Recent content by gargravarr

Hi guys, My Supra's battery seems to suffering a dead cell 2 years into its 3-year warranty, which is all well and good. The trouble is that it was bought from a company in Lancashire and shipped to Kent. As some of you can probably imagine, nobody wants to touch it to send it back! It's a...

Hi all, Further to my For Sale where I concluded that Wildcat is unsaleable as a roadworthy car (unless someone is interested in it as a project), I'm going to have to sell it for parts. I've done a bit of research and determined some prices for things now. Photos are up here...

Update: The car just failed its MOT. More accurately, they didn't even start the test because it would have failed anyway. There's bodywork rust near the passenger trailing arm mounting and the subframe bushes are rotten. This car could be considered a restoration project, but since I've had...

To anyone interested in Thunder parts, this could well be your lucky day. Since it certainly isn't mine. I tried to get Wildcat MOT'd, but the tester took one look underneath it and said there was no point. There's bodywork rust near the passenger trailing arm mount big enough to put a finger...

Hi all, Well, the time has come. I'm getting rid of Wildcat. People who've seen my posts will know why, but in the spirit of honesty, it's not the car for me any more. I'll be concentrating heavily on my Supra for the foreseeable future. The car is in great condition. Mechanically it's totally...

I'll pretend you didn't say that, I absolutely adore the Supra ;) I get what you're saying, I was just hoping in some way that spending money and having all the work done on the car would reassure buyers they were getting a good one. At the end of the day it's still driveable and in good...

Hi guys, So this marks the beginning of the end of my Puma ownership. No doubt some of you remember my long complaining threads and my epic rant in Therapy. I'll admit, if I could make a career out of complaining, I'd be a rich man! Anyway... Wildcat. It pains me to have to get rid of it but I...

It's looking likely that it was the gasket, thanks for the advice guys. I bought one today and fitted it, following ScubaSteve's guide. Will let the instant-gasket set overnight and try it tomorrow, see if that's improved matters. The metal around the rocker cover seam on the exhaust side was...

All right, I'll get a Ford gasket then. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks for the replies guys. The mechanic was the one who told me the persistent oil leak was from the PS pump, and I can see a lot of oil around the unit. Would the rocker cover gasket cover the pump in oil?

Wildcat's p!ssing me off again! This is it, the deal-breaker. I want to do the bare minimum necessary to get the car in a saleable condition then get rid of it. I've had enough of the atrocious build quality of these cars. This time, I've got three issues to fix - rubber boots split on both...

Well, I got home safe, thankfully. I'll look into this issue over the Xmas break. I'm aware the error codes are now MOT failures. My Fiesta once passed its MOT with ABS and traction control lights on, not any more. Hopefully it'll be a loose connection or bad earth or something... oh wait, this...

Hi all, I try not to post the panicked need-help-right-now questions, but this one could use a quick answer please! Is it safe to drive a car with an 'evaporative emissions control valve' issue? I've just driven Wildcat about 25 miles (20 on motorway), and when I got to my destination I...

That's what I meant by 'not conclusive', the digital history goes back to 2005. I don't have any paper MOTs. I just don't find it inconceivable, perhaps because it's a limited-edition, that someone has clocked it. Otherwise, I'm having a hard time explaining why so many things have gone wrong in...

Kind of pissing me off all this is going wrong with the car (see my previous posts) and it's got 73k on the clock. MOT history doesn't truly prove or disprove, but I'm suspicious it's been clocked at some point. My higher-mileage Fiesta never had problems of the same degree this Puma has suffered.