So, my 'daughters car' (the only one I really drive) a Vauxhall Corsa
1.0 has developed a fault. When driving it suddenly stops. Then won't
start again for 5-15 minutes.

It's one of these shitty intermittent faults.

Put it through the MOT and it passed... mind you it stopped on the ramp
and it took 10 minutes to start again. So with 12 months ticket it's
worth fixing.

Investigation suggests it isn't sparking or injecting fuel when in the
fault state. So this is (probably) either the crankshaft sensor, the
cam sensor or the ecu. Crankshaft sensor's cheapest so hope it's
this...

Bought one, on eBay, and tried to change it. **** it's not a socket,
it's a reverse torx bolt. Oh well, use a socket. No... they won't fit.
So I need a spanner.

A quick search and Halfords seem to sell them. Managed to reserve a set
of four in one of their Bristol stores. Turned up and they were waiting
for me.

I'm quite happy to pay the extra if I"m honest, the online search and
discovery saved me hours.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Investigation suggests it isn't sparking or injecting fuel when in the
> fault state. So this is (probably) either the crankshaft sensor, the
> cam sensor or the ecu. Crankshaft sensor's cheapest so hope it's
> this...

I hope that sorted the problem. I've just managed to fix a similar
intermittent fault, which happened to be caused by a disintegrating
earth connection to the engine block. A couple of weeks (not
continuously!) to find; 10 min & 20 p to fix.

> I'm quite happy to pay the extra if I"m honest, the online search and
> discovery saved me hours.

This afternoon I bought some Autosol at my local outlet; because I
wanted it _now_ I paid the premium. But I was annoyed by being
overcharged at the till, and held up three times as long as it took to
buy it, to get my refund. After having to provide name & postcode.

Many times I've said "never again" to myself, after leaving Halfords.

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ts in Surrey // to send e-mail, remove vehicle
K-RS 8v, 80/7, 750SS

wrote:
<snip>

Halfords need defending?

They're just about my favourite shop in the world.

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ogden | gsxr1000 | rgv250

On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:41:35 +0000, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>So, my 'daughters car' (the only one I really drive) a Vauxhall Corsa
>1.0 has developed a fault. When driving it suddenly stops. Then won't
>start again for 5-15 minutes.
>
>It's one of these shitty intermittent faults.

Not a Corsa but my Mk2 Mondeo used do something similar that. It took
literaly months to find the fault. In the fuse box there was a little
grease on one of the relays. Once it got hot it would short the relay.
If I stopped the engine I couldn't restart it untill it had been left
for about 5 minutes.

Remove relay, wipe all clean and replace, "...simples, squeak.". But
yours won't be that at all, oh no.

"ts" <exbn-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1jfbb4h.kwtakz4cog8fN%exbn-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> After having to provide name & postcode.

KW7 2 BU

YKIMS

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I'm quite happy to pay the extra if I"m honest, the online search and
> discovery saved me hours.

I'm sure I've managed to buy something I needed in a hurry at Dixons - it
doesn't redeem them though.

Halfords manager: "You can't have a Sat Nav on a car with a dynamo".

--
Simon

On Mar 13, 8:41*pm, stephen.pac...@gonemail.com wrote:
[snip]

I needed a new set of front[0] wiper blades for the RX. Mazda wanted
something like £45 to supply and fit during the last service; I told
them to **** off.

Popped into Halfords, they had a replica set for £13.95, and at the
till asked me if they'd like them to fit them for me. I asked "how
much", and they said (I think £3), but assuming it was an easy job
(which is sort of is - turns out getting the corroded-on old blades
off is the hard bit) said, nah, it's OK. But the girl on the till
said, along the lines of "Dave[1]'s not busy, he'll do it for you for
nothing" which he did, in about 10 minutes[2].

That's actually "proper service".

[0] only car I've ever owned without a rear window wiper, which would
be a problem if the rear window was actually much use for anything
when you're reversing anyway, which it isn't much.
[1] probably not his real name; I can't remember, but he *looked* like
a "Dave".
[2] approx. 9mins 35 seconds to get the old blades off, 25 seconds to
fit the new pair.

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d.

On Mar 13, 10:27*pm, ogden <og...@pre.org> wrote:
> *wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> Halfords need defending?
>
> They're just about my favourite shop in the world.

next to "PC World" and "Poundstretcher"[1], presumably.

[1] I was in our local "ex-Woolworths" the other day[2] - it's now
called "The 99p Shop". ****. ME. What a ****ing hole. It's worse than
Netto, FFS!
[2] I was looking for a particular type of "pick'n'mix" sweets that
haven't been available since about 2002, but which she keeps sending
me out on missions to try and locate.


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d.

On 14 Mar 2010 06:42:30 GMT in uk.rec.motorcycles, sweller says:

>Halfords manager: "You can't have a Sat Nav on a car with a dynamo".

Different volts from a dynamo obviously.

--
Ian
90% of all statistics are made up

In article <0eab42c7-58f5-45a9-ae1b-
(E-Mail Removed)>, darsy says...

> [2] I was looking for a particular type of "pick'n'mix" sweets that
> haven't been available since about 2002, but which she keeps sending
> me out on missions to try and locate.

The joys of being a kept man.