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Getting a company car so my love affair with the Puma has to end I would like to be able to keep it as a weekend car but lack of home parking space and standing costs means I can't quite afford to be a two-car person. general spec: moondust silver, 113,000 miles, 9-spoke alloy version...

..as the title says, these are the codes from the diagnostic test after i took the money pit to garage after getting just 290 miles from full tank (normally 360-400, same driving habits) and developing a stuttering idle fluctuating between 600-1200 revs.... these are the codes from the...

going into the garage next week to hopefully eliminate all the various creaking, grinding and jolting sounds, the steerings habit of being influenced hard left or right by every imperfection in the road and the feeling of falling off a cliff on even the faintest hint of a speed or road bump...

hi all... had the puma in garage couple weeks ago to have all rear suspension bushes replaced. Got a waring that my rear axle was, in his words, rotting away. He waxoyled it up for me, but is convinced it won't survive it's next MOT in May. He suggested the work to replace it, parts/labour...

i've tried searching the forum for solutions, but have only found a a few threads relating to possibly similar occurences, but it's hard to tell because the youtbe clips trying to capture the sound in question also capture many of the puma's other delightful creaks and noises... :/ basically...

as my puma appears to be purging its bulbs weekly (2 indicatiors, headlight and rearlight gone in succession over the last month) I've noticed my digital odometer/tripometer isn't backlit (like the dig clock) anymore.... but not sure if it ever actually was? can anyone advise if it should be...

Work I've had done - front d/s wheel bearings replaced (advisory following full service) rear suspension mounts replaced Computerised wheel alignment Bonnet respray Went through it's MOT in May with just one advisory. All in all, service and MOT aside, I've spent no more on it than the...

morning all... soon to move to a lovely new development that just happens to have a social housing quota nearby. Checking the developments community website, I noticed an 'eCop' newsletter alert advising about heightened police presence in the area due to a spike in vehicle thefts (was back in...

maybe... the part time receptionist in our office is definately something of a petrolhead but never had her down as an airhead, so a bit of a mystifying exchange this morning... long story short, somehow managed to get to work early this morning and blag one of the allocated front of building...

having just done two stints up and down the M11 to London and back, both journeys in something of a hurry (mostly between 75-90mph, 'few' miles topping 100 :oops: ) was not entirely surprised to fill up the tank and work out i'd consumed 26 mpg... got to make a similar journey this weekend...

how many more litres of petrol can you reasonably shove into the tank after the pump clicks off?

alreet chaps, got the puma back after it's bonnet respray, turned out to be a near-all over respray as , in the sprayers words "couldn't be arsed with all that moondust silver blending"... anyways, looking the mutts and pics will follow, question is, picked it up Thursday evening, how long...

is there anywhere (preferably local to Pboro) where I can take the car to get plumbed in to the proper diagnostic reader thing to produce a list of faults/needed repairs to 'take away' to my regular guy, or can it all be done with the dash reader and a bit of googling of the resulting codes?

Arrived home this morning from a couple days away at a firends wedding to find my bonnet's been fucked over... three large, coarse-to-the-touch blemishes as seen in the pic, no idea what happened; at least three sets of neighbours have had large bbqs going on, one of whom are a bunch of chavs in...

had a call this morning from the mechanic working on something else on the car, letting me know when he jacked the car up and released some pressure in the lift or something (sorry to be vague, it was a quick call!) the rear n/s suspension did something that got his attention, he looked at it...

can't take pics as my camera's bollocksed, got two areas where I've tried everything to clean but nothing's working... pretty sure it's just a build-up of all sorts of nasties from the road given the areas where they are, and the fact they look like typical dirt build-up after long journeys in...

my driving instructor was always pissing and moaning at me about having to 'undo' the subtle bad habits he claimed I was always picking up from accompanied learner driving between lessons, but now I'm trying to shake off what I'm pretty sure is a pointless, politically correct element of my...

any one know a good product/technique to bring the seat upholstery back to life? mine have got a decade of tide marks, fading and general tattiness that I jast can't shift, probably adding new distress in the process. any miracle product out there??

whilst giving her a proper clean down this weekend I uncovered what appears to be scuff marks on the rear bumper at the curve, poorly covered up by the previous owner. Also found that at the area circled on the pic, the bumper doesn't fit flush to the body and if I press down on it it kind of...

have searched and searched on here but can't find anything specific... how easy is it to get to the inside of the headlight to give it a good clean and try and apply something to stop it misting up? Also, the black seal on one appears to be partially receded/rotted, has anyone ever fixed this...