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I recently changed my serpentine drive belt and the difference it's made is significant. Aside from it not squealing at a volume that Just William's friend Victoria could only dream of, the steering rough spots when turning from lock to lock are gone. I had thought that I would be doing some...

Oh, well. I was having it too good! Driving into town this morning there was a hell of a squealing noise from the engine right across the rev range. Turns out that the belt tensioner was packing up and not fully tensioning the belt. I took it off and the pulley bearings are OK but the...

...well, OK, economy is probably slightly ironic! I got 23mpg on a 200 mile run from North Wales to Derbyshire across the Pennines with it brimmed using the same pump at the start and end of the journey. Hard to keep it to 70mph on the M56 as it wanted to cruise at 80+ and tehre were lots of...

At long last I got round to changing the plugs and leads. Justin advised me to change them after he did the chains in March....2010! Following advice from others on this site, I accessed them via the wheel arch and, although I've got little skin left on my hands and lower arms, I did the job in...

MOT cancelled! On my way to the MOT station at last, I noticed that the brakes were quite poor. I'd tested them on the drive after fitting the new ABS module and they'd seemed fine but this had been a limited test. Today though, there was a lot more pedal travel than I remember and poor...

So, my Ex failed it's MOT today. No surprises though, since the ABS light has never come on, which previous postings have highlighted as a forgone fail, and the wipers / washers totally stopped working just as I arrived at the garage - another couple of hours and I'd have been fine. ABS - The...

Help. It's snowing a lot and the Ex has chosen this time to play up! I have no wipers (front or rear), no front washers (rear OK), no interior roof lights (dash lights OK) and the 4x4 switch does nothing (no clunk or dash indicators). Indicators, full beam OK so multi function switch seems OK...

I bought a Ford 7000 Radio off ebay a few months ago to replace the one in my Ex which had a non-working LCD display when I bought it. As if a surprise, this one has now also lost its display, which forced me to finally open up the Ex's old unit to investigate. I'll be honest. Looking at...

One of my heated rear window connections has parted company as shown in the photo below. Has anyone else had this problem and, if so, how've you cured it? Is there an electrical conducting adhesive that's suitable? Do I need a new glass? Thanks, GRoB.

After declaring it a priority in January when bought my Ex, last weekend, I actually got round to removing the wheels and checking front and rear bearing play, brake discs, pads, suspension and parking brakes. After dreading what I may possibly find, all seems in good order. The parking brake...

There's most of the posts about serious issues and I'm mucking about with pictures, but it's bugging me! After the failure of my photo competition entry where I linked to facebook which didn't work, I've followed Blueka's advice (thanks, Si) and signed up to photobucket. However, using...

Took the Exploder up into the nearby Clocaenog Forest today. In excess of 8 inches of fresh snow and it was terrific. I've previously had a 1976 Landrover 110 2.25 petrol and a 1998 3.5 Range Rover and this was the equal of them as far as I'm concerned. I stayed on the public road and in the...

Can anyone in the North West or North Wales recommend a quality garage who can do timing chain replacements? I am aware of one in Aylesbury and one in Newport which advertise but how good are they? They're also a long way away. It seems to be a common fault and there must be somewhere up this...

Hello. I'm up here in the north of a rather snowy principality of Wales and have just recently bought a metallic green '99 North Face. It's generally in good nick but needs a few things sorting. Not sure if it's got the timing rattle...the exhaust rattles too much to hear! Otherwise, it's big...