Hey,
I decided on a cheap Ford Escort 'Finesse', Y reg, as my runabout for now.
There's a few issues I have with it though at the moment. If anybody can enlighten me on any of them, I'd be grateful!
1) Rear windscreen demister does not work - fuse seems okay, earth seems okay, perhaps just a short in the wire somewhere?2) Aircon button worked at first, now aircon does not work. The button feels very very crap that puts the A/C on, it's either out of place, or perhaps it needs regassed at worst. If there's any simple diagnosis technics I should try before taking it to a garage, I would love to hear it!
3) I noticed after filling it up with (normal unleaded...) for the first time, that if you rev it kinda hard, then let it drop right down, it nearly stalls. So far when I have tried this, it has not stalled, but it very nearly does, and you can watch the dash-panel icons to see this is nearly about to happen. Is there any simple method for adjusting this? Could it just be idling too low (doesn't seem to be the case, idles quite nicely!) or on return-to-idle is it having problems with air-intake perhaps? Any suggestions appreciated...4) Weird creaky noise when parking up, seems to come from right or middle of bonnet (heard from inside the car, need a 2nd person to help locate noise...) but it's like a slightly loud creaky noise. Never done this in the auction, or naturally I wouldn't have purchased it, but I'm sure it's an easy solution, as someone here will point out....er....hi guys...hi!?
Apart from that most things are fine, I'm just worried about the above few problems and would really like them to get sorted asap through simplest most appropriate measure possible!
Thanks for any responses,
Robert