May 2005
Whenever Ive looked in certain car mags I always see the adds for recon engines which are from around £500 fitted but I was wondering how much a new engine would cost??? Anyone have an idea? I mean as most cars that suffer an HG failure often have further problems and Cambelt's that snap....Or are new engines in the region of £5k?
How good are these recon engines?
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Hi all
I've scoured Google, but can't seem to find any useful information on the Ford Transit (especially a 1994 2.5 diesel) - no basic servicing/timing belt interval/no nothing.
Is there a web-fountain of Ford Transit knowledge out there somewhere?
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Dear all,
Just discovered this forum, looks great.
A quick question....I have a Nissan Almera 1.4 T Reg. Have just passed 50,000 miles. Was thinking about changing the cambelt but have been informed that it does not have one. Is that correct? What other things should I be looking out for at this point?
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I was speaking of camchains in general, not this paticular engine. The old Nissan Laurel 240L had a tensioner so the mechanic told me at service time.
I hope this isn't too obscure a question but we have a 5 year old Seat which we are selling with 98k on the clock so quite mileagey and well used. The seats have a blackish fine cloth covering (same as Audi???) and on the drivers side squabs the material is losing its black colour and is turning an unsightly grey. I've been at it with a upholstery cleaning machine thinking the cloth is soiled but it seems to be discoloured/ faded and looks a right mess.
Question is; is there anything I can apply to hese said upholstery areas to make them black again??? Read more
Thought I'd use the confused.com website to try and reduce the hassle of sorting out insurance on the new car. For reasons best left to itself, I cant seem to persuade the site to give my wife just a part time occupation - it wants a full time occupation as well (which she does not have) and suggests putting in the part time occupation into this box which I duly do. Upon getting the quotes back, picked the one that I wanted and then thought I'd better just check the details through on the insureres website. Incorrect full time occupation was present so I deleted this and ..... premium goes up £50! Now I'm a just a bit concerned about this as if I had left things as they were and had not checked, technically I would not be insured as I would have been telling porkies about my wife's occupation. Has anyone else been caught out by this? Read more
Probably means the DVLA database has the wrong info. Just been through the same hassle with the new car. Its a 2001 V70 2.4T SE Geartronic but according to the number plate details its a only a lowly V70 2.4T. Discovered this Saturday night 5 hours after putting down the deposit ,cue one sleepless night wondering if I'd been taken from a ride. Turned out that the DVLA info was wrong!
Well looks like the old AX diesel could be on it's last legs, not too sure but the clutch seems strange, although it was changed about 3 yrs ago. I have always had my doubts as when I bought it @ around 45k (now 118K) I was told that it had a replacment already. The reason the last one went was the lever inside snapped and caught the Pressure plate.It was only welded back together as a repair the last time and I suspect it may well be occuring again, I'll just wait and see !!!! Anyway if it does go faulty, the car will not be worth reapairing.
So could possibley up for a replacment but what ?
Town Car
Small
5 doors
Ideally £5k Max
As young as poss
Petrol 1.0 - 1.3
And (long shot) ISOfix capability.
I really want a Yaris but the prices seem OTT to me ?
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A close relative of mine has worked in senior engineering in Ford/Jag/LR for many years and recounted the launch of the top-of-the-range Ford Ka. It almost went to the stage before someone realised that calling it a KA Si sounded a bit like "Kah-See" and thus a toilet. Not a bad car by many accounts so a lucky catch.
These Iridium spark plugs are they really worth all that extra expense?
Does anyone have any views on these highly expensive babies,
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As this could be 6-7 years of typical motoring, do they (can they?) need to be re-gapped or taken out for checking?
Has anyone heard of a company called UpSolutions? I believe there're a German outfit who are in the ECU improvement business.
What I'd really like is a UK contact even if it's just a telephone number - can anyone help?
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Mark,
I've seen the telephone number in other message but do you have any other contact details of UpSolute in UK - Thanks, John B
I have a C5 2.0 HDI with a slight transmission whine at certain speeds. It is most noticable between 35mph and 50 mph in 4th gear on a steady throttle. If you accelerate hard or take your foot off the gas, the noise all but dissappears. Also at about 70mph in 5th when taking your foot off the gas, the noise is heard for about 3 seconds, then it subsides. Any ideas what might be the problem? My citroen dealer has been "unable to hear it" for over year now and so the problem remains, even though the car is just two years old and still under warranty. Cheers, Trev Read more
I have a bit of light at what may prove to be a dead-end tunnel:
Citroen UK have come back to my garage with 'Replace all the plastic fuel hoses with rubber ones'. Garage has said that they're not prepared to start replacing clip-in plastic pipes with jubilee clips and rubber hose. The mechanic says "When he worked for Peugeot" that the HDi engine used in the early 307 and 406 models had a similar issue where a whine appeared to come from right behind the dashboard. The fault with those was a resonating sound from the fuel return valve/pipes. The Pug fix for this was to replace part of the fuel pipe with a dampener system which cured "50% of the cars it was fitted to". I'm interested in giving this a go, but not if its gonna cost me a fortune for a 50-50 fix even if the part is still available and fits the Citroen HDi engine.
I guess there's a chance it'll fit due to Citroen and Peugeot sharing so many parts?
Has anyone ever heard of this / tried it / think it'll work?
Did a few miles behind one of these tonight. Got home to discover it was a neighbour's car. Quite a nice looking motor in my opinion. Had an eyeball at the website to see the interior - and it wasn't bad looking either - OK 2 dimensional images can sometimes be a bit deceptive.
Anyone taken a drive in one of these yet? Not interested from a buying perspective, just curious on first hand views of others.
I really like the shape of them from the back.
Leon
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Almost but not quite could have been a Rover.
Found it!
www.fordtransit.org