In urgent need of advice!
I've already posted about this in the service and repair thread but feel it's definitely more of a "Help!" related issue now.
Since buying my 1.7 Puma back in August, I've had an odd, concerning noise that happens occasionally which is still yet to be diagnosed. As it happens intermittently, it's very hard to try and get a recording of it for my mechanic to have a listen to. The best way to describe the noise is that it sort of sounds like driving over a cattle grid - there is also some vibration with this.
Myself and my partner thought we had it pinned down to what it might have been, we noticed the noise was coming from the back drivers side and whenever the noise appeared I could feel some vibration feedback off the brake pedal. It was originally only doing it in low gears however it started doing it in high gears now as well. We figured it could be something to do with the back drum brakes so we took it back to my mates dad for him to have a look at. He retensioned the handbrake and said that it could be due to the rusting on the drum brakes and the fact the handbrake wasn't tensioned enough could have caused some rubbing which would have caused the noise. Seemed legit!
Was driving around quite happily for 2 to 3 weeks, no sign of the noise and then it started doing it again :-( again it's still intermittent but have noticed it most after parking on a hill or driving around town centres and she only ever does it at slow speeds. Some times it will happen once for about 5 seconds and that's it, other times it's happened about 5 times within a few minutes of each other. There's no performance issue with the car when it happens, she still runs fine and no jerks to indicate that it could be a gear/clutch issue. The disc brakes on the front have also recently been replaced by the previous owner. I have also noticed a ticking coming from the engine when idle, can only be heard if you're outside of the car. When it ticks, it seems to drop a few hundred revs then goes back up - I don't know if this is a normal thing for Pumas but thought I'd mention it in case it helps with any diagnostics just in case it may be related in any way.
I'm hopefully going to get hold of my mechanic later on and try and drop it off to him at the weekend and let him drive around in her for a week. I just wanted some feedback from other Puma owners what it could possibly be so I can mention it to him so he can check it all. Obviously I'm hoping the noise happens when he drives her and he'll know exactly what it is by that but unfortunately until then I'm at a loss!!
I'm determined to get this issue resolved as she's my first car and is pretty much perfect apart from this problem and a few minor things that come with having a 15 year old car! I want to try and keep her on the road as long as possible so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've already posted about this in the service and repair thread but feel it's definitely more of a "Help!" related issue now.
Since buying my 1.7 Puma back in August, I've had an odd, concerning noise that happens occasionally which is still yet to be diagnosed. As it happens intermittently, it's very hard to try and get a recording of it for my mechanic to have a listen to. The best way to describe the noise is that it sort of sounds like driving over a cattle grid - there is also some vibration with this.
Myself and my partner thought we had it pinned down to what it might have been, we noticed the noise was coming from the back drivers side and whenever the noise appeared I could feel some vibration feedback off the brake pedal. It was originally only doing it in low gears however it started doing it in high gears now as well. We figured it could be something to do with the back drum brakes so we took it back to my mates dad for him to have a look at. He retensioned the handbrake and said that it could be due to the rusting on the drum brakes and the fact the handbrake wasn't tensioned enough could have caused some rubbing which would have caused the noise. Seemed legit!
Was driving around quite happily for 2 to 3 weeks, no sign of the noise and then it started doing it again :-( again it's still intermittent but have noticed it most after parking on a hill or driving around town centres and she only ever does it at slow speeds. Some times it will happen once for about 5 seconds and that's it, other times it's happened about 5 times within a few minutes of each other. There's no performance issue with the car when it happens, she still runs fine and no jerks to indicate that it could be a gear/clutch issue. The disc brakes on the front have also recently been replaced by the previous owner. I have also noticed a ticking coming from the engine when idle, can only be heard if you're outside of the car. When it ticks, it seems to drop a few hundred revs then goes back up - I don't know if this is a normal thing for Pumas but thought I'd mention it in case it helps with any diagnostics just in case it may be related in any way.
I'm hopefully going to get hold of my mechanic later on and try and drop it off to him at the weekend and let him drive around in her for a week. I just wanted some feedback from other Puma owners what it could possibly be so I can mention it to him so he can check it all. Obviously I'm hoping the noise happens when he drives her and he'll know exactly what it is by that but unfortunately until then I'm at a loss!!
I'm determined to get this issue resolved as she's my first car and is pretty much perfect apart from this problem and a few minor things that come with having a 15 year old car! I want to try and keep her on the road as long as possible so any help would be greatly appreciated.