Slight problem with my car

[Tin Pot]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-ca...-v40-1-8-se-5dr-leicester-fpa-201612190710520

 

[Deleted member 26715]

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-ca...-v40-1-8-se-5dr-leicester-fpa-201612190710520

That's expensive

 

[Deleted member 35268]

I had an S40 (not a V40) and it was like a tank and trouble free at 130,000 miles .
They are a great great car IMO.

If you can get one with under 80,000 miles, that would be a good purchase.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Simple answer make it illegal for anyone to smoke in a car, totally off topic I know, but they should, more dangerous than using a mobile phone

I disagree. I used to be a smoker and I'd say the act of lighting, smoking and putting one out became almost subconscious. Using a mobile (hands-free or not) demands at least part of your attention.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

I disagree. I used to be a smoker and I'd say the act of lighting, smoking and putting one out became almost subconscious. Using a mobile (hands-free or not) demands at least part of your attention.

Ballcocks, how many cars have you seen with burnt seats, never seen any with a Bluetooth burn

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

And?

 

[fossyant]

With yellowing headlight lens try t-cut or similar. It will take some elbow grease but they do come up clear again.

 

[Drago]

The burned seats are more often than not cannabis burns.

The headlamps have a date with a tube of aerosol and a Makita orbital sander with a buffing pad.

 

[tyred]

Why did rubber cambelts replace those old fashioned cam chains which (mostly) lasted a couple of hundred thousand miles? Progress, eh!

There is quite a distance between the crankshaft and the camshaft of an overhead cam engine. Belts were an easier engineering solution when overhead camshafts became more common and also allowed for more refined engines. They won't give any problems if changed and tensioned correctly when they should be (along with tensioners, water pumps etc) and in the majority of engines it's pretty straightforward to do so.

There must be reasons for it but I'm not really sure the move back to chains is a good thing. It was fine with the short chain run with an OHV engine like in a Ford Anglia where the camshaft sat low in the block quite close to the crankshaft (and even though they stretched and rattled, the short chain meant it didn't usually come to any harm and the engine would have needed complete overhaul at pathetically low mileages by today's standards) but modern chains can and do give problems (mostly due to poor servicing I suspect). It will rattle and give impending notice of it's intention to wreck your engine but a chain is not as easy or as cheap to replace as a simple toothed belt.

 

[Drago]

Nothing wrong with belts at all. Lighter, quieter, far less inertial losses. Change them when they should - and it isn't difficult - and they rarely cause issues. The move to chains is to make the engines more compact, and also to allow some tight packed installations on the basis that the engine will, hopefully, never need to be removed. Alas, BMW in particular have proven this is a bad idea.

 

[Profpointy]

Nothing wrong with belts at all. Lighter, quieter, far less inertial losses. Change them when they should - and it isn't difficult - and they rarely cause issues. The move to chains is to make the engines more compact, and also to allow some tight packed installations on the basis that the engine will, hopefully, never need to be removed. Alas, BMW in particular have proven this is a bad idea.

There are plenty of cambelt cars where changing the belt is a big job - many hundreds of pounds and the belt itself not a trivial price. Add in the risk of early failure and it's a poor option for the owner. A pal's car, a sporty fiat, required the engine out to change the bloody cambelt every couple of years. And just looking at showed that engine out wasn't the hour and a half job it was when I swapped my cortina engine back in the olden days

 

[Drago]

Not found one yet I couldn't do, including the dreaded Discovery 3, and I'm no mechanic bloke. If you think a belt isn't a trivial price you should cost up some chains.

 

[Piemaster]

There is quite a distance between the crankshaft and the camshaft of an overhead cam engine. Belts were an easier engineering solution when overhead camshafts became more common and also allowed for more refined engines. They won't give any problems if changed and tensioned correctly when they should be (along with tensioners, water pumps etc) and in the majority of engines it's pretty straightforward to do so.

There must be reasons for it but I'm not really sure the move back to chains is a good thing. It was fine with the short chain run with an OHV engine like in a Ford Anglia where the camshaft sat low in the block quite close to the crankshaft (and even though they stretched and rattled, the short chain meant it didn't usually come to any harm and the engine would have needed complete overhaul at pathetically low mileages by today's standards) but modern chains can and do give problems (mostly due to poor servicing I suspect). It will rattle and give impending notice of it's intention to wreck your engine but a chain is not as easy or as cheap to replace as a simple toothed belt.

Twin overhead cam engine. Introduced 1954 and was around till early 1994. Advanced stuff when it was introduced.
Take the point on servicing and modern chains, the materials are probably better now but oil changes are a lot less frequent.

Engineer pedant point: Chains don't stretch. They lengthen due to the accumulative wear of the individual links.

 

[steve50]

Not always. My ex-wife brother in law has a Vauxhall Corsa, had it from new and regularly serviced. At 70 000 miles, the chain cambelt broke. Cost him £2500 to repair the engine. The Vauxhall dealer he bought it from refused all liability so I told him to take it up with Vauxhall head office for a full refund as it shouldn't have happened.

The 1ltr corsa is well known for trashing its timing chain around the 80k miles point, Vauxhall will not accpet any responsibility for it and states this is the normal timing chain replacement period.

I had an S40 (not a V40) and it was like a tank and trouble free at 130,000 miles .
They are a great great car IMO.
If you can get one with under 80,000 miles, that would be a good purchase.

i used to own a V40, great car until it reached 150k miles then it turned into a money pit and spent more time in the garage than it did on the road, I finished up scrapping the ruddy thing. Add to that the V/S40 are not true Volvo's as there are more Renault components in them than Volvo.

With yellowing headlight lens try t-cut or similar. It will take some elbow grease but they do come up clear again.

Best cure for uv damaged headlamp lenses is to rub them down with ultra fine wet and dry then lacquer them, they come up better than new and are far more uv damage resistant,

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEJbKLZ7RmM

 

[Drago]

An ode to the Kia of fire...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g


And all hail the Ford of Elderlyness...

The smell of cabbage and wee wee as standard, along with a holder forma bag of Weathers. Guaranteed to give Nora Batty a wide on.