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  1. That's a shame mate, but it's not just inconvenient stalling hey, as you say ruddy dangerous! I thought ours was a gonner last week, flat battery several times, I thought parasitic drain, and I'm REALLY not interested in tracking that down. However, I had the battery checked at our local battery suppliers, and a day after being on charge for 24 hours it was 10.6 volts, bad enough, but only 130 cranking amps!!!!!!! So it's toast. The label has gone, but I remember it was from Tayna batteries in Wales, as we were on holiday in Abergele at the time where they were based, most probably one of their "Powerline" model 096R, so should be around 630 cold cranking amps!! So when we are back from holibobs, I will reluctantly have to stump up for one, humbug!!!
  2. You've done way better than most with these dumb handbrake designs!!!
  3. Nicely done on a horrible job mate! A good write up for anyone contemplating the task! I've only done that job once, on my van, and getting that blighter out required a level of flexibility and dexterity I struggle with now!! Certainly the rear 2 (of 3) bolts, hidden well. It sat nicely at the front of the engine though, below the egr pipe and above the starter motor, which was another thrutch. Sadly it gummed up again not so long after, but blanking it off presented no problems or lights. When I tried that on my petrol Voyager it didn't like it - chucked a light and a code, harrumph.
  4. It'll be the blending damper doors, nope I've no idea how to fix it.
  5. Blending dampers. Nope, no idea how to fix that!
  6. Managed to give it a good clean as my Mrs never does! Obviously, it rained immediately afterwards!!
  7. Too right matey!! Thin aluminium sheet rolled round it, and black high temperature sealant from my local Autofactors. Marvellous. I think I'm due under there again soon sadly...... It's just had its FOURTH water pump too! One when I got it 9 years ago, about 80,000 miles, one done by me - never again, one done by my mate just under a year ago, and one a month ago. I've bought cheap, and I've bought dear, doesn't make a jot of difference to this thing!! Some radweld too, let's see how long it doesn't use coolant for this time. Have you got a stop watch?
  8. Sadly, Richard is probably right. But, give it a go - disconnect the battery for half an hour, as a few of those circuits will reset this way. I would say pull the IOD fuse, but in this case go the whole hog. There are also the fuses under the steering wheel as well as the box under the bonnet, just check them all and hope something has done its job and protected things!
  9. Hiya there! I have the same situation, same car, nothing in the UK. So either one of the stainless steel make one on the car companies, or a fortune from the States. Yep. I've carried on bodging it so far!!
  10. Well, it's 8 years on, but the above still stands! Good luck with it!
  11. Hi Dave, I wish I could, but absolutely no idea on yours. Ours is at the front of the engine, but it bears no resemblance to yours sadly!
  12. I had a similar one on the Grand Voyager. The light stayed on at very low revs, bring them up a little and it went off. When the engine is running, dip the oil, if it's NOT on the dipstick then the pump is at least sending it round the engine. My knowledge of oil pumps doesn't extend to if they "wear out" and give poor pressure or circulation volume, but my problem was the oil pressure sensor.
  13. I've got my fingers crossed that a fluid change helps you! As, from my own experience, even with NO communication to the Transmission Control Module, I still had 2nd and reverse gears.
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