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Malcolm73
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Ultima 24V - Loose gear change lever.
« on: Jul 11th, 2012, 4:53pm » |
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Since 18th.April my Scorpio 24v Ultima has been at one or two associated garages where work has been carried out on the gear box, transmission, radiator, and a S/H crankshaft belt pulley has been fitted.
When first returned after a month the gear lever had ½ of slack movement between R and N and a further ½ between N and D.
Yesterday I attempted to start the car in what I believed was N but the gear lever had probably drifted into R or D and all I heard was a feint sound of an electric motor.
As the gear lever formally worked faultlessly can anyone hazard a guess at what may be missing, broken, or wrongly assembled?
On the 18th. April my car was in near perfect condition but apart from the above gear lever problem, one of the two horns no longer works, the steering wanders, I have road / transmission noise which is very bad over 50 M.P.H., N/S rear brake problems, possible gear box problems, and the Walnut panel around the gear lever has lost two fixing pins and is now loose.
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leewar
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Re: Ultima 24V - Loose gear change lever.
« Reply #2 on: Jul 11th, 2012, 8:20pm » |
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Malcolm, As Mike has said, the selector needs adjustment. To be honest, if you've had work done on the box, I would be inclined to take it back to the garage and get them to do it, if you trust them to do it right that is  . Simple job though. As for the brake problems, I have replied to your email. If you need them, I have spare horns and the walnut surround for the gear lever. That was probably broken by the garage removing it to work on your gearbox.  Let me know. Cheers Lee 
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PJDavis
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Re: Ultima 24V - Loose gear change lever.
« Reply #3 on: Jul 11th, 2012, 9:10pm » |
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This is why we don't trust 'Joe-garage' and that includes Ford dealers. You just can't trust any old garage these days, and I'm being serious! The ONLY trade that doesn't have to prove how good or bad they are, as long as they have an MOT approval, we all know what that really means! I'm sure there are peeps on here that will disagree with that analysis, I've been in the trade for more than Thirty years, I'll stand by it. There are a lot of great garages out there, find one and stick with it.
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leewar
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Re: Ultima 24V - Loose gear change lever.
« Reply #4 on: Jul 11th, 2012, 9:13pm » |
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Good words spoken Peter
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Mike H
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Re: Ultima 24V - Loose gear change lever.
« Reply #5 on: Jul 12th, 2012, 1:50pm » |
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Sad but true, probably still true as well that the single self-employed guys are a better bet as they can't afford to faff people about, like the guy I know and have been going to for maybe 30 years now. Worth his weight in gold he is 
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Glyn
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Re: Ultima 24V - Loose gear change lever.
« Reply #6 on: Jul 12th, 2012, 7:43pm » |
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Couldn't agree more. My chap is self employed,understands the car and actually repairs things. Helps that he was Ford trained, was around at the time of the Scorpio and was trained as an auto electrician ! Lucky find.
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