Found jxkeefe's comment on Ford possibly being cheap with the valve manufacture interesting , my daughter has a 2008 1.4 Fiesta , after only 27,000 miles it developed a miss . After a compression check No1 had zero reading so we took the head off and found the complete head had come off the valve ...

My U.K. spec '95 850 has the VVIS system and all the info I've seen over here suggests it was only on the 20v models and ran till the OBD2 cars came in , which here I believe was late '95 / early '96.

All the hose clips were tight , the hose appeared good and the electrical connections were secure . The pump itself didn't rattle or feel like anything was loose internally . The only thing that appeared really cruddy was the gauze type filter on the bottom of the pump , it had turned a dark grey in ...

SORTED !!! :D :D :D It turns out it was the fuel pump , replaced it this morning , road tested it and she drove like a dream for the first time in over a year ! Must say this was a bit of a last resort because as I said before I thought a failing pump would be worse under hard acceleration , still ...

The car is only OBD1 and the problem only shows whilst driving , at idle it's smooth as silk and revs freely . The engine shows good compression , there's no leaks apparent and no contamination of the oil or water . If you accelerate hard from a standstill it does 'cough' once but then takes off ...

Hi guys , desperately seeking advice on this one , My '95 855 2.5 20v auto (app. 180k) has had this problem for nearly a year . On medium throttle between 2000/3000rpm the car surges i.e. accelerates - brief pause - accelerates - brief pause e.t.c. On hard acceleration it's fine and same if gentle ...

I had this problem when I bought mine (same year and model) and the european alarm set-up seems a little different to the U.S. On mine holding the key hard over in the locking position activated the dead locking and alarm (led starts to flash) and I was told this only happens on the basic alarm ...

I really thought that was the way things were gonna go and it don't look to much fun . Fortunately for me using a little heat and holding the hard line nut with vice grips , I cut the old flexi hose and slipped a 14mm ring spanner over the cut piece to pull against (in effect winding the flexi off ...

Thanks guys , and yeah i'm gonna change the fluid too , it looks a little grubby . Gonna have to do it Saturday now coz I can't get the connections between the main steel pipe and the flexi hose to budge , think i'm gonna need a lift and some heat !!!

For a while now Ive been getting an annoying rattle from the front hub whilst going over bumps . I noticed it was'nt there if I braked on a bump so while I have a week off work I had a nosey . Long story , short , it was the three spring clips that hold the pad to the caliper piston . After a little ...