Recent content by PDR

Maybe on the newer ones, but AFAIK the Alpine unit in my 2011 Honda Accord Ex I-Dtec has no over-the-air capability. PDR

There was no update (these units don't have "over the air updates"). This is just the way the software behaves - essentially poor design produced an unhandled exception (aka "error" or "bug") in January, but a separate feature in the code fortuitously causes it to reset on August 17th. And...

Well I don't know about anyone else, but mine started working properly again this morning. Since the beginning of the year I haven't been able to adjust the clock, and the satnav always reset to midnight jan1st every time the car was powered up, so I couldn't use the "Time of Arrival" mode and...

Yep. Once every thousand years the devil forgets to vomit in my porridge bowl. I'll enjoy this brief victory before he remembers again! PDR

Brilliant, thanks Bounder - that's exactly what I needed to know. I've now got back home (I'm usually up in the north west during the week and don't fly home again until the weekend) and went to take the drive out as suggested. After hunting around in my workshop I finally found my fir-tree...

Thanks for that - jolly useful. So how do I get the unit out? Is it just a matter of sliding palette knives down the sides, do I have to remove the boot lining, or what? PDR

8th Gen Accord este 2.2 diesel, 2011 manual, UK It looks like the DVD player in the sat nav has failed. After a year of "disk read error" on damp days that I could fix by taking the disk out and putting it back again, I now get a "no disk" error (or something like that) and the DVD player shows...

All enquiries by me and other failed to find one. PDR

That procedure was tried and the car then road-tested, obnly to have the fault light come on again after a couple of minutes. That was the £48 "investigation" labour charge AIUI. PDR

Well I got the car back today. I handed over my card to the tune of £3,113, although this did include a 478 service and an aircon service (which were overdue), plus front disks and pads (which were very close to limit) and new pedal rubbers (mine had split). In return I received my key and a...

Ethics are one thing, but here are limits, you know... PDR

Thanks for that, but it isn't the DPF that's failed (that was last year!); it's the valve that takes part in the regereneration cycle. As far as I can see this is a simple ***embly comprising a few machined parts, and electric motor and possibly a position sensor. I would think £200 would be a...

OK, since you ask - I'm afraid my problem here is an ethical one. I'm a chartered engineer and have signed up to abide by a code of ethics, and I might be prepared to push it a bit by (say) disconnecting the EGR system (which has a very, very low probability of actual harm to anyone) I can't in...

A fair question, with a dull answer: at the time I wrote the original post I had no real understanding of what the part was and what it does. The dealer had been very vague and confusing in his description. I wondered if the DPF system could function without it, and I also wondered if it was...

Brilliant, thanks - exactly the sort of info I was looking for! I shelled out £1,200 for a DPF replacement last year (which is still stinging) and there are reasons I can't go into in any detail that mean removal of the DPF system isn't really an option for me. So I guess the follow-up question...