Car Troubles

[lazaroonie]

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.

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...

[M3boy]

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.

[M3boy]

Offence taken, the part was probably made by some thick English bloke who didn't know what he was doing, the main reason that very few cars are actually made by the English any more.

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.

[CelticGeezeer]

np, reciprocated