Alexm

Hello all,

Just a roll call of the higher mileage people on here, mines only got 53k, and when I owned BMWs I saw many a person over the quarter million mile mark, but just who has some of the highest milers here !?

And include if you can what major components you have replaced ?

Hi guys,

From cold I noticed my 1.8tdci makes a pidgeon noise, like a flutter when changing gears for around 5 mins from cold start, it's only slight, I notice it with the radio off.

Is this a normal attribute ? The car has had regular oil changes, and is actually semi clean since I have had two oil changes within about 500 miles just to be sure.

Hi all,

I want to try and make this as concise as possible for anyone to help me.

I have a 2007 tdci focus 52k on the clock and FSH. It has developed a rattle and I'm not 100% sure if it has done it since using engine flush or not but its just something I traced back and thought maybe related, the noise is also loudest when the engine is hot. No obvious power loss, smoke, etc.

The sound is almost a bearing sort of sound like a tensioner, however I have replaced the aux belt and tensioner (and ran it without the belt on ) and it still does the noise.

I have also just had the cambelt and tensioner replaced, and it's still doing it.

When ford listened to it, they said its most likely either of this things, I have tried listening with a stethoscope and I can only say it sounds loudest at the left hand side of the engine.

Please can anyone suggest what the noise could be ? The only sort of moving this on that side I can think of left is the chain that runs the fuel pump? Can anyone tell me a little more about the setup and whether this could be the noise, does it have guides or a tensioner that could be noisey also ?

I will try and post a video up soon also.


Many many thanks to anyone that can take the time to help me out, as I've already spent a few hundred quid on it to no avail. I'm also going to do another oil and filter change tonight and check for any swarf.

Hi all, I did give this a search but couldn't find a thread,delete it by all means if its a duplicate.

Could you all tell me what your distance to empty is when you brim your tank ?

I have a 2007 1.8 tdci, it says 407 on fillup, however according to the fuel gauge I had covered 142 miles to a quarter of a tank, and the current distance to empty + the distance covered ended up totally up to 450 odd at that point of you get what I mean.

Would be glad to hear of your data, any engine would be interesting, but obviously the same as mine would be more useful.

Hi all, This is my first diesel as a personal car I do want to start off saying,the lorries I drive all sound like crap because they are lorries so I can't really make a fair comparison to a domestic car!

But is it normal for clatter from cold startup ? 1.8tdci 2007 focus, how do yours sound ? The clatter subsides in approx half a mile, but being used to petrols, on startup it sounds like the beginning of catastrophic valve train issues (on a petrol).

Could my issue be glow-plug related ? The car is sitting at 51k, the light takes a fair while to go out In the morning.

It's been serviced literally 200 miles ago with fully synthetic ford spec oil and I use millers diesel Ecomax in it and its had an Italian tuneup on a 200 mile round trip also