A couple of months ago I posted on here regarding the aux. drive belt coming off the pulleys on a journey - AA came out and put belt back on, and all seemed fine with no reason for it to happen. Or so I thought.... until Thursday when it happened again - this time I was more fortunate and was...

Hi, just wondering if anyone has any ideas as to what almost caused me a big problem yesterday. Serpentine belt was changed as a matter of routine about 1500 miles ago. Yesterday, in extremely hot weather, the belt just slipped off some of the pulleys. As only a few minutes before I had been...

Don't know if there are enough oilburner owners to answer this but I'm confused about the operation of the auxillary heater. I know how to get it working - manual start while engine is off or timed start while engine is off or heater boost while engine is on. My problem lies with what appears to...

The 3.0tid has a 'when parked' and auxillary heater system. It can be run manually or on a timer so the car is warm and defrosted when you want it to be, at least in theory. In practice I haven't had much success with it and since it's not very well detailed in the manual, I'm not sure exactly...

well the poly vee belt snapped (motorway speeds), dashboard lit up like a christmas tree, power steering went (scary on a motorway to motorway slip road bend, water overheated and blew a coolant hose. looked like engine had gone (ala F1 style) - amount of smoke behind me. just hope garage...

hi all i have an auxillary heater fitted to my 93 tid-1999. the garage kindley enabled it for me i can hear it working and sid1 says it is on too but the inside of the car is not warming up, any ideas ?.