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Hi, after a short trip last week, I found oil spirting out of the dipstick - very dramatic, especially when it hit the hot exhaust pipe. I left it a few days, and topped the oil up (seemed to have lost about a litre), then started the engine up. No obvious problems, so went on a short 5 minute run t...

I live just outside Bristol (Portishead) and use Clive Allen at Old Dub Shop (07811 180549); he's a good bloke and his work on our van has been excellent. His workshop is at Easton-in Gordano, but I think he also sometimes works in Redland. By coincidence, ours is also a 1.7 diesel (KY) hightop 1988...

Hi - my first post - great forum! Recently got our first van, 1.7 diesel, and everything fine until the old flashing red temperature light issue on motorway. Pulled off, checked top-up tank, and as the temperature gauge needle hadn't moved from centre I carried on home - 30 miles (gently, with heate...