The Motor Forum talking cars since 2006    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Join! (free) >   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  My car is..          The Motor Forum Forum Index -> Your Cars View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Apex clipper Turbocharged My Car: Is now fixededed... Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 3495 Location: Worcester..sauce..shire. Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 12:38 am    Post subject: My car is.. Shagged! It sits on the drive awaiting back orders from FORD. Leaky pipe..("same as a 2.0..St170?")...er Nope! "What about"?..er no!...back order! "And"?....Back order. F** me sideways..what isn't on bloody back order? Yours truely Pissed off. esq. _________________ Minky Moo & Millie Maloo. Back to top Roadsterstu Petrolhead My Car: MG ZT260 Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1680 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:46 am    Post subject: MG ZT260 aircon compressors - on back order... I know the feeling   Back to top gonnabuildabuggy Turbocharged My Car: E36 328 & '90 Golf GTI for a while Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 4669 Location: Nr. Milton Keynes, Roundabout City Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 1:39 pm    Post subject: Roadsterstu wrote: MG ZT260 aircon compressors - on back order... I know the feeling   I can understand that one a lot more than Ford..... Get an 11yr old BMW, Ebay is full of parts! _________________ Aint no substitute for cubic inches. Back to top Apex clipper Turbocharged My Car: Is now fixededed... Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 3495 Location: Worcester..sauce..shire. Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:42 pm    Post subject: The air filter is here!!!!! The other parts arn't. _________________ Minky Moo & Millie Maloo. Back to top Blarno Motorhead My Car: A homo's devil machine with Git Plate. Franc soon to be departed. Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 8449 Location: The corporate whore juggernaut Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:50 pm    Post subject: What's leaking? _________________ Arms held out, in the Jesus Christ Pose. Back to top Apex clipper Turbocharged My Car: Is now fixededed... Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 3495 Location: Worcester..sauce..shire. Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:45 pm    Post subject: Blarno wrote: What's leaking? The return pipe from the rad. A small aliimen..aliuminuium.. Metal pipe! about three inches long that is attached to a rubber hose... I've not drove the car for two weeks....It would make a noise if all the coolant 'went south' whilst at speed. Nothing shows up on any sites I've trawled. And even the Ford dealership didn't have a clue into what exactly that part was called!!!!! And they fvcking serviced it! _________________ Minky Moo & Millie Maloo. Back to top Roadsterstu Petrolhead My Car: MG ZT260 Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1680 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:16 am    Post subject: Ford dealership Therein lies the problem.  Not specific to Ford, either.  Main dealers tend to be generally cack.  Occasionally there are good ones but specialists are better by some margin. Back to top Apex clipper Turbocharged My Car: Is now fixededed... Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 3495 Location: Worcester..sauce..shire. Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:17 am    Post subject: Roadsterstu wrote: Ford dealership Therein lies the problem.  Not specific to Ford, either.  Main dealers tend to be generally cack.  Occasionally there are good ones but specialists are better by some margin. I totally agree Stu..but unfortunately we're talking an RS Ford, a minor matter to those that don't buy into the marque or feel it's just a run of the mill hothatch. People buying these cars are swayed into having Ford stamps on the service, irrespective what monkey spun the spanners. It appears to be the underlying theme within the community of RS Fords that it ain't worth a toss..unless it ain't stamped with a service history from Ford and a way of checking it's service via the history file. Too many a silly exerzise..Too the majority it seems not. _________________ Minky Moo & Millie Maloo. Back to top "him" Turbocharged My Car: is 'wikkid innit' & '04 Scenic Dynamique Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 4860 Location: Cornwall Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:08 am    Post subject: Apex clipper wrote: I totally agree Stu..but unfortunately we're talking an RS Ford, a minor matter to those that don't buy into the marque or feel it's just a run of the mill hothatch... My brother used to work for a local Ford dealer, and from what he says the independent garages he worked for after he left there were much more conscientious than the dealer ever was... If they ever got a nice car in at the Ford dealership (Focus RS, Mondeo ST200) it was treated no differently when they were 'spannering it',but it would invariably be "treated" to a test run by the head mechanic...   Tell me, do Ford still have "RS Dealerships", back in the day (RS 1600i, RS Turbo, Sierra Cosworth) I seem to remember they were sourced from RS Dealerships only, or was that just a local phenomenon? _________________ Remember - A gym without chalk is a heath spa... Back to top Blarno Motorhead My Car: A homo's devil machine with Git Plate. Franc soon to be departed. Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 8449 Location: The corporate whore juggernaut Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:46 pm    Post subject: What kind of diameter is this pipe? I have stainless pipe lying around that may 'bridge the gap'. _________________ Arms held out, in the Jesus Christ Pose. Back to top "him" Turbocharged My Car: is 'wikkid innit' & '04 Scenic Dynamique Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 4860 Location: Cornwall Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:49 pm    Post subject: Blarno wrote: What kind of diameter is this pipe? I have stainless pipe lying around that may 'bridge the gap'. Can you engrave a "Ford" logo into it though?   _________________ Remember - A gym without chalk is a heath spa... Back to top Blarno Motorhead My Car: A homo's devil machine with Git Plate. Franc soon to be departed. Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 8449 Location: The corporate whore juggernaut Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 1:52 pm    Post subject: I'll fire up the Dremel! _________________ Arms held out, in the Jesus Christ Pose. Back to top Roadsterstu Petrolhead My Car: MG ZT260 Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1680 Location: Leicestershire Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:16 am    Post subject: Still without the RS? I'm still without the ZT. Sucks, doesn't it? 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