January 2013
I have a 5 year old mondeo 1.8 TDCI which has only done 80k miles and has a cracked piston. To repair it by putting in a new engine would be £4500, and a second hand engine would be about £1000 cheaper! Basically this car is scrap as the cost to repair is more than the car is worth! Please be aware that a leaky injector lead to this, and seeing as these cars are reknown for this problem! Dont buy this car!! Read more
Hi All,
I have recently developed a fault with my 2008 TDCI focus. The fault seems to be if I am cruising at about 50+ in 5th gear and i try to accelerate there is hesitation and eventually the car will shudder/kangaroo! This happens at about 2500rpm +..... I then have to back off and continue at the speed i was going.... Read more
Hi All,
I have fixed this problem i had by replacing the fuel filter ! the car is back to its oriinal self again........
my peugeot 206hdi 55 plate will not start when cold i have fully serviced it (no sign of metal fragments in fuel filter) changed the glow plugs/relay fitted a new battery and it still refuses to start i replaced the starter aswell, this morning i sprayed a small amount of easy start into it and it fired staright away could this be a fuel pressure problem? the car runs fine once running and starts every turn of the key till next morning then same old problem, their are no fault codes stored and no engine managment light and it drives fine and doesnt go into limp mode. can anyone help as its drivin me nuts now. Read more
Car alarm keeps going off after car is locked (about 20 min ) after locked Read more
If its not the bonnet catch as above try closing all the air vents in the car the volumetric sensors when old become more sensitive and this time of the year you have a greater difference in mean air temp and the temp in the car which causes the sensors to think their is some movement and the alarm goes off.
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i have ford focus sedan year model 2005 .1600cc automatic transmission.... Read more
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looks like many small issues i have my recently bought peugeot 406... Read more
Electrically heated socks.
I am not surprised to see Volkswagen Group motors appearing towards the end of the reliability list. Their reliability is over-hyped. A few years ago the turbo chargers failed on my cousin's Passat a few months after the manufacturer warranty ran out. The fix was so costly he decided to get rid of it and moved back to Mercedes Benz.
Last summer the DSG gearbox on my uncle's four years old Passat packed up. After spending good part of two grands on fixing it he decided to keep it. From these two examples in my family it appears Volkswagen makes cars to last three years only. They develop some expensive problem soon after the warranty runs out.
Couldn't be better for Volkswagen though. They make money selling them. Then they make money fixing them. Makes awful lot of sense in the business world, I guess. Read more
Flawed article by an Insurer - they make league tables out of their 50,000 cars............there are 20+million and the insurer's customers and their cars cannot be representative of cars in general.
If you survey within 1/4 mile radius of a friend's house you will find a lot of people die - much higher than the national average - why? the area includes a major hospital
mmm, we've been waiting long enough for it!! Let's hope it really is as good an allrounder as old HR-V..... Read more
Why is the Lancer the most reliable if the Mitsubishi engine is number ten for unreliability? Read more
Anyone else really wound up with the absence of spare wheels, especially full size ones, in new cars? If so, please sign my petition at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44340 Read more
That's some good data. I did say that a properly engineered alloy wheel had the potential to be lighter-your wheels seem to fit that catagory. But most series production ones you'll find on cars are for cosmetic purposes.
Aluminium has a density about a 1/3 of that of ferrous alloys, but the castings have to much thicker than that of steel because the yield and fatigue strength are much lower. The main culprit of weight in wheels is not the material itself but the desire to replace tyre inches with metal inches. Aluminium has a low density-air has a lower density still!...
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Some early 2.0 TDCI Mondeo's had a problem with melting pistons caused by the fuel filter allowing dirt through to the injectors which caused the injectors to spray fuel in an unsuitable patter. But that was solved in 2002 by changing the fuel filter spec (service recall) at the first service. A cracked piston is very different to a melted one though and the damage was much more widespread.
If its only cracked and no other damage has been done a new piston should sort, if Ford sell such things today.