strange qwerks

[Callyuk]

Does anyone elses car have any strange qwerks that you wouldnt never normally find on any other car about. As an example mine will always bring on the service light when heading passed the toby carvery in barry towards the airport, but only on that stretch of road. As soon as i get to the roundabout for the aiport it will go off again and also only going in the direction of the airport never coming away from it, Never comes on at any other time.
So does anyone else car do strange things for no apperent reason?

[dannytherev]

My dad's Vectra won't open on the remote when he park's it in the work car park have put in new battery and had the key checked it's fine strange eh

[alsaautomotive]

We did a b/m & colour change on a highly original & unmolested Daytona some years ago & were asked by the owner (who had owned the car since 1979) to see if we could find out why his passenger window only ever went down halfway..................................................................
on stripping it down we found an earth wire stretched across the inside of the door - from the frame to a skin support bar about halfway up the inside the door!!!!!!!! Obviously been like that from new - now sorted! (Don't you just love Italians???????)

[Mikey G]

I had a Mondeo a few years ago that would misfire at random then clear up for a few miles and do it again. Its only when I noticed it would misfire in the same places everyday I thought something was strange. On the day I forgot my mobile phone was the first time in ages the misfire never happened... turned out when the phone was changing between cells searching for the strongest signal was when I got the misfire... stopped putting the phone in the tray near the ECU and the problem stopped

[Callyuk]

Mikey G said:

I had a Mondeo a few years ago that would misfire at random then clear up for a few miles and do it again. Its only when I noticed it would misfire in the same places everyday I thought something was strange. On the day I forgot my mobile phone was the first time in ages the misfire never happened... turned out when the phone was changing between cells searching for the strongest signal was when I got the misfire... stopped putting the phone in the tray near the ECU and the problem stopped

Interesting that and has me thinking about possiblities gonna have to try moving my phone next time i travel to work. But also got me thinking it maybe something under the road surfice causing it.

[jmorgan]

I cannot ever get the damn car to pass Story Arms unless I eat something there.


There was one location where the alarm would not arm or re arm but that was probably a nearby transmitter flooding the spectrum.

[pwd95]

jmorgan said:

I cannot ever get the damn car to pass Story Arms unless I eat something there.

Classic...

1664 meets keyboard....

Edited by pwd95 on Sunday 22 November 21:08

[jmorgan]

I am not responsible for the contents of your keyboard, no matter how they got there......



They do make fine artery cloggers there though.

[Callyuk]

sorry to bring up an ld thread but i have an update seems my service light only comes on, on that road if i have stopped at the petrol station pervious to driving down it.

[Andyt25]

I use to have an Alfa GTV that everytome I pressed the brake the interior light came on..Alfa never got the bottom of it so it probably still does it to this day...

[driftdaddy]

my toad a606 cat 1 alarm refuses to do anything outside the cross keys swansea wont arm disarm lock etc

[David Godfrey]

For some silly reason my 3 series drivers door window drops randomly when I open the door - sometimes a few cm's then sometimes all the way! It's fine when weathers ok but whent it's raining I get soaked