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[blackviper90210]

Halfords....by all means go there and then you give us all a laugh when they make a B of it. They are a shop for accesorries and not mechies. However you dress a monkey it is still a monkey.
Find an oofer living locally with the gear to do it or buy a code reader cos they are cheap enough unless you want the full Tech2 job.
I bought a code reader to save the cost of the dealer stealers and it performs as it should each time I plug it in.
The problem is I very rarely have any codes flash up!

Sods bloody law that 

[TheBoy]

Halfords....by all means go there and then you give us all a laugh when they make a B of it. They are a shop for accesorries and not mechies. However you dress a monkey it is still a monkey.
Find an oofer living locally with the gear to do it or buy a code reader cos they are cheap enough unless you want the full Tech2 job.
I bought a code reader to save the cost of the dealer stealers and it performs as it should each time I plug it in.
The problem is I very rarely have any codes flash up!

They are nothing to do with Halfords, other than name

[Bionic]

  I know that but I have had personal experience with them before I knew DLK. In my view they rely too much on tech and not enough on practical hands on experience. I dare even go so far as to think of them as pretendy mechanics.
There again in desperate need its any port in a storm so the saying goes........

[omegod]

Unliklely a reader will work as it's a 2000 model, usually only 2001 onwards so would we be talking pedal trick in as it has an emmision light i.e facelift?

[Kevin Wood]

I know that but I have had personal experience with them before I knew DLK. In my view they rely too much on tech and not enough on practical hands on experience. I dare even go so far as to think of them as pretendy mechanics.
There again in desperate need its any port in a storm so the saying goes........

This is true of a large chunk of the motor repair industry, IMHO. A code reader is no use whatsoever to someone who doesn't know in detail how the system they are diagnosing works. They will assume that every fault code diagnoses a faulty component and so the process of replacing good parts at random begins...