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• CAN Bus Injection Theft Vunerability

• Main methods of theft
  
  Relay. Boosting a key signal to trick the car into thinking the key is next to it.
  
  Coding a new key. Key is coded and have read posts about cars being in for a valet or ser ...
Aldo Replies: 16 Views: 10330 Forum:General Posted: 15th Jan 2024 6:51 pm Subject: CAN Bus Injection Theft Vunerability

• New battery goes flat…

• Is there a possibility you have to code a new battery to the car? Only mentioning as I had to do this for my MINI with AGM battery.
Aldo Replies: 14 Views: 8044 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 3rd Jan 2024 9:44 pm Subject: New battery goes flat…

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• It’s 2018, I’ll mention it to them and see what they say. I popped in other day and they said they’d need it for 30 minutes, it was the worst time to go in as it was lunchtime and down tools :l ...
Aldo Replies: 718 Views: 723530 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 26th Dec 2023 8:07 pm Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Mine has also had this the last 2 times it’s been in for a service. Still a thing even with 50k miles on the clock?
  
  Last year I took it in and they reset the service interval, it’s just come up ...
Aldo Replies: 718 Views: 723530 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 26th Dec 2023 9:04 am Subject: 'Service Required' after only 5,000 miles!?

• Roof Rails or Roof Rack

• Welcome, sorry can’t answer your question, but wondering why the move back to a Disco. Practicality I’m guessing, always pondered on a FFRR or even a RRS
Aldo Replies: 4 Views: 2906 Forum:General Posted: 26th Dec 2023 8:54 am Subject: Roof Rails or Roof Rack

• Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• Just an update, after Amazon messing the order up, the same set for £20 set off eBay was the winner.
  
  I also gave the windscreen a thorough deep clean and the auto wipers are behaving as expected ...
Aldo Replies: 7 Views: 3994 Forum:General Posted: 26th Dec 2023 8:52 am Subject: Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• Cheers, now ordered. £23 off Amazon.
  
  I’ll be deep cleaning the screen too, as the auto wipers are shockingly too quick for even light rain, reading up the sensors are pretty sensitive to dirt a ...
Aldo Replies: 7 Views: 3994 Forum:General Posted: 11th Dec 2023 8:10 pm Subject: Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• Great thanks for the replies. Seems the Bosch ones will be the ones to try.
Aldo Replies: 7 Views: 3994 Forum:General Posted: 10th Dec 2023 4:05 pm Subject: Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• I’m after wipers for the front, the ones in the car don’t clear nice, or the screen is a bit greasy. I’ll clean the screen anyway but I think the wipers have had better days.
  
  I can get OEM o ...
Aldo Replies: 7 Views: 3994 Forum:General Posted: 9th Dec 2023 11:23 pm Subject: Wipers, aftermarket or OEM

• Insurance tripled past year on renewal, any recommendations

• Do your quotes on an aggregator website like confused . com. In the end Tesco worked out best for me.
Aldo Replies: 27 Views: 13300 Forum:General Posted: 13th Nov 2023 2:06 pm Subject: Insurance tripled past year on renewal, any recommendations

• Insurance tripled past year on renewal, any recommendations

• My renewal was 150% increase to £1580. Called and they came down by a whole £70 for existing customer reduction.
  
  Needless to say I renewed with someone else and managed to get for just under £8 ...
Aldo Replies: 27 Views: 13300 Forum:General Posted: 13th Nov 2023 12:55 pm Subject: Insurance tripled past year on renewal, any recommendations

• Cam belt change

• 7 years or around 110k miles.
Aldo Replies: 1 Views: 2056 Forum:General Posted: 27th Sep 2023 9:21 pm Subject: Cam belt change

• Insurance tripled past year on renewal, any recommendations

• I’m not looking forward to my renewal based on plenty of comments I’ve read on here and in other sources.
  
  D5 values have definitely taken a hit too, although not in line and as sharper decline ...
Aldo Replies: 27 Views: 13300 Forum:General Posted: 3rd Sep 2023 7:16 am Subject: Insurance tripled past year on renewal, any recommendations

• Front lower control arm bushes worn

• Mine are due now. Similar price as quoted to you those few years ago.
  
  How much cheaper are inde’s generally?
Aldo Replies: 10 Views: 11350 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 31st Jul 2023 10:18 pm Subject: Front lower control arm bushes worn

• Humming / Vibration / Drone on idle

• By way of an update.
  
  Service completed today at a main dealer and at the same time I asked them to diagnose the noise.
  
  The technician has indicated that the noise is a characteristic of the car ...
Aldo Replies: 23 Views: 16267 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 31st Jul 2023 9:01 pm Subject: Humming / Vibration / Drone on idle