy to spot. Round silver can, about 10cm in length.

Saw a car once where the pads had been put in back to front, that made a nasty grinding noise.

Beetle green was another similar colour.

Just done its first service? It must be more than 2 years old or 12k miles surely?

But this time Halfords were right.

Generic response from Goodyear: "Thank you for your email, I have attached a file on tyre wear , Our passenger tyres are warranted for 5 years from date of manufacture or date of purchase if proof can be shown. The warranty covers manufacturing and materials but not accidental damage...

Shocks are 2 years old and are fine. I don't see how any suspension or brake problem could cause this as they are even patches only covering half of the tyre. Plus the last tyres did not do this!

Just went to rotate my tyres and noticed the rears have worn very strangely. The outer half is OK, but the inner half has worn in stripes, so I now have a 20 sided tyre. Anyone else seen this? Perhaps I should ask Goodyear. They are the proper German ones, bought from mytyres.

Yours does sound worse than most. Mine does 100 miles to the first half and 200 for the second half.

Got it in one. Heavy clutch is number one on the dislike list. She doesn't like "the way it is just stop and go" either, nor the overly sharp brakes. In fact she hates pretty much all of it. She drives me home from the pub though, so she does need a car. Chrono pack sounds good. With...

We both have cars at the moment, but should really consolidate, as she did less than 1000 miles last year. We can't keep her car as it is too small, but she hates driving mine. Actually it's worse than that, she refuses to drive it! Test drove a Swift Sport and a Cooper S earlier, and was...

GGR Turbo Toupé.

I have the twin cat and 2 sensors.