Hi,

My Hyundai Tucson CRDi 2007 showed blinking CEL and then constant CEL a month back. OBDII showed P1405 code. Car was not driven at all after the constant CEL appeared until few days back when the CEL was gone (on its own). I took it out for drive of 20km+20km and there it was again - flashing CEL and then constant one with same code.

Also it drove completely normal - as in it didn't feel down on power or had uneven run or anything like that. The idle was smooth too.

I do see that the fuel consumption has gone up by 600ml/100km (7.4 to 8L/100km).

I do have freeze frame data:

LOAD_PCT 7.8%
ETC 81°C
MAP 98 kPa
RPM 1483
Speed 38 kmph
IAT 25°C
MAF 23.0 g/s
FRP 48770.0 kPa
BARO 99kPa
VPWR 14.192V

and
EGR PTC 3.5%
EGR ERR 44.5%

and I found that the glow plug was damaged.

Attached some images for ref.

May be these give a clue?

Has anyone experienced this before and would know the exact problem and potentially a fix?

Thanks in advance

I think we will see the end of the Dark Horse name; it never really caught on. I illustrated the car in the thumbnail and wanted to add some ‘new edge’ Mustang influence, since the teaser had the classic Cobra font.

Edit: I have come to realize this was here for LoJack. I have an active subscription. I didn’t put the two together at the time. This has nothing to do with the lender. I hope you judgy assholes feel stupid.

Was going through the fuse box because I’m about hardwire some dash cams and found a tracking device in my car. I get why the dealerships do it. But I never asked for it or agreed to it. And in my case I bought the car fresh off the truck. They literally took me out to it and pointed it out. This should’ve never been installed. Feels like an invasion of privacy 😅

Here is my recently bought 2003 Peugeot 406 Coupé, designed and manufactured by Pininfarina in Italy. It's really a gem - a French lady in an Italian dress, as I like to say.

It's the limited-production Griffe model, one of just 884, so it came loaded with everything the car could possibly have: electric, heated seats with memory, side airbags, a JBL sound system, a factory alarm, a sunroof, and much more.

The car is currently undergoing a full restoration, as I want to bring it back to the best possible condition.

Thank you for taking your time to read this. I hope you guys like it! I can't wait to finish the project and just hit the road. :)

In 1997, German car magazine Auto Bild compared a Porsche 911 with a 55-ton Leopard 2A4 tank.

The reported stopping distances from 70 km/h: 18.4 metres for the Porsche and 20.6 metres for the tank—just 2.2 metres apart.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20110812180331/http://download.autobild.de/dl/323287/1997_47016_ab_Brems_Man01.pdf

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Ich habe diese Flecken auf meinem Auto entdeckt. Selbst nach 15 min einweichen mit Seifenwasser lassen sie sich nicht entfernen. Ich kümmere mich kaum um mein Auto wasche es nur alle 6 Monate. Dennoch hatte ich sowas noch nicht. Im Sommer hatte ich es einen Tag unter einem Baum geparkt.

I just bought a used ds9 last month, 65k km (40k miles)! Was quite a journey as i had to import it from france but in the end it was very worth it!

Gonna miss her, 15k miles. Was just starting to have fun.

I'm fine, minor scrapes...but this car is so safe, guy ran a red and hit me driver side. Shows just how safe these are.

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Stumbled on this build and I kind of love the idea of it.

A W140 S-Class that still looks like a comfy, understated ’90s Benz, but with way more power than anyone would expect.

It’s Kanan Gubins’ 1997 S300 Turbodiesel, and stock, the OM606 3.0 inline six made around 175 hp and 243 lb-ft. He’s not swapping anything in either, since the goal is 350~400 hp out of the same engine.

The plan so far is a bigger HX35 turbo, custom piping, and exhaust work, but obviously a bigger turbo alone won’t get you there. It’ll need enough fuel, the cooling has to keep up, and the trans has to actually survive it. Nothing’s been dyno’d yet, so 350~400 is the target, not a result yet.

It’s also getting fresh paint and rust protection. Honestly, I hope they keep the stock W140 look as much as possible. That’s the whole appeal for me: a Mercedes that still looks like a comfortable sedan but has a lot more power than you’d expect.

The backstory is the best part though. Kanan found the car in Latvia, where his dad was born, drove it about 1,200 km to Vienna, then shipped it to LA as a birthday surprise. Apparently they’d been talking about this exact model for years, and it even shipped out of the same German port his dad left from when he emigrated to the US in 1950, and it showed up the day before his dad’s birthday.

Now it’s getting built for an unveiling at SEMA 2026 in Vegas. What’s been shown so far looks promising. Really curious what it ends up making and how much of the classic S-Class look survives.

If anyone’s going to SEMA 2026, keep an eye out for it. Would love to hear what it’s like in person.

There's a massive engineering work to make it real.

Edit: watch the video (link above) before writing another comment about safety and concept car. This was engineered for production model and B-pillar actually hidden in the doors.

Hallo zusammen,
ich stehe kurz davor, mir ein neues Auto zu kaufen. Modell (Skoda Epiq) und Ausstattung steht schon fest, nur die Farbwahl macht mich verrückt.
Wie geht ihr damit um, wie wählt ihr eure Farbe aus? Nach Wiederverkaufspreis, Pflegeaufwand, etc.?

Mich würde interessieren, ob ihr hilfreiche Tipps habt.

Aktuell schwanke ich zwischen rot und einem mintgrün, aber dann seh ich wieder eine weitere Farbe und mein Kopf überzeugt mich davon, dass das auch cool sein kann.

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