Waiting 10 years seems a silly risk to me. Unless they are going to pay for it. If not change every 40k whatever they say
10 years or 100k is the ford 'guideline' (PotC - And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. **** you motor industry) - Incidentally i never made that decision. I took my car to garage to be serviced. Ford say 100k, Ford garage say 100k, they took the decision, they never asked. If i had known what the hell a timing belt was, i would have course got it have changed early. Am i expected to go through the service book and google every single part to find examples of the community saying 'ford say do it at x miles but really its best to do it at y'? Saying 'you should have known, ignorance is not an excuse' etc is ******* antagonistic.
Did they actually fix your engine and not just take out the broken one and fit a second hand one on the cheap??????
You know, this one rankles with me me a bit. I realise this is the 'Motors' subforum but this is not a motors enthusiast forum. Its all very well recommending 'swapping out the engine on the cheap' if you are a grease monkey or experienced with motors - I am not. I am your average joe. I have a car to get from A to B. I don't care for mechanical engineering and I am not about to read through the assembly book for my specific car so i know where all the possible problems and caveats are.
Suggesting I swap out the engine is like telling my mum to swap out the CPU in the rig i built her. Me - 'That's easy' Her - 'Whats a CPU'?
I take my car to a garage to be serviced. In my ignorance, i commission the garage to do that which I am unable to do. Sourceing an engine? I havent got a clue. Simples, a breakers yard you say. What the hell is a breakers yard? Where do you find one? How do you know its reliable? How do you know what your getting. When you start breaking it down, there are a tonne of questions you assume in your enthusiast capacity are just 'givens'.
I am left with no other alternative but to take it to the garage and do it the hard way. It's like I would never touch a Where in the World technical service desk with a barge pole, but at the same time, i completely understand why people can and do take their computers to be repaired there.
This would DEFINITELY require driveshaft removal and refitment and would explain the " tamper marks on the securing bolts showing it had been accessed (indeterminably) recently."
Repairs were all top side
but you've still got to remember that the bloke doing the check is still only human
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Deeply disturbing, and where safety is concerned, i don't give two ***** about 'only human'. You do your job, and you do it properly.
So in laymans terms probably just the CV gaiter that has come off.
Seriously, its an epidemic on this subforum. Saying 'in laymans terms' and then 'just the CV gaiter' is ABSOLUTELY 100% MEANINGLESS to me.
The concept of describing something in layman's terms has come into wide use in the English speaking world. To put something in layman's terms is to describe a complex or technical issue using words and terms that the average individual (someone without professional training in the subject area) can understand, so that they may comprehend the issue to some degree.
Something is amiss with the garages description IMO as you started off with saying about bearing supports not fitted correctly. This does not tally with descriptive quote above.
That, i am sure, is my inability to describe the issue properly in suitable terminology, and your inability to comprehend not everybody is as knowledgeable as you are
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