Rich_Eason

Dodgy temp gauge sender unit, has been a known problem and can cause car to think it is overheating and go into limp home mode.

LOL :rolleyes:

Can you explain a bit more about what happens with the wipers and when they do this? i.e when you switch on wipers or when you insert the key?

So will the CC come fitted with a Hiab to aid removal of what I would imagine to be very heavy roof bars? ;)

With regards to the arm rest sliding get yourself to B&Q and buy the small rubber bump stops they sell to prevent kitchen cabinet doors banging. They are self adhesive about 3mm in diameter and just the right size to be used on the rest. http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7915/bumperpe3.jpg Stick them as far back at the hinge end as possible and so they rub on the external edge CD Changer surround and they work a treat. They also enable you to pull it out as necessary. I messed about with magnets and found that they simply wernt strong enough unless you made the magnets large and became obtrusive.. With ref to the spring... have you takent he drawer out to look behind? Mine did this on the passenger side and had simply detached from the drawer and coiled back around itself and was pushed behind the dash. Simple job of clipping back in will get it working...assuming its not in the deepest depths of the dash

Daft question or just a thought...depending on how you look at it... Could something like this occur due to a bad earth /fleeting eart contact/ or short somewhere?

To answer your question, no it wont cut the fuel completley by taking your foot off. Your engine would splutter and die if the fuel cut out when you took your foot off. Unless you drive a Prius or something.... Where as you take it out of gear and coast this is the same as being stationary in the vehicle with the engine idling, the only difference is you are rolling and thus recording a MPH. I think the confusion is being applied in calculation of the MPG as you are moving and the computer is factoring in the MPH.

Have a similar issue with mine. Get yourself down to a dealer and get it looked at. I have a lump in the middle of the clutch pedal travel and noisy pedal...turns out need new master cylinder. Get yourself and have it looked as this was how mine started off with no graduation, just Clutch ON or OFF.

I saw a grey haired lady driving a coupe out towards Tormarton the other week?!

As a side note I woudl avoid the rear mounted ones on the Coupe. Having seen one fitted to an AX (GRP Panels) loaded with two bikes and the result at the end I would highly recommend not relying on the strength of the glass as an anchor... :lol: Just say no.

Had the car only just been used prior to it going up? It suggests to me that this could have been perhaps caused by a heat transfer combustion and not an electrical fault as I'd hazard a guess that most of the electric bits with any umpf are at the top...or it was malicious? I doubt underneath you'd see much as I would expect to see some sort of plastic shield.

Probably had his eye one it but just couldnt possibly fit anything else under his arms.

So what was the cause then? What was the component? I take it the house insurance is going to cover the cost of the repair of your drive as well?

The nations perceptions on tyre wear is frightning. No matter how much skill or lessons you had your tyres are the only thing that keep you in control on the road. If they are starting to wear out get them changed, as KFK says dont wait until the indicators start showing or wait for the tapping noise from the carcass as this is too late. I think a reward from Bobby is 3 points/£1000 a corner Safety first kiddies :blink: A freind of mine had a company car with tyre replacement contract at Slowfit. When he took them in to be replaced they kept on sending him away as he had another "250miles left on them"... this went on until they told him he had 50miles to go. The likes of Slowfit giving out info like this to Jo Public are just to blame. If they'd done it to me I would have done a wheel spin or something to get the wear down in their car park. That said it was only a 1.4 and a bit of a shed anyway.

Just a shame the Scooby didnt fall off the jack on to the person helping themselves to the wheels. I'm with Wozza on this one, however even when you do intervine the Police tend not to have an ounce of common sence in these matters. They must have got in the boot to have got the "useless pancake" out....but then I suppose they took the bootlid too... :blink: