May 2009
hi all,can someone help. ive got a rover 25 and its got a ticking noise,since i got a oil change there has been a constant ticking noise coming from the engine. what ive noticed is that the ticking noise is mainly noticable when in low gears,as i get to the high gears it basically fades. the car runs perfect with no loss of power and is used daily. could it have a tappet stuck? if someone knows what it is,then would it damage the car if i do a long journey. thanks for looking and all help appreciated. Read more
Hi, I recently had a minor impact to the front drivers side wing/door from someone reversing off their drive, didn't see me parked. It was very slow speed crunch and made a few dents and scrapes. Car went to crash repair garage. A few days after I got it back I noticed a rattle coming from front drivers side wheel. Because it started following the repair I took it back to same garage. They could not find fault in quick inspection so sent car to Ford for diagnosis. Ford could not take it in for 6 days so I continued driving. When they got it Ford reported back that the drivers side front shock absorber was "smashed". Not just worn or damaged, but completly broken. Car is under 3 years old, I have not hit any bumps at excessive speed. I don't know anything about shock absorbers or what might break them, does anyone have any idea what sort of things might have caused this damage? Could it (as the garage are suggesting) have been caused by original impact? The car that hit me was a big BMW 4X4, but speed was very slow. Also I am concerned that having driven the car for a total of 10 days before diagnosis further damage may have been caused because shock abosrber was broken. Any advice welcome, worried! Read more
Hi - can anyone help with a good online UK Ford spares supplier. I am having trouble finding a thermal temperature transmitter (that sends to the dashboard temperature gauge) for a 1990 Ford Escort Bonus 1.3 petrol. 1990 seems to have been a changover year so not easy to compare what is fitted to what is listed. Mine has a single post fitting but 1990 also seems to have a spade type fitting. Need to get the right one so it operates at the correct temperature range.
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I would think, knowing Ford that the sender would be the same apart from the connector, I have just fitted an Escort diesel engine into a P100 pick up. the senders are as yours, one post and one flat blade, the latter works perfectly with the P100 gauge.
Hi, after driving for a mile or so and usually when exceeding 40mph, the car likes to stall when coming to a stop.
A good rev usually cures this but its becoming dangerous!!
Could someone please help. Read more
Yes! The car 'jumps' when its about to happen so I get a warning before a stall. Like small kangaroo jumps. So this is a possibility....
What do I do now...!
Hi,
I have a problem in so much as my 306 hdi just will not start. Driving along one day it cut out and has not run since.
It is not a fueling problem on the pumping side, it is on the electrical side. There is no feed going to the injectors to open them, Ecu been checked and is fine so it tends to look more like maybe a broken wire or relay something like that.
Anybody got any ideas, will try anything as electrics just baffle me.
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Hi I have the same problem, did you manage to get to the bottom of it in the end? Regards Justin.
Hear is my original note, to inform problem.
My car went from being a good starter to a no starter in 2 days just got gradually worse.
We have two bar of pressure from the low pressure pump. But no high pressure being generated. So we changed the pump. Same problem.
It has always started with the slightest of whiff's of easy start, or bump start with no problem.
It will drive for about 4 or 5 mile, then engine cuts out!! Turn key off while rolling, resets ecu, select 2nd gear, slow car down to bump, and starts no problem, on again for another 4-5 mile again. Until it does the same again.
It will idle stood forever with no problem, won't miss a beat. You turn it off, and try restarting, it just doesn't what to know!
Why does it drive for 4-5 mile when we know it has no high pressure diesel supply? and why does it bump and start with easy start??
Hope may be you can point us in the right direction, been trying to sort this issue out for 3 weeks now! Its becoming a headache!
Any help would be really appreciated!
I've just purchased a vehicle on a very popular auction site. Knowing how dodgey this could be i paid for a Vehicle Status report and HPI check. The check did not find any problems and i went ahead with the transaction.
When i got home i noticed on the back of the MOT certificate you could check the vehicles MOT history on line with Dept of Transport.
I did this and discovered a very alarming problem.
The most recent MOT matched the current certificate mileage of 69000 miles, however the MOT the year previous stated 103000 miles. The vehicle came with no service history and only this MOT certificate. The vehicle is a 2005 model so it's only ever had 2 MOT's in it's life.
Should the HPI check have found this discrepency and also why did'nt the current MOT station detect this when he was entering the info into the database?
The HPI check came with a guarantee against loss of money by fraudulent activity, one check actually said no mileage discrepency found.
Many thanks, Jane
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the hpi can only bring up what they are told by owners
if you sell your car there is a box on the v5 to enter the mileage when it left you
if everyone filled this in at pos then mileage correction could be nipped in the bud
basically in my opinion you have been duped but its not to say the seller is the duper
i would ring trading standards in the morning and ask their advise as to whether they could do a paper chase to all previous keepers for you with a view to a prosecution for mileage fraud
you would have to take the guilty person to court for the amount you have been diddled
Hi, my fiesta has an annoying rattle inside which seems to be coming from somewhere near the rear passenger side door or the passenger side seatbelt area. Is the rear door card easy to remove to check behind and also can the middle panel be removed where the seatbelt goes in to see behind there?
Really want to stop this rattle as the car has no other rattles etc
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doorcard is straight forward
be aware of the spring clip on the window winder (a rag is best to ping it off with)
theres also a screw hidden in the finger shut hole under a plastic cover
use a wide instrument to pop the plastic clips out of the door one at a time working from bottom to top both sides
the middle section i can only remember spring clips holding it in plus possibly the 19mm /17mm bolt on the seatbelt top nut
be aware its easy to break these clips so do the door first
Hi guys,
I'm buying a gen 7 only able to spend about 3500 so I'm limited to 2000 - 2002 reg ones. I'm extremely worried about the excessive oil consumption issue - the ones ive looked at have been from dealers and everything looks ok when I've looked at the engine/oil/dipstick. I am worried however that if I purchase one I'll have this issue later on to the point where im actually considering not buying it (which is a shame because it really is the most fun car I have ever driven sad.gif ).
Did this problem affect all pre 03 models or was is just a 'bad batch'?
Thoughts or advice when purchasing much appreciated.
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Every day I see several people using a hand-held mobile whilst driving. My 15 mile route to work involves country roads, a fast dual carriageway and a short stretch of semi-rural with speed cameras, and in every section I see people blatantly using phones. Also see this on motorways.
In fact, I find myself scrutinising on-coming vehicles and anyone who overtakes me to see if they're using a phone, and that is obviously (and ironically) distracting me whilst driving! Does anyone else feel this/ I've tried to not do it but I can't help it most of the time. Read more
Hands-free or hand-held; to me it doesn't make much difference.
It's the content and purpose of the call that is the biggest distraction.
Even kitted up with bluetooth, are you likely to prioritise concentration on the road ahead (could be darkness or blinding rain) above a call that you know is coming in from the boss or a major client? Nah....
If anyone feels that their job (or for that matter their life in general) is too important to go without 24/7 connectivity, either get someone else to drive or stop occasionally and only deal with the calls that really matter then.
Daughter's fiance's GTR, which has just returned 430 bhp at the wheels on a rolling road (= 500+ at the flywheel) with standard engine internals and standard turbo, but heavily chipped and balanced, has had a noisy clutch for more than a year, during which it has been twice to the Nurburgring for a frolic. He has mentioned it to the high-tech fettlers he takes it to for tweaking, and they have at last investigated in the process of renewing the clutch, having attributed the noise to the non-standard twin-plate mechanism.
Three of the six bolts holding the flywheel to the crankshaft had sheared. The thought of the other three letting go at 7,000 rpm during a brisk gallop is an alarming one to put it mildly. He could have lost his feet as well as his beloved projectile. Phew, alhamdulillah!
He tells me that the fettlers, who at first sucked their teeth and muttered telephone numbers, concluded that they themselves had over-torqued the bolts during the last clutch replacement, so didn't charge for that part of the work. I guess they too were relieved to have got away with it.
'Motor racing is dangerous', the notices on trees and straw bales used to say. It's well worth remembering. Read more
the 4WD stuff weighs quiet a bit thats why the mpg is so much less.
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Thanks both of you, your comments are reassuring. I will make sure suspension gets thoroughly checked over when it is repaired. At the moment they are waiting for go-ahead from the insurance company, as this repair should go on the original claim if it was caused by the same impact.