Timing Sprocket Problem

[P.S.I]

Hi All,

I got my car back today after leaving at the dealers for the night.

The problem was a faulty belt idler. New idler & belt installed, noise gone......

Cheers

PSI

[mickq]

My sprocket blew up about 2 weeks ago. Funnily enough, when a ford techo was driving it around the block! Dropped the car in to get a door panel replaced, and get a call 2 hours later that the car is undriveable and needs to be kept overnight!

Ford guys said the issue was likely to end up in a recall of effected cars. I imagine they are doing the number crunching now to compare recall costs vs liklihood of problems x cost to fix if it fails.

[Dagabond]

  mickq said:

My sprocket blew up about 2 weeks ago. Funnily enough, when a ford techo was driving it around the block! Dropped the car in to get a door panel replaced, and get a call 2 hours later that the car is undriveable and needs to be kept overnight!

Ford guys said the issue was likely to end up in a recall of effected cars. I imagine they are doing the number crunching now to compare recall costs vs liklihood of problems x cost to fix if it fails.

WTF were they doin drivin it round the block if they were just replacing a door panel??

Wind adjustment??

[FORDTECH]

  mickq said:

Ford guys said the issue was likely to end up in a recall of effected cars. I imagine they are doing the number crunching now to compare recall costs vs liklihood of problems x cost to fix if it fails.

Ford are not going to recall any effected vehicles.If the dealers check the vehicles that are presented for servicing on the Ford computer system they figure that they'll pick up all the effected vehicles before or when they reach 15000km.