Ravenger

My car's just been back to the dealer to check the poor MPG, but they didn't bother to check the intercooler as far as I'm aware. In fact I think they just connected it to the computer, and because it all checked out ok, they said it was fine. :roll: I'll ask them to check the intercooler when it goes back for the recall work.

Looks like mine will one of those to be recalled - it's an 06 plate, and built shortly before june 06. Pity there's not a recall for poor mpg. :roll:

It's a tweeter I believe.

Do you mean 1.8 Petrol or 1.8 TDCi? Not heard any problems with the petrol engines, except poor MPG.

I bought the replacement rubbers off ebay. They were fairly easy to fit, once I'd managed to get the wiper end caps off, that is. The wiping is now much improved - no streaking, but the main wiper judders very slightly, so I might have to trim a bit off the end of the rubber, as it may be slightly too long.

There are plenty of aftermarket child mirrors you can buy anyway.

I asked about that when I bought my Zetec, but the dealer said it was wasn't that easy a job, as the ceiling material needs to be cut back to fit it.

Someone needs to come up with a connector that plugs into the lead between the EGR valve and the ECU which simply passes through a 'EGR Valve OK' message, but keeps the valve closed.

Those warranties are normally not worth it. Warranty companies will generally try to get out of paying a claim if they can.

So folding the seat up, moving it towards the boot, then folding it back down again, giving it a bit of a slam doesn't work? I do have to quite forcefully push the middle seat down to get it to click into place. The seats are removable, might be worth removing the middle seat so you can properly have a look at the fixings to see if there's any way to mend them.

I've not seen this problem on mine. My car does have the sliding rear outer seat system though, does yours?

The Sale Of Goods act says that any faults within six months of purchase of a car from a dealer are considered to have been present when you originally bought the car, unless the dealer can prove otherwise. The dealer must sort the problem out.

The steering in my C-Max started making grinding noises a couple of months back. Turns out to be a known problem, they replaced some steering parts (twice, as they didn't fix it the first time :evil: ), and it's fine now. All done under warranty.

Did the dealer apply an ecu update when they changed the EGR valves? Allegedly there's an update which goes with the new valve, which cycles it when the ignition is turned on. if that's not applied then that may explain why you've had so many problems.

64.9mpg for me on one motorway trip. (1.8TDCi) Not managed to get that much since, but recently achieved 60mpg on a run driving at approx 50-60mph, with a fully loaded car while coming back from holiday. Nowhere near as good around town, though. :roll: