There is a rattle on start up and whilst driving,too cold to investigate snow here, Hoping its a pulley and not something major on this 3 cylinder engine.

My 1.8 tdci has started making a tic/rattle from cold I can hear it when all doors are shut it does it for first 5 or 10 mins if a touch the throttle even a tiny bit it instantly stops tic/rattling as soon as I take foot of its back to tic/rattle when it reaches normal temp it idles perfect...

Hi folks, I have a Mk III Duratec wagon, getting on in Km's (currently 198000) and runs like a charm. Car is meticulously maintained and serviced (I do Oil and Filter changes every 10,000Km etc), with the last 100,000 KM being all open road KM done over a period of 3 years. Its over the past...

Hi, so the local garage said £45 labour and £40 for an ECU software update to take up the revs a bit. On idle it sounds like a bag of hammers (its the pulleys and tensioners issue again) So thats £85 and still could need £175 spent on a new belt conversion/fitting. All I needed was to take it...