At my witts end...

[Bailes1992]

Right those who went to the meet this weekend will know I've been complaining about my car.

Two problems, one the steering started shaking at speed half way up to birmingham and two when I been braking and cornering hard I been getting clicks and clunks from the front suspension.

So I looked at the car today, the subframe was LOOSE! and was missing a bolt. So went down to the hardware shop, one new bolt and took the rest out, threadlocked and fitted again. Not a problem but the last one to remove my subframe was my mechanic while I had a new steering rack.

Then I thought I'd look at the brakes, I stripped down my brakes a few days ago and noticed the top silder bolt was loose, didnt think much of it and just thought maybe the mechanic who did my steering rack haden't tightened them up fully. Again I looked at the brakes and the slider bolt, well I pulled it out wiht my fingers. Confused I looked at the thread in the hub to find it has all been stripped out So basically my calipers only been held on with one silder bolt.

Anywho I didn't panic, put the car back together and had a think. Got someone to give me a lift to the scrappy and got a second hand hub with a fecked wheel bearing. Going to get a sexy new wheel bearing from motorfactors tommorow and see if I can get a garage to press it in for me. Then i got the fun task of changing me hub

I've had enough.

[Bailes1992]

And also before anyone says it... I couldn't just change the carrier because some fecking tosser in ford decided focuses were to have built in carriers to the hub

[omega]

i would have bought a 2nd hand hub with a good bearing,be a lot easier....or do you just want something to do?

[Bailes1992]

i would have bought a 2nd hand hub with a good bearing,be a lot easier....or do you just want something to do?

Hub with a good bearing £60.
Hub with a bad bearing £20 + £40 for a new bearing and £10 to get a garage to press it in. Extra tenner for piece of mind I'l have a good bearing

[omega]

i would have bought a 2nd hand hub with a good bearing,be a lot easier....or do you just want something to do?

Hub with a good bearing £60.
Hub with a bad bearing £20 + £40 for a new bearing and £10 to get a garage to press it in. Extra tenner for piece of mind I'l have a good bearing

i can see your logic
how long do you think it will be before you break the next thing?

[Bailes1992]

i would have bought a 2nd hand hub with a good bearing,be a lot easier....or do you just want something to do?

Hub with a good bearing £60.
Hub with a bad bearing £20 + £40 for a new bearing and £10 to get a garage to press it in. Extra tenner for piece of mind I'l have a good bearing

i can see your logic
how long do you think it will be before you break the next thing?

Hopefully this will be it for a while. Hopefully it will be a nice smooth job tommorow. Not sure how to split the ball joint though?

[omega]

Hopefully this will be it for a while. Hopefully it will be a nice smooth job tommorow. Not sure how to split the ball joint though?[/quote]

use 2 hammers or buy a splitter for about a tenner

[sirwiggum]

And also before anyone says it... I couldn't just change the carrier because some fecking tosser in ford decided focuses were to have built in carriers to the hub

I was going to suggest you change the car.

It is well beyond the Ford built-in-obsolescence point.

[Bailes1992]

Why is nothing simple. Walked 2 miles with a very heavy hub to motorfactors, got the bearing and walked a further mile to the garage to have it pressed in. Turned out to be the rear bearing instead of the front one. Another mile to motorfactors to make sure I get the right bearing. Then it turned out the driveflange on my new hub is f*cked so goto take off my old hub, take it to the garage so they can remove the drive flange on the old hub and fit it to my new one

[steve_earwig]

Because sh*t happens. Fact. Anyway, didn't you say you needed to loose some weight?

[Bailes1992]

Couldn't get the balljoint pinch bolt to budge. Got the bolt off one end, couldn't get the actual bolt out though. Did give the ball joint a few wacks with the seperator but it didn't budge. Slung it all back together and going to get a mobile mechanic out just to get the hub off and fit the bearing to the new hub. I get reassemble it all then

[Doggy]

What you need is C4

(and a detonator).

[Bailes1992]

What you need is C4

(and a detonator).

Would have to be a C5 1.6 HDi VTR+ I think...

Wait what? No I havent been looking

[sirwiggum]

Avoid the 1.6 in such a big car, the 2.0 or 2.2 HDi

The plastics are indeed plasticy in the C5 ;)

Xantia feels more solid! Especially the XUDTs

[Bailes1992]

Avoid the 1.6 in such a big car, the 2.0 or 2.2 HDi

The plastics are indeed plasticy in the C5 ;)

Xantia feels more solid! Especially the XUDTs

Probably won't get one. They're abit expensive. You can get 20k-40k 3 year old one sfor £7k to £10k.
This time next year I should have £4000 in the bank saved up and my car will be worth about a grand. Unless I want to take out a loan or finance.
Also with my current insurer (Who I get a AWESOME deal with) limits me to 120bhp. Weather that will move when I renew in November, we'll have to see.
I'm hoping they will had 20bhp as that means I can step up to a 2.2 HDi 406. Or even a Coupe