moneys

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you will get mid 40's on everyday driving, get on the motorway and it will go over the 50 mark, i had over 60 once on a run. even with a heavy right foot i never got mine under 40. i much prefer mid to low 20's and the oh foooooooookin shiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttt feeling i get from driving my xcooby now haha

jaytc2003

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yours is likely a euro 4 in which case blanking the egr will throw up the management light. a clean up of the egr and inlet work wonders. its surprising how much crap is in the inlet.

scoobyverysoon

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I think thats why these ones have a hole in them to keep the ecu happy

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EGR-VALVE-...#ht_1209wt_698

might pop off the egr valve to see how dirty it is

scoobyverysoon

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lol not used the scoob for ages infact it had a flat battery and i had to recharge it as its just sat there it wouldnt even unlock the doors it was that dead had 5 volts in the battery

jaytc2003

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in my st i get around 50mpg. Be careful if you remove the egr when putting it back on again as the threads where it bolts up can easily be stripped

scoobyverysoon

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Is the mondeo offset 52.5

Im very tempted with these rs wheels as the tyres on my wheels are rubbish there called mohawk dont trust cheap tyres

Might sell mine as loads of tread and wheels not great condition

jaytc2003

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std is 5 x 108 7.5J offset ET52

people have allegedly fitted the st3 wheels with the 52.5 offset with no probs

jaytc2003

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good link for various info

http://www.fordwiki.co.uk/index.php?...ory:Mondeo_Mk3

scoobyverysoon

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yeah seen that some good info on there

got a charity bike ride tomoz might have to put the bike in the back of it tomoz im guessing it should fit

jaytc2003

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will fit easy. when I bought mine last year boxed up (bigger than the bike itself) it fit easy. Cant wait to buy fishing gear again so I can go in a car that will hold the tackle comfortably

scoobyverysoon

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It fitted in fine I just need to sort dome time out to detail it as its winding me up

moneys

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been out looking at caravans today, think me and the wife may be making some caravan trips soon haha

jaytc2003

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have you thought about a static or do you just want to go wherever?
My sister has a static on a haven site near pwellhi (think thats how you spell it), she has the option of renting it out for a guaranteed number of days but doesnt bother

moneys

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Ye jay but can't be arsed with that yet as you need to make sure you get a good site or your fooked. If we find a decent site now then we can still do the same with a tourer and leave it on site for around half the fees of a static. I've got to go to the sh1thole they call Manchester tomorrow to sort out my car tax and then me and my lad are off to Chorley to look at a brand new swift van. Got to sort out a tow bar for the wife's car as well

jaytc2003

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can you not tax the car in the post office? if you have the green slip you can

moneys

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no as i never realised the garage left it up to me, yes ignorance, so ive gone over the 2 months allowed to fo that, i went down on friday but the gits had gone on strike and shut at 1.30.

Anyway im off to chorley now so its not to bad and im missing my car as i havent driven it since friday

moneys

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Well we bought it, or should i say ordered it as its coming fresh from the factory, got a cracking deal as well, £700 less than anywhere else, cant beat a good bit of haggling haha

jaytc2003

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bought what?

moneys

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Caravan

moneys

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Just got back from seeing coldplay at the etihad, fooking amazing show, really blew me away

scoobyverysoon

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Niceone


Weve been to a ice cream farm in chester today did 110 mile in total car was doing 52 mpg not bad

moneys

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yes weve been there, ice cream is lovely isnt it mate. told you you would easily get high numbers, its amazing when you think how big the car is and also how quick it is

scoobyverysoon

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Yeah was nice just too many choices

Just noticed my polish is wrong that I got wanted intensive polish and got sodding final polish 2 they have changed the bottle damn I hope polished bliss will swap it
looking forward to trying this iron x should be fun wonder how much iron fallout the car has on it

yesterday all door shuts/boor area cleaned with APC so looks nice now going to iron x then clay then touch up a few chips

Might have to do a little wet sand on 1 door as couple of deep scratches then its a matter of getting some time to give it a damn good polish loads of swirls marks etc should come up a treat

invested in some heavier cut pads ford paint should be the same as scooby paint all being well


Still waiting for my steam cleaner to arrive that should be fun

I know 1 thing the wheels are a swine to clean 1 wheel is caked in crap at the back even my megs wheel brightener is taking its time to shift it cant go too harsh with dilution as it will eat the finish of the alloy

Also ordered some of this read good things about it http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3505209453...84.m1423.l2649

also got a new set of mats coming as the ones in it are them stupid universal ones that dont actually fit http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1208681012...84.m1423.l2649

jaytc2003

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Oh dear, been on too many ford forums and fallen for the hype!! It wont clean your injectors, the pressure the fuel is under the cleaner wont be in the system long enough. It may clean your fuel tank though (and possibly allow any muck from there to be sucked up to your filter)

Talking of fuel filters, you can get the genuine ford bosch filters on ebay from a place in manchester (cant remember the company name but its owned by the pendragon group). Price on ebay is something like £14 which is half price from a dealers. Filters available in motor factors allegedly dont have the same filtering properties as the genuine items

moneys

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i get loads of money off ford parts

jaytc2003

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Ste how come if I give Ford my reg they cant find part details etc, but every motor factor can?

May give you a shout soon for a favour. Probably going to do my front wishbones soon and track rod ends just to tighten the front end up

scoobyverysoon

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Well cleaned the egr valve out before theres only a large rubber pipe on the bottom then the stainless pipe on the side to remove oh and the electrical clip there was next to nothing in it a little sticky stuff which i cleaned out

All rusting chips treated now next is the iron x been doing bits each night

scoobyverysoon

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crikey no posts

anyway been busy with stage after stage with the car i just cant get any time to just get it all done in one go

its been washed etc but managed to use tardis to de tar it then got round to using some iron x before i clay it now im impressed it stinks like hell but just goes to show what your paint holds

its hard to see on the paintwork but you should see tiny purple dots where the clear liquid is desolving the iron detected more so on the wheels which were actually cleaned several time with megs wheel brigtner you can see the purple runs better on them







i hope it doesnt stain my drive lol




then finally im up to the claying even after all the pre stages the paint still holds bits of crap this is just the roof



now to be fair the rest of the car wasnt too bad as the tardis tar remover did a good job

next up is touching up the stone chips then a good polish with the porta cable

moneys

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Car was overheating on the weay to work sunday. got greenflag out as i thought it was something major and i was in work, they topped it up, checked it before i left and still losing water plus pump making horrible noise.

Got it towed home and then towed to the garage ive used over the water, he changed the top pipe as it had a hole in it, suspected the noise was all the water going on the belt, rang me today, bloody head gasket has gone. gutted.

he will do it for £900 but will use all the upgraded gaskets, wouldn't mind the warranty ran out 10 days ago, called them and they said they would do it at cost but I just don't think I can trust them, only plus point is he will do my clutch whilst the engine is out at a knock down 200 instead of 550 as he said the engine will be out so really easy.

Checked all the paperwork I have for the car and the HG was also done 20k ago, looks like they used the standard gasket though which is the issue.

I'm totally gutted, couldn't of happened at a worse time as I'm spent up, got to pay loads off this month but it looks like I'll be doing some overtime anyway to pay for this.

Car showed no signs at all of a head gasket issue, nothing, think I may save up and get the map tweaked to a custom one as well so it doesn't over-boost, also I believe you can get a duel map which is switch-able so you can drive in like an economy mode which will come in handy as it will be doing more miles once the caravan arrives

jaytc2003

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the economy mode you won't use it, I had dual with my evo hardly got touched so I changed it to the same as the "normal" map but with added flames

I remember when I had my scoob, I suffered a rad loss due to cracks in the end plates, top hose, and water pump. Luckily I was due a timing change so I swapped the pump when I did the belt. If the gaskets are being done I would change the pump anyway as the timing belt has got to be removed to remove the heads so may as well replace it (they weren't too dear years ago, I got mine from graham goode)


£200 for the clutch is that supplied and fitted? When I had an uprated excedy fitted, think labour was around £130 and I supplied the clutch and lightened flywheel. Place Iused though rally a focus with scoob running gear so the knew exactly what to do.

I am getting a replacement imv for mine this friday, hopefully sort out my running issues. Think I have a split pipe as well running up to the egr so will upgrade to a silicon job