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Mondeo 1.8 tdi glow plug timer relay

ford mondeo1.8 tdi 1999, where is the glow plug timer relay, the handbook says in the battery tray but I can't see it. C...
2 comments posted 18yrs
posted by martinshaw59
2 comments posted 18yrs posted by martinshaw59

Airline Quick connectors

I always find the quick connectors on my compressed air line leak a fair amount of air. I can never get a seal that doe...
13 comments posted 18yrs
posted by Graham
13 comments posted 18yrs posted by Graham

Fiat Punto front brake discs

Getting a weird noise coming from the front of the car (53 plate Punto 1.2 8v). When I brake the noise stops. Going to...
5 comments posted 18yrs
posted by slider
5 comments posted 18yrs posted by slider

Mis-fill petrol car with bio-ethanol?

What's the likely damage / recovery strategy if a petrol car is filled with a tankful of bio-ethanol? (Morrison's fines...
9 comments posted 18yrs
posted by dingbat
9 comments posted 18yrs posted by dingbat

that Ford Starcraft gearbox

finally got it out, took it somewhere and they said it was a Type 9...rang around some places and no one had em... foun...
4 comments posted 18yrs
posted by julianhales
4 comments posted 18yrs posted by julianhales

Haynes engine build

Its a build your engine model working engine. Check it out on www.argos.co.uk 076/2977 is the number you put in the sear...
5 comments posted 18yrs
posted by no
5 comments posted 18yrs posted by no

electric cars coming along

There are now powerful electric cars with Lithium batteries, such cars will feel no different form ordinary fuel powere...
34 comments posted 18yrs
posted by johs
34 comments posted 18yrs posted by johs

Stunned

Why is it, rather than giving an appropriate answer, a lot of people on this group resort to abuse and proposed humiliat...
9 comments posted 18yrs
posted by me
9 comments posted 18yrs posted by me

Pirelli Tyres

S**te? The ones on my 406 certainly seem to be a bit teflon, particularly under hard braking.
7 comments posted 18yrs
posted by mrdoki
7 comments posted 18yrs posted by mrdoki

Car air filter/ box question

Why is the air filter box so much bigger on modern cars than it used to be? Is it to do with fuel injection? What is the...
7 comments posted 18yrs
posted by Who90nospam
7 comments posted 18yrs posted by Who90nospam

Alarm not working right after rain

After driving through some pretty heavy rain yesterday when I came to arm my alarm it did arm but the siren was almost...
3 comments posted 18yrs
posted by no
3 comments posted 18yrs posted by no

Paging the fasteneristi

http://tinyurl.com/6b477v(JPG of broken bolt) This is part of the gearbox mounting on a 2002 Saab 9-5 2.2 TiD. I need a...
5 comments posted 18yrs
posted by douggie
5 comments posted 18yrs posted by douggie

Quality Tyres

I got 4 new Continental EcoContact3 Tyres on my 1.25 Zetec Fiesta on Friday (167/70R13T) after always buying cheap nast...
30 comments posted 18yrs
posted by tony.brett
30 comments posted 18yrs posted by tony.brett

Skidding with ABS on wet road? possible....?

Wife rammed the car into the back of somebody yesterday by breaking/ skidding on the wet road etc. Just realised that t...
66 comments posted 18yrs
posted by BertieBigBollox
66 comments posted 18yrs posted by BertieBigBollox

Airbag deployment sensitivity

At what sort of speed collision is an airbag supposed to deploy. My wife had a decent size shunt yesterday, hit her ches...
14 comments posted 18yrs
posted by BertieBigBollox
14 comments posted 18yrs posted by BertieBigBollox