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How to Get Cheaper Car Insurance Insurance is an unavoidable expense if you own a car, but there are a number of ways to significantly reduce your insurance premium. The most obvious way to reduce the cost of your insurance policy is to shop around. However, it’s important to bear in mind that not all insurance agents or companies are created equal. You don’t want to simply find who will give you the cheapest rate and switch your insurance policy. Switching companies might not necessarily be in your best interest. It’s more about educating yourself about how insurance works and how you can use that knowledge to your advantage. The best way to ensure that you not only receive the best insurance rates today, but continue to get a good deal over the long-term, is to develop a strong relationship with an insurance agent you can trust. If you haven’t heard from your agent since the day you signed up for your policy, there is a good chance you are not getting the best possible deal—...

UPDATE!! If you came to this page because of fault/trouble codes you retrieved from a diagnostic tool you may find our  iPhone/iPad  or  Android App   useful. Not only does it give you 'Fault Descriptions' but also gives you  Possible Causes!!   Check it out on the  App Store  or  Play Store!!  DPF  Your car is fitted with a DPF (Diesel Particulate Filter) and you have heard a lot of stories about expensive repair bills, regenerations and additives... So you look on the internet for how you keep your DPF healthy and how 'DPF Regeneration ' is performed!! Good news.... Its not all doom and gloom when it comes to your DPF Firstly, what is DPF regeneration? Well to best answer that, let's take a look at what the DPF actually does.... The DPF is a particulate filter, fitted to the exhaust system on diesel cars, it is designed to trap harmful particulates in the exhaust gases. Once...

Injector Removal Can Get Complicated If you landed on this page because you saw this picture of Facebook and wondered if there was a story behind it..... Yes there is! If on the other hand your looking for information on ' Injector Removal' then your also in the right place! I'm going to preface this by saying that the article relates specifically to the Renault M9R engine. This engine is commonly fitted to Renault, Nissan and Vauxhall vans, however the theory can be applied to nearly every Diesel vehicle, on which Injector removal is proving to be tough. So here's the background.... The vehicle (a Vauxhall Vivaro) was brought to the workshop because the engine management light was indicating a fault, also the engine was misfiring. A quick code read revealed error code P0204, tests were carried out to ensure the wiring and ECU signal were not at fault and we quickly established that the number 4 injector was indeed faulty.  We had only just carried out ...

UPDATE!! All the information in the article is now available in our iPhone/iPad App and our  Android App!! The App includes OBD, OBD2, EOBD Codes. VAG 3,4,5, and P1 Codes along with many other Manufacture Specific Codes! Please check it out on the App Store  or  Play Store!!  In this Article I give you Volkswagen, Audi and Skoda or VAG engine management fault codes. These come in 3 types either 4 Digit, 5 Digit of P codes. These codes cover all European models including: Golf, Polo, Jetta, Up, Fox, Beetle, Passat, Scirocco, CC, Phaeton, Eos, Touran, Sharan, Tiguan, Amorak, Touareg, Caddy, Crafter, Transporter, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, S1, S3, S4, S5, RS3, RS5, R8, Q3, Q5, Q7, TT, Fabia, Octavia, Superb, Citigo, Praktik, Yeti, Roomster and more! The best way to quickly find the code you are looking for is to press ctrl+F on you keyboard and type the code you have in to find it on this page. VAG Engine Management...