for the past 14 months i've had this rattle coming from the suspension of the mondeo and, having changed virtualy everything, sometimes twice in the case of the bottom ball joints and wishbones and arb drop links, it started to get a bit much

i even changed the springs and the top mounts but still this shonky rattle existed

as per mypost a few weeks ago regarding a decent garage, torque of the devil was the right place at the right time so in it went

and 5 minutes later kester's popped into the cafe and said he's found the problem

it turned out to the the steering rack

so, rack ordered from ebay i left it to them

ok, so the rack took a week to turn up, but when i got the car back, no rattle

the thing i've found since i collected the car though has been two fold

one, it's so nice not to hear the rattle
two, the brakes are just unreal

so big up to the lads there for sorting the problem, and i've got some bushes on the way too

 

glad to hear it sorted dojj

 

Makes a change to hear something positive about totd

Steve

 

dropped it off on the saturday morning and then, for the best part of the next week, they were waiting for the rack to turn up

no problems i leaving it there either as i was worried about it cluttering up teh place, but no, no problems

if i had taken it to a garage in the first place to diagnose the fault i probably would have saved myself the £400 odd i've spent trying to rectifiy the problem so ther is a lesson to be learnt there, sometiems it IS cheaper for the professionsal to have a look

 

i went down there for a new chip and set up they were very good imo will be going back

 

Good job TOTD They got me the specific alternator that i requested, whilst driving down on a saturday morning and it was there waiting for me at just gone 9am.. Last time this happened, Ford gave me 4 alternators and just told me to bring the 3 wrong ones back

 

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The moral to this story is don't DIY

 

i think the moral to this story is that cars nowadays are too complicated for the lieks of me

(and kwik fit )

 

rattles, the bane of a motorists life!

 

what?????

u having a laugh

 

no he isn't. i dont know totd other than what i read here and it's generally NOT good!

 

and what exactly have you read.

totd are fucking awesome. every1 knows that whos been.

 

I think some people who have been, will disagree.

 

Thats better

 

No comment

Use the search button lol

 

well all i have read is complinments. ive been there once and going there soon agen.

all the post that slag totd off are a load of shit. all post are TOTD V'S PE lol

 

the 2 "bad tales" that i'm sure everyone will remember are the one where someone used the totd computer to slag off power engineering and radders datsun's woes

other than that, i have no idea

 

well its quite funny actually.

last year around this sort of time i wanted my car tuned but only knew of PE so i rang them up and told them i had an s2 escort and the geezer actually said to me TO BE HONEST I KNOW A LITTLE BIT BUT NOT BRILLIANT ON THE S2 TURBOS and he said to me I KNOW SOMEONE CALLED "chris todd from a place called torque of the devil" and he gave me he's number.

and i went there and came out smiling

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