Recent content by c7frw84

My first car was a 1.3i ford escort as well, it is by far the worst car I have ever owned!! Ended up writing the car off so it is now in carpark heaven where it belongs ;) p.s I would never buy another ford again!!

I'm glad I didn't go with sainsburys now, they were the cheapest quote I got but I ended up just paying £50 extra and staying with Keith michaels.

Why do you not just buy it through the opie oils website you'll get it cheaper?

I always use 5w-40 in my dc5 ;)

Yeah think your right David it could be one of the sensors, I googled the problem earlier and a lot of Honda owners have mentioned sensors being the problem, the other thing I noticed to check for was leaks in any of the gaskets as this could also put it into limp mode, I got a bit of a fright...

No problem I'll give this a try and see what the diagnostics machine says then take it from there, cheers

Cheers for the reply David, I don't really have enough knowledge to hook my laptop up to it to be honest, my mate owns a garage and has a diagnostic machine would it be any use trying that on it if the lights still out? just started the car up again there and the lights still off, it's a bit...

Fired the car up this morning and started driving to work, after about a minute I noticed the eml was on so I pulled over and popped the bonnet, had a quick looked round and checked oil and water levels and everything seemed fine even the engine sounded as if it was ticking away nicely, I...

Just took advantage of this offer and stocked up on oil for mine and the missus car ;)

There's one in the for sale section that's been put on today.

Welcome! Looking good ;)

Welcome rob, nice ek9 mate ;)

Been filling up with this for the past few weeks and haven't noticed any difference.

Welcome Tom! GLWTS! ;)

Congrats Ben! I bet the next 10 days will feel like an eternity for you ;)