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The heater, sat nav, electric windows from drivers side, radio and heated rear window all stopped working at the same time. I have found water in boot. Can you tell me what the problem might be? It's...
My 2006 Subaru Forester 2.0L manual has recently started beeping (a single beep) when first starting. Should I be concerned?
My Dad has been having horrendous trouble with his Volvo XC60. He purchased it from new in June 2011. Since then it has spent many, many weeks back at Volvo. The computer system fails in part - taking...
We have a 2002 Peugeot 307 Rapier. It had been running fine but finally a day came when it started showing up anti-pollution fault. We got it checked but the local garage couldn't resolve it. We kept running...
My daughter has had 120,000 trouble-free miles from a Toyota Corolla Verso purchased in 2003. However, the dash display has failed and at the annual service our local independent garage concluded the radio...
As someone with more than 50 years driving experience I am appalled at the thought of handing over control of my vehicle to Automatic Emergency Braking. The driver is responsible for the car and should...
I have a 2006 Skoda Octavia vRS. I have read that a lot of people are having the same problem as myself that the ESP light is on. Has Skoda accepted this as a fault and is it willing to fix it?
I am old. In car years, my vehicle is even older. I don’t drive it because I like classic cars. I drive it because, not having a nice taxpayer-funded pension, I simply can’t afford a better one. Even used...
I have a very well maintained Citroen Berlingo - 10 years old, 100,000 miles. The dealers tell me that the idling sensor has burnt out the engine management CPU so that it cuts out at idle sometimes. They...
On three occasions over the last nine months my 2004 BMW 645's dashboard has started to flash, the steering gets heavy and all sorts of alarm warnings come on. Eventually the car will shut down. 10 or...
 

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