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Jeremy - 22 May 2006 17:59 GMT

Anyone ever known these to be faulty ?

I bought my car freshly serviced November last year - 5 greenboxes (and
apprx 66000 miles).

Probably 2 months later, one went out. Now I expected the rate to be
similar - one every 2-3 months (I have done only about 4000 miles in the
car since then and many journeys are relatively short).

But it still shows 4. What're the chances of a fault within the fault
management system :)

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R. Mark Clayton - 22 May 2006 21:13 GMT

> Anyone ever known these to be faulty ?
>
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> similar - one every 2-3 months (I have done only about 4000 miles in the
> car since then and many journeys are relatively short).

Expect it any day soon.

> But it still shows 4. What're the chances of a fault within the fault
> management system :)

Low.

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Jeremy - 30 May 2006 11:54 GMT

> > Anyone ever known these to be faulty ?
> >
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>
> Expect it any day soon.

Still not gone down to 3...

> > But it still shows 4. What're the chances of a fault within the fault
> > management system :)
>
> Low.

Hmmm.. I'll report back in August ;)

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Dave Plowman (News) - 22 May 2006 23:28 GMT

> I bought my car freshly serviced November last year - 5 greenboxes (and
> apprx 66000 miles).

> Probably 2 months later, one went out. Now I expected the rate to be
> similar - one every 2-3 months (I have done only about 4000 miles in the
> car since then and many journeys are relatively short).

> But it still shows 4. What're the chances of a fault within the fault
> management system :)

I've no proof, but they don't seem terribly linear. The first one seems to
go out quickly - the last one takes forever.

Any true anorak logged the mileage each goes out at? ;-)

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