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When you say you repaired the main earth lead that had broken are you sure you made a good repair as that cable carries a massive amperage when you're trying to turn the engine over. Try putting a jump lead between your battery negative terminal and any clean metal part of the engine and try...

Linds you say it's when you slow down in traffic are you sure your heater/ ventilation system is not picking up the exhaust fumes of the vehicle in front.Failing that check the seal on the tailgate of your car

Did'nt say you had to, it's just so easy and makes the job easier, please yourself.:)

It took me about 15 minutes to change both belts, you don't need to remove the fan just the plastic fan shroud which is very easy to do, once this is off you've got more room for maneuver. Make sure you've got diagrams to give you the run of the belts as their route is quite tortuous.

This according to the first post is a manual transmission

Well he was'nt going to be called "Carpet" was he ;)

Probably stating the obvious here (sometimes the simple thigs are overlooked) check your mats not fowling your throttle pedal ;)

Ian I have used a hydrocarbon sniffer test on many cooling systems and speaking personally found it to be a very unreliable piece of kit, not totally useless but not infallable, I personally would put more faith in a good pressure test in the hands of a good operative

Something like this is very hard to diagnose from a distance but your initial post sounded more like an airlock in the cooling system. That said how sure are you of the garages diagnosis have they done a thorough cooling system pressure test. I certainly would not commit myself to a £600 charge...

The immobiliser theory was not a "red herring" as that is usually a "deliberately" misleading statement and secondly most modern diesels are not only immobilised by breaking the starter circuit but at the same time interupting the electronic injection circuit i.e. no pulse (dwell) at the...

Some of the later cars do not have the drain bung on the torque converter you can drain them via an oil cooler pipe whilst running the engine for a short while

I think I'd be more inclined to find out why the engines suddenly become obtrusively noisy rather than tryng to mask the problem with sound proofing. You may be ignoring the warning signs of a developing problem :crazy:

I'm not sure whether the diesels are immobilised by DAS system on the key, hopefully someone with more in depth info will chime in for you, sadly I don't think the keys can be programmed

There may be an immobiliser issue Oh a P.S. as well you should not be undoing pipes to check for pressure when working properly it's enough pressure to fire the diesel through your skin and into your blood stream, worst case scenario can be fatal.

I think it may be a mounting for an electric air pump, just a hunch but sure I've seen some info on it

The 202 should have ant-squeal-shims somebody must have binned them. My 202 squeals a fair bit when doing a lot of local stop start stuff but once the brakes get a good work out on the motorway it dissapears for a couple of weeks, I suspect the pads get glazed up. I greased the pistons and shims...

I'm hunting for my sunglasses I think I've been blinded by science, and one thing I never was is a civil engineer :rock: ;)

You should read what is written I didnt say I'd had fibrillation through touching live wires. I know nothing of matlab. I do know that the use of CAPITALS is shouting. I have spent my working life working on motor vehicles proffesionally. Finally at no time did I advocate dropping a thermostat...

So you have the biggest spanner hey, a degree in quantum physics and the wiring diagram for the human heart to boot, bring on fibrillation (had it several time this last year) it beats exchanging posts with you;) P.S. Never been near a thermostat with O/A torch in my life honest Guv.

That does sound like a fusible link you're describing if it looks cracked it' probably just a fatigue fracture if it's blown it will be obviously burnt ;)