All the flashing lights

Dear Sir, I have experienced a problem with my CX-5 2.2 Diesel 175 Sport Nav. My car is four years old with 49,000 miles on the clock, is serviced regularly, and has just experienced an all warning lights scenario ñ TPMS, SCBS, Red Triangle, Engine Management all coming on with corresponding loss of the LED […]
Turbo turmoil

Dear Doctor Diesel, How do turbochargers get contaminated with whatever they do, for the vanes to get stuck? The air enters via the air filter and then arrives at the turbo to proceed to the inlet manifold via the intercooler and EGR. I am at something of a loss as to where the awful […]
To trickle or not to trickle?

Hello Doctor. How are you… not too cold or wet I hope? When you have a moment, could you perhaps please advise me about my car battery. In the Fiat DoblÚ, I do a run every four to five weeks of approx 75 kilometres to see my sister, and then back the next day. […]
Holy Smoke!

I have a 2005 Volkswagen Touran 1.9 TDI. My problem is that smoke frequently belches from underneath the car, but only when the outside temperature is around three degrees Celsius and the car is idling at traffic lights, or stopped in traffic. This is accompanied by strong diesel fumes, actually inside the car, even with […]
Bruvver with bovver

Hi Doctor. My brother, who lives in Spain, has had to have a new DPF and ECU on his Toyota Yaris D4-D. It has done some 93,000 kilometres. There was a similar problem around 2,000 kilometres before and the dealer just did a forced DPF clean. But this time he was doing 100kph on the […]