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Welcome aboard Rob! Nice looking, useful car you've got yourself there!

A word to the wise - timing belts being rubber, deteriorate with age as well as use/mileage in the same way tyres get hard with age. This is exacerbated by not using the car frequently as the belt will come to rest and stay there. As the natural oils in the rubber aren't circulated within by movement/heat generated by the movement, they tend to dry out and go brittle. This can cause unexpected failure. Granted timing belts are reinforced but that reinforcement needs the rubber to be in good condition to work. The reinforcement is only as good as the rubber of the timing belt it's bonded within. Manufacturers specify a time as well as a mileage limit specifically to take this into account. I'd strongly suggest having the belt checked at least once a year between now and your anticipated renewal mileage and if there's any doubt, have it changed. It's much cheaper to have the belt changed than an engine rebuild for bent valves after a stripped or broken timing belt which would have to be replaced at the same time as well. A recent example for me of rubber going hard with age - i bought my S Type just under a year ago and the front tyres are Pirelli P6000 (as per OE spec), the rears are P7. I have a Vovlo 760 estate i use as a "Dogmobile" which is running on cheap Chinese tyres (surprisingly good and definitely not deserving of the "Ditchfinder" moniker) and took a T junction near me in the Jag during the recent icy weather. The Jag nearly made intimate contact with a telegraph pole on the pavement! 😮 The Volvo on the other hand turned as it should, despite the black ice. Both cars have ~5-6mm tread on the front tyres so it's not that, the difference is the P6000s on the front of the Jag are 10 years old! The fronts on the Volvo are just over 5 years old with the rears being about 18 months - the fronts had previously been on the rear but a pot hole knocked my alignment out and scrubbed the previous set of front tyres out so the rear tyres went on the front and a new pair was fitted to the back. This prompted an all-round tyre inspection on the Jag and i discovered that not only were the P7s on the back 5 years old but were the wrong speed rating for the car! Naturally i'll be renewing all 4 tyres on the Jag in the near future but it makes you think when old rubber pulls those kind of nasty tricks!

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Alexa is built-in to the Amazon Firestick, no need for a separate purchase. I was watching ITVx earlier on the Firestick. as long as your TV has an HDMI socket (and isn't a Samsung) all the latest generation Firesticks should work and give you ITVx without any problems. Samsung have their own version of CEC (where the remote of an HDMI device can also operate the TV nd vice versa) but it seems only Samsung branded or approved HDMI devices will work with the CEC so i nearly sent my second Firestick back as it wouldn't work on my 42" Plasma Samsung TV. However, i also have a Sony (worked fine and that has a Firestick on it too) and a Toshiba (the smart TV with it all built-in but i prefer to use the Firestick as i find it easier than the TV version) - this is the latest Firestick i can find on Amazon and they're doing a deal on price : https://smile.amazon.co.uk/fire-tv-stick-with-alexa-voice-remote/dp/B08C1RR8JM Very easy to set up as long as you hve an Amazon account, make sure you use the HDMI extender lead though! A friend couldn't get hers to work when she changed TV, her son had installed it on her previous TV and "lost" the extender lead. There was a screw on the TV case that prevvented the Firestick going all the way into the HDMI socket but using the lead meant it would connect. Also reduces interference from the TV on the stick. Nearly forgot, here's some info on CEC : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Control

I'm not aware of a subscription for ITVx John, maybe for some "premium" channels on it? Alexa is built-in to most Firesticks these days but for the most part, i just use the remote rather than voice control, mainly because i hate talking to machines.

I use an Amazon Firestick for my TV viewing John and Alexa is built in to it. However my TV is a "smart TV" (also has Alexa built-in!) and had ITVHub installed when i got it - i haven't checked to see if it has "self-updated" as the Firestick did, the only thing i have had to do was sign in (using the same sign-in credentials as ITVHub) to ITVx when it appeared. If your TV is set to update all apps automatically, it should download ITVx automatically, alternatively you can add it as a new app on the TV. Like Julie said above "Goodbye ITV Hub. Hello ITVX!" - it really was that simple. Hopefully yours will do its thing and your problem will be solved soon!

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How long have you owned it and how long was the used car warranty? Can you give a better description of what exactly is vibrating/shaking, is it petrol or diseasel and any other information you can think of that might be relevant, if if you think it isn't

I'd go for the aircon bomb too, follow the winstructions closely on it though as any deviation makes them useless.

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Why did you replace the MAF in the first place? It sounds as if unintentional mechanical contact is happening and that is causing the knock sensor to !Removed! the ignition timing to protect the engine but causing a rough idle. Have you checked the Lambda (pre-cat) outputs? If they are old and/or failing, there's a good chance they are giving a weak/lean mixture signal to the ECU which has been known on some cars to give a "red herring" fault by fooling the ECU into thinking the MAF isn't responding. Also have you checked fuel pressure? If the fuel pressure is low, that could cause a rough idle and potentially throw a MAF fault. I suspect the fault lies somewhere other than the MAF, if the Lambda sensors are 10+ years old or 100k+ miles there is a good chance they're past their best. They may not show as faulty until they completely fail, meanwhile your fuel economy and genral running will suffer so worth checking their outputs.

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