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Ok, a small dilemma for you to ponder. I have a W220 S-class with a gearbox fault, it’s not a terminal fault and the car is drivable, the best way I can describe it is that the gearbox seems unable to choose what gear to select as you approach junctions or roundabouts. It seems to change out...

Mt S320 petrol is experiencing gearbox problems. When driving normally the gear box works as it should. However, when I kick down, the gearbox goes to a lower gear but will not change back up unless I take my foot off the throttle, and if I boot it hard, the gearchange is very bad, like a gap...

Hi everyone, heres my latest experiences, bear with me.... Driving home from work on the 24/07/07 accelerating away from some traffic lights got a horrendous banging from engine:crazy: , sounded so bad that I thought that I might as well get the car home rather than just stop...3 miles. :mad...

My son has a Compaq 2100 series laptop but the power socket seems to move a bit and it keeps switching off. A local shop said they couldn't repair it and another said they could for £150. Any ideas or help

Last week I bought a ASUS P5GD1-VM motherboard + P4 3.4Ghz processor off eBay. I removed all the old parts from my old PC, and attached them to the new motherboard. Once its on, the lights come on, fan starts, CD drives open but I can get no signal from the montior. I have tried the...

My sis-in-law drives a B200CDI. There has been a screeching from a belt so my brother asked the local Merc dealer to tighten it up. It's just as well the car is under warranty, because they say they need to take the engine out!! To tighten (or possibly replace) the water pump which has worked...

Thought the laptop seemed a bit slow online but nothing silly then tonight I was having real problems trying to connect. Reset router. Off on etc then it would connect. Then after accessing a couple of pages it would freeze. I assumed it to be the router at fault. When connected via the...

As some of you know, 2 weeks ago my brother got his 4.2 V8 Audi A8, after only 2 weeks its costing him waaaaay more than predicted :( He wants to keep an A8, so what are the options - trade it in for a diesel version? would spending the extra £3k or (however much) on a Tdi version be worth...

Hi, I've just had the windcreen replaced on my W211 Avant G and I'm completely convinced it's the wrong shade of blue. If I look through the side windows the world is far bluer than the similar view from the windscreen. RAC, who fitted it, say it's the right colour but the front screen...

Grrr.... I've been recently "swapped" to Virgin Media (from Blueyonder, to NTL and now to Virgin)... I've kept a VERY open mind. I thought that things seemed ok, but I haven't received my first bill yet... then two or three nights ago I realise I can't access a site I visit (very) often; I...

Hi again, foolishly I bought Movie Clone 4 by X-OOM from PC World and straight away I got problems. I cannot copy anything to disc, pictures, files, documents etc. DVDs and ANY CD wont autoplay on Media Player 11. Programmes wont auto play, my wizards gone Media Player 11 wont burn...

Not that kind... The 3.5" inch kind... no, still not there... the rectangular, 3.5" kind... Seriously now, I need to put some drivers on a disc so that windows 2000 will recognise my SCSI controller (HP SmartArray 5300); but all my floppies, which I carefully stored away 4/5 years ago (away...

My W124CE has started to misbehave recently in terms of cold starting. Once warm it appears to be mostly fine but there is a small amount of hesitation just above tickover. Eventually after much turning over, it will fire initially on two or three but quickly catch and then it'll be...

I think I'm going to ban all of my friends from buying cars without me. It's getting quite upsetting. So a friend (a different friend to the one who bought the Passat I talked about in a previous post) bought a Mercedes Sprinter Van. It had 88k on the clock, was four years old, and was bought...

As you know I've not been driving for some time due to my motorbike accident. When I returned from hospital I tried to start the CLK and it turned over VERY slowly and then fired up. A friend who was with me took it "round the block" to the tune of 15 miles. A week later my wife took it to work...

Oue Panasonic Sky Digi box has had a habit of freezing, but it has got severely worse recently. The fix was to switch it off at the wall, pull out the Sky card, wait 20 seconds and switch back on. Wait for it to ask for the card, insert and away we went again. Not so bad when you only...

Hi Thursday night last week, closed the sunroof, heard grinding noise and a spring and a piece of plastic flew up into the air. When I investigated it is on the passenger side of the sunroof, there is a metal rod about 6cm long that had popped up with the spring over it. Had a job to push it...

Could all this be connected? Car was parked up for a few hours somewhere not very nice and bonnet star was mangled, front wing keyed and now the drivers door lock is simply spinning round. That happened a couple of weeks ago. Central locking through alarm was still working, so I was...

I really do not get it. This is off the BBC website: ..European giant Volkswagen admitted at the weekend that its situation was "serious" as it continues with a cost-cutting programme that could cost 20,000 jobs. But when I try to get a test drive lasting more than 30 minutes at my...

I have a 05 C Class Sports Coupe with Audio 20, telephone pre wire and use the phone facility while driving. Just had an iPod interface kit supplied and fitted by my local MB dealership. IPod works fine :bannana: but now I have no phone:mad: . The dealer is looking into it, anyone out there had...