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Ok, will do! Thanks for the help 😀👍🏻

The battery is just over a year old, but could be in bad condition? At the moment doesn’t get long runs in as I don’t actually have license and no insurance so I’m just manoeuvring it around so it might not be getting a proper charge? Good point about the terminals tho didn’t think about that will tighten them down and see if that works! Hopefully its that and I don’t have to mess around with finding dodgy grounds or something like that 😅

Hello everyone recently been having an issue where after driving for a little while (car might just be up to temp), my car just sorta falters and dies completely (as in turn the key, and absolutely nothing happens, no accessories, no crank, no lights, nothing) followed by a series of bleeps from the boot area i think? The only way I’ve solved this is by either touching the negative terminal on the battery with something metal, or opening either of the rear doors (very weird) after leaving it alone for maybe a couple of minutes. When it comes alive again everything is reset as if there hasn’t been a battery in the car for a couple months. If the car stalls, when I try to restart it the same thing happens, and also at seemingly random intervals after the first occurrence. Also seems to happen a little while after a bit of a harder rev, don’t know if that’s relevant 🙂 any helps greatly appreciated 😀👍🏻

Thanks very much guys makes sense why it wouldn’t come off 😅 good idea with the torch as well cheers 👍🏻

Hello everyone, thought I’d just check my coolant today and since I’m fairly sure the little level check on the reservoir is clouded over i thought I’d top it up anyways. However i cant actually get the radiator or reservoir cap off, they just are hard to turn (radiator cap especially) and don’t actually undo or anything?! am i just doing something seriously wrong or is there something else? thanks 🙂

Interesting as the chargers reading full, car is and only 1 or 2 days ago charged it for a good 6-8 hrs so I've put it on again so if that changes anything You don't mean dead as in needs a new battery tho do you? Only got one about 6 months ago!

Hi there, currently having an issue with my car (is200, 2001 spec) Don't drive it often so I find it dead most days and have to charge it before I can use it. After charging one time, I've left it, and when I've now gone back to it, it seems completely dead, like no lights or anything. All is fine after removing charger when hooked up to mains, car showing full voltage and a full Christmas tree of lights, but after trying to start the car, all the lights go off, doesn't even try and start the car, complete silence apart from a small beeping sound... Any ideas would be great as I can't even lock the car anymore 😬 Thanks 🙂

OK thanks for the help! Yeah I think over my summer break I'll tear the engine down, as that was my plan for the car anyways, just to learn general maintenance before going mental with raising my insurance premiums with mods 😅 I was amazed my sunroof still worked tbh considering how cheap it was!

Passed last Mot with no issues it seems, no oil drips under the car however it looks like this? Wondering if this is a problem as sometimes the exhaust seems a bit over-smoky

No its all the way around the joint between head and block, most heavily at the front of the block, but its basically just around the seal?

Will do! Thanks for the help as it happened again yesterday, so will need to get this check haha Also on closer inspection of the engine bay, noticed a large amount of oil built up around the head gasket area. I'm assuming this is quite bad and I should probably replace it?

Haven't had the ac/heater on the times it's been smoking, which is why I was really confused

It starts when the temp gauge is saying the cars up to temperature, and I think it's smoke? Not entirely sure tbh, but if it helps I haven't used the A/C in a while

Hi there, Have just been running my is200 up and down the driveway getting used to it etc, when I noticed that there was a fair amount of what looked like smoke coming from the drivers aircon vents. Needless to say I was fairly concerned so checked under the bonnet and nothing was immediately visibly wrong! This is now the second time in 2 days its happened and am keen to sort this issue, gives me a heart attack the two times its happened! 🙂 Can anyone help me/give me a hint to check what's going on or try to solve the issue? Thanks, Alex 🙂

Hi Lee, thanks for the quick response! yeah definitely the correct pitch, so will likely just get a new shifter :) shame the previous owner decided to use such an aftermarket shift knob instead of looking at proper pitched ones, though there is and was a fair amount of blu-tack on and around the threads, so im assuming even the previous knob didnt fit very well! will let you know how i get on, thanks again! :D

Hi there, just bought a is200, however it came with no gearknob as all the threads are mangled. I have tried to fix this by retapping it however I can't get the die over the top of the stick due to the thicker top end threads. Any ideas or will I have to replace the whole assembly (something I'm not particularly keen on doing!)