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    Honest John - Camshafts snapping prematurely
    Hi Dave,
    I've been following the pemature camshaft failures on Honest John and I have noted that you have had some dealings with this particular issue.
    I don't know whether you can help me or not but to view all of the volumes on this subject all that you had to do was click on 'click here' on the previous volume,but now when I get to vol 2 there is no 'click here' on the first post. Do you know anything about this?
    Kind regards
    Tabby
    email tabbywrench@tiscali.co.uk

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    hi. nice diagram regarding astra fuse box just spent 1 1/2 hrs looking for mine. can you tell me where the diagnostic plug is please.

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    Hi Dave,

    You replied to a thread earlier this evening of mine concerning the car/spanner light and oil light coming on intermittently. I was wondering if you could help me further, i have connected the car upto an opcom device i purchased off ebay and the only code it gave me after doing some research on the internet was for a pending maf sensor problem. As mentioned in my thread the car runs fine when the lights aren't on but when they are it runs a little rough. I was wondering if you can offer any advice or suggestions on things to check/change or procedures i can carry out to see if i can have a permanant fix for this. The oil level is fine, i dropped it at the weekend and put a new filter on..When the car starts up the engine is a bit tapety, after a very shortwhile it runs alot quieter...any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

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    Rob

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    hi dave you explained the pedal to the metal theroy for a code. this did not give me a direct code but the spanner and car light did flash a sequance
    10 3 8 10 hope this might be able to give you info into helping with my issue

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    hi, don't suppose you happen to know the difference between eyes and forks on rear shocks on a fiesta mk4. thnx

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    hi dave sorry to bother you pal.i posted a thread yesterday about an annoying scraping noise only when turning left,do have any idea what this could be.cheers

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    Hello Dave,
    I've noticed from many of your posts that you seem to know what your talking about, I hope you dont mind, but i need a bit of advise.

    I have a Meriva and this sunday the car broke down, it is still under warranty but vauxhall are not prepared to pay for the repair as they are trying to say I have caused the problem by not noticing that it says INSP on the dash. I can't stress to them enough, it never did say INSP before the breakdown and they are now wanting me to pay £4000 to repair the engine. The oil quality levels were very low and the level of oil somehow increased, causing the breakdown. They wont accept that the INSP message has just come on! HELP!!!

    Any advise would be greatly apprechiated!!

    Thanks
    David Copley!
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    I have a vectra c 2.2 on a 52 plate and have been reading the problems with their timming chains what engines are affected, my car has had a new CIM card and new ECU replaced just before I picked up this car, I also noticed that when i start the car thr rev counter bobs up and down between 5-10 rpm for about 2 mins is this correct or do i have a idle problem and some times stalls?

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    thanx for getting back to me so quick,but do you know if this would cause the engine management light to come on also ,the one with the spanner through it,thanx again

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    hi davbe you helped me out once before wonderd if you have any ideas car loses power when it goes round roundabouts or start to go up hills.One garage says could need lines blowing back failing that tank off job.just had a service incl fuel filter had that done cos i thought that was what the problem was.Garage says failing that it could be electrical vectra 1.8ls year 2000 thanks

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    Dave,

    Multitudinous expressions of gratitude to you for providing documentary evidence re cambelt.

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    just a quick note to say thanks very much for the help with the post about the vectras......really appreciated mate
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