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RAVE is an online workshop manual. It is a very large file otherwise someone would offer to send it to you. The best advice is to search this forum for 'Rave download', that should take you to an external link from where you can download the file. One you have it you will see that it is quite...

Posted a couple of months ago about how the car was making 'orrible noises and there was a vibration from the engine and wasn't changing up on an upwards incline. The noise came on around 1200rpm and was most definitely coming from the bellhousing/gearbox...................or so I thought...

It lives, it has life - well for 20 seconds or so then I turned it off just in case. I've had a look at the oil, seems ok and apart from coolant spraying everywhere it all seems to have come out pretty much unscathed. I think that the belt must have started to go almost at the outset but kept...

This all makes my post yesterday about a little noise a bit incidental..... Wife borrows car, along the journey (mercifully short) she notices the steering getting 'heavy', and "a funny little noise from the front", what she doesn't notice (does any woman?) is the temp guage edging ever...

Checked the box level this morning again from cold, the fluid in bang on the correct level, nice and clean and red. The 'orrible noise is definitely from the box/converter area and not the engine. There is a vibration from about 1200rpm (even in neutral) which is what makes me think it is the...

Yep, as i say the level is ok. I thought it might be the gearbox filter restricting the uptake of fluid, hence the refusal to change up on an incline, however the noise (which sounds metallic and an accompanying rattle) is present in neutral. All pointing to the gearbox/torque converter -...

'96 4.6 HSE Auto 97k - Car has just started to make horrible noises from the gearbox in N and all the way through the box from about 1200rpm. Level seems ok, car pulls ok on the flat but on occasion will not change from 1st going uphill until the car is on a level surface. Any thoughts or...

Had this problem on mine a few weeks back. First of all both pollen filters were knackered, also the fine gauze that covers the air intake just beneath the windscreen had perished. When in rained, the water simply accumulated in the blower intake duct in the footwell and seeped into the car...

'96 4.6HSE Auto - Just recently noticed an intermittent problem with the gearbox. There is one spot in town where I have to stop at a junction and turn left up a steep incline. Overt the last few days the car has intermittently kept in 1st gear, only changing when the car is on a more level...

Mine had exactly the same problem except mine hada leaf stuck in the blower fan blades and the thing was starting to sound like a rusty hamster wheel and was driving me up the wall. I was just about to start ripping the blowers apart (again) when I saw the aircon light on and had one of those...

I posted the other day regarding the fact that my Cd autochanger wouldn't work, the radio screen would show 'No Magazine' or 'CD Waiting' momentarily before defaulting to radio. Another issue was the fact that the cartridge would not eject, despite the sound of life from within the unit. I...

When power is supplied to the unit, are there any lights at all?

Clarion autochanger just won't let me have my cd's back. I've removed the unit, opened the case, twiddled with the gears - nothing. The head unit alternates between 'No magazine' and 'CD Waiting', the eject button has no effect. The 3amp fuse in the unit is OK. There is a CD out of the...

The black trim around the side windows/doors on my P38 has become badly marked (as seems to be the case on a lot of older P38's). Has anyone found a good treatment to bring them back up to scratch.

The point of Without Prejudice in correspondence. Not to press the point, but the purpose in adding without prejudice is simply to allow for a diologue via written (or emailed ) correspondence between parties which allows for some degree of compromise to be expressed or negotiated without in...

I would suggest that you pay the bill, otherwise the garage are entitled in law to retain posession of it until the bill for services rendered has been paid, or to dispose of the vehicle for reasonable value (after a reasonable period of time) in order to secure their charges. After disposing of...

Up until two months ago my '96 4.6 was continually suffering from a battery drain which had been going on for the best part of two years. An inconvenience really, the odd booster charge/jumpstart, the same in hot or cold weather - which was always the curious thing. Recently (funny enough...

I find this sort of depraved behaviour quite disgusting. Exactly what people find so stimulating on the underside of a car is quite beyond me- not to mention the obvious dangers of performing such an act in such dangerous circumstances. Frankly, it would not surprise me one iota to see this...

Turn the wheels to maximum right hand lock. Using a torch (and possibly with the help of a wire brush), go to the offside front wheel and examine the outside face of the chassis, forewards of the suspension. There (somewhere) you will find the stamped in chassis (vin) number. You will most...

I would suggest Horlicks original, not the lite stuff, a good mug full just before bed and I bet your bumpers wake up fresh as a daisy.