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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:23 pm |
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 161
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Leeds
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hey guys,
Ive just bin on my way home from work and my ICV has gone again after only fitting a brand new one 2 weeks ago. The idle is just under 3000 now. Im wondering whether you guys could give me a ball park figure as to how much all the work that needs doing to my car will cost if i take it to a garage for it all doing. It needs:
Rear O/S brake drum as its leaking brake fluid,
Exhaust mount somewhere,
Auxillary belt tightening/Replacing,
Icv clean/replace.
Sorry i cant give you more info about each one but as i say i just want a ball park figure as my MOT is due in february and will have to pay for it all with one wage at the end of january.Im very close to just binning this car altogether as its just one problem after another. I even had a little cry when it started idling high again! Cheers for your help guys. Joni
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:27 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 13077
Trade Rating: +65
Location: England
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Exhaust mount - new or adjusting?
Aux belt and ICV you could do yourself so don't pay labour
Is the engine management light on? Have you had it code scanned?
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:29 pm |
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 161
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Location: Leeds
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i havnt got an EML on lee. I think the mount has gone completely as it rattles very loud. Very embarresing!
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:35 pm |
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Joined: Dec 16, 2010 Posts: 1315
Trade Rating: +3
Location: Ips
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time for a gti me thinks ,,, 1000 these days
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:38 pm |
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 161
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Location: Leeds
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i wish cant even afford that at the minute!!
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:40 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 13077
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Location: England
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You had a look under the car at the exhaust?
You tried getting it code read to see if there's any fault codes?
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:43 pm |
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 161
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Location: Leeds
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wouldnt there be an eml though if there was a fault code. It a 1999. Ive had a look under and it sounds like its coming from the catalyst area. Im not really mechanically mined enough to look much further!!lol
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:52 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 13077
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Location: England
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Not necessarily, I've scanned a few cars and found problems even tho the EML isn't on.
Is the exhaust touching the body?
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:56 pm |
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 161
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Location: Leeds
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as i say i havnt really had a brill look at it. Sorry for lack of info, It definately touching somewhere though as i can distinctly hear it hitting against the body!
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:58 pm |
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Joined: Aug 25, 2010 Posts: 786
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Location: East london
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My drum is leaking fluid too, its the cylinder inside which is probably foooked and needs replacing
Its going in on Thursday to be fixed so I'll let you know how much it costs I usually work on cars myself but quite frankly cannot be asked to mess around with drums and all those small springs and bearing inside it
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:07 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 13077
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Location: England
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Could just be the hangers want adjusting then. I had that when I first got mine, was touching the body near the CAT. Just took it to the exhaust place and slipped the lad a few quid for some beers and he adjusted them.
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:15 am |
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Joined: Jul 18, 2010 Posts: 161
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Location: Leeds
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Hi guys, just an update and a question..:-) Today the father inlaw had a look at my auxillary belt and said it was quite loose and had a 1/4 of the belt not sitting on the actual pulley at the power steering pump. So after tightening and realigning this the squeak has vanished..:-) My question is, the car started idling high suddenly yesterday (as above) and after disconnecting the battery for an hour its back to normal again! What could the problem be dya reckon? Bearing in mind the ICV is only two weeks old..:-) Joni
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:32 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 13077
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Location: England
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The 206 runs an adaptive ECU which resets to the factory default settings when the battery is disconnected. It loses all the optimal settings that it has learnt. Thats why you may notice a difference in the revs.
The ECU has to learn all the optimal running settings again.
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 7:50 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010 Posts: 1792
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Location: Bridgnorth, Nr Wolverhampton
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imagine you have a log
and you are teaching your dog to sit on it,
the dog learns,
then your dog loses its memory through drug abuse,
it then goes through rehab and is back to normal
but in the meantime you got a smaller log,
so the dog then learns to sit on the log again.
and that is how a BSI reboot works
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