Never mind, all sorted now! Called out the AA and asked for a man with some diagnostics - they said that's fine, he'll be there within the hour. They actually sent a bloke on a motorbike who had no diagnostic equipment but he had a go anyway. Turned out to be fuel starvation - squirt of...

Just went outside and filled it up with coolant again but now it won't start :eek: The battery appears to be fine as the engine turns over a decent speed and there are no error messages on the computer - aside from the normal ones saying that the windows need to be reset after disconnecting the...

Tried Davie F's mole grips method but once it got wedged against something and I put a lot of force into it, the grips slipped on the shaft :( Managed to get it done though. Managed to get the belt around the fan and on to the correct pulleys then used the fan spanner to rotate all the...

paddocks1967, I've tried wedging a long screwdriver between those bolt heads but there is very little access and holding it in place is very difficult. I did get a price from Euro - as a member of the Ford Focus Owners Club I get a discount with them. The price with the discount came to...

I did try a factor first but the Halfords computer gave a cheaper price although it was the price of a wrong belt. Luckily they reduced the price of the correct belt to the price of the wrong one so it didn't work out too badly. Also, having a Halfords Trade Card usually gives more...

I live in Coventry and if I can't get it done tomorrow I may have to beg someone for some help lol. Halfords have called and have the belt in now (it's only taken them a week!) so hopefully I can get it all sorted tomorrow. The computer error has actually worked in my favour! I got the...

Hi wammers, The cowl has been unclipped and I have the rad clear of that but it's the fan itself that is in the way now: The bracket on the bottom of the rad is hitting the centre of the fan. Currently waiting for a new belt to be delivered to Halfords - their computer system listed...

Hi, Fan belt has snapped on our P38 diesel. It didn't just snap - it separated along the ridges so there were effectively several individual belts. These then exploded into a million pieces and wrapped themselves around all the other pulleys, destroying the idler next to the alternator in...