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Hi, My '08 reg Seat Ibiza regularly fails to start - the ignition cranks, but it fails to start running. Sometimes, if I'm lucky, I can manage to get the engine to start by pressing down on the accelerator whilst turning over - but usually it'll take me several attempts, and most of the time I...

Bit of an odd topic for you all but given the recent downpours we've had I thought it'd make for a decent topic of discussion. Currently I've got Valeo Silencios fitted to my car, I fit them around January and was generally quite pleased with them, they make very little noise and haven't left...

i've had a few occurances of the RNS310 going blank and the sound dropping off for a few (maybe 5) seconds when the outside temperature is below 4 degrees, its always first thing in the morning and it happens 2 maybe 3 times and is then fine for the rest of the day. its never happened when...

Hi Just letting you know about a problem I had with my tuning box. It was a box from http://tuning-diesels.com/ - Roverron tuning. I've had the box for some time and always felt that it gave a slight, but not great improvement. However, I have always thought that it was well made and...

Morning, I have a 2007 reg ibiza fr tdi. Recently when the weather has been extremely cold the car seems to take longer to turn over to start. Is this just teh case that in the minus temperatures the diesel is getting thicker or do i need to get this looked into. When I say turn over I...

I understand that cold weather normally affects the performance and economy of most, if not all, diesel engines. I've noticed in my SC 1.6TDi I get 52MPG when it's a warm day (7oC I class as warm at the moment!), and I get around 46-47MPG when it's cold (-0.5 --> 0.5 like today). :blink: Is...

When I first start the car it squeeks once a turn opened the bonnet and it's coming from the fan belt cog I think? Or is it the belt? Car done 30k?

My driver side speaker is working intermittently at the moment and sometimes it crackles. At first I thought it was the snow on the roof affecting the aerial, but it does it for CDs as well. Told my dad this (he has a 1.4 Stylance) and he has had the same thing happen to him. Is it just the cold...

Got up for work yesterday. Started the car up - waited for the coil symbol to go out first - Car is prefacelift TDi 130 sport. Temperature was about -6 Went about scraping the ice and snow off the car. drove off and because of the snow and ice I was changing gear very low in the rev...

Can anyone help: I slid across the road today in the back streets, due to the weather and i had no steering and this caused me to hit the kerb, on the downside i scuffed the front drivers side alloy wheel. It looks a mess can anyone tell me how much it would cost for a single new alloy and...

Hey, I was wondering if anyone else with a 1.9tdi finds the car easy to stall in the cold weather? Mines a cupra don't know if that would make any difference? When I start up from cold especially at this time of year the car is mega easy to stall if I have to do say a standing hill start...

Hi Last year I had a map from a danish mapper, back then I could experience "Red light flash from water temp gauge" when I had below 0 celcius. Back then I blaimed the map for being ****. Now I have revo, and I had this problem this morning. What is this about, some cold/icy water warning...

Ok my car hates wet weather if i go through a big puddle it struggles and most of the time dies on me so i have to sit and wait for the engine to dry out and this aint good at like 10pm after work in the woods is this a problem with all ibiza's or just mine???:shrug:

Finally got my 16in alloys to replace my summer 18's, just wondering is it better to go for full winters in our climate or all weather.

Right had a search pulled up a couple of threads about hot weather driving but just wanted your general opinions aswell... Car just feels like its down on power im trying to work out if i should just put it down to the weather being warmer or if i need to look further into it like a possible...

my lcr seems to go noticably slower in this hot weather. I know cars love the cold tho, just wish they were not so affected by it. Anyone else notice this?

Hi all, around november time, we had snow, and my car sat all weekend, and on the monday when I went to leave for work it was around -2 degrees, and my car (1.2) really struggled to start. It started, hit a 1000Rpm then instantly died. It turned over ok, but i ended up having to slowly pump...

I brought a 'new' car, 2007 (red) for my girlfriend last week and it needs a tidy up - swirl marks from the previous owners cleaning methods. I'm going to (by hand): Wash (2 Bucket Method) Clay Zaino - Cleaner & Swirl Remover Carlack 28 Carlack SG I'm guessing if i do it whilst its...

I have not driven my car for two days and when I went to start it today, the battery has run flat. Is this due to the very cold temperatures we've recently had at night? Or is it because the battery installed simply isn't big enough for my needs? I have a small audio system installed, HID...

Since it's been dry for a day or so I thought I'd give the cupra a bit of spit and shine and took it out for some photo's too! I ran out of tyre shine though!