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My C-MAX, 11 Reg, 21,000 miles has gone into Limp Mode on a number of occasions. It is in warranty and serviced by Ford Agents since new. The local agent has diagnosed a fuel filter fault replacement at...
Over the past few months my Skoda Superb Estate has been performing worse and worse from cold starts, with what appeared to be misfires or fuel starvation until it had begun to warm up. At its third variable...
I ran low on fuel recently in my Volkswagen Bora, but now my car won’t start. I called the RAC, who sprayed Easy Start and changed the crank shaft sensor, but the glow plug lights will not go out on the...
We have a 20012 Hyundai ix35 1.6. In the past three days it has cut out three times whilst driving. We are worried about this because of the danger aspect. We have contacted Hyundai but they cannot see...
I recently had a problem with my 2-year-old Ford Focus diesel whereby the car went into limp mode on the outside lane of a dual carriageway. The eventual diagnosis, some two weeks later, was that the fuel...
My 8-month-old Citroen DS3 e-HDI 110 stopped at the side of the road with the engine management light on after I had lost all power and the car refused to go above 1500 rpm. As it is the DSport version,...
My 20,000 mile Grand C-Max 1.6TDCI, after several transient episodes, recently went into permanent 'limp home' mode. The dealer reported that the fault was due to a partially blocked fuel filter, and...
The night before last I drove, with a friend, to a meeting about 10 miles away in my recently-purchased Citroen 2008 C5 2.0 HDI 138 Automatic, 61,000 miles on the clock. Three hours later, when I switched...
I changed fuel filter on my diesel Accord (have done numerous times!). I bled system and started car - vehicle then died - bled system again now car is cranking, but still not starting?
My Peugeot 508 1.6eHDI recently had to be towed to my local dealer for a fault diagnosed as a blocked diesel filter. Although less than two years old and still under warranty the fault was considered to...
 

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