dule Legacy Donating Member 1,180 Member For: 19y 5m 13d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 07/04/08 12:05 AM Posted 07/04/08 12:05 AM I complained to ford about noisy valve springs and they replaced the idler pulley instead, car had under 40K on it.
senna_T Forged Member Legacy Donating Member 15,818 Member For: 19y 7m 22d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 07/04/08 12:20 AM Posted 07/04/08 12:20 AM did it fix the problem?
dule Legacy Donating Member 1,180 Member For: 19y 5m 13d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 07/04/08 12:39 AM Posted 07/04/08 12:39 AM Of course it did .... well for them it did anyway as I gave up trying.The guy was so sure that valve springs in turbos don't fail, it only happens to XR8s. I must have gone crazy and started hearing things.
senna_T Forged Member Legacy Donating Member 15,818 Member For: 19y 7m 22d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 07/04/08 01:03 AM Posted 07/04/08 01:03 AM ahh, crap, I actually still held some hope for the service guys - no longer!
dule Legacy Donating Member 1,180 Member For: 19y 5m 13d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 07/04/08 02:08 AM Posted 07/04/08 02:08 AM They are generally OK to fix small things, but not with more expensive/time consuming claims by the looks of it, but then again the valves were not noisy all the time so I sort of understand why they wouldn't fix it as maybe they didn't hear anything. But in that case they shouldn't try and feed you some bullsh*t like... it was your idler pulley or you didn't have enough oil or BA turbo valve springs are bulletproof.
turbotrana Member 2,586 Member For: 23y 5m 30d Gender: Male Posted 07/04/08 04:53 AM Posted 07/04/08 04:53 AM Was that American Idol or Australian Idol.
TUFXRT6 Legacy Donating Member 687 Member For: 20y 6m 9d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 11/04/08 01:16 AM Author Posted 11/04/08 01:16 AM They replaced the pully for free (under warranty) but.... Charged me 50 bucks to qoute "unblock my windscreen washer bottle filter"!!!!!WTF... Apparently if you dont use your washers they grow fungie in the bottle & block up the filter & you then cant wash the window!!!!Worst of all its not covered under warranty!!!! How could this ever be my fault?? Clearly its a ford design problem.RegardsTUFXRT6
joshbmx Member 64 Member For: 18y 6m 5d Posted 01/05/08 05:15 AM Posted 01/05/08 05:15 AM what kind of a noisde does this make when ts on its way out???
teebone Member 183 Member For: 22y 10m 28d Location: South of Melbourne, near the sea Posted 06/05/08 09:50 AM Posted 06/05/08 09:50 AM what kind of a noisde does this make when ts on its way out???A rattly rumble from the front end - some people who dont know their cars might not notice it. Mine started towards the end of a melb-coffs harbour-mel trip at around 80k from memory on a BA T. The only thing replaced under a very expensive extended warranty.
broke Legacy Donating Member 229 Member For: 14y 11m 15d Gender: Male Posted 17/10/12 07:48 AM Posted 17/10/12 07:48 AM Just noticed mine noisey this afternoon. Been wondering what the noise was. It's most noisey when the car is in D or some kind of load even at a stand still. I put it in N and had a listen and yeap sure enough it was the pulley. I'll try source a metal one and replace it. Looks to be dead easy to do yourself.
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