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[xr6t4life]

easiest way I found to get the fuel filter nuts off is with vice grips, normal spanners will I <3 Bananas the nut

[Kroozin]

Dunno if you ended up doing it but it pays to check your inlet manifold bolts too..

Its easiest with a 10mm ratchet spanner and a 3/8 socket set. They are all 10mm bolts.

I noticed when I did mine that atleast half of them were fairly loose.

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easiest way I found to get the fuel filter nuts off is with vice grips, normal spanners will I <3 Bananas the nut

flare nut spanners mate

[gkors]

Thanks guys.

I'm guessing the same goes for the pivot bushes?

Sway bar bushes worth doing while its all out too?

Are you suggesting the nolathane red type of bush? are these from bursons not ford etc.

Don't mind doing it all but would this stuff be covered under the extended warranty? the tensioner bearing is clapped as well should I just take it back to fraud will they just do the bits without a $500 bill or should I just ask for the parts.

What sort of dollars are we looking at for the ball joints so I know if im getting ripped or not, this is going to be one hell of a $$ service with 4 new tyres I guess the benefit is its actually being serviced.

I can see if I take it to them they will say you need a rotate and balance and the wiper blades need doing too.

Will get to the intake manifold when everything comes out to do the turbo line.

The fuel filter will get the vice grips on next time, funny thing is my standard ford filter has had one of the edges rounded where some monkey has put the wrong spanner on it, no doubt they just take them out and wash them out and put back in.

[Kroozin]

I used this when I changed mine to the earls makes life abit easier with abit of a guide.

Its not totally relevant to fitting an earls filter thingy but you get the picture.

[gkors]

ok didn't look properly I'm with you now the lower control bushes......

What about the ball joints anyway top and bottom when do these start to play up haven't jacked up and had a look to test as yet.

[gkors]

Don't mind doing it all but would this stuff be covered under the extended warranty? the tensioner bearing is clapped as well should I just take it back to fraud will they just do the bits without a $500 bill or should I just ask for the parts.

Well seems I was right I have never met a bigger bunch of mongrel *beep* in my life.

So yesterday I'm talking to the wanker there about it and he confirms lower control arm bushes, yeah she's all good we'll do it under warranty no problems.

So they have the car for 4-5 hours then ring me, 1 ball joint 1 shock 1 $190 tensioner bearing, labour to fit blah blah blah we are talking around $450 I was close. no problem with the control bushes they rekon. I hit the f*cking roof and went and saw them. Then its 3 x ball joints after talking to him, said can you just do the bloody 4th one while the car is appart and get f*cked doing one shock do the 2. Wouldn't budge, wouldn't give me the parts to do it myself.

So I told them to stick the car the warranty and their services up their arse and left. Will be writing a letter of complaint to ford.

What a waste of time, I have bought new bushes ball joints and had the car stripped in a couple of hours.

Any suggestions as to what brand of strut to get?

[Wenier]

Good to see fraud keeping up their quality service. Doing it yourself if you are capable is definitely the way to go, pity they aint covering it under warranty.

[gkors]

Good to see fraud keeping up their quality service. Doing it yourself if you are capable is definitely the way to go, pity they aint covering it under warranty.

that's the thing mate they will only do half a job, whats the point of doing 3 ball joints, 6 months time the other one claps out I've got another $300 tyre rooted and its all got to come out, then another wheel alignment another $110 for fraud.

And who the hell does one shock absorber

Then the *beep* im talking to answers the phone mid conversation when there is another pleb sitting at his desk doing nothing.

[xr6tufo]

that's sucks dude, alot of complaints on how ford treats warranty issues.. 70k with those type of issues the parts used in our cars are cheap sh*t...