June 2005
Hiya,
Strange vibration/resonation noise only happens at lowish revs, quite specific though, once about 1200 ish and once about 1400 ish. Not related to loads as far as I can tell.
I've tried shorting out each of the plugs in turn and its still there. also have removed all belts with no change. I tried running with the timing belt cover off to see if there was any vibration in the belt. Its not there when cold though.
Any other ideas where to look? I know the exhaust vibrates a bit, but thats a different type of lower pitched rumble, this is higher pitched.
Oh, its also there when you dip the clutch.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Read more
Mrs B has fallen in love with a secial edition Fiesta.
She started out with a budget of £4000, but this one is up for £5k, although they may come down slightly.
It is claimed to be a Fiesta "Black" and basically it is a three door 01/51, 1.25 in black with leather seats, e/w, a/c, Ford CD player(stainless steel finish), white instruments etc. and is very tidy with 31k miles on the clock.
The problem is that I can't find it anywhere in the guide books and even the salesman admits it isn't in Glass's. My instinct says that it not worth more than £4k, although the real value will be what someone is prepared to pay for it. My concern is that this may well be Mrs B!
Has anyone come across this model before and any ideas on how it should be priced would be most welcome. Read more
The Blakc was by far and away the most sought after old shape Fiesta, second only to the fab Zetec-S, in my expereince anyway, when we got one in it didn't last two minutes.
Great to drive and quite nice looking inside and out, hard to fault it really, although £5K sounds like the top end of the range for this model. If the car was nice enough then I suppose it could be worth it, at a push, especially if she isn't planning on selling anytime soon.
Blue
Please check to see if your V5 is the old type and not the new Registration Document.
DVLA have in the past been sending out the new document to those who had just renewed the Excise licence. Apparently there are a number that have slipped through the net and still have the old document that becomes non effective on 1st July.
If yours is still the old V5 then get it off to DVLA for a replacement with the new document.
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The DVLA should be sending them out regardless.
Not sure about that, system with sending it out after a response to the MVL reminder is presumably a rudimentary check on accuracy of the register. If new V5's were sent out to old addresses I'd guess some punters would complain.
You can please all of the public some of the time and some of the public all of the time...........
Hi all,
after purchasing my backbox today, I saw a silver car approaching. I thought "That bloke's done a tasteful job on his 'goona" as the headlights were tinted in much the same way as the ST170 lights are on the Focus"
It went past and I had a look - the back lights were completely different. They looked almost like Integra rear lights. They were the same shape but looked a lot newer and cleaner (kinda like Lexus lights but no silver to be seen and certainly not as stupid looking). It was in silver, and the bloke was an oldish gent wearing a suit - didn't strike me as the type to do his car up.
Despite not being a Renault fan, I like the Laguna. This new one makes me like it even more.
Oh - and on the subject of new cars, I saw the new Focus saloon on the road before. I was overtaking so got a good look at the side and front before letting it pass. Got to say, looks very nice but the tail lights let it down. Quite bland and Mondeo looking.
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I did only get a glimpse RF - I was doing about 70 in the opposite direction. I'm on about the rear lights specifically not the rear profile.
Looks nice either way.
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Adam
After years of having a protected NCD which would have allowed me to make an unlimited number of claims without penalty, my latest renewal notice now specifies a maximum of 3 claims in 3 years without penalty. Is this now the norm in the car insurance trade?
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L\'escargot by name, but not by nature. Read more
Story was I had an accident, car was a write off so the policy was cancelled. I then got quotes from all the ins companies, including the one who the claim was with. Turned out it was cheaper to move to Norwich Union. Hope this helps.
Advice from fellow readers requested ... My Nissan Primera is getting old and needs to be replaced. I can set the heater to warm the cabin and cool my face at the same time. Great for keeping alert on long winter motorway journeys. Most new cars these days have sophisticated systems that cannot achieve this simple setting. Does anyone know of a current car (other than Rover) where the heating/ventialtion setting can work like this?
Thanks for your help. Read more
How bizarre. 55 reg Mondeo I'm hiring doesn't have that button
on it with air to face and feet. Has one button
for air to feet, one for air to face and one
for air to windscreen!
You can select two of them - so achieving the result you want.
Hi All.
I need to get a new front door speaker - how do you measure them ?
1. Across the diagonal - opposite holes
or
2. Straight across
Many thanks in anticipation to a reply to this ! Read more
Yes indeed. I found that the readily obtainable speakers were marginally smaller than VW ones across the mounting holes.
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I wasna fu but just had plenty.
can hardly read mileometer reading as it so dull can you change a bulb to brighten this up Read more
In all probability, yes (although I've not yet had to try).
I take it that the actual figures are accurate and move on as you would expect?
after power washing my 406 1.9 diesel engine the rev counter has stopped working properly does anybody have any ideas what is wrong with it or even where it gets its feed from Read more
Argh!
Don't know why it does it, but mine (same car) sticks at 1,800 rpm. Sometimes it clears itself, but the problem always comes back pretty quickly. Since the rev counter problem began to manifest itself, the speedo has started sticking (most often at 40 mph, though often at other speeds), moving up and down to get to the sticky speed.
I suspect, from online research, that it's due to bad soldering inside the instrument panel causing an intermittent connection (knocking the glass generally cures the speedo problem) but I'm not entirely certain.
My route to work is pretty hilly and on some of the gentler downhill slops I tend to drop the car into neutral to let it coast along around the speed limit, with the aim of saving a little fuel.
In some of these situations if I was to put it in gear with foot off throtle the engine braking effect would be too great thus requiring use of the throttle and a waste of fuel.
Is there anyting wrong with coasting along in neutral, both in mechanical and bad driving practice terms?
I guess one downside is that you cannot suddenly accelerate if needed, but if you were in 5th say, your potential for accelearting sharply would be minimal anyway.
Your thoughts? Read more
On my daily queue to work i often knock the car into neutral and coast slowly to a standstill from about 20mph. It saves me constantly holding the clutch in for a few seconds before crawling along a bit further - i just coast along in neutral then select first or second when needed, which i find a much more comfortable style of driving in these conditions. I don't see anything wrong with doing this?
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Thanks for the suggestion Peter, I put the car up on stands and did as you said, unfortunately the noise is still there.
It sounds as though its coming from the front of the engine lower down, but I can't get anything to stop it even pulling out each plug lead in turn.
I've made a recording of it, in case that helps at all.
All I'm doing is gently raising and lowering the revs with the clutch depressed (not that it makes any difference clutch up or down), so there is minimal load on the engine.
www.pettaw.dsl.pipex.com/360noise.mp3