Recent content by colechelle

Gang.. Sorry to ask a dumb question... What are the ford shockers fitted from new, am I right in saying there bilsteins???? Cheers, Cole

I would get the anti roll bar mounts changed as well, stopped a lot of knocking on mine......

I will update this thread when she do die!!!! And milage!!! I won't be getting rid of it!!

I change the oil every 5000 with filter of course, if I was to top up before doing the change, she would want a ltr to correct the level, so a ltr every 5000 I guess is not bad for that milage!! Still no rattles from cold in the morning, but as I said, she has full history, I have just carried...

Now that's a lovely looker!!!!!!!

That's the worry Neil, properly go pop in the morning!!!!!

Well, today, after owning it for just over a year and been used everyday to do 80 miles a day, she turned the big 150000, never had a engine nor has the head ever been off, in fact, looking at the service records (has full) the only thing its had is a gearbox and clutch, i did them about a month...

Mine just clocked 147000 and still doing 600 miles every week at 80 mph (all motor way driving)........

Welcome Sean, Mine has the best part of 150000 miles on it now, so yours is still young, Cambelt change is a must if unsure of when it was last done... Cole

Mine is completely standard........

Have you checked the gearbox mount hasn't dropped from it's rubber now touching metal to metal???

These were from a private seller who had bought them from fords then for some reason sold the car or it got smashed up or something!!! This vibration you have, does it kick in around 50mph, feels like the gearbox is trying to exit the car???? If so, this is the reason I am changing so many...

A new set of engine mounts make. My cheapy puma is slowly getting a rebuild week by week, today I had a slack hour so I thought I would fit the new mounts I bought of a certain site, brand new ford mounts, £100 for all three, What a easy job!! All 3 done in less than ah hour and that was with...

149000 now on mine, runs fine,

Are all puma boxes the same then, would have thought the gearing was diffent...... Anyway, have one now, just waiting to collect it,