Off She Goes
My zs finally gets picked up and taken to dundee to get the niggles sorted today, though lords knows what they will leave me as a courtesy car!!! Please not a Pug, anytime i get courtesy cars it's nearly always a pug and not a single one have i liked:( List has grown slightly since i got the car, but should all be easily rectumfied:sheep:
1 - Poor Starting 2 - Noise from rear, think brakes are sticking slightly 3 - Knocking noise from rear n/s, an have heard a 'boing' twice now on a sharp left hand corner 4 - Locking wheel nut key needs replace 5 - Rear o/s tyre has slow puncture - they gave me the car with this tyre at 5psi, dont think they were thorough with their checks! 6 - Leak in drivers footwell, thanks to 200bubs for pointing out the bonnet release as the probable source! 7 - Clicking and cracking from clutch in heavy traffic, possible cluctch master + slave |
They all sound fairly minor niggles......as for your sharp left hander........check your exhaust ;) I bet it is the tailpipe nudging the exhaust heat shield. Mine does that frequently whenever I go to a certain place where there is a pot hole for the o/s to clobber........the exhaust is then jarred into the shield :)
Brakes........well you got some choices......MG Rover ones or as quite a few seem to head for......the Mintex route. Bet you can't wait to get the beast back eh! :mml: Jim |
Pugs aren't that overly bad. ;) I had a 206 HDI van when i was working for Royal Mail. That thing flew... :)
Should all be easily fixed. All under the warranty too? |
The boing is fairly common.Usualy nothing to worry about,it's just the springs twisting & boinging back
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Luckily it rarely happens.Takes me by surprise when it does though
Shroon |
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Only clue is it's korean :D Not driven it yet, but heading to work in a wee bit:) |
I hope to god its not a Kia... those things are the worst cars in the world!...
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Oh dear god, its worse than I thought... We have had Kias at work, and every branch tries to get rid of them. Of the family, we have/had Picantos (perky engines but just really cheap and nasty), Ceratos (again very fast, not quite as bad as the Picanto, but not great either) and your Magnetis. The thing belongs in the ocean.
Out of curiosity which hire company is providing the car...? |
haha unlucky fella, wen someone crashed into my old ZR, they said they wll only give me a car engine size equivelent, and the only one they had in at the time was a nissan micra , LOL, i told them no way so they delivered me a brand new almera all the way from liverpool to coventry...LOL i kept the car until mine was repaired (Couldnt source the parts so they wrote it off in the end!) i racked up a £8,500 hire car bill obv which the 3rd party paid!
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Shudders at thought of a Kia.
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And just for fun, keep a count of the amount of times you put your windscreen wipers on when you want to indicate...
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still cant get the zs back soon enough though:shoot2::shoot2: |
The registration wouldnt happen to end in UAP would it... Im sure thats the only Magnetis we have left on fleet... We got shot of that to Dundee last week I think...
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Don't you mean that you got shot of it to Inverness in exchange for a ZS. ;)
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They are getting through the problems now, rear brakes being stripped and cleaned, clutch has been lubricated - will be checked again before i get her back. they think it's the windscreen thats leaking so it's been re-sealed, not sure what they have done about the starting, hopefully plugs at least!! tyre was a dodgy valve, thats been replaced, and the knocking from the back was a goosed shocker, thats being fitted tomorrow. Think thats the lot, might get some pics of the killer kia for you all to drool over before it goes back:D |
Get the zs back monday, was getting windscreen re-sealed today:trampoline: so get rid of this thing then
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:O A 57 plate!! I cant believe they bought more of that *****. I thought they wouldve learnt by now that Kias are the worst rental cars ever! The one we had was an 06 plate, and it is waaaaaaaaaaay worse than that one...
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hope you get the ZS back soon! mon the Kia :D
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Anything has to be better than that Kia. Can't be long now mate.
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cheers guys, looks like the zs is coming back monday afternoon!! Can't wait, just got to drive that barge back down the road to work tomorrow and that should be it, though the missus loves the heated seats!! The reversing sensors on it are ***** though, had me stopping about 3ft away from an obstacle:no:
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Not sure thats true, it is a Kia.
Right as its the last day with it, hope you are gonna screw it senseless. Deserves a mistreat. |
Yeah do what I did once so for 5th gear and stick it in 3rd on the motorway :laugh:
My poor Escort screamed murder briefly :rofl: Only teasin..........thats not good enough........try 2nd at 80mph ;) You will be guaranteed a spectacular air show of engine parts and gearbox bits..........which.........fingers crossed won't punch through the bulkhead and into the footwell :hooray: Jim |
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