Sorry that we all fell over backwards about 6 minutes into the video. But the sun was in the sky, and none of us have seen that for ages. We wanted to look at it. 😁

@rimmersbryggeri

3 ай бұрын

Fees like years since it's been clear?

@cromulence

3 ай бұрын

Speak for yourself. I was pished.

@johngrubb1590

3 ай бұрын

What is a sun!!!!!!

That Xantia really is lovely. The design has aged so well.

The strut rant is just hilarious, wishing you had filmed it, you could have started a new series, Kitchen's Hell

@tomsproston5837

3 ай бұрын

Kitchen's Hell....YES!!

@AnssiRauhala

3 ай бұрын

Here in Finland, the McPherson strut has been nicknamed 'McPerkele'. I heard it in 1989 from my uncle, a retired car mechanic, when I was tinkering with my Ford.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Lots of My Summer Car langauge went into the S-Max!

The smax story was utterly superb!! One of your best. Awful for you live through but told so well!! 😎🤪👍🏻

Hahahahahaha love it please never stop. Mate you make my car problems pail into nothing. 🇦🇺

Your strut story resonates with any Volvo P3 platform owner. That's the ford engineering for you right there!

@Mickhanic-garage

3 ай бұрын

Been there done that...

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Stupid thing is I replaced the shocks years ago when you just got it, and don't remember having this issue! But then, my memory ain't great!

Sodding cars. I hope things get easier for you! My car philosophy has always been to own multiple vehicles to increase the odds of one of my old/interesting (?) collection actually working when needed. One day last autumn my Clio 200 was in the middle of an engine swap. My usually completely reliable Transit Connect decided not to start. I drove my also surprisingly reliable Clio 172 Cup to the motor factor to get a new starter for the van… only for that not to start when I wanted to drive home again. 🤦‍♂️😢 After half an hour of swearing the 172 decided to be less french and cooperated (and has ever since). An hour later the van had a new starter. And now the 200 actually works as well. 😊 It won’t last though…

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Same here, but one out of nine?! It's demons, I tell you!

The fault with the C6. The V6 diesels shared with JLR and ford suffer with poor running and limp mode with some of the codes I saw on your scanner were often down too a blocked map sensor in the inlet manifold due to carbon. Easy to remove and clean. Try it unless you already have. It was very common when I was working at a jlr workshop. Also the inlet manifold could be quite blocked in general with carbon

I feel your pain, so do my neighbours, when they hear me shouting at my cars and calling them very bad things when they seem to gang up on me!

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

I had a council noise pollution notice served on me when I was younger living at home!

The C6 was very popular at Rustival - great car...

My sympathies Rich but on the upside you make great watchable videos and would make a great teacher

I guess this is the kind of thing that unfortunately can happen to someone like you with so many 'interesting' cars, but I have heard it said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. You must be eligible to enter the World's Strongest Man contest now... 💪

Best rant i've ever listened to 👌👌

As a jaded Ford employee I gotta admit it warms the cockles of my frozen heart to see someone rant about Ford's absolute garbage engineering.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

😆

I am not really a car guy but love your channel, I can relate to your woes with my Motorcycle collection which are all sorted just in time for winter hibernation and put me thru hell in spring once more LOL Subscribed !!!

My Volvo V70 shares the same suspension (give or take!!) and you shared the very same experience as I did last year when I had to change the front struts! It took me 2 days all told log kneeling on the drive in the rain!

Those early Xantias are such gorgeous looking cars.

Relatable. Hope you figure the Imp's issue out. Could it be water pump related? The back pressure from having a longer run might cause it to fail early.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

There's a small chance it's water pump, but again it's only done 2500 miles and it's had waterless coolant in, so it's not like it'll be rusted up.

Wow, what a bloody nightmare. Hopefully all can be sorted soon, but at least there is one car working.

Great to see the Activa in use. I feel your pain, I have 3 cars & 3 bikes & am currently using public transport or walking. Even my Xantia is in ill health.

Listening to that S-Max suspension rant felt like reliving my experience trying to do the same operation of replace the front springs for its next MOT on a Peugeot 206 where the wishbone has vertical bolts and you have to have (shit you not) a 2m long pole to have enough leverage to pull the wishbone (with built in lower balljoint) low enough to get it out of the knuckle to free the front strut. We couldn't get enough leverage with what we had, spent hours, days. Lots of forum digging. Eventually bought a long wish bone leverage tool, and managed to do it. Now with new tool, the other side took an afternoon, rather than a week. And yes could you imagine trying to line up a lower balljoint that needs to be perfectly straight aligned with the knuckle while applying the force of god to a 2m pole to pull the wishbone enough. What a ballache. Sometimes you wish you paid someone else to do it in hindsight but it's too late now. Also in addition, I'd parked the car too close to the garage door thinking I'd get it done in a day, after spending all day trying to get the wishbone back in, giving up in the pitch black of January at 9pm, tried to close the garage door, oh the immobile car is in the away, had to drag the car with a jack on one corner. Also same as you, damaged the lower balljoint and driveshaft CV boot in the operation, both had to be replaced. Nightmare from hell that operation was.

@christhesnaildriver

3 ай бұрын

Last time I had to do that job on a Peugeot with the riveted in balljoint, I went the route of grinding the heads off the rivets, using a punch to knock the rivets up and out, which allowed the hub with B/J attached to pop out the end of the wishbone. Fitted a bolt-in balljoint on reassembly. Still needed a little leverage to line things up, but not nearly as much. The last car I fought that design of inner bushes on was a Mk6 Escort, and never wish to do that again!

@TK42138

3 ай бұрын

Been there and I feel your pain. Clutch replacement on the 206 is also a battle for the same reasons.

More than one car always stresses me out. I can’t imagine ten….. 90s Citroëns FTW though! 😊🎊

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

The 90s Citroëns are the only ones still plodding along (if you discount the other Xantia, and my BX, but those are both off the road by intention)

Your videos are informative, enjoyable, incredibly funny and, may I say, therapeutic. Keep 'm going! The vids, I mean. And the cars as well, I suppose ...

Classic video, many chuckles DON'T JOKE ABOUT SELLING HILDA

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

HubNut Foxanne vibes intensify...

Quality rant 😂

Us spring guys use a Laser tool number 35684 for lower wishbones, there is also a set of sockets that have a hardened oval end for opening the ball joint pinch or the strut pinch (so you don't have to smash in a chisel) and we have an amazing tool for working in the wiper motor area....Masking tape along the bottom of the screen as it was not the refit that broke the screen it was that little tap when you pulled the motor out. I had a rear screen explode 25 mins after fitting the wrong rear wiper arm on an Audi the spring touched the screen the car sat under a LED light and then the shop heater cut in blowing (as normal for a garage) Luke warm air and diesel fumes about. Stick with it chap its all in a days life of a mechanic,,,,I know they are your own cars but instead of owning 10 cars spend the money on something else like supporting a local charity like the Coach and Horses Pub ! LOL just Kidding xx

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

That's a pretty trick tool! The windscreen wasn't anything to do with the motor, there's a piece of metal the motor hits before it could contact the screen. The glass must have been unsupported and when I pressed on the trim it bent it and split at the weakest point.

I don't know if it's about my getting old or something, but I increasingly find myself getting quite anxious when devices don't work properly. I don't remember being like that when I was in my 20s, though God knows the first car I had (Viva HB) sorely tested me (and the AA) a lot of the time.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Might be that you're more experienced now so you notice when things aren't right.

I had a 93 bought 4 years old with over 90 thousand miles on it as a Saab approved used car! Yep really. I agree I,t was wonderful to sit in and kept it 10 years. Just was a bit dear on petrol. You should look at the estate and diesel. Such a shame they were allowed to die. Vauxhall tried to ruin them by nicking designs but they could never match the seats, probably because they cost too much to produce. I drove vans all day up to 600 miles but, within 15 minutes in my Saab aches and pains vanished. You have to love a French car though, sort of classing Hilda a French. When they are meant to be perfect they let you down yet, the unloved one left festering for months unloved came to the rescue!

Great video rich, so many problems. The ABS sensor went on my Rover 75 and i couldn't get it out, but i can lay it off to my mechanic and bypass a large amount of stress I would have loved to see the Xantia at the hubnut social , shame i couldn't make it Have a cup of tea instead an try to relax for 10 mins ps when you were talking about the springs i thought i was watch Denis Leary in the 1990s

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Thank you mate, that's very kind! I'm off to Google Denis Leary...

I can relate! I am on the second of the two days off I took to pull the engine from my AMC Spirit and my stupid MINI has taken all of the time, probably because I am fixing it to sell it. So, I will now have to take more time off to take care of the original reason I took time off in the first place! At this rate, I have to concede defeat and realize I will miss Power Tour this year, which was the reason I tried to resurrect the car after 18 years in the first place.

I'm happy to have been here, to help you with your therapeutic release.

Today my household has had car troubles too, gotta love them, it happens to everyone. On the topic of Saabs, had my 9-3 for a year now. From the perspective of a young driver who has only drove a few other cars, it drives pretty well. My main complaints with it is the gearchange being notchy and stiff in 1st and 2nd (Can be fixed with a new turret according to the Saab community) and the steering being slightly weird. Though I think there's still something not entirely mechanically right with my cars steering. Though the actual performance from it is pretty impressive, makes turbo sounds when you let off the throttle when you're going for it.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

The steering on mine was too light and wooly - there was no bite to it, it was like sitting at an arcade racing machine and pretending to play.

Sorry to see you have been through the mill with your fleet. On the up side the old Xantia saves the day! Modern cars are most certainly not built to last. Made to fail to keep the industrial machine and profits going! I wish there was a company out there that created new parts for all old cars. Older cars were built to be easy to maintain it was a selling point for many.

Just done a pair of springs on a 2014 focus. They do have clearance to get the hub off... If you can get it moving as its rusted to buggery. You then decide to pop the bottom ball joint & drive shaft, which is rusted to buggery. None of this will move without obliterating it, so you end up using a jack stand to push the lower spring seat up (with eyes shut & fingers crossed, braced to run) out of the hub. 🤬 Once all the rust was cleaned off & a little grease in strategic places it all fell back together... I hate cars...

Changed the rear spheres last weekend. Today the offside front feels like im going up the street on a f'ing spacehopper. I know your pain.

Your hair and the storm are quite the representation of your car situation. Great man!

That Saab strut sounds like it must be a GM thing, sounds exactly the same as my Mk5 Astra, nice and easy for a DIYer like me to replace. Just hearing what you went through with the S-Max was enough to give me anxiety thinking about working on a car like that!

That's a nice BX. Looks in lovely condition.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Which one? lol

That was painful to watch, but hilarious at the same time. Please don't quit the day job! Thanks for the great content.

Such an entertaining video, which I can well relate to.. love the story telling.

Oh dear, gotta love Ford's front strut designs. My Mk2 Mondeo involves pretty much the same amount of fun changing a strut - with the exception of not having to faff about removing scuttles and wiper arms. And I also learned the hard way how easy it is for the inner cv joint to fall apart whilst your faffing about trying to get the strut and bottom ball joint back together. But, on the bright side, you did not snap your pinch bolts off, which is something old Ford's like doing. But seriously, I feel for you, it's bad enough having issues with just one car, three of them is more than a bit excessive.

Sounds like fun 😅 I'm at risk of heading a similar way.. with one car having it's MOT on the expiry, and the other taking more effort to put right than I'd foolishly expected 😅

This episode reminds me of the show Fawlty Towers where John Cleese is beating his poor car with a branch. I'm not laughing at you, I am laughing with you. Like they say in the US, sometimes you are the windscreen, other times you are the bug. Sorry for your trouble, but it was an entertaining video.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

"sometimes you are the windscreen, other times you are the bug" I like that!

Man, I feel your pain! My daughter came home (on route from work in Andover to home in Winchester, via the Surrey Hampshire Berkshire border) to swap her 08 plate Prius (with only 167k miles ...) for her previous car 97 p reg Rav4 with 66k miles so we can take the Prius to our local garage as it has various lights indicating it is unhappy. We've only just got the 09 plate Kia Picanto back after having a new clutch and timing belt - only ~56k miles so the clutch shouldn't have gone ... the 58 plate Seat Altea XL is still at the garage awaiting sale for scrap (hard seeing it there each visit) ... the 07 reg Meriva with a dead auto box has finally gone back to the garage we bought it from ... the replacement car, a 55 plate Renault Scenic is due to go in soon to check it the mention of rush on the rear sub frame at the last mot is an easy fix or not - it's only done 76k so is too young to die! It does have 'interesting' electrics - ultrasonics set the alarm off unless disabled, sometimes the hazard lights keep coming when the car's locked, sometimes the locks pulsate on and off until the engine is started, the auto box cluncks sometimes when it changes rapidly to 2nd, the electronic oil level reports all is well but the dipstick is stuck and it's timing belt was changed in 2010 ... is it worth the stress of saving it!

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Erm...no, I would say!

All that with the S-Max took me back to replacing the ffont wishbones on my previous Grand Espace. Had to drop the front subframe to get them out. Then once it was (eventually) all back together, the steering was fooked so had to drop it again to sort it. Also, loved the Colin Robinson reference 😆

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Someone got it! WWDITS friend!

CMax is an energy vampire! Very good.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

The Best Ways To Drain People’s Energy Nowadays Is Via The Internet.

The S Max must have some French MPV design features I can confirm the Grand Scenic and C3 Picasso are equally frustrating to work on. You have more non working cars than that HubNut chap that's impressive ❤

Very amusing, you weave a very eloquent story with laughs. Excellent!

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

My wife has a 2014 Focus. Spring snapped on driver's side and I thought it would be simple to do like other cars I've done. Nope. Pushed the wishbone down so much to get the strut out of the knuckle I pulled the driveshaft out of the gearbox. Was an absolute biatch to do. Love your videos too. I'm daft enough to have a C6 also 😱

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

And yet the driveshaft on the C6 was easy!

Excellent video. Really, really funny

I feel your pain Rich... I had my BXs front calipers rebuilt to fix a slight binding issue and perished rubbers before rustival, last week after progressive sluggishness I stopped at some traffic lights and had a smoking hot front passenger caliper, the previous issue was worse. New caliper purchased but taking ages to arrive. So I used my Saab 9-3 to commute the next day and the oil light came on, the engine sized on the way home. I usually only commute via car once a week but obviously for the next month it's everyday. We have 5 cars and only 1 running and usable, sigh. So whilst not as bad as your situation it's Still crap 🤣 I'll be buying another car just to use for the next month.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Nooo! I recommend a Xantia Activa. They get you out of trouble!

Oh mate 😭 I genuinely would've gone to bed and never came back out Holy crap, what a set of events! Keeping fingers crossed you'll get through it I also noticed the screen in the C6 is all scratched up - had the same issue in my Clio Tomtom and one day while cleaning the windows I genuinely wiped that protection film, or whatever it was, off with a wet paper towel

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, I've done something to that screen with cleaning products (ironic as I never clean it)

I feel your pain, had a similar ordeal when the old 159 decided to reduce it's spring-rate over a speed bump - except it was in a shared carpark in the middle of town :D

Take time to smell the roses, hahaha, great video

Sympathise hugely with this. My 'fleet of scrap' is a similar size and maintains similar availability. Weather, light and inconvenience levels of illness have stymied me getting several vehicles on the road so I can do minor work on others. Happens. Just keep two half decent cars with the rest at quick fix readiness. That just about allows sanity to be maintained.

Flanders and Swann 'The Gasman Cometh' 🎼🎶🎵

With the springs on the smax you want to get a transmission stand adaptor to put under the strut to compress the spring to give that clearance for the knuckle

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Tricky when it's on a 4 post ramp...

My mind must be broken. I read the thumbnail as “when your cars turn you on” Help

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Yes, seek help!

Nice wheels on the Imp.

Good rant… I’m not a mechanic so thought it was just me these things happened to😳

Feel your pain with the windscreen, I cracked mine on my rover 75 a couple of years ago, I could not believe I had done it just caught the wiper arm and it dropped onto the screen and crack....Then in November 2023 and January 2024 two of the fleet failed MOT's costing £1400 in total... Sometimes I hate cars... Don't ask about the Escort.... That's another pain a month back.. I think I need to buy a Saxo nothing goes wrong with them 😂😂

@UPnDOWN

2 ай бұрын

Except rust 😭

Wish you well fixing the others, fingers crossed on all

Stories like this remind me why I always keep one Japanese car on the fleet at all times (currently a suzuki vitara). At least I know that it's got my back when something interesting happens. Having said that, I still had to resort to borrowing my brother's Saab 900 one time when my swift was in an accident and both of my frenchies were off the road due to borked turbo (307) and multiple serious oil leaks (clio). Loved that 900 though, fantastic daily cruiser.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Maybe I need a Honda Beat...

I know your pain I had to change the ball joints on the S_Max I had, I did the drivers side first and the inner CV dropping apart like yours, ended up replacing the drive shaft for second hand one. Loved the car but a pain to work on.

After watching this I fully understand what you've gone through with one frustrating problem and cost after another. Found it interesting how described the technicalities and frustrations with some quality Up N Down dry humour. Hilda and the C6 look glorious.

The same story with my 5 cars, only 2 can drive and they also have their problems that it remains to be seen how long they will last.

Oh man, what a disaster..... I did really enjoy the video though..... Hope the xantia will do its job Kitch, and hope you can stay positive!

Quite the story, thank you for sharing. Hope things will be better going forward. Really glad to see the Xantia Activa coming in clutch to save your fleet. Similar thing happened to me recently, so I know how it feels to have multiple cars which are all broken. Things are looking up though, I am getting the BX back on the road soon hopefully. Also, I enjoyed the brief BX cameos in the background. That silver one, is it a 19 TRS? Has the same trims as mine (and otherwise looks identical but silver instead of grey). Anyway, enough yapping. I will say it again, I really wish only the best for you going forward. All of these thing piling up can be hard, but you'll power through it!

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

19DTR in the background.

@jugostran

3 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN Ah, nice! The 19 TRDs (or DTR in Britain) did share the same spec as 19 TRSs and 19 TRIs.

welcome to my world sounds like every week of my life.

Was good to see you at the social. You know the company around the corner from you that turbos Hayabusas .......... A Busa Turbo Hilda ? 😈 Yeah I know I am a sick and twisted fool.

I hope making the videos is somewhat cathartic, they are very entertaining for us, and mitigate my longing while the BX is on stands waiting for Pleiades and the 5-day shipping to Ireland 🙄We had an SMax with Powershift transmission, which died at 8yrs old. Specialists described the boxes as terribly designed, total fail from clutch material clogging them up (if I recall correctly). Xantia looks nice.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Thanks! Powershifts are known as Powershit in the S-Max 'ownership community'.

@MaxsLoungeMusic

3 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN😂

It's not just me that has weeks like that then. You have my sympathies.

Your smax has tin rot like mine exact same place but mine is worse on the drivers side. Ive also had many brake woes. Mine has also destroyed many of springs 😂

I remember my dad once telling me he liked fords because they were easy to work on. He was talking about the cortina.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

I expect a mk1 Escort is pretty easy.

All hail the mighty Xantia 🎉. There’s a huge following who believe in you, your luck must change soon 👍👍

I had the same compression issue on my Saxo desire 😂😭 causing the bottom ball joint angle to be off

Imp may need an auxilary waterpump and maybe fatter coolant lines due to the higher heat thermal stress of the more powerfull engine. My assummption is it has a front mounted radiator, so maybe an extra radiator core could help to.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

It's been fine for 2500 miles though, including round Goodwood.

@rimmersbryggeri

3 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN Yes but if it was fine all the time it must have blown the head gasket standing under covers which I don't think is very likely. I would have bought that logic if it was 25000 miles. But it could also well be that the head or the block or both are not flat like you said. That should have presented going around goodwood if anytime I assume though. Let's not lose track of this being a conversation to get your car to run as reliably as possible though.

Fairly sure the majority of your subscribers can relate to this - I certainly can…but life would be boring (albeit slightly less stressful) without such challenges! 👍

Its tight with the balljoint on s-max i have don a few. Same on focus and v50. I have used pichler 62016700 and ks tools 700.1495 looks the same. You use a wrench to pull down the control arm and its stays down. Intsead of the 'hockey sticks" you need to hang on.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Yes I was shown a Laser version of that tool. It looks good, probably worth buying.

Good grief, that's def bad luck for three cars to break in a week, but at least there's a silver lining (okay, red), with the Xantia now on the road. There's a saying about mechanic's cars always needing fixing, which is why I stopped being a mechanic years ago...😂

And I always thought that Fords were easy to maintain!

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Not in my experience. Ford seem to have two priorites when designing cars: 1. Make it drive well (which many of them did/do) 2. Make it very profitable And that's it.

Could of been worse Rich !.... At least the top mounts on your Ford weren't coated in rust as if they had been part of the Mary Rose....

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Nah, just the sills...

Do you possibly have to put the smax on full lock in one specific direction to get the strut out like on golfs and the peugeot 206. On my mondeo mk3 I thought it was easier to undo the wishbone at the chassi end to get the knuckle off.

Been there done that on a Mk4 Mondeo ( same as the S Max) with the strut, when you first figure out the lower arm wont go low enough as it hits the subframe its proper bloody annoying. And the odd setting up of the the top mounts. Crap job.

Saab 9-5 > Saab 9-3 for handling. I had a 9-5 Aero and test drove a later 9-3 Aero to replace it. I kept the 9-5. Not the last word in finesse, and torque steer ahoy, but felt much more connected to the road.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

My 9-3 handled terribly though! Ride, handling, steering, gearchange...all well below the stuff I'm used to. But likability? It was high. The seats were amazing, it looked good, the ergonomics and thought behind the cabin was appreciated, and it went well. If it rode properly, I'd have forgiven it the other stuff, but it was just so jiggly and unsettled in the same way my Primera GT or MG ZS180 were, only they handled well. The SAAB didn't, it manged to ride AND handle badly. It was the opposite of a Peugeot 306! And yet I still miss it. I'm weird!

Just as a pre-caution, I would store the Xantia on axle stands.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Not really much point if I'm driving it! New top mounts are on order, though.

Re:S-Max front struts. Exactly the same issue with a Mk2 Mondeo, I cheated . Sat back with fresh coffee and a smoke and looked at it, old style spring compressors, jubilee clips just to stop them slipping . Compress the springs, jack the hub up to compress the damper . Undo those stupid bolts and hammer the F**ker out. Does mean that you have to leave the spring compressors on the new spring until the strut’s in place, but those plus a crowbar gave just enough space to get them in. I drive a Mitsubishi Lancer now, no issues at all in the last four years- touch wood 😂😂

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Cheers! The spring clamps don't fit in-situ, sadly. I tried!

Look on the bright side, If it wasn't for the bad luck, you'd have no luck at all!

I feel your pain, RIch. It's rather like a 2 minute meeting that goes on to last 2 days. Can someone confirm that whoever designed S-Max's front suspension was versed in mechanics ?

It does sound an awful lot like my cars, actually.

Do not buy a Hyundai. I had one, it nearly broke my mind and will to live. There was allways something wrong with it. It was only five years old when we bought it, and had done 42000 km. I drove it to the wrecker at 100026 km and 10 years. That was one of the happiest dans of my life.

I'm booking my S Max in to you for a pair of front springs.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

*cough cough...* You're fucking not!

It's not a fu(king vauxhall thing

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

😆

Sometimes life/fate/cars seem hell bent on repeatedly kicking you up the bum. As a mere 6 car amateur ensemble here (two functional) I can look on enviously all the same. Just a suggestion: I've used spring compressors on the strut whilst still in the car to compress the strut as much as possible and reduce the distance downwards you need to pull the wishbone. Mention of a 206 putting up a similar fight in the comments here - I'm sure I got a 206 strut off by that method. If I say "an enjoyable video" please don't read as "I revelled in your misery" more, I feel your pain! 😊

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Cheers! The spring clamps don't fit in-situ, sadly. I tried!

@matthewblundell9119

3 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN ah, that's annoying! What a pain of a job then, nothing else springs (pun very much intended!) to my mind to make that battle easier.

I think at about halfway through this tragic tail i would have bought a hourse and trap. 😢

What about the battery/ charging system on the C6? Is always a good bet these days it seems. Or joy of joys broken solder joints in ECU BSI or Cluster. Or the main relay in the BSM. Pretty common on some psa cars.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

There's a small chance it's battery related, but I think MAF is the most likely culprit at the moment

@rimmersbryggeri

3 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN Not sure why the maf would cause a no crank which it seemed to me is what you had. Not sayint the maf cant also be faulty but the BSM is my bet. had exactly the same symptoms on a citroen c8 that I wanted to buy from an auction a couple of years back. IT was the main relay which is neatly potted in silicone but aparently you can remove that by the aid of solvents. Then its a cheap relay rahter than a £200+ bsm.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

@rimmersbryggeri It does crank? I literally started it in the video 😆

@rimmersbryggeri

3 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN I didnt hear the engine. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. What I saw was you turning the key and nothing happening accompanied by a myriad of fault codes. That's exactly what happens when the bsm is faulty.

arghhhh, I do think Smax windscreens are made of cheese, and I now dread to check why mine has developed a slight pull to the left.

Fords are badly engineered? Colour me and literally one everyone ever, shocked. Also your conclusion is the one I came to about financing cars - I ran 7 to 14 year old cars for years until I made the mistake of working out how much a month I ended up spending... which ended up being more than financing a nice new car. I still have old stuff, but I keep one car that's never more than four years old and never out of warranty for this exact reason. And now I now longer have the Sunday night panic worrying about getting to work Monday morning. The cars are less interesting, but they get me there, well to be fair 430bhp is still fun even in an EV.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

I know, right? Who'd have thunk!

If it is any consolation I am in almost the same position 10-1 ratio and the #2 car that could work I broke that!

Some other ford bulls... Engineering, go replace a front wheel bearing on a ford transit from 2000-2010... Bolt are positioned on the inside behind the brake discs. My brother did them twice on the van we owned.

@UPnDOWN

3 ай бұрын

Oh yes, I've heard all about those!

@125daxJ

3 ай бұрын

@@UPnDOWN never mind their other big problems, injectors (very expensive) and the injection pump (even more so ...) which is doomed to fail from the start. And these bloody engines are thirsty.