OT - MITP failure
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Why we never got there.

OK, it was never to be in the Mini, but the Ford Focus failure Sunday morning about 1/3 of the way there.



Total crap design.

The big bit with the spring assembley at the top is fine, just the small bearing(s) and plastic pulley at the bottom that crapped.

£130.70 for that assembly although the bearing that failed and the bit of plastic crap of a pully is probably worth ~£10

The total bill (including taking the car from our house to the local garage and as new belt as well) was nearly £350, thank F**K we didn't get a Ford agent to do it. Local garage is £30/hr, nearest Ford is £70/hr.

And lucky I had personal breakdown cover (wifey's is just to ther nearest garage) or we would have had a large train/bus/taxi bill back from the nearest (closed) garage on the Sunday.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Unlucky chap. New cars are a shit. :(
Mind....not as bad as following 3 minis home to Essex with straight cut boxes whining making people turn and having them point and laugh at the dick following in a Hyundai...........

feck, people say minis cost you an arm and a leg, but if you keep it standard it wont cost you anywhere near what a modern car will cost you.

£130 for something that in a mini hardly ever goes and only costs a couple of quid to buy and about an hour to fit.

LOL

When we got lost in Bedford town centre...did you noticed the three peeps laughing! I was not amused..............getting mocked for being a support vehicle...........

Anyway...jump in my motor next year Rod :)

Edited by Jason G on 17th Aug, 2011.

thats un lucky Rod!!

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i picked up a kia sorrento people carrier thing last weekend with knackered gearbox it had 196 miles on it and had been delivered to the owner the previous day, new cars are shit

My cousins brand new alfa mito gearbox completely shat itself after only a few hundred miles not long since!

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

there is a thread on here some where about my bro's swift, brand spanking new 4k miles later box fooked...
its had more recals than arnold schwarzenegger on mars

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A bloke here in work picked up his new Peugeot from the dealer only for it to brake down in about 10 miles. Diagnosis the dealer had filled his diesel up with petrol.

However, to add a bit of sanity to this thread new cars are much better than old cars, there just wasn't the internet back then. The exact things that have been listed above have been happening since cars were invented. Do you really think that an Allegro was more reliable than a Focus? Really?

http://www.twin-turbo.co.uk
http://www.hillclimbandsprint.co.uk/default.asp

A man without a project is like a like a woman without a shopping list.

I'm with Ben. If I was to pick to use every day with no trouble then it'd be something modern.

How may people her have a car less than 10 years old with over 100k on the clock and still feels relatively new? I know I have.

My 1983 100k fiesta however was fooked.

Low mileage failures as above are to be expected when you make 1000s of cars, but as it's all under warranty, who gives a shit?

Edit: to add to this how may minis from MITP broke, compared to how may 'modern' cars (including tow vehicles?

Edited by wil_h on 18th Aug, 2011.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

www.twin-turbo.co.uk

I think what annoys me is it is the second tensioner to fail, so they both lasted less than 50k miles.

You can see part of it is vastly over-engineered and the bit that broke is vastly under-engineered.

But you have to buy the whole thing, not even an enviromentally friendly approach. Ford of course say that if the bearing has failed, the spring assembly won't be very far behind - but they don't allow you to find out.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

I'm with most here - modern cars are generally more reliable however when things go wrong, it is usually expensive and entails replacing expensive parts as opposed to the days when a mechanic could actually re-build or repair something.

I was down at our Garage only yesterday getting the TT fixed and we were all having a good chat about the MITP at the weekend. It all got round to the fact the senior Audi 'technician' had never changed a set of points and didn't know where to start. The first port of call is a laptop these days

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My Focus 2.0 has seen a lot of abuse.

10 yrs old in a couple of weeks and 130k on the clock. Hardly had to lift the bonnet since new.

The fact that this is the second failure would lead me to look for a misalignment issue.

Edited by Paul S on 18th Aug, 2011.

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