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I thought it would be worth the chance that there might be some ppl on here who have a good knowledge of cars, I just got bak from a long journey 200ish miles, and within half an hour there was a big puddle under my car, i thought it was water so i checked it out and it turned out to be oil, I;ve heard that it aint too bad if
its black dirty oil but this is clear, anyone have any idea what is wrong? im guessing a leak, but what wud that cost to fix????

Jed

depends on what's wrong I think but I had this when I drove a Jag XJ6. only cost me 40£ to get fixed at my local garage...And Jags are VERY expensive to get sorted. I can't say what it could be or cost you but don't go to your delaership go to your local garage is the best piece of advice I can give ya.

I've got my mate on his way round to look at it, no signs of the engine exploding though!!

Maybe its from the air con unit?

Im pretty sure a seal has broken round the drive shaft, its leaking from around there, so gonna have a go at taking it all apart tomorra!!

That would be water mate.

possibly  transmission fluid


have u dipped the engine oil?

yup, first off i checked the oil, it was fine, pretty definate its the drive shaft seal, so i gotta go and buy some gearbox oil and then spend all day on it tomorra

GL with it.

Wanna fix mine???? Its one of those "intermittent" faults - sometimes the car will turn over, but wont start - me thinks its a camshaft sensor problem.

I have to ask, wtf is a camshaft sensor, and what does it do?

I think (and I stress I THINK) its a sensor that tells the Computer when the camshaft is turning

Sheesh!!!  In my day you had a coil, distributor, and a carburettor. There was so much room under the bonnet, you could get in there beside the engine. If you had a spark and fuel, it would start.

THATS progress for ya.

My first car was a vauxhall Viva , then a fiesta - open up the bonnet and fix it urself jobbie.

NOW,,, open the bonnet,, and have trouble where to put the oil!!!!

The seal around he driveshaft is a CV gaitor, these are filled with CV Grease, which is black dirty and greasy. If you can get the front end of the car on a ramp or jacked up so you can get underneath you will see them. You generally have 4. They are rubber type covers that cover the CV joints, they are gaitored to allow them to be flexible.

If the garage is too expensive you can do these yourself with a couple of spanners and alan keys.

Hope this helps....

My first car a Saturday Night Viva too

Regards

M

My first was was a chevette estate now that was style.
I also found the same issues with motorbikes used to have kawasaki z750s of the old style (no computer chips) never any garage bills, then i fell in love with a brand new Triumph tiger 955i never ever done any work on that except lubeing the chain and fluid levels.

Yet another example of progress,,,and I am sure they do this on purpose.

On my car, there is a metal pipe (part of the coolent system) which is at the front of the car in front of the radiator. This now needs replacing, and to get at it, you have to take the front end of the car off!!

Metal pipe ffs!!! Just where it will catch alot of water and rust/corrode.

If you have a VW or Audi the front comes off really easy apart from the Toureg. A bit trcky...

Yes I have an Audi - easy to take the front end off, but VERY time consuming for a job that takes approx 5 minutes to connect the new pipe!

Yeah.... I agree...Is it an A4.

If and when you get the pipe done, you may as well get the cam belt done st the same time. Just something to bear in mind, that may save you about £500

Yep its an A4 2.8 quattro

CamBelt done not so long ago :(

This intermitant starting is a real pain!! - stalled in middle of road today and it wouldnt start :( Felt like such a ****!!

my 1st car was a datsun cherry


we had to get a bar across the engine bay to stop the wings from collapsing inwards due to the rust


my fave car i had was a cortina mk IV ( i think )

loved that car

My first car was a lorry.

Ahhh Vauxhall Viva... Reminds my of the lyrics of a Macc lads song, Beer, sex, chips and Gravy

"Vauxhall Vivas coverd in rust be you cant **** your bird on the 29 bus"

No offence meant

I had an A4 years ago with the same problem - believe it was the crankshaft position sensor that was wonky.

also if you get the front end taken off, you better get the water pump and the thermostat done. Cos the stat wil go eventually.

A4 Quattro, a bit tricky..... Dam nice cars though. Defo do the pump, thats if that never got done when you cambelt was done?

Yes it was.

I agree, damn nice car as well.

Best Ive owned by far!!!

138k miles, but you wouldnt know it

My first car was a fiesta 1.4
I've had an A4 too though i had to get rid of it sharpish because the insurance was a bit steep :D

2.8 quattro wow, i bet that's a bit nippy :D
I hate having a slow car, bloody insurance!!!!!!!!

I had a Bedford KB lorry with a 4 cylinder diesel engine. They used to call them coffee grinders, 55 mph flat out. so I unscrewed the governors on the fuel injector pump and fitted an overdrive gearbox. With these modifications it was capable of doing over 90 mph, but you needed 15 miles of clear road to get there.

I dont know , i have VERY fond memories of the BMW  ;kev; ;kev;

Good job they were cream leather seats!!!!!! 

rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao rotflmfao

You were eating milky bars in there?

My first car ( I started with 2 or 3 motorbikes) was a "Sit Up & Beg" 97E Ford Popular, vacuum operated windscreen wipers, 3 speed gearbox, you could stand inside the bonnet when working on it. VDT 645 was the reg. I forgot to put the handbrake on one day & it rolled away. I reported it stolen, lucky for me, as it hit 2 parked cars & demolished a garden wall, & that got blamed on the geezer who "stole it".....oops. Cost £65 to buy, the Third Party Fire & Theft Insurance was £7.

Next up was a powder blue Morris Miinor, reg 6667 MM. I confused the brake fluid - you could get Lockheed or ?, but if you used the wrong one & they mixed together in the brake pipes, the seals all rotted. Drum brakes all round, when they worked, after "pumping" them 8 or 9 times. The front offside kingpin(?) sheared in the end, & the front wheel went askew.

A Hillman Minx was next, well posh that was, XDT 645. Happy days.

In order, that was followed by a Hillman Avenger, GUC 945J, Ford Cortina Ghia 2.8i, Ford Capri 2.8, Rover SD1, Golf GT1, Rover 800, BMW 535, reg XHV 57 (best car I ever had), Toyota Celica, Honda Prelude (that had a most wonderful engine) then 5 or 6 Mercs, all anonymous, forgettable, though utterly reliable. Currently, I've got a lttle Beemer, which is really quite nice, has no "character" but trundles along pleasantly enough, & is incredibly economical on juice.

Cars are amazing these days. We used to have to "run in" new brakes & engines, service them every 3,000 miles, brake pads needed changing every 2 months, now they run for ever. Extraordinary.

the other brake fluid was Girling (before universal) and I suspect it was a draglink end that sheared off

Girling! That was it.


Draglink? Not sure. The front wheel wheel sort of went went wonky, but never fell off, all Morris Minors had the same problem.

I've had two cars, both old ford fiesta's but the first was a red one... his name was 'Red' and the one I have now is blue, but his name isn't 'Blue', his name is 'Emu' because the reg is BMU.

My next car is going to be Leons Black Peugeot 206... Mmmmmmm! ;D

Cars are female Poppet, always. Steam Locomotives & ships are, too.

So why isn't his name Bmu?

My current car has done more miles than a space shuttle and had more hits than the Beatles but it runs like a dream.

Well yeah, but I like cars. It's just a pity I have a banger!

Snoops, I sometimes call him Bmu, but most of the time he is Emu cos it sounds better. ;)

Leons car is called Luey because his reg is LUY, they all have names!

On cold mornings my car is called  "take that"

 ;izimbra;

well... thats it, my car broke down on the side of the road and while towing it home the axle split and i had to scrap it, i got 30quid, not very happy, i am now without wheels for a while until i can buy a cheap old banger for a runaround, can anyone cheer me up :(

I know what you mean. I was a committed "jag man" having owned four of them over the past 10 years. Loads of "character", but must have cost me a small fortune over the time.

Last month i "treated" myself to a nearly new merc. Completely devoid of said "character",but it feels like it was put together by the same guys who built sherman tanks...

Just incase anyone was interested, the problem with my car was NOT the camshaft sensor, it was much simpler!

Small engine temp sensor had gone wrong. What was happening was that when the temp of the engine got to say 60, it would then go onto -5 instead of 61, then continue to read LOWER temp as the car got hotter.

Hence when you stopped the car after running in for a while, the temp sensor would tell the computer the car was -60!! So the computer would chuck in loads of fuel when you tried to start it, flodding totally.

Probably True

And honestly no offence meant. But I will delete it none the less.

I am sure that car manufacturers pay designers to design the car as awkward as possible to fix any part that goes wrong, and also design parts to go wrong more often.

np, reciprocated