Mondingo petrol

[scotty73]

... your marriage guidance career lasted a whole month?

31st January at 11.55pm until 1st February 00.05am it was a drunken call to a now divorced friend.

[waue1978]

Any chance of some pics of this Mondingo Dave? Really bad news about the Plodmobile getting killed off (especially after you beat me for "Car Of The Day" at Gaydon), but reckon after the work you've put into losing all that weight you've probably earned the right to a new toy.

You could always validate running a petrol, by saying that the wight saving balances up the fuel costs!

[plod]

I'll sort some out Stu

I'll validate the petrol by saying
give me back the 406 lol

[plod]

Going to be a bad few weeks

Tax is due end of month

Got my second payment of £900 to pay in3 weeks time

Needs discs and pads on rear

And now the kick in the sacks
The abs fault which I've tried unplugging and replugging in of the sensors and cleaning the contacts hasn't worked
SO
Had it diagnosed today and it has a fault I the loom
The loom .....................£880!!!!!!!!!!

[GingerMagic]

[scotty73]

Yeoowwch that's a right kick in the bollocks.

[Welly]

'Kick' in the Bollocks? more like a load of Bollocks. I hate diagnostics like that, why the hell would you need a new loom? sounds like a communication error and although difficult to find there will be a pinch-point somewhere or a chafing wire along the route. I'm sure that with a lot of research first you'd narrow the problem down to something really simple in the end.

[steve_earwig]

£880!? Ouch! Is this a common fault on these? Does the loom break down into sections or is it all one big lump of copper?

[plod]

There's a u bend on the loom where water ingresses
It's being cut out and replaced today but still going to best part of £200 as they've got to take loads off to access the problem area

[plod]

Bill came in at £160 but had two sections to replace plus they've sealed it up to prevent it ever happening again (fingers crossed)

[Welly]

I suppose you got away with that not too bad in the end.

Monsieur Bailes might be interested in case it affects his Mondingo?

[scotty73]

I suppose you got away with that not too bad in the end.

Monsieur Bailes might be interested in case it affects his Mondingo?

He's already en-route to Halfords.

[steve_earwig]

Halford's will replace the whole car...

160 smackers isn't so bad I guess but I think I'd have preferred for it not to happen in the first place

[plod]

160 smackers isn't so bad I guess but I think I'd have preferred for it not to happen in the first place

Damn right

Was hoping to get away with a sensor, but alas............

[plod]

Some info off net

I think it is a problem with the manufacture of the harness, I work in the automotive design industry, and it looks like the manufacturer of the harness uses a tool to wrap the foam protection around the cables, that tool will have a blade to cut the foam when it covers the part of the harness it is required to protect. I suspect looking at the problem on my car that this tool will have been set up incorrectly, and the blade allowed to 'nick' the insulation just enough to allow water into the conductor..........it's just a matter of time before it fails, but probably won't have been visible when new.

Working in this industry, I know how easily these things happen, and how difficult they are to spot, the fact that my car took 3 years to show the problem probably means that Ford where blissfully unaware until recently, and hence there were probably a couple of years worth of vehicles on the road before they applied any corrective action! A scary thought