£1000-£1500 Mile Munching Diesel
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I'm just digging up the details now - just wondered if it would stop him talking tripe
The injectors can be sourced online for £300 for a full set of brand new, genuine Delphi injectors. There's a chap on MEG selling them, sometimes through ebay It's not a huge job to fit them, an hour's work for a garage with the right kit, so even at Ford main dealer price of £85 p/h, it comes in just under £400.
The flywheel, I'm just about to scan the invoice for mine from a large chain - I need an excuse to try my new scanner anyway
Woo my new scanner works
I also had a quote of £612 (iirc) from here http://www.gearboxcentre.com/ but they couldn't do it soon enough for me. Just took a bit of phoning around and some prior research. Just trying to find more info on injectors now
Edit: here -
http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showpost.php?post/1755725/
Got some old ebay links too but they're dead now because this was a few months ago.
Also, its very unlikely for all 4 to fail at the same time, although a lot of garages will convince you that all 4 are necessary. If you can figure out which one has failed (diagnosis can be as simple as smacking the injector with a wrench) you can send it to www.uniteddiesel.co.uk to have it reconditioned for £115 - no recoding necessary as it's the same injector.
I also had a quote of £612 (iirc) from here http://www.gearboxcentre.com/ but they couldn't do it soon enough for me. Just took a bit of phoning around and some prior research. Just trying to find more info on injectors now
Edit: here -
http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showpost.php?post/1755725/
Got some old ebay links too but they're dead now because this was a few months ago.
Also, its very unlikely for all 4 to fail at the same time, although a lot of garages will convince you that all 4 are necessary. If you can figure out which one has failed (diagnosis can be as simple as smacking the injector with a wrench) you can send it to www.uniteddiesel.co.uk to have it reconditioned for £115 - no recoding necessary as it's the same injector.
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DMF failure and replacement at 48k? Ouch.
ROTFL.
£460 for them to recondition your injectors?
As for supplying a new sets - they don't supply new injectors. The ones they supply are used / reconditioned injectors - £200 each, and then you have to take it to Ford or somewhere else with the computer machinery to have it coded - about another £100.
As for the pump, they reckon that's about another £500/£600 for a used / reconditioned pump, not including labour. £850 to £1,200 for new pump from Ford
They also said that if there's been a failure already of the injectors or pump, resulting in even slight contamination of the fuel system, one or more of the injectors are likely to fail again in the near future. Decontaminating the fuel system is apparently another cost on top.
Thus:
DMF: £650
Recon injectors: £460
Diesel pump: Minimum £500/£600
Decontaminating fuel system: ££s
Labour: ££s
Total: Minimum £1700+++
You had better hope that yours doesn't fail
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It happens - I owned the car since 36k but the previous owner was a woman who used it around town a lot
Yes?
Yes, 460 to recondition. They send your one back, with the same code, so no coding required - I did point that bit out but you selectively misread it.
As for the pump, they reckon that's about another £500/£600 for a used / reconditioned pump, not including labour. £850 to £1,200 for new pump from Ford
Where did this obsession with the pump come from - they arent a weak point like the injectors. Your point would have been every bit as valid if you said new pistons would cost £1200.
They also said that if there's been a failure already of the injectors or pump, resulting in even slight contamination of the fuel system, one or more of the injectors are likely to fail again in the near future. Decontaminating the fuel system is apparently another cost on top.
Thus:
DMF: £650
Recon injectors: £460
Diesel pump: Minimum £500/£600
Decontaminating fuel system: ££s
Labour: ££s
Total: Minimum £1700+++
You had better hope that yours does fail
I really don't know what you're trying to prove, but £600 to £650 for a DMF is correct (obviously), but depending on the problem with the injector, you could fix it for £115 plus an hour's labour at an indy. Sure you could replace all 4, the pump (randomly), why not throw a new fuel tank and lines in, that sounds like fun too.
These issues can also happen on other cars, so its a risk of owning any common rail diesel
Fingers crossed for the next X thousand miles
Not even remotely concerned - the car's extremely reliable otherwise (the DMF is the only failure in 20 months of ownership - so the repair costs overall are very low.
If something does happen with the injectors, I'll get it diagnosed properly and shop around for the parts.