April 2008
what is the most astonishing thing you have seen when motoring?
For me it was seeing a wheel complete with brake drum come bouncing down the road towards me like a world war 2 bouncing bomb.
That and a bonnet coming open once and completely blocking forward view.
I just remembered the farmer in a roadside field in Spain..... ;)
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I have found a good 306XtDt in wreckers yard with broken camshaft. VIN Number is VF37ADHY23131009: Engine number is 10CUB26000769. year FEB 1996. Injection LUCAS. Intercooled engine.
Need new engine and the suppliers here in Australia are confused about what engine will fit into this car (five door hatch 5 speed manual).
The wrecker has several engines CAT and NO CAT. Question is what engine fits? he sold the exact match and is looking at supplying me with a different model. sop what are the traps for young players when exchanging engines for this XtDt Turbo?
The book says in DATA its a 7ADHY2 Model, possible engine is XU(DTE/Y/L3 DHY.
Is this the one that breaks crankshafts?
So can I regress one step and fit an XUD9TE/L D8A?
It is NO CAT so do i have to remove the CAT from the car (legal?) or run with the cat and hope the engine runs OK?
What is best injection Lucas or Bosche?
What is the preferred engine to swap in? D8A or DHY?
I read that the DHY has crankshaft failures and i suspect the car I want to buy has suffered something like that, it has broken Camshaft at least which has lifted the camshaft off the end post.
is the turbo on the D8A and DHY same and any other things I should know/ Does it all bolt up.reading all comments acknowledged.
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All done and running Chris. I have an issue with the fuel injector pump however it wont run with the stop solenoid in place.
Putting the engine in from below using chain and my hoist was a soda.
Just hung it in.
Also found that normal petrol drive shafts will fit the XUD9 turbo engine at half the price.
Radiator holding its water and heater hose conenctions rectified.
While replacing the rear anti sway/roll/ torsion bar on said car I assumed the drivers side attachment was a nut and bolt like the passenger side.
Due to corrosion the bolt would not budge so I cut through it with an angle grinder only to discover the bolt is actually permantley in place (tekkie guys will know what i mean).......can said bolt be drilled out and new bold welded in?
And will this pass the mot if the job is done properley?
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>>and new bold welded in?
If the joint is made secure by using a new nut and bolt, i.e., if the weld isn't actually part of the structural load path, there's no need to weld the new bolt in (It's likely that the bolt is welded into the sub-assembly to speed assembly on the production line).
The MOT requirement is that suspension parts are secure - beyond that, it doesn't say exactly how you must achieve it.
It is now over 35 years since I brought my first car magazine. It was a copy of Motor with a road test of either a Ferrari or a Lamborghini (the e model being lost in the mists of time). The main car magazines I remember at that time were Autocar, Motor, Car Mechanics, Car & Car Conversions and Custom Car. The choice was far less then than the vast array seen in W H Smiths these days although I imagine sales of individual titles are far less. I digress.
Over the years I have built up a fair collection of magazines but SWMBO has said the majority have to go. Quite a number have gone over the years as I decided no one was particularly interested in a 6,000 mile Cortina Service, etc. and another batch fell victim to a leaky shed roof. The thing is what should I do? The easiest would be to take them to the re-cycling bank. Or is there a market for any of them. Basically there are no complete volumes as my tastes have altered over the years and changes of editorship/ownership have changed a magazines style making me look elsewhere. It seems a shame to throw them out but to sort and E-bay them seems like a lot of effort for what could be scant reward.
What have others done in this situation? SWMBO has given me three months!
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You could take them to my doctor's surgery - yours sound quite a bit newer than the dog-eared choice I saw there.
Seriously - perhaps there's a specialist classic car dealer/repairer close to you who'd sell them to his customers in return for £1 in the charity box. You might even get the chance to name the charity?
I was looking for opinions on these two cars both after the facelift; I think 2006 for both cars. Does anyone have experience of either or preferably both, in all areas? Read more
Not the saloon but I've driven the hatches. Better quality of interior trim, sharpened steering - particularly the electric system which has more feel - and a general exorcising of bugs including those wretched window regulators.
Not driven the Mazda.
Just curious, why it is that certain cars turn out more reliable than others?
Where in the process from design, testing and build do the best cars get it right?
I often wonder if some of the blame lies with bought in components aswell as those specific to the car.
Maybe the otherside of the question, ie where do car makers get it wrong, is as relevant? Read more
There`s an interactive site in the States...
tinyurl.com/6lxz9a
If its fair game to keep knocking Fiat even when they come up with a 5 year warranty.......;)
Bottom line is they are all cars. I think the forum would benefit from less badge snobbery. Not pointing at anyone but i`m tired of what seems like self righteousness at one`s `own badge` and almost a gloating at other peoples cars/manufacturers.
(waiting to be struck off)
regards
Hi folks
Have a 130bhp Mondeo TDCi hatch, 3 years old this July, 42K miles.
Had a new fuel pump at 38K, and has just had a new clutch kit + DMF, all under warranty.
Big question - do I keep it for a while, since the things that seem to go wrong on these have all been recently replaced, or do I punt it before the warranty expires?
Noticed advice on the perennial Mazda 6 diesel thread, to a guy who has bought a Mondeo - "get rid of it before the warranty expires", but remember earlier on the original Mazda 6 diesel engine failure thread 'Screwloose' saying that only a small percentage of TDCis give trouble but in his experience every Mazda6 diesel will come to grief given time.
Did I read you right, Screwloose? Care to elaborate? Read more
Yes, thats what I thought as well, will be cheaper than switching too!
Quick question to the bikers on here - if you break down on motorway what is advice? Reason I ask is saw one on hard shoulder of M8 today and he had parked his bike at right angles with rear wheel nearest the kerb.
Now on one hand I thought that if broken down he should try and get off the hard shoulder altogether if possible (like car drivers are advised), but on the other hand if he parked it parallel then it might not be as noticeable to traffic.
Was he just being stupid or is there biker advice to park this way? Read more
I think its a symptom of automotive OCD referred to in other threads. Shockingly, motorcyclists can suffer from this. Ask any BMW boxer owner how obsessively they check the oil !
My Mazda 6 diesel 52 reg started losing power after about half an hours driving and once the engine rose to it's optimum temperature. It would then cut out completely and would not start again until the engine had cooled. I replace the oil, fuel and air filters but did not make any difference. I took it to the local Mazda dealer who seemed to think it was the injector pump and sent it off to be reconditioned. After waiting three weeks they phoned to tell me the diagnostics could not find a fault and it was still not running properly. They said it could be dirt in the fuel system and said they cleaned out the tank and fuel system. After that hadn't made any difference they then said it could be the micro filters in the injectors and they would need replaced costing at least £1000 on top of the £700 pounds they charged for the injector pump to be reconditioned. Anybody got any ideas and do you think I'm being taken
for a ride?
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Fuel tank vent blocked, with vacuum building up as you drive, and easing off gradually when switched off?
Coming back from Suffolk after Easter we were on the look out for a convenient place to stop for 10 minutes. The only signed "services" we came across consisted of a filling station with no parking, ajoining a closed down Little Chef or somesuch, the car park of which was blocked off. Never mind, a layby will do, stretch our legs and have a coffee from the Thermos.
Despite much of this road being of recent construction, almost all of the laybys are right next to the carriageway. The A14 is a racetrack and I wasn't prepared to park with traffic whizzing by at 80mph and more in the adjacent lane.
Given that we are advised, if not required, to get out of our cars if we break down on the hard shoulder of a motorway I found this approach to the provision of stopping places surprising. How do 'they' justify this? It might not be a motorway, but the A14 is a major arterial route - all I wanted was 10 minutes break to avoid tiredness and stay alert, which is as far as I know in line with official advice. There seemed to be plenty of landscaping at the side of the road that could have accommodated something a little safer.
Anybody else had the same thought, or is it just me? Read more
Now when I was a student, many years ago, one of the group had a Hillman Imp which I think was a rear-engined, funny looking car. A rival to the Mini, I suppose.
On the way back into London on a Saturday night, with all four in the car fuelled up on several pints of Old Gruntfuttocks Sheepbotherer, he'd drive off the road, through the long lay-bys you found in those days, and back onto the road again without losing any of the highish speed we were doing. It seemed fun at the time, though now of course I see that it was highly dangerous.
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I did similar many years ago around Nuneaton (I think) on the old A5, except I was on a motorbike.
Unfortunately as I slid down the windscreen, the wiper blade was vertical, and sliced through my pants before disappearing between my cheeks. I was unhurt, but a district nurse travelling the opposite way noticed the bloodstain, and insisted on checking.
Ever been facedown on a grass verge with your pants down, and a gathering crowd?