It was the slave cylinder but the recommendation is to replace the entire clutch as it all has to come out anyway and I’ve opted for the master cylinder too as then it’s all replaced. £2K all in. (Well as close as makes no difference).
There’s arguments for and against but it’s either do that or spent £15K+ on the other car I’d want which is a used S60. I like driving an old car anyway. Less screens to look at.
There are always arguments for and against ploughing money into an old car. I have a friend who subscribes to Bangernomics and he brutal about walking away when things go wrong; he has done so several times.
Another friend had the auto-box on his old Renault Scenic go south. I advised him to walk away but he found a place in west London who reconditioned it for £500, including fitting. It still sounded a bit of a waste of money to me (how good would this repair be?) but he went for it and got many more years motoring from that old bus - money well spent.
You are probably right to do the same with yours. Any change of vehicle will cost you more than £2k.
i believe your S40 is the same era as my old V50 (2005ish), and that is such an excellent car i can completly see why you did this.
Ive only moved on as i bought a van, and didnt want to have both. It was worth nothing and i didnt want to scrap it, lucily a friend passed their test and wanted a car, I fear i have spoilt them.
Yes, mine is September 2005. It’s just so solid and comfortable. You can drive it all day. Plus it has enough technology to be safe but not overkill. Sound system is good too.
Yeah, I think around 2005 is the sweet spot: ABS, airbags, crumble zones, side impact bars, it’s all there, and engine management, economy etc is dependable and good enough to soldier on.
Modern cars as so complicated the simplest fault seems to require whole systems to be replaced. Not only is that costly but we’ll see otherwise good cars being scrapped because the tyre pressure monitoring ECU, or similar, is no longer available.
£1,781 all in. I was expecting £2K minimum so that’s pretty good. Hopefully that’s it for a while.
Thats not too bad, for new clutch, slave and master cylinder?
Aye I’d be happy with that
I think so. I hope they haven’t left anything out, it was all arranged over the phone.
They didn’t replace the master cylinder as they said it didn’t need to be replaced. So hopefully I won’t be posting here again in 3 months time. The master cylinder isn’t as much work. Only half the car has to come apart for that.
It drives nicely with a new clutch. The whole transmission and gear box feel much better.
does it wheelie better now?
It launches a lot better now. Easier to spin the front wheels.
So just an update on this. I had it inspected by a diesel specialist. It’s not regenerating because two of the glow plugs are shot. So I had the DPF cleaned (off the vehicle) and I need to get the glow plugs replaced so it actually regenerates.
Strange one though as it seems no one knows anything. I’ve had it serviced before and mentioned the fault and no one discovered the issue with the glow plugs.
The diesel specialist was really good. Ran diagnostics with a scanner when the car was stationary and when driving. I learned a fair bit too.
I had the glow plugs replaced on a Citroen Dispatch (1.9) once. Silly me thought it would be a bit like replacing the spark plugs on a petrol engine: unscrew the old, screw in the new. As I had no other transport I was sort of stranded and had to stay and watch the work. OMG, there was hours of work, and they didn’t work slowly.
The first thing they said to me when I called them to book it in was, “Are you aware of the risks?”
Also the relay I may need is no longer in production. Who knew?
It’s like every six months the who wants to be a millionaire music fades up and option d is, “Scrap it.” So much of it is new now I just can’t.
Oh the risk is if one of the plugs shears off then the cylinder head has to come out. Are MK2 Escorts still around? They might be simple enough to fix.
