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Hopefully, it will be the stop solenoid, but my Disco in Zim had the same problem. The stop solenoid was being prevented from shutting of the fuel supply by the pile of metal shards that had come off my failing injector pump! Hope yours is simple! Cheers!

There's a second one on the bottom of the timing cover on a 300Tdi as well. Seem to remember that the engine one can be left in all the time. Remove at servicing, and if you find oil coming out, get it investigated PDQ - it probably means a seal is leaking oil onto the timing belt, and oil and...

Yes permanent 4 wheel drive, but there is a centre differential. Therefore with all wheels of ground, drive would take easiest route, in this case the front axle, as it sounds to me like you have something broken in the front axle, so you're only turning the shafts. All you would need to stop...

Hi, When my Tdi had blocked aircon drains, the water came out hot. It may be that the water backs up and flows over the heater matrix. Clearing is easy, but very messy! It is done from under the car, and one of the drains is very close to the exhaust, so do it when the engine is cold...

I took my engine out in Zimbabwe with a mate to do a clutch swap. Only two special tools apart from a decent hoist are the spanner to remove the fan, 32mm but thin (left hand thread by the way), and if you are going to separate the engine and gearbox to get them out (which is probalbly easier...

That sounds like an air pocket. When the car is hot, the air expands more than the fluid does and is pushing the fluid back into the expansion tank, which would explain the quite full after the first run. Once it cooled, it sucked back into the system. These systems need correct filling to...

Noise going from 5th to 4th is absolutely normal. It is the spring that prevents you going from 5th to reverse clicking out. Noise on clutch depression could be clutch release bearing - do you know if the clutch has been changed?

Hi Mark, I have to say this sounds very similar, and I definitely do seem to have sticky horn buttons! I took off the sterring wheel to fit cruise control, so maybe something moved when I did that. I will take them off again and refit. New ones cost about £50! Thanks for your input. Cheers!

Hi, I would appreciate some advice on troubleshooting a weird problem on my 53 plate Td5 auto. At one oclock in the morning, the horn started sounding continously. The car had been parked for several hours at the time. A quick dash outside in my dressing gown, and I pulled the horn fuse...

Hi, Had a very similar problem on my 300Tdi when I was in Zimbabwe. I diagnosed mine correctly as worn release bearing. When I changed it, I changed the clutch et al, and the clutch plate had loads of material still, even after 200,000 km. But the release bearing was totally shot. It has a...

That is fairly typical, as long as it reads high. I think the legal limit is 10%. My 300Tdi I had in Zimbabwe would show 120, when the GPS said 112. That's km/hr by the way - I hadn't supercharged it! My Vectra when I had it would read 77mph when the GPS said speed was 70. Just had a look...