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For all those who have had the aux heater failure please read on. My heater has just failed this morning. First noticed it when I dropped the kids off at school and the rear of the car was surrounded by white smoke with a strong diesel smell. Thought nothing of it as i thought the heater must have just cut in and hadn't quite made temerature as I stopped the car (trying to fool myself I think). The, went into town and stopped at some trafic lights, again the car was surrounded by thick smoke (like a 15 year old transit van MOT failure). The smoke was blowing out of the rear wheel arches. I stopped the car and looked under (engine still running) and the whole area around the heater was billowing in smoke. Couldn't quite tell if it was all out the little exhaust or if some was from the unit it's self. Carried on driving as no fault light on the dash and eventually the heater cut out and smoke stopped. Lots of worried looks from people outside the car before it stopped though. Car is 2 years old but has 68,000 on the clock so out of original warrenty so relying on local dealer to get some good will payment. Does the problem mirror anyone elses and if so what was the fix... mor important what was the cost??

I think it's a VW quirk that has got into the Galaxy. My mates Golf does it. Unlock the car BUT don't open any of the 4 doos and after a minute or so the car re-locks. Not a spook.. just a German thinking and putting into practice mad ideas.

I had my dealer put new pads on all round before I bought my 53plate tdi130. There was about 1/2 an inch of pedel travel before the brakes started to work. Then I started getting brake squeel when I was driving so it went back and had new discs fitted to the front. Now no squeel BUT still pedal travel before any operation. The pedal is solid though when pressed hard.

I'd be more worried that the kids are not wearing seatbelts in the back. Mum looks to be more interested in what is happening in the back than whats on the road too. :lol: gumpy old git.

I think, looking at the condition of the tyres, i'll be looking for some new ones in about 5000 miles. A mate of mine drives a Kia Sedona Exec with Full leather, all the toys etc etc etc and it weighs in at just over 2.5tonnes. The car is an Auto with TINY 15" rims fitted to his car and the fact that the thing feels like it's falling over each time he enteres a corner worries me. Tyre squeel to make Kojak fell out done in car parks. Now for the really funny bit. Town driven for 8000 miles and his fronts are shot. He may have saved

When I lived in Mansfield my wife had a Fiesta GhiaX 1.4 (99 S plate). When that came out of warrenty I took it to our local LEX service centre who also looked after ALL Nottinghamshires LEX lease / hire stock. I booked the car in for it's 2nd year scheduled service and even got a FORD schedule as to what would be done in the price. When I came to pay it was

The last Ford I owned (prior to this Galaxy) was a Focus 1.8. I used to take the Focus to the local Ford dealers for it's service and unless you asked the service was carried out at the Rapid Fit section of the garage. I always thought the ECU diagnostics would be carried out as standard BUT, when my car started stalling soon after starting, I asked them to do a check at it's next service. For the ECU check I was told it would have to be booked in to the Main Service section and that the hourly rate was almost double + the ECU check (all they really do is reset it) would be an extra cost of

Cam belt done as part of

UPDATE. Test drove the 2.3 zetec.. not impressed at all. No low down grunt, always changing gear.. didn't seem to have anywhere near the 140bhp stated. Feeling I'd not driven far enough I took the car 35 miles down the motorway and then back the the dealer.. MPG on computer 22mpg...no thanks. Test drove the 51 plate ghia 115 tdi. Much better car BUT not IMO worth the extra

Due to me working I missed out on my ideal Galaxy ( it was a 23,000 mile 2002 51 plate ghia tdi auto with full mulit media for

I'm looking to buy a 2-3 year old Galaxy tdi Ghia Auto. Would like it to have 20-30k on the clock. I've seen one, 2002/51, with 23k, in platinum with built in multi media (video + play station) and in very good condition. Independant dealer (long standing well known so I'm OK with them) with a screen prive of