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Surely it is not a Ghia, it doesn't have electric rear quater lights, heated seats or climate.

Wait until he overhears his missus telling his son that dad used to be able do it as well, but that was a while back now.

I personally wouldn't buy a petrol with that many miles on the clock. Also says mot 03/07, will they renew that? Other than that it's pot luck with second hand cars. FFSH means nothing, funny how people think it's great if their cars got one but moan like stink that at service time they don't actually do much for the money it costs. If you go to see it check everything(especially electrical) works. Aircon Leccy windows Central locking Wipers Internal lighting. Check compartment under passenger seat for rust (water ingress into modules) If it was near a member perhaps they wouldn't mind having a first look for you, they would know what to look for and maybe take some piccies etc. Where is it? My one word of advice would be at that money, if you do buy it as soon as you start having trouble with it get rid as soon as possible as they are well known cash dispensers. Good luck.

Before doing anything I would get the door card off and take the bottom window trims off (they just lift up and out). Look down into the letterbox opening where your window comes up through the top of the door. I find it hard to beleive the cable has snapped as they are quite thick. When I had problems with mine it had come off the top roller. A steel coathanger to hook it with and feed it back up and over. Got to be worth a look before depleting your bank account. Will not take more than 10 minutes.

Agree with everything you say Tim. I know you are a huge fan of your car and always defend it's reliabilty. Yes it was older (although only 4 years old when I bought it and things went wrong from the start) Yes I would buy japanes given the choice but finances dictated not to be. But I still read countless posts withexactly the same issues as I had on Galaxys no more than 3-4 years old, telling me that the issues are still the same. On the Citreon site there is a completely different set of posts with no underlying major faults. I am glad you have goood luck with your car, there are good and bad in all vehicles it just seems to me the good Galaxy ones are rarer and a damn site more expensive to fix. Look how many posts are titled 'another fault on my Galaxy'

Very pleased with it, I have had it about 9 months now and nothing has droped off, stopped working or failed. A time span never achieved with my previous car. I do miss it's versatility, comfort, ease of driving and extra seat. But with a young family I put reliabilty at the very top of my most wanted list. Looking at the endless stream of repetitive faults still appearing on here I don't ever see myself returning to the Galaxy which is a shame because I absolutely loved the new one I borrowed for 3 weeks last year. Good luck with yours, you never know you may get a goodun.

Wolfie that's low,.......... but funny. Bruvver you are a very brave man......hope all goes well.

Have to agree with Dave and Scorpion, I don't like any of the recent changes either. It is becoming too fiddly to navigate around, to the point where I just can't be bothered to come on any more whereas I used to be on here all the time. I wonder how many others have felt that way as the forum seems to be changing to a small hardcore team where it used to be a wide span of people. Other forums I belong to are not like this and any first timers must be a little bewildered by the many sections to the point where they may give up before joining(especially with the rediculous restrictions put on new members which I have never seen on any other site so why does this one have to have it) Given that the idea is to attract more new members to the site you seem to be making it harder for newbies to come on board. There seems (to me anyway) to be a distinct drop in the constant flow of new questions from new mebers and this site seems to becoming a bit of a general chit chat forum for the 'elder statesmen' on the forum. Could this be an effect of the changes. This day and age newbies have to be able to navigate, post and digest quickly othewise they lose interest and look elsewhere. I have joined dozens of forums since this one and have found this to be the hardest to use. Just my opinion but if you want the forum to grow it has to get easier not harder to use, these days surfers have the attention span of a goldfish.

On the side of the knob at the top there is a little screw. Undo that and the top of the gear lever comes off. Slide the tube bit off the gear stick. Gently prise the trim with the illuminated parts up. You will then be able to see the inhibtor switch.

No one has more acronyms and 'buzz' words than Ford. Our favourite at work at the moment is we have 'thought showers' in meeting instead of 'brainstorming' as this apparently is a description used in conjunction with epeleptic fits. So as not to offend anyone we now use 'thought showers'.

Boy I bet those wind farms are racking up some profit today. If they all went round quick enough do you think we could take off............weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Come to think of it knowing British engineering at it's best there will a statement later saying they have had to shut them down as it is too windy or it is the wrong type of wind.

Shaun, almost certainly your tensioner. Your symptoms are exactly the same as mine even the distance I was from home was the same. New belt and tensioner about

The last time I renewed mine over the phone it was about 11pm and the bloke on the other end said I was the first person he had spoken to all day that didn't have any points on his license. That is one of the benefits of living in inner city Brum, you can't build up enough speed to set the camera off.

Depending on how much you need to take off, the actual door lock and handle comes out from the outer side anyway so you may not have to take the door card off if you are lucky. If the key is just turning round and round most likely common failure is the back end of the lock cylinder the tag on the casting has snapped off like mine did. If you are tight like me just swap the drivers and passenger handles over 30 minutes job done. I never used to unlock the car from passenger side anyway.

This may sound a daft question but do you mean the engine or the key turns? Is it an auto...me thinking auto selector inhibitor switch......well I was right last time.