Recent content by Mew

I'm thinking of replacing my radio, single din, in an 04 HSE with a Pioneer MVH-AV280BT Double Din Bluetooth Car Stereo. It should fit according to Halfords, but they wanted as much for the fitting as the cost of the unit itself. As it has a video facility it needs to have one wire fitted to the...

Yes, I found that out the hard way, it needs a fibre washer between the cover and mounting hole. The puddles I have never seem to get too deep so I assume they drain somewhere? Down the injector holes I presume? But where it comes from is still confusing?

While doing the above job I was curious that there were pools of oil in the top of the engine. When I removed the injector they ran down the injector hole. As there is only a rubber seal to create a seal I wonder if that oil is getting past older seals and causing the classic blue smoke on start...

Other than plenty of penetrating oil around the base of the injector and a heat gun on the base for about 15 mins to get it warm and a thin lever, possibly a crowbar, under where the fuel pipe connects and leaver upwards carefully, then no!

A happy ending... for now. Been troubled with a slight misfire for ages now. Done so far, PCV, cleaned EGR and MAF. No difference. Thought it was low coolant temperature so fitted Renault 5 stat in line, got a real one to fit at some stage. Then worried about engine temp going over 105 deg...

Fixed the tailgate opening problem.

OK, so there are a lot of posts on tailgates not opening and a lot of theories around the method to open them. I had one of these troublesome doors so thought I would get to the bottom of the problem. First thing to do is get into the load space which means climbing in there. Now pull the door...

Hi all, I'm new to this forum, but thought I would add my two penneth to the thermostat debate. I have a 2004 face lift TD4 and it has suffered with poor running, blue smoke on start up which I now class as a feature not a fault and low engine temperature. I connected a OBD dongle to the beast...