mack1

Hi, This post can be closed (if that happens?). I managed to get a turbo off fle-bay and got it fitted by a friend of my brother-in-laws for

Hi Folks, Just my luck. Last week I was using this really useful site to diagnose an alarm problem then things just got worse. Driving on a day out with the family on Saturday I suddenly found our Galaxy (2002 Mk2 1.9TDi Zetec) going into permanent Limp Mode. Then about 1 mile further on I started to hear a lot of noise coming from below. Pulled over to the side immediately and had a look under the hood to find no oil in the car. Walked to the local garage and filled up about half-way with oil and turned on engine to smoke (mainly white) coming from exhaust and still some metal on metal noise coming from below when I lightly rev'd engine. Got onto RAC and recovery tech confirmed what he thought was a turbo gone, so got towed back to local garage. Garage have reported back today that the turbo is goosed and have quoted

Once again thanks for this. Will have a hunt around at the weekend. Cheerz, Mack1

Just trying to confirm what the tailgate/body gaitor is? Is this the actual linkage where the wiring goes through the doors onto the mainframe of the car etc? If so are there any FAQ's on how to tackle this type of fault finding? I will be looking at the tailgate lock at the weekend when I next get a chance to see it in daylight :-( roll on the long nights. Cheerz again, Mack1

Evening, Following up on MadBaz I can confirm the following: "You could try locking the car with the boot open, press once on remote, then shut boot, indicators should then flash once and deadlocks engage, iirc alarm becomes active 30 seconds after this, try this with each door and bonnet in turn." -All doors and boot and bonnet do this apart from the drivers door (can't lock car with this door open) "BTW does each door inc boot activate courtesy lights?" - All doors and boot activate the courtesy lights (Bonnet does not) "Does un/locking the driver & passenger doors and boot with key work properly?" - Both Driver and passemger doors work with the key. The key does not fit in the boot keyhole (it is dark so not sure if it is just dirt - can't remember ever using this lock since we got the car 2yrs ago) Saved for now by your note about locking the car without engaging the alarm - cheers for that.

Hi Folks, Thanks for the feedback everyone (much appreciated). I will try MadBaz's list tomorrow evening (wife has car at her work tonight). Cheerz, Mack1

I'm sure the rest of teh car was locked when I did this but will check again. Cheers, Mack1

Hi NikpV, I have left the bonnet open so that it dosen't enable the bonnet switch (I think it did a single flash rather than double or other way about when I did this). The alarm never went off when I did this but as soon as I closed the bonnet and set the alrm again it would go off reliably within 30 mins. It looks like the switch (if it is the same one used on the doors) is quite cheap to replace and at least rule it out for starters. Only thing is that it looks such a fiddly area to work on. Cheers, Mack1

Hi folks, Have been having issues with the alarm going off on our MK2 Galaxy for a while. It looks like it is the courtesy switch under the bonnet. Can anyone confirm that this is the same part used on the door switches for the courtesy lights? Also access to the switch under the bonnet looks really restricted and I was wondering if anyone has instructions of how you actually get it removed/replaced? Do you have to remove the wiper linkage? Cheers, Mack1