June 2006
is there a recognised convention concerning the colour of inserts for fuel tanks on modern cars? I know this sounds naive but......and I should be grateful for an answer quoting any legislation etc. that may cover this please.
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Don Read more
Went to look at a new car at a car supermarket - Mondeo TDCi, first registered August 05 - 16000 miles.
Tyres are new to a bit worn - make was "Hancock" Tyres.
Would have expected Ford original tyres to be still installed at this low milage - did'nt think Ford standard fit was budget tyres of this type.
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Genk is in Belgium.
Once again filled up with petrol and could not start the thing,Engine turns and turns but no sign of a firing.then after several goes it catches but no power unable to limp off forcourt,finally can pick up enough revs to get going-runs lumpy for several miles or just before I can get it back to a Renault dealer.It then runs fine no fault found says Renault dealer.This has now happened 3 times since new, and the strange thing is it happens every June almost to the day .
The embarrasing thing is that having electric handbrake cannot dissengage until engine is running, so stuck adjacent to petrol pump till it runs.Could of course unload boot and dissengage from there ,but then needs a Renault dealer to fix handbrake.
Just as added info just had 72 k major service 1 day before last non start incident cost the lease company more than £1000.(exact figure unknown at this time) Pleased I was not paying.
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rustbucket (the original) Read more
PS ok found TDC its right hand end on top of bell housing.not easy to get to but checked connector. connot do much else but insist garage changes sensor.From the lack of disturbance around that area nobody has been there before to check.
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rustbucket (the original)
Hi,
I am in the market for a diesel estate. Budget £1-3000. Got two great big Weimaraners to carry arround, although the Subaru Impreza estate (as the Subaru is now gone I guess it's time to get something sensible) was big enough for both of them.
Car will end up doing a lot of miles going to working tests, shows and field trials. I'm about 6'3" so needs to be reasonably roomy.
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90s Passat TDI? Plenty on Autotrader in your budget and you should be able to find one that's been well looked after.
I had new tyres fitted to my car last week and yesterday heard a scraping noise from the front end of the car. When I took the wheel off, I found that the brake backplate had corroded through and was leaning back against the strut and the driveshaft. When I touched it, it came off completely in my hand. Apart from keeping in brake dust, goes the backplate perform any other useful function? Is this a MOT failure? Read more
Not an MOT failure for a non-load bearing disc backplate. If it were a drum backplate, with a load bearing duty for the slave cylinder and the shoe pivot then it would (should!) be an MOT fail.
The backplates on many Ford cars were deleted during the 80's and 90's at the behest of the engineer who was also our visiting lecturer for vehicle brakes. His argument was that because of the forward motion of the car, the spray from one front wheel doesn't actually impinge on the back of the opposite wheel, and that backplates were more likely to trap stones and other debris rather than to serve any useful purpose.
I tend to support this point of view, and would say that if your front discs' backplates are definitely non load bearing, then let them rot in peace!
Number_Cruncher
Sorry I know this isn't totaly relevent but it does relate to cars. I was at Silverstone today & noticed all the cars seem to blip around the corners - my colleague who I was with said that it is the engine management system of the cars causing the cars to deliberately misfire to help them slow down on approach to corners. Is this true? It seems a bit far fetched to me?
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Be brave.. ask one of the pit crew, if you get near one!
At very low speeds (i.e. crawling in traffic in first gear) my Clio squeaks. This happens when the brakes are not in use.
The car is 3 years old and has done 33k. I thought that it could be the wheel bearings. Perhaps it is too early for these to become worn and the noise is much more a squeak than a rumble.
Any ideas as to what is wrong?
I appreciate all the useful advice I have received in the past on this site!
Kind regards
Richard Read more
Possibly a brake shoe that is touching the drum. Next time you are travelling slowly in first gear try applying the handbrake gently to see if it goes.
Just found this, its long overdue
www.middlelanemorons.com/
Glad I'm not in the Hall of Shame
be aware there is the occasional adult word in some of the text.
As always
Mark Read more
It works very well if you are planning ethnic cleansing. Indian road deaths are at a mountainous level.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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In the above link is a photo of the camshaft pulley off my Polo. The photo was taken during the head gasket replacement whilst up in Scotland. Hopefully you can make out the rather 'chewed' woodruff key, which was so badly worn; it was possible to put the timing out by two teeth. Also, you might be able to see that the face which would be against the end of the cam shaft is blue. With no choice, the part was re-fitted so we could get home. But when the car was in for tappet replacement not long after, the garage replaced it, as a precaution.
The question is what could have caused it?
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As far as I can recall, the bolt was fine, and didn't show any sighs of thread lock coatings like locktight etc. My uncle (an engineer) and the garage were both happy the bolt was ok to use again. But yes, the pulley was changed.
I have a feeling it was done by the garage the previous owners used. It had the HG replaced a long time ago during their ownership, so the chances are when the head was off the first time, this was when the damage was done. They didn't even change the oil after the HG failed, hence it was back in a thousand miles later for a bottom end rebuild.
First I knew about it was when the bolt was slackened, the pulley had a considerable amount of free play before the bolt was fully removed. When the pulley was removed from the end of the camshaft, this was what we saw.
I haven't noticed this posted (although I may be blind).
Looks like a 50% reduction for a retest up to 10 days from a failure. This may be incentive for free retests to return?
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Browse
If you are still unsure whether your car has got incorrect parts fitted then why not nip down to your local dealership and have a look at a few other similar cars and see what they have. If they are the same as yours then its obviously a standard part, if they are different then you may well have a 'friday afternoon' hybrid.