Car Servicing
My four-cylinder turbo '99 Ford Transit starts okay, but has no revs and seems to be not getting enough fuel. It also requires the pedal to be on the floor for it to start. What's the issue?
My Holden Captiva 2013 has always worked perfectly fine for many years, but a few days ago, after driving for less than a minute going up a slight hill, my car became gutless and stopped. I restarted and drove home. Later that day I drove about four minutes down the road and same thing happened and it won't start at all now. Even the mechanic is stumped.
I have a six-month-old Z71 Holden Colorado. It has always had a knock when the front right wheel goes into a hole on the road. Now the left side is doing the same. The local Holden dealer has tightened all the front end and also the body-anchor points behind the front guards. The issue is still there. Do you have any suggestions as to what this could be?
My '01 Hyundai Terracan became sluggish and stopped, I haven't been able to start it since. Put a new starter motor and battery in but still no power between starter and battery.
Twice now in heavy rain our '09 Outback has taken in a significant amount of water, mainly collecting in rear passenger seat foot-wells. Any idea how it’s getting in? All windows were closed.
My 2000 Ford Courier when started sounds like a choke is on and billows black smoke from exhaust. It is an injected motor, could an ECU sensor be faulty. How do you test the sensors?
I recently bought a used 2010 Polo from a Volkswagen dealership and they assured me that it had not been in any incident and it didn’t have big issues. Today, about two weeks after buying, I had my mechanic check the car just in case there were minor things to fix (as you would expect with a used car). The report from the mechanic is that the car has indeed had large repairs, that the positive cabling to fuse box on battery is getting hot and the insulation had melted, there are oil leaks on the underside of the vehicle, the mechatronics unit is leaking and that the engine bay had been steam-cleaned to hide the oil leaks. The dealership even serviced the car before handing it over. I went straight to them and talked with a manager. He said they will check the car and they will call me. I’d like them to buy the car back as this is not what I thought I was buying. What should I do?
What oil does a 2004 Audi A4 use in the engine?