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Well I never got to the bottom of the problem, just learned to live with it. I grew to like it actually, it was almost like having a turbo. The car recently died on me, turned out to be the crankshaft pulley damper. Got that replaced but after the car had sat around for 2 days it decided it didn't w...

As the title suggests really, my newly aquired, gas guzzling beast seems to really take off after 4000rpm. It's akin to when the turbo kicks in on a turbo diesel. Here's a few videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3za0qrDoc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qRJyM7jUOE It doesn't seem quite so appa...

Just a quick update. Well the noise from the rear has disappeared, which is nice! I think it may have just been the brakes as there was a fair bit of surface rust on them. The strange tinny, pinging noise is still there after draining the oil and filling to the correct level, I'll have to investigat...

Thanks for the replies. EvilTwin, I'm pretty familier with the metal on metal sound and I don't think it's that. Would I be right in thinking an easy way to check if that's the case would be to leave the handbrake on a bit and drive? I'm going to adjust the handbrake on Wednesday, while I'm down the...

Hiya chaps, I picked up my new car a few days ago - a 1998 406 3.0L V6 estate. I bought it extremely cheaply so I can't grumble about the few problems it has, however I thought I'd post them here to see if any of you guys in the know could help. There's a kind of grating noise coming from the rear, ...