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I've just got off the phone to my old mum who has had a busy week, she has been ferrying my sister around to help her look for a new car. My sister who is older and a little bit more naive than I am recently decided she would like to buy a new used car, she set her sights on a Ford Focus or...

Hello, I've been a member since 2009 and I started off with a W203 2.7CDi for the family. From picking the car up I loved it, not the ride or power but the power delivery got me. Unfortunately in 2011 somebody drove into the side of it while my wife was driving along and then drove off...

Hi, I recently picked up a cheap Peugeot 206cc (for the wife!) and although it's actually a great little car I was looking at it today and thought something looked odd. The front tyres look bigger than the back. A closer look shows that the fronts are: 205x50 R16 The rears are 205x45 R16...

The W203 is now 10 years old, covered 186,000 miles and had her MOT yesterday... passed after needing a new drop link, and indicator bulb. To treat her for her hard work, she got new glow plugs, fuel filter, front wipers and oil change to keep her happy. Set for another years motoring. :bannana:

So, I've had the little coil light come on and stay on for longer than normal recently so I thought I should change the glow plugs - they we're due a change anyway. I took the engine cover off, and worked from the back of the engine to front as I remember that plug number 5 (closest to the...

Hi, I was coming back from work this evening and realised e w203 2.7CDI was in limp home mode, I only realised as it didn't rev over 3000rpm, power and smoothness were normal. So at this point I was thinking EGR or MAF. I got home and used my generic code reader and there were no codes...

So, the wife was out driving along through a local village on Thursday in the W203 (2002 reg) doing about 20mph going in a straight line and a chap in a Silver BMW estate just drives out of a side road and hits my wife on the back wheel arch. Rather than stopping he just keeps his foot down...

Hi - I'm on the look out for a cheap 7 seater people carrier/4x4 - around a 2000-2003 reg. The wife suggested a 7 seat ML as we only need the boot seats occasionally. I've been looking at the pictures and have just one question: The seats appear to fold up to the sides in the boot, can you...

Hi, I've just had a call from my wife who is in the W203 C270CDI (02 plate), she rung to say that she put it into drive and when she pressed the accelerator there was no increase in revs like you'd expect to pull away. She then put it back into park or neutral and back into drive. The revs then...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12790084 It just doesn't seem right.

I've been doing a lot of motorway miles in the past 2-3 weeks, much more than normal and it's occurred to me that you could drive from Liverpool to London in one long 50mph average speed camera zone! Cetainly M6, M4 and M3 are lined. Has anyone else noticed how you can't go 10 miles with...

Hi, With the cold weather I was looking forward to using the cars Auxiliary Heater Boost thing to warm the car up quickly. However it doesn’t seem to work at all. The car takes quite a long time to heat up like all CDi engines and only then you get warm air into the cabin. I asked a mate to...

Hi, I was out with the wife earlier today and she hand managed to get into the driving position.... apparently she needed to drive for some reason. When over taking some cyclists on a hill she used kickdown and all went well, lots of power and off we went. However, when she eased off and...

Hi, My other car is a Pugeot 306 (P reg) so not in the best condition, a while back I hit a pot hole that bent one of the rims so it went flat, no problem I changed to the spare and thought I'd just buy a new rim from a scrap yard... well, the MOT is tomorrow and I kind of forgot to get a new...

Hi, I was thinking of taking the kids to Longleat Saffari park tomorrow for a day out....what a good idea. Then it occured to me that the evil little monkeys may take a liking to the sticking up star and try to rip it off. Does anyone know how strong the star mechanisum is... or is there any...

Hi, My C270 CDI is going through a difficult phrase where she just won't want to start quite often. She is turning over with plenty of vigour but just doesn't catch sometimes. About 60% of the time she starts on the 4-5 crank then other times (normally when warm) she will take 30-60 seconds of...

Just reading what should be included in a Service B for my car and it says replace the activated charcoal filter... whats this? What does it do and are they expensive to have replaced? Just wondering, I'm actually due a Service A in 5000 miles time but I have an indi friend who is going to...

Hi It seems the previous owner of my car was rather ditry and needed a bath. The interior is light grey (grey leather), I can clean the leather no problems and baby wipes work everywhere appart from the seat belts which are also light grey. These are really grimmey and need attention. Being...

Hi, I've got a Jeep for sale: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Jeep-Grand-Cherokee_W0QQitemZ190331644399QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item2c50a669ef&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 It's a great car and in good condition especially for it's age. Just let me know if your interested and I'm sure we can...

Just doing my homework on the car and last year this was put on as an MOT advisory notice: "Offside rack end Steering system has slight free play detected at steering wheel " What would be involved in remedying this and what would cause it?