dontmess

Regarding the premium diesels, I recall reading somewhere that they don't make a difference due to the way a diesel engine works, not sure how true it was though.

Since putting Shell V Power in a few days back the car has felt great, I then had to put more fuel in the other day and ended up at a local Esso garage where I put in the Esso Energy Supreme which seemed just as good.. then, coincidently I today ended up by a today BP garage and filled up with BP Ultimate, think its fair to say from my experience that all a pretty similar and have resulted in a much nicer drive (be it in my head or otherwise).

I've kind of decided that I'm going to stick with these premium petrol now, even if the power gains are just marketing rubbish, the cleaning additives seem a good positive which may be worth the extra cost at the pump.

Cheers!!

Yeah your right stef123, just saw it on the information bit of catch's. catch is a MK2 1.6. Parts must be similar if not the same as mine as I have the 1.6 MK 2.5 (which is just the facelift I believe)

Also I have the prices I paid for the parts individually if you want to know them.

Hi catch. Ok basically with mine they said the power steering pipe was leaking which meant I had to buy a new hose, they also said the drive belt had become contaminated because of the leaking fluid. Ford quoted me £475 for the repair.. which I thought was way too high!!

I found out there was total of 5 parts that needed changing which were, the drive belt, the hose, power steering fluid, and two other bit (one was a nut kind of this, the other was almost like a washer sort of thing.)

Anyway they told me the total price for the parts was £180. Meaning they were charging me a bomb on labour.

I asked at a local garage how much they would charge just for labour (with me buying the parts for £180) and they quoted me £85.

So got the whole thing done for £265 (saving just over £200 than getting Ford to do it).


Hope this helps