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On the way home tonight my LCR lost all boost. There is a loud sucking noise from the engine bay. I think I can here the forge dv working but its like the turbo is doing nothing. I pulled over and checked the obvious pipes for leaks and connections. They are all fine. Really strange loud sucking...

Gearbox has died on me. If you changed one before have you done re-conditioned or new? How much have you paid? Any good places to buy? Ones to avoid? Ive made some enquiries and been quoted £5-600 for a box, not including labour.

I'm doing this on my sons behalf he's currently lying in a darkened room regressing::shrug: His ibiza just suddenly died drove it home the other night --seemed fine-- now engine turns no dashboard lights nothing happening. Got our local garage to look at it - they've been great but can't...

Started yesterday; the clock hands started spinning madly, and then I noticed that the speedo was reading zero... Later in the day the speedo came back on, reading accurately, but the clock stuck. This morning the clock hasn't moved, but when the ignition was turned on the clock began to...

hiya.first i will apologise as i only visit this forum when i have a problem.and i never reply to anyones posts but that is because i know naff all about cars :D hoping someone will be able to help as our alhambra has been dead for 3 weeks now and im stuck in a tiny village with 3 kids going...

afternoon all! my mrs just bought her self a 03' Ibiza she has had it 6 days and so far its had, coolent sensor, brand spanking new key and....yesterday we noticed the reverse light doesnt work! i cant seem to find any blown fuses in the fuse board on the right off the dash (is there any...

the screen is just black and stereo dont work and i cant fix it with vag-com:blink: is the stereo broken have checked my fuses and they are okey

Hi. Earler today my "AC" symbol on the display unit started flashing insted of just staying on, car started fine, drove 10 miles @ 60 fine, car sat for 90mins, went to start it and got "click" nothing. Lights on dash dim, nothing happening. Eventually get it jumped and driving, leave it to...

Was sitting in the car saturday fidling about and decided to have a go at taking out the headlight switch as I want to get a boost gauge soon and was checking how to wire it in. I take out the headlight switch and then put it back in... Go to start the car and nothing, ignition turns on all...

yesterday i took my car to castle combe to give it a little thrashing around the track and to see how it compared to my old ibiza, had a good couple of laps and my car was feeling awesome power wise but after making my way home car still felt as good as the day it was mapped even givin it the...

Would you guys mind confirming what I think is a dead battery for me please? Basically, I (like an idiot) left the ignition on but the engine not running on my LCR. The climatronic was running and it must've been around 15 minutes before I tried to start it up, at which point I got nothing...

My Ibiza sdi decided to commit suicide on friday. I stopped at some lights, smelt plastic burning smell, a tiny amount of smoke from engine and stopped just down the road, well actually vosa check point at switch island, liverpool. popped the bonnet catch, got out and then heard it...

Afternoon all, Not posted in a long time because the car has been running - relatively- sweet however had a major problem yesterday. Was on the motorway when the car lost all power and emitted a large puff of black smoke. I managed to get the car over to the hard shoulder and attempted to...

Afternoon people, Driving home from the cinema last night, the aircon decided to completely die on me, lighting and fans, the lot. Also the cigarette lighter, after pushing it in, wouldn't come back out (wouldn't pop out like normal). Cars an LCR if it makes a difference. Checked this...

Okay, I have a wonderful Toledo Sports 2.0l which I have re-sprayed a lighter Rover red as the paint on this P reg car was terrible when I bought the car. So I am reluctent to admit it may have gone to that carpark in the sky.. 1) I have a knocking noise in the back somewhere. It sounds...

I bought my Cupra remapped and i dont know what map is it, but it boosts to 1.4 bar and holding at 1.1 bar... It started to go into limp mod every 2 or 3 days and i got the fuel trim, bank 1- system too lean code... I think MAF is the problem so here are some readings done in 3rd gear...

Yep that's right, dead fly in my tail light. How great is that...can't get the little :censored: out either. Guess I'll have to wait until he desiccates and become a little pile of dust......unless anyone has any clues about how to remove the corpse? :think: Couldn't stop looking at it when I...

hi, i have been having problems with my radio recently and now it has died. a couple of months ago it started playing up. certain buttons wernt working and when you pressed one button it would do something else. ie changing to cd 3 put the radio on! Now it has just died. wont turn on at...

Hi all, Right, went to my car today, pressed unlock on my key fob, no joy. Hmmm no alarm LED flashing in the car either... Manually got into the car, went to start the car, no dash board lights, no radio, NADA! - Can someone tell me why? My guess is the immobiliser, but why would it of done...

I need some help guy's. I had a split hose a few days ago which caused a boost leak :( It was the hose between the top of the charge pipe and the N75, The pipe has now been replaced with some reinforced forge hoseing of the same diameter. Right the new problem I have is this; We went...