Recent content by mowf

I've got the fairly common problem of having the SRS airbag fault message cropping up, usually when my wife needs to move the seat. Fiddling about with the crappy yellow connector under the seat usually sorts it for a while, but I'm wondering if there's anything to stop me replacing the...

Pretty sure it's not the battery, as I replaced batteries and buttons on both sets when I bought the car about a year ago. I haven't synced it; how do you do that?

Hi there, I've got two remote key fobs for my P38 and one of them works fine, but the other one is a bit hit and miss. When you try to unlock the car, the central locking system will click and the lights flash but it won't actually unlock. This usually happens the first two times you try it...

Thanks for your thoughts chaps. Had a quick check with the multimeter today and found that the battery was about 11.7V with the engine turned off, then went down to about 10.3V with the engine running. I then checked the voltage drop across the lead from the alternator and found it was about 6V...

Picked up my mum from the station last night, was 2 miles from home when suddenly all these warning messages started flashing up one by one: traction failure, gearbox failure, bulb failure, and a few others. Various dashboard warning lights started going on and off, then the lights went dim and...

Hello there, My P38 seems to be sitting a couple of inches lower at the back offside corner than the other 3 corners. Any ideas why this might be? I left the car at "Access" height last time I got out of it and the car's not moved for the last few days so the EAS took quite a while to get...