Recent content by beneverard

Ah I understand, then in which case I'm going to give that a go and see if it helps. I thought that the reader was linked too, but as it's just reporting I think this might be it. Many thanks Mike, I'll report back.

Thanks for your reply Mike, I'm thinking the same. I've got the steering wheel off, looking around for loose or broken wires but everything I can see so far looks okay, so a unit fault seems to make sense. I've seen some 2nd hand ecu/barrel (with immob receiver)/key on eBay, might give that a...

Hey folks, Earlier this year I posted about a glow plug issue, whereby intermittently after turning the key the car would not start, and I noticed the glow plug indicator was not lighting up. Recently the problem has gotten worse, and it's not intermittent anymore... the car will hardly ever...

Cheers for your reply. Indeed, I imagine the glow plugs are heating when the lamp lights up, and are finished heating when it turns off. If this is true, I've noted that sometimes in colder weather it can take a moment longer to heat, but no problem there. But as you'd imagine, when the light...

Hey folks, Does this issue sound familiar to anyone... turn key to ignition, glow plug indicator light doesn't illuminate, recently I've had to take the key out, put it back in again and turn to ignition a number of times before the glow plug indicator will light up. If I try and start up when...

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I've just peaked over 200k, I was also hoping for 238k too (a Honda on the moon!) but bet my wife I'd get to 250k... I'm not sure I'll get that far, but worth a punt! Cheers, yeah changing the DMF specifically has helped, I've been driving it lots of late...

One last thing I wanted to address, with my "special tool" I used a 3/8 to 1/2 adapter to transfer the screwing action of the bolt to the ashwood, and thus, the pressure plate fingers. Because the end of the bolt and the inside of the adapter are not perfectly flat there was some small...

Hi everyone, I've just completed a flywheel and clutch replacement on my 7 gen 2.2 Tourer, I was adamant that I wanted to complete the work myself and as such I wanted to write up a little review on why, what I did and how I got on. I figured others could benefit from this. Note, this is not a...

Ah cool Graham, good to know! Hi Stephen, I think it's the radiator... but as I mentioned I don't care about getting it working again. This car is more of a run-around (taking crap to the tip, etc), I'm more wondering if there was a solid reason for me to not remove AC parts from the engine bay...

Hi all, This might sound a bit strange, but I'd like a little opinion/input from you all. My AC isn't working all that well and honestly I'm not bothered about fixing it. My car (54 2.2 CDTI tourer) is just reaching 200,000 miles and the amount of work needed to keep it alive is increasing...

I've been having the same issues recently too, interestingly when I did the exhaust manifold replacement in the winter the noise seemed to go away for a while... perhaps that was just coincidental. Either way it's back and worse than before. It's fine when on throttle, but when off throttle...

Hi all, 2.2 CDTI Tourer 2004. A few weeks ago a strange noise appeared under the bonnet, on one occasion it sounded like a mechanical shaking, other times (more common) a nasty humming (think malfunctioning bearings), with more drive belt slip and squeaking than usual. I removed the drive...

When the problem started for me a few years back I had changed the air filter and it seems to make a difference, if only for a short while... I was never sure if it was a coincidence or not. But I've not gone as far as checking the intake in more detail, so might do that. @IronMan is this the...

@DiD ah interesting, certainly interested to hear what you learn with the specialist.

Hey Brian, Bought a few years ago, started with ~180k miles, now has about ~190k. Fuel filter replaced 6 months ago, air filter last year. It is due a service (like, right now)... in fact it's a touch neglected on that front. Someone mentioned head gasket/cracking that was a cause for...