October 2004
My 2.5 V6 24v 1998 Mondeo manual's idle is starting to play up. When coming to a stop in traffic the rpm goes right down to 500 rpm and it feels like it's just about to stall, goes very lumpy then settles at about 600 rpm, which seems a bit low to me but I can't remember what it was beforehand. No other running problems when driving along, It's fine. Car is only used on short journeys which doesn't really help it.
Can anyone help?
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Bit strong I thought...
www.expressandstar.com/artman/publish/article_6599...p
Mental note must learn how to do tiny urls;-)
Mind how you park if you visit Tettenhall Green. Read more
Yes i am from telford - but hey it's better than wolvo!
I mentioned in another thread that I drove the wife's A4 the other day and it felt gutless and Notones suggested it might be the MAF sensor.
After finding and reading some other threads I have just been out and disconected (what I think is) the MAF sensor and taken the car for a spin.
It's just as gutless and takes circa 15 seconds to go from 60 to 70 in 5th on level ground.
I have given up putting the car into main dealers for repair as too expensive and now over 3yrs old so out of warranty.
The car has only done about 78K miles and my wife drives it quite gently.
Any other advice.
BTW the temp gauge has not worked for ages (only intermittently) which I suspect is the sender unit. Can anyone tell me where the sender is located - Haynes manuals are useless these days! Read more
I've not had time to look at the turbo yet but when I drov ethe car home the other night I noticed that there was a severe hesitation under acceleration for a few seconds and every time I experienced the hesitation there were clouds of smoke poring from the exhaust.
I stopped and disconnected the MAF sensor and the smoke stopped but so did the acceleration!
Th acr is booked in for the Bearing arms to be checked under recall on 24th November and I have asked them to perform diagnostics check then but in the meantime any ideas would be welcomed.
My mk 2 Golf is due for its mot, and I have been advised to change the shock absorbers. The problem is that when I went to buy them, I was asked whether I wanted oil or gas filled shocks.
I havent got a clue what the difference is, or what type VW orginally install on the golf.
Can anybody advise me on what the differences are and which type is best.
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Thanks for the links!! Thats great, I think I am just going to go for the standard oil filled.
Ella, my mk 2 polo has been making some funny noises recently. not knowing a huge amount about these sorts of things i hope you chaps adn chapesses can be of assistance.
the first odd noise is a sort of grating noise as you pull away or speed up. it seems to dissapear with a bit more on the accelerator
second funny noise is a squeaking. it sounds as if it comes from the front wheels and its not there all the time. the noise speeds up as you go faster until its more a sort of whine. it gets louder going round corners.
thats the funny noises. when i was stopped at some lights today my engine cut out. the car and the weather are both fairly cold. it also cut out as i reversed out my space. it seems to splutter an awful lot when its cold, just after its started.
help!
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Carb icing causing the stalling when cold - did it take
a few minutes before it would restart?
Failing that, are you using your choke correctly - could cause
spluttering & stalling. Try using a little less/more choke.
(It doesn't have to be pulled right out, nor pushed right
in. You may find that the frst 5 (say) miles
running with it just out helps - or if you pull
it out when you're approaching traffic lights.)
Apologies for any grandmother-egg-sucking teaching!
I've just been down this route with an elderly Polo -
It's likely to be a Pierburg 2e3 with an auto choke.
The subject was done to death here recently
tinyurl.com/3omfz
Any of the following:
blocked port on the carb
perished hose from port to vacuum drawdown unit
popped vacuum drawdown unit
bimetallic spring arrangement
plus anything I've forgotten about..
Mine was the drawdown unit which was less than 20UKP from GSF
www.gsfcarparts.com/
A work colleague has recently started extoling the virtues of modified cars. I am looking for a link posted on honestjohn to a really funny local radio station clip that took the micheal out of chav like behaviour. I've searched the forum database, but can't find it..
Please help it may be her only chance of redemption:-)
Sigma
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HJ,
What the link does is take you to an audio file. What happens on my pc is that the Windows media player launches, and then the file plays. Looks like the link connects to the radio station VibeFM and then plays a previous broadcast.
The full unshortened link is mcms-delivery.virtuebroadcasting.com/delivermedia....6
There was much publicity a couple of weeks ago about the decision to use the motorway gantry displays to remind people about keeping left ( I wonder , why not use them also re using proper lights in fog and spray , and about tailgating ?)
Anyway - northbound on M40 on Sunday , around Warwick - two cameos.
1. Older guy with woman in red Rover , in lane 2, no traffic at all in lane 1, gantry sings saying to get over . I had to signal , overtake in 3 and come back across .. and I kept a view in my rear view mirror to see many more people having to do the same .Every motorway maneouvre has a risk , and these people are inflicting unncessary extra risk on others .The display was a complete waste of time.
2. A few miles further on ; car in lane 1 and one in lane 2 , virtally abreast , approaching exit which has, like all others been signed a mile before .At the exit the lane 2 guy decides to leave , and without signal simply crosses yards in front of lane 1 car to do so .It was sheer luck there wasn't a high-speed collision .
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Could have done with some of these signs this morning....on a B road near Woodstock.
Followed (very carefully) a french lorry with trailer driving on the wrong side of the road. After 2 miles he met a car coming the other way and swerved violently back no doubt realising the problem. Not a case of wandering back and forth across the white line, driving very carefully on the RHS.
After this he drove much less carefully on the LHS just doing a wander across the white line every now and again. I was very nervous about passing on the one good long straight in case he decided to wander across again.
StarGazer
Foolishly, I lent my car to a friend. It was returned with, in place of the rear window, a large quantity of clingfilm wrapped around the back of the car.
On unwrapping the clingflim (which was everywhere, including round the struts, thus preventing the tailgate from reopening more than a couple of feet) I discovered that both gas struts had failed.
How (un)likely was that? One brand new strut is insufficient to hold the tailgate up properly - it still sinks very rapidly indeed. So the car never had just one functioning strut. So:
Either: both struts failed at the same time, causing the tailgate to come crashing down & breaking the glass.
Or: the clingfilm got caught up in the struts, causing them to fail, subsequent to the damage to the rear window.
Views, please, on what would cause both struts to fail at the same moment. Thank you!
BTW, replacing the struts is a 10 second per side job - unlike on the W123 which requires inter alia removal of the headlining & use of an obscure multi-point screwdriver bit. Read more
Thanks.
Apparent mode of failure of window was 'he was just shutting the boot & the window exploded'. This particular event was watched by several witnesses.
No little hands around - though maybe a dog.
Subsequent conjecture (and it was a fortnight before I saw my car again) was that failure of the struts caused the boot to slam shut, causing the window to break.
Alternative suggestion from RAC window replacement man was that he'd grabbed hold of the rear wiper blade to shut the window.
Hiya peeps,
Tomorrow i'm off up to newcastle to get the ferry to Norway and i'm not too sure of the best route. I'll have me Nan on board so it;ll be like doing me driving test all over again!
I need to be at the Newcastle ferry terminal for 2pm so was thinking of leaving at around 7am. the three possible routes i was looking at are
1) M6 all the way to carlisle then across the A69
2) M6, M62 then A1(M)
3)M6 to stoke, across the A50 then up M1/A1(m)
I know about thelwall but are there any likely hold-ups on any of the routes? At the moment i'm favouring option 1.
Cheers
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just an update - on the way there i wnet straight up the M6 and cut across from Carlisle to Newcastle - not too bad but don't think it was the quickest route possible.
Way back was A1(m), M62, M6, A5 - 4 hours bang on including a quick loo and can of coke break at hartshead moor services.
as for norway it was cold, wet and bleeding expensive!
I\'ve just bought Mrs V an early Xmas present in the form of a new mountain bike. There was no problem getting it home inside our MPV as the front wheel and handlebars were removed. It occurs, however, that sooner or later we\'ll want to take it and (if I also decide to buy one in an attempt to keep up with her) possibly another adult bike with us on hols. so I\'m wondering what\'d be the best way to do so.
There seem to be only 3 options:
- remove the front wheels and handlebars and carry inside the car (possible if we\'ve not got too much luggage).
- use a rear facing rack (used one once before on my Volvo 940 estate and hated it as it made access to the rear very awkward)
- Use a top mounted rack (these always look extremely precarious to me - especially on taller vehicles like mine - however the bikes are the lightweight \'A\' frame? alloy type).
The bikes in question are not cheap so security is another real consideration.
Anyone got any other suggestions, ideas or feedback?
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Make sure that, whatever you do, you have the bikes properly insured.
My sister (yup there's more than one of us) and her partner recently went on a short trip with expensive bikes, strapped with the proper equipment to the back of their car. On their return to the vehicle both bikes were gone, and their insurance didn't cover the loss.
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Hi I have a 2002 mondeo st220 I have a similar problem but my car runs rough at idle and the rev counter needle bounces up and down quikly between 500rpm and 1000 rpm nearly stalling and then sometimes it will rev up on its own do you think this could be the idle control valve ? also do you know where it is on this car ?