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mikeart
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This is driving me nuts !!
« on: Aug 15th, 2008, 4:27pm » |
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Hi, hope you can help, my scorpio "98" estate seems to be extra noisy when idling the car runs well and i drive a good few miles each month with no problems, but it is getting louder and people now turn and stare !! if i rev the engine slightly, it goes away, it seems to come from the front of the engine, before i get ripped of by the garage if you folk have any ideas i would be most grateful, i have done a search but not come up with a similar post 
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Re: This is driving me nuts !!
« Reply #1 on: Aug 15th, 2008, 4:40pm » |
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mikeart.
Could you describe the noise ? eg is it a rattle,a whine,grinding.Which engine is it ?
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« Reply #2 on: Aug 15th, 2008, 4:51pm » |
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It's a 2.5ltr turbo diesel. it sounds like a rattle or ticking sound it changes as the engine speed picks up till at about 2000 revs it runs just fine 
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« Reply #3 on: Aug 15th, 2008, 5:49pm » |
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Could it be oil starvation, blockage somewhere at the front, could you check oil is getting to all tappets?
just a thought... 
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« Reply #4 on: Aug 16th, 2008, 2:57am » |
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A fellow taxi driver comrade had a 2.5 diesel for a couple of years & he had this kind of noise which turned out to be the timing chain tensioner. He had it fixed, but a year later (about 30K) the noise came back & again a change of timing chain tensioner cured the problem. Then after another 30K it came back again & at this point he sold it 
He was convinced that the chain tensioner on the diesel only lasts about 30K miles & hence needed replacing regularly 
I know nothing about diesel engines, so really can't advise on what it really might be. But this diesel Scorp my mate had, certainly seemed to go through tensioners like it went through tyres 
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mikeart
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« Reply #5 on: Aug 16th, 2008, 3:34pm » |
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Ok, that sounds about right, i wonder is this something i could do, or are we talking garage job, i do appreciate your replies folks.
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« Reply #6 on: Aug 16th, 2008, 8:19pm » |
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JC and Mike, have a look at This and see if it helps.
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« Reply #7 on: Aug 16th, 2008, 8:45pm » |
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 ....looks like he was telling me fibs, or he was repeating what his mechanic told him & the mechanic was telling fibs ....either way, sorry for being a bit dumb
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« Reply #8 on: Aug 16th, 2008, 10:56pm » |
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That makes interesting reading, thank you for the link, it is booked into the garage next week shall keep you updated on the outcome, all i understand about cars is how to drive them
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« Reply #9 on: Aug 17th, 2008, 8:06am » |
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on Aug 16th, 2008, 8:45pm, Jonnycab wrote:| ....looks like he was telling me fibs, or he was repeating what his mechanic told him & the mechanic was telling fibs ....either way, sorry for being a bit dumb |
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I think the first case is probably correct...certainly not the latter . 
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Re: This is driving me nuts !!
« Reply #10 on: Aug 18th, 2008, 10:49am » |
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I thought i read to more posts to this topic ? but now they have gone ?
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