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It's the symbol of a car with skid marks behind. It was off when I parked at work and on when I started up at home time and has been on ever since. The manual says contact a Ford technician. I can't notice any difference in the handling and am hoping to get it to Fords next week. Any idea...

A 5 watt came out and a 5 watt went in. All lights working, equal brightness.

A few weeks ago the light came on the dashboard indicating that a lamp had blown. Sure enough it was one of the tail lights. I replaced it, and it worked but the warning light has been stuck on ever since. All the lights are working. I've disconnected the battery incase something was...

I've repaired a few scratches on my rear bumper and been disappointed with the matching of the spray. It was bought from the dealer, is the colour of the car, moondust silver, metallic. However, it stands out a mile, looking more like grey. Have I done something wrong, or are my...

Turned out to be one of the cables from the gear lever to the gear box. It seems that one does the bottom side gears, the other the top set. £115 at the local garage.

I am unable to engage any of the bottom side gears, 2nd, 4th and reverse. The remainder seem fine.

43000. Tonight I am unable to select 2nd or 4th. No problem with 1st and 3rd. Don't know about reverse yet, will know better when I have to back of the drive tomorrow. Does the fact that there is no problem with some of the gears suggest that the clutch is OK?

My 2004 Punto gearbox is playing up. It is difficult to get it into second gear. Anyone herad of similar faults, what has gone, and how much to repair?

What is the rubbery type of compound used to fill in joints where two different walls meet I have a joint where an extension butts up to the original house and the compound is looking a bit rough and wasn't put in very well to start with. I think I have seen similar stuff where two pieces of...

I've seen fittings like window ledges made out of a rigid plastic that seems to be made with a foam-type interior, or maybe I imagined it! Any idea what it is and where I can get some from. I want to fill in a gap at the end of a bath with a horizontal piece. An architrave shape would be OK...

On a standard 3 phase motor, all three phases should read approximately the same current. By approximate, I mean 3.4/3.5/3.3 amps, for examle.

The wiper arm is secured to a shaft that goes through in to the void beneath the plastic grill. A linkage comes from the other wiper to the bottom of this shaft. It is here that this linkage keeps dropping off.

My son's Punto wiper linkage has fallen off on one side. I have heard that this is a very common fault, and numerous people have suggested drilling the shaft and fitting a split pin/washer/tapped screw to secure it. I took off the plastic nut cover, removed the wiper nut and wiper arm to...

I've had countress cars over the last 37 years and experience tells me that an 8 year old battery is ready to fail anytime. If it shows signs of failing, you can charge it off the car, have discharge tests done, pop magic tablet into it to strengthen the acid etc, etc but it will fail in the...

If you were to do the job, you need to see how many conductors the appliance requires. 3 for just 3 phase or 4 if a neutral is also needed. Many electricians also prefer to use a 5 th core for a good earth rather than rely on the armouring and its terminations. 3, 4 and 5 core SWA is readily...

We have one called hissing Sid. Get fed up with phusically moving it every time we open the door. Like the idea of the rising butt hinges though.

I have a hell of a draught under my living room door coming from my hall and stairs. The problem is that when the dooris closed the gap is 12mm, but when I open my door into the living room it is only about 5mm above the carpet. The floor seems to drop toward the door. I've tried a couple of...

Just had to replace the battery on my late 2004 Punto. Think it's the original. Is 5 years about average? Normal mix of driving. Anyone had one longer or even shorter length of time? £80 Halfords, had to go there because of the time.

I would say that you are spot on with what you assumed. Just make sure that it is a 230v coil and you should really fit a fuse in the 230v used for your coil circuit, right at the start, say 5 amp. Otherwise your control wiring 1mm or 1.5mm would be protected by the heater fuse, would that be...

I bought a couple from Maplin. It's just a normal bayonet fitting lamp that you change for your hallway, living room etc. It automatically comes on when it goes dark. There's a switch to set it to stay on for 3, 6 or 9 hours after it gets dark. It can also then be set to go on and off...