RE: tvradict's Ford Orion

[anonymous-user]

how much oil?!?!
I don't think my fiesta used this much, were Ford and the oil companies in it together?! i think we need some answers! I reckon Dagenham is situated on the biggest oil fields outside of Kuwait.......

[cortinaman]

no pablo,dagenham is built on the remains of an ancient cess-pit

[tvradict]

I Missed this one.

My car does seem to use quite a bit, but it also does a lot of cold miles, and a lot of short journeys. The other problem is the breather pipe from the Rocker Cover to the Airbox is now breathing to atmosphere which means that any oil vapour runs down the side of the engine, rather than returning to the block.

I also change the oil every 6000miles, It was advice given on here, something about the opil capialries becoming blocked and changing every 6000miles prevents this. It needs oil now, but I'm not gonna top it up, if it goes bang it'll give me the excuse I need to get a new motor

[Mr2Mike]

tvradict said:

I Missed this one. My car does seem to use quite a bit, but it also does a lot of cold miles, and a lot of short journeys. The other problem is the breather pipe from the Rocker Cover to the Airbox is now breathing to atmosphere which means that any oil vapour runs down the side of the engine, rather than returning to the block.

The oil vapour which is normaly routed into the airbox is simply burnt, it doesn't get recycled back into the sump.

[Pies]

Dont forget to claim back the unused insurance if possible

And road tax

[tvradict]

Tax disc is sitting in front of me, I pay the insurance monthly.

They tried to get £1500 out of me for the Focus. I told them to stick there insurance where the sun don't shine. And I didn't mean the filling cabinet

[Pies]

Ok, just making sure you hadn't forgot

[DennisTheMenace]

You picked up the focus yet stu ?

[tvradict]

No, but I'm counting down the hours til I do.

16hours 43 minutes


As you can tell I'm quite excited.

I dropped off the Cover note to the dealer last night, I noticed they had a burgundy Ka1 sitting where the focus was, and I couldn't see it where the other 'awaiting delivery' cars where so I assumed it was being serviced

Got my stack of CD's waiting by the door ready