pistonbroke Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 Drove the old faithful Mondeo 1.8 Endura TDi off the mates forecourt , 200 yds down the road ,engine suddenly stops . Check under the bonnet can see edge of cam belt protruding from cover Car now on mates forecourt in North Wales , need to get it home to Wigan area (approx 80 miles) Any ideas on cheapest method of transport / looking at trailer hire , etc. All suggestions gratefully received . Quote
nikpro Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 Bernie, not much help I know; but if that Mondeo is dead I have one for sale Mk2 2000 year on a Y plate in Black. Great condition - was my late fathers car with only 34,000 miles on the clock. 2.0ltr LX. Quote
pistonbroke Posted September 5, 2011 Author Posted September 5, 2011 Thanks Fraser , but need estate body Quote
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted September 5, 2011 Posted September 5, 2011 Sorry about the car Bernie. I had a Mk1 TD Estate up to 220,000 miles then my daughter put another 15-20k on it before someone ran into it in a pub car park - cost more to repair than to replace sadly. A really useful workhorse... Quote
pistonbroke Posted September 5, 2011 Author Posted September 5, 2011 Mines just hit 102,000 . Mot'd 1 week ago and ran like clockwork prior to the belt failing , strange that the cam belt was replaced soon after I bought the car at 50k ish , was told cam belt was 70K interval , maybe age had something to do with it failing , must be 7 years since it was swopped . Indespension do a car transporter hire , I'm looking into getting it back to a suitable garage near home for repairs . otherwise srapped and replaced probably worth sod all anyway so wouldn't want to spend a fortune Quote
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 I thought it was a 36,000 mile interval? Maybe wrong though - my current oil burning Mondeo is a chain driven cam. Quote
pistonbroke Posted September 6, 2011 Author Posted September 6, 2011 It was 36k, but when I last enquired, was told that ford had changed this to 70k Interesting to know about the chain drive , which engine would that be ? Quote
Hammy Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 I think the Duratorq is the chain one fitted to the later Ford TDCi models, got one in my 55 plate car. Before doing anything with the broken one, you could do with knowing if the valves hit the pistons on one of those when the belt brakes - might bethe decider in scrapping it Quote
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 Hammy's right it is a Duratorq but a TDDi - not a common rail injection system unlike the slightly later TDCi Duratorq. I am afraid I would be deterred from any car with belt drive now, having known and heard of so many expensive belt failures. All that being as it may, my Pinto has a belt! Quote
Wile E. Coyote Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 Not used them, but there's a place in Chester does car trailer hire: clicky. Quote
daveblissett Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 cant you put the cost of hiring a trailer towards the cost of repaing it in wales then drive it home? might be worth asking your mate to recomend some one local. good luck Dave Quote
pistonbroke Posted September 6, 2011 Author Posted September 6, 2011 Most wont quote until they have the car in and removed the head to check how much damage is done One chappie in wales want's me to pay for his next family cruise to the caribean to do the job and the trouble is I'm at the mercy of anyone else Got a very good quote from my own man on the case near to home , so got to be worth the trailering costs Ta for the help , the chester trailer hire is looking good for now Quote
SteveH Posted September 6, 2011 Posted September 6, 2011 They will nearly always hit valves on those engines when the belts go, they are also common for pulley failures that will have the same effect. Cost for repair in a workshop will obviously depend a lot on labour rates but probably better count on anything from £400 (very cheap) to over double that . On the subject of chains, don't get all excited about how extremely reliable it makes a car. The chain on my Merc van (2.0 petrol) snapped at 170,000 causing £1500 worth of damage after regular oil changes from day one! Small engine Corsas and Polos are well known for jumping chains and a lot of small/mid sized nissan engines suffer with chains stretching at milages as low as 30,000; they rarely go as far as snapping because the misalignment between cam and crank sensors causes engine management problems making them virtually undriveable. i diagnosed on on an Almera for a workshop the other week, it would have been high hundreds to do the repair so they put another (second hand) engine in; it still played up so I had to go back to see what I had mis-diagnosed but sure enough, it was another stretched camchain . Finally, the Ford duratorq engines jump on the inlet cam because the chain contacts with well less than 1/4 of the pulley due to the layout of the cogs - Classic daft engineering design Quote
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