Basic Car Troubleshooting

Psycho · 26th May 2005, 14:36

Have been going through the older posts and had not seen a basic troubleshooting guide on Team - BHP for the regular members. Most of the information we had was primarily for Mods and snippets for actual trouble shooting.

The link below points to Yahoo Auto's Repair Tips & Troubleshooting Advice which is extremely easy to understand for everyone.

http://autos.yahoo.com/owning/maintain/repairqa/

Please do kindly add any more links you have to this thread for all members to use and benifit from.

PS: Moderators if there are any more additions to this can we please have them consolidated into one set of links so that it is easy for all the members to access (along the lines of Shantanu's list of member names.)

Harrie · 26th May 2005, 14:45

I wrote a code in VB some 4 years back. By answering to a series of questions, it will try to isolate a few causes for the problems. Maybe we can do that and put an executable here so that everyone can use it.

Hmmm.... that is a good idea. I'll see if i can do something about it. The one i wrote is pretty basic not scalable sort. Will try to so something proper soon. I have had this idea for sometime now. Maybe now i'll give it some serious thought.

RX135 · 26th May 2005, 14:49

Another good resource.

http://www.indiacar.com/infobank/knowyour.htm

Indiacar infobank is good and has lot of useful information.

tsk1979 · 26th May 2005, 15:08

team-bhp.com/forum is there. I guess we need website too. Maybe team-bhp.com/wiki! Look what wikipedia.org has become. Moderators, how about setting up a wiki and letting the members decide the content!

Surprise · 26th May 2005, 18:54

Good. This thread would be very useful to equip ourselves to handle/explain the basic problems.

Mods: Can we make this post 'sticky'?

Psycho · 27th May 2005, 15:41

Have written a basic MS Access program for maintaining your vehicle expenses and service history. to download this program please do kindly right click the link below and save the file to your system.

Right click and save this file to your computer.

Once you have saved it on to your system change the extension of the file to "zip", unzip the file and use the application named "MyVehicleManager.mdb".

Do note I have left it unlocked if anyone would like to improve on the same. Sorry about the cumbersome process to download but the hosting place just would not allow me to upload Zip or Mdb files.

gkrishn · 27th May 2005, 15:53

Quote:

Right click and save this file to your computer.

Once you have saved it on to your system change the extension of the file to "zip", unzip the file and use the application named "MyVehicleManager.mdb".

the link not working...

Psycho · 27th May 2005, 16:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by gkrishn

the link not working...

Please right click "Right click and save this file to your computer." on the last post and select save target as to save the file.

speedsatya · 27th May 2005, 17:37

yeah,
its not working.

aggressive_anush · 27th May 2005, 17:56

Works fine for me.
Dont click on the link directly. Right click and select Save Target as from the menu.

gkrishn · 27th May 2005, 18:01

Yeah,
did that. Downloaded a 34k file. But not able to open it. winzip says its some corrupt file...

26th May 2005, 14:36	#1
Psycho Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,043 Thanked: 110 Times View My Garage	Basic Car Troubleshooting Have been going through the older posts and had not seen a basic troubleshooting guide on Team - BHP for the regular members. Most of the information we had was primarily for Mods and snippets for actual trouble shooting. The link below points to Yahoo Auto's Repair Tips & Troubleshooting Advice which is extremely easy to understand for everyone. http://autos.yahoo.com/owning/maintain/repairqa/ Please do kindly add any more links you have to this thread for all members to use and benifit from. PS: Moderators if there are any more additions to this can we please have them consolidated into one set of links so that it is easy for all the members to access (along the lines of Shantanu's list of member names.)
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26th May 2005, 14:45	#2
Harrie BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: KA 03, KL 12, TN 38 Posts: 701 Thanked: 36 Times View My Garage	I wrote a code in VB some 4 years back. By answering to a series of questions, it will try to isolate a few causes for the problems. Maybe we can do that and put an executable here so that everyone can use it. Hmmm.... that is a good idea. I'll see if i can do something about it. The one i wrote is pretty basic not scalable sort. Will try to so something proper soon. I have had this idea for sometime now. Maybe now i'll give it some serious thought.
	() Thanks

26th May 2005, 14:49	#3
RX135 Senior - BHPian Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: pune Posts: 2,106 Thanked: 75 Times	Another good resource. http://www.indiacar.com/infobank/knowyour.htm Indiacar infobank is good and has lot of useful information.
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26th May 2005, 15:08	#4
tsk1979 Team-BHP Support Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 23,717 Thanked: 22,790 Times View My Garage	team-bhp.com/forum is there. I guess we need website too. Maybe team-bhp.com/wiki! Look what wikipedia.org has become. Moderators, how about setting up a wiki and letting the members decide the content!
	() Thanks

26th May 2005, 18:54	#5
Surprise Senior - BHPian Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Chennai Posts: 2,523 Thanked: 454 Times	Good. This thread would be very useful to equip ourselves to handle/explain the basic problems. Mods: Can we make this post 'sticky'?
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27th May 2005, 15:41	#6
Psycho Senior - BHPian Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,043 Thanked: 110 Times View My Garage	Have written a basic MS Access program for maintaining your vehicle expenses and service history. to download this program please do kindly right click the link below and save the file to your system. Right click and save this file to your computer. Once you have saved it on to your system change the extension of the file to "zip", unzip the file and use the application named "MyVehicleManager.mdb". Do note I have left it unlocked if anyone would like to improve on the same. Sorry about the cumbersome process to download but the hosting place just would not allow me to upload Zip or Mdb files.
	() Thanks

27th May 2005, 17:37	#9
speedsatya Senior - BHPian Join Date: May 2004 Location: bangalore/manga Posts: 3,169 Thanked: 738 Times View My Garage	yeah, its not working.
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27th May 2005, 17:56	#10
aggressive_anush BHPian Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 97 Thanked: Once	Works fine for me. Dont click on the link directly. Right click and select Save Target as from the menu.
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27th May 2005, 18:01	#11
gkrishn BHPian Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 623 Thanked: 91 Times View My Garage	Yeah, did that. Downloaded a 34k file. But not able to open it. winzip says its some corrupt file...
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