Owen, there was nothing wrong with carbs....the manufacturers just want you to buy a car that you can't service and will fall to bits in 7 years or so....simple, best Mike Solihull
________________________________ From: Owen Jenkins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu 10/05/2012 22:49 To: mogtalk2 Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Miscellany Tim, Yes, I found it tonight on a website devoted to OBD codes. Not one I've seen before. I hadn't bothered to look recently. My Rover 75 diesel packed up running last year with an intermittent fault no-one could identify - plenty of codes recorded but none was any help. I ended up trading the car in, in exasperation. Being a diesel, I have little doubt it would have been fixed had it not been for all the electronic wizardry which flummoxed everyone. My big gripe is that the electrics are not robust enough for the duty - not fit for purpose. As an engineer, that makes me cross. Cars go to the scrap heap these days because of these unfathomable electrical problems. I suspect that corroded connectors and faulty sensors are often at fault. This is a funny kind of progress. Cheers, Owen. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Harris <mailto:[email protected]> To: mogtalk2 <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [mogtalk2] Miscellany On 10 May 2012 20:39, Owen Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: Maybe it wasn't there when they looked. It certainly wasn't the last time I tried. Fair point. I wasn't having a go at you for not finding the code, by the way. I am often struck by just how lazy some of the big dealers are. a mate of mine works in a small non-franchised garage, and he tells me they get this a lot - someone comes to them in despair with a recurring fault that the main dealers can't seem to fix, they do a bit of phoning round and research on the internet, and can usually come up with a fix or a workaround. Seems to me that if it's not in the standard manuals or it's not covered in the standard service sheets, the big boys either can't or won't do anything. Maybe whoever looked at your car knew what the code was supposed to mean, but was unable to pin down exactly what was causing it. Tim View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> ------------------------------------------- View posts on The Mail Archive http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ [http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/] Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=22459785&id_secret=22459785-4a39ddf8 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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