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Thanks a lot for the help. I'll take the column off and look for any crud, but to be honest, it sounds like a mechanical scratching, if that makes any sense. Its really hard to explain what it sounds like, but it came on very suddenly (after the round about thing). The closest I can get to...

Hi all! I was wondering if anyone had experienced this before. Today it has been raining heavily all day, and the roads are very greasy. I turned around a roundabout to find my back end fly out (What happened to the puma's handling!? :( ) and with a bit of luck - and opposite lock, I managed...

Ahh that's a relief to hear it's all normal. Thanks a lot :) I'll use the hot start procedure in future.

Hi all, I'm new here, got my lovely 2001 1.7 Puma last Monday and I love it to pieces it's my pride and joy! Usually it starts straight away (no touching the throttle) starts up and sounds nice and crisp running very well. However a few times now - maybe 5 out of 100 starts - it's taken a good...

Ahh makes more sense knowing it's being done in fourth gear. Still seems a little odd 3rd gear does a hell of a better job :P

Something seems terribly wrong with this? Why does it take 0.5 of a second longer to get from 31-62mph than it does from 0-62mph??