bygumlad

Now its £1 a litre and he delivers to your house!

He's charging £1 a litre at moment and he now delivers to your house which is great, the fuel comes to me!! I've just driven up to Keswick and around workington, whitehaven and back through windermere on my way back to preston and used 25 litres of bio to cover 258 miles of motoring. I have his mobile number if you require. Car never misses a beat.

A couple of lads at work are converted to biodiesel and one runs a golf gt tdi 1999 year. The early mechanical non common rail diesel pump set up is much more bio friendly, so if you want a car to run on it, get a car of that era! I now avoid hefty fuel bills and spend just £22 quid a week on fuel

Been now running on 100% biodiesel for 9 months and no problems, cruises on motorways just fine, starts instantly and covered 9000 miles on the stuff, the fuel smells of donuts when you put it in and the seller now delivers to my house as he's given up renting the industrial unit due to cost reasons. Still 90 pence a litre and delivered to my house! These sdi engines are great! and after the first 2 fuel filters, no nore issues. If you want cheap motoring get an sdi. Any others running bio with similar experiences out there?

The biodiesel place is at school lane, bamber bridge. Its an industrial estate, as you turn into the estate take 2nd left then 2nd left again, its a dead end, the unit is the last one on the left. He's only open in the mornings. I usually fill up on saturday morning, open 10 to about 2'ish. If you see an orange audi A2 outside then he will be open. There are no signs at all to say it sells the stuff, just a yellow roller shutter door. Reverse your car in and fill up, he has a small filling pump which has a pipe into a 1000 litre IBC! Seriously cheap running, I spend cica £80/month on fuel and do around 1000 miles, happy days

Hello, I've been running 100% biodiesel in my sdi fabia for 3 monthe now and all ok, had to change filter twice in 2000 miles so hopefully getting to a stage where the filter should now last a little longer. The fuel has had no difference on the way the car drives. Anyone else using the stuff? The bonus is its 90p per litre! The most it has cost me to fill up is £32 for 35 litres yesterday, fuel light just came on as I was driving into the industrial estate where they sell it, the place is close to where i live in walton le dale preston, its in the industrial estate just behing the corsa centre, get yourself down there!!!

Ive got an sdi estate and its a great car for my needs, according to my LCD display my average speed is mostly 18mph due to traffic but it still manages 48mpg minimum, most I have got is 59mpg. I wouldn't call it slow either, its on a par with my old astra 1.7td but without the lag. Motorway driving is fine too and cruises quite effortlessly at motorway speeds. My car has done 96k and starts instantly, you almost just flick the ignition key and it bursts into life. My only gripe is that the tickover speed appears a bit high for me, its about 900rpm, 800rpm would be much better methinks, does anyone know if it can be done?

Remove the sensor from the rack by undoing the 2 allen screws, clean off any grease/water or gunge from the sensor itself and clean out the aperture that you removed the sensor from, get a screwdriver and rag and clean as much out as possible, conpressed air is best to blow out any grease thats present. The sensor sits around the steering column and detects movement without touching it (this is the hall effect). If grease/water bridges the 2 then that I believe is where the problem lies. Power steering units are common to other cars and virtually identical inside as Ive had one apart, the wifes y reg astra has one and it never failed in 150,000 miles and ten years of use.

Take the sensor out and give it a good clean as well as the aperture it sits in, moisture was present in mine with a load of water contaminated grease. blow out with compressed air, ensure everything is dry then refit. Cured mine! I suspect it gets moisture from continuous heating and cooling due to being next to exhaust and reading some stories on here, its seems apparent that it gets worse in winter which supports this diagnosis. The sensor gives off spurious or no signals due to being shorted out and thus the pump won't work. Easy to fix and free

Turned out to be water/moisture ingress in rack where sensor is fitted, sensor was covered in gunge when removed so cleaned it all up and now fine. Light was still on for a while even though power steering was working. It has eventually gone off, probably similar to previous cars ive had, if after so many successful starts the problem never arises then it clears the snag in the ecu without needing a meter to do it

The more I read on this subject the more it makes sense about moisture in the rack where the sensor is fitted, winter months quoted here seem to throw up pas problems etc which makes the connection with solving my issue. Sometimes it worked sometimes it didn't. I put it down to moisture/water in the rack which made the sensor give out spuriors signals. After cleaning my sensor and drying it and blasting compressed air in the rack, normal pas was resumed! Happy days and free of charge.

could be moisture building up from constant heating and cooling as it is very close to exhaust downpipe. My dash light is still on but the steering is fine, just need to clear the snag. I would reccomend everyone who has PAS problems to check this first

Remove sensor, give it a clean and use compressed air to clean the crud out of the rack aperture that the sensor sits in. Mine was full of moisture and cured the fault when i put the sensor back

I have a 1.9sdi 2001 fabia and the power steering has been none exixtent apart from a couple of times when it 'came to life'. In the main it hasn't worked. I took the steering pump completely apart and it was like new inside, was expecting to see aburnt out motor or something. The steering angle sensor is a metal one so kind of ruled that out too. I booked it in for a diagnostic scan later today and was preparing myself for a big bill, have been quoted £93+ vat for sensor and £189+ vat for pump (volks world, preston). Before going to diagnostics i decided to remove sensor and have a look, on removing it, dirty water started to trickle out and on removing it, it was covered in brown gunge (water mixed with rack grease) Alarm bells ringing now, could this be causing spurious signals to pump and shutting it down? I thoroughly cleaned the sensor and used compressed air in the hole it sits in to blast all the gunge out. Put it back together and bingo power steering working every time. If you are having problems with yours, check this first, will be interesting to see if any others are cured this way. Takes about 30 mins to do and of course FOC!!!!!!

Its dead easy to fix this wiper problem, replacing the wiper blades wont cure it. I cured the juddering once and for all today on mine. The problem is that as the wiper blade wipes upwards it is tending to 'dig in' and thus jump as the angle at which the wiper is carried is not quite right. You just need some grips on the wiper arm and twist it so that the wiper blade follows the arm rather than trying to be in front of it. Bit difficult to explain but its like spreading butter on bread as the best example I can think of, you only can spread it one way with the knife and this is how the wiper needs to work!