2: What could cause the steering wheel to vibrate under medium-heavy braking on an S-reg fiesta 1.25? Bent front wheel? (it has been driven into a ditch in the past afaik).
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the escort iirc would be a cvh 8v yes? so i would say 36k or if you've just bought it NOW with sods law and all that
as for the vibration in the fester is it just under braking if so i would maybe have a looksies for the disks being warped/sticky brakes etc a bent front wheel would really show up a bit more than just under braking (unless you never take it above 40 mph)
No idea, but around the 60-70000 mark to be safe
If it only vibrates when braking then warped discs possibly.
If it a carb'd CVH (most likely) and not the injected PTE engine, then the interval is 36k. If its the PTE engine then the interval is 40k. (later increased to 48k)
Bent wheel, or bent / broken wishbone (these are engineered weak to bend very easily)
Tim..
"Tom Robinson" wrote
Never. And hope it dies a horrible painful death like all Escrotes do.
Warped disc(s) caused by lots of heavy braking or by a long brake from high speed followed by keeping one's foot on the brake pedal!
To add a thought to the others, duff wheel bearing would do this. "Lots of things" might be another answer. I'd jack it up and see what was loose, maybe spin the wheel to see if it is true but the wheel itself is easy enough to check by putting it on the back where it won't be affected nearly so much by braking.
Yeah, I had thought about swapping the fronts and backs, might give that a go. Thanks for all your replies.
1) As soon as you buy it cos you can bet its never been done. 2) Warped discs. Worn TCA bushes. Worn anti-roll bar bushes. A bent front wheel would do it all the time.
Er, I think you need to half that figure !
Do it now. Right now.
Then every three years / 36K.
Unlikely to be warped-discs on a 1.25 Fester. But change em anyway - should cost next to nothing.
Shitty ford crap!
Or looking at it the other way it could be if its got weedy disks because its a relatively lowly model, and its had a bit of abuse!
"Carl Gibbs" wrote
Mk 4 1.25 Fiestas are good cars - that little engine is great and they don't handle badly either. Plus they're refined and comfortable on long journeys. A very, very surprising little package when you consider the utterly dire Mk3 Fiesta. The front end looks a bit weird though.
1.25 Fiestas go well though. I've warped the discs on a few of 'em...
Hmm, 35000 miles cambelt changes, but the cambelt is cheap and easy to do, unlike certain Japanese mid engined things.
souls
Cambelts already been done by Mr Vamp so i dont care :) And besides its only £15 which isnt a lot and i doesnt look *that* hard to do anyway, and theres more room than a 205 diesel to do it in!
I'm not disputing that, i've heard good things about the engine, but at the end of the day its still a fairly small lump, and probably has small brakes to go with it!
souls
Exactly :)
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heh, £15 ? Daylight robbery that.
As for 205 Diesels, ohhh yusss. Never again.
souls
Mine really needs to be done, gawd knows when it was done last and we've done 15000+miles in it. Its not really that difficult, i just cant be arsed. Although i finally ordered the cam oil seal yesterday thats been waiting to be done since i got it, so you never know...
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