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My partner has a massive problem with her car; it is a ford escort P reg and only done 55,000 miles The car has been working fine since new and yesterday it started to get very jerky and you could smell petrol, so we took it to a local garage and he said it was the sparkplugs. So we thought...

I just bought the vista and nothing else

I got it from my local computer shop (£110)

All it says is "The serial key you have entered is in use" also i rang microsoft and they said becuase it was oem they would not give me a new code.

I brought a copy of Vista ultimate OEM and it installed ok and I activated it with no problems. Two days ago my hard disk failed and I lost all my data, so I brought a new 500gb western digital and put vista back on again. The problem is vista needs activating again so I enter my code and it...

Could I get a ECU from a scrap yard?? Good idea or not???

I have done the same things as you and the garage has told me that the ECU has gone. My car does it all the time now it just revs at 2000 - 3000 rpm now and after about 10 seconds it goes back to normal but soon a you press the gas pedal and then take you foot off it, it just revs i'm...

OK mate will do

I am a novice at car repairs, it is easy to get the the idle air control valve?? Also yesterday I did put some fuel injector cleaner in my tank but it has not done much. thanks for everyones help by the way :D

Over the last 2 days my ford escort has been over revving between 2000 -3000 rpm, if i slam my foot on the accelerator pedal the revs drop back to normal. What is going on??? The car is a ford escort 1.8 si on a R plate

Well I have brought a new power supply 750 watt, took all components out and put them back in and Im still getting the same problems. Dont know what to do now

Hi I need your help, I have just built myself a new computer and reinstalled xp, Eveything was running ok for 3 days until yesterday when I booted up the machine and got a blue screen saying something about the BIOS is not ACPI compliant. So I just reset the machine and went into xp ok but now...

Today I was cleaning out my car and a found water in the boot. It was not to much but its very dump where could it have come from?? My car is a Ford Escort 1998 SI Any help would be great.