Help Chitting Kaz find a Car Please

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, its a heap.
Find something local.

 

Fc that car is fab pity it is so far away
shall have a look closer to home

 

Ford Galaxy + turbo diesel + fault = a very scary situation my dad had to deal with a few years ago. I don't fully understand it, but apparently turbo diesel engines can, in extremely rare circumstances, develop a fault that makes them run out of control, feeding off their own engine oil. This happened in my dad's street to a car owned by a neighbour. I'd have ran away once I knew everyone was clear, but apparently the car was screaming away, revving so high that flames were coming out of the exhaust. In the end he ran into the house, grabbed the nearest big knife he could lay his hands on, ran back out and cut the fuel line to bring the engine under control.

I think, though its a bit beyond me, that unlike most turbo diesel engines that use an electric powered fuel pump so cutting the electric cuts the engine, some of the Galaxies had used a fuel pump driven off the engine itself, so in the event of a runaway caused in this case we later found out by a failed oil seal in the turbo, the engine was just feeding itself, and of course diesels don't use spark ignition, as long as they have fuel and compression they'll just keeping going, and the more pressure in the exhaust, the more pressure in the turbo, and the more revs until it just goes mental and either blows its head, runs its self out, or catches fire.

 

Never driven a turbo, petrol or diesel.
But the choice is getting limited thanks to the eco bunch and the EU.

 

Actually the eco bunch and the EU are making it more likely that you'll end up driving a turbo one day. As manufacturers come under increasing pressure to improve fuel efficiency, they are increasingly going for smaller, lighter engines, and then making up the power by adding a turbo. This 'eco drive' is also pushing some cool innovations. Volvo recently patented a new turbo design where the turbo actually fits in the exhaust manifold directly, significantly reducing the amount of pipework needed, thus reducing weight, improving efficiency, and reducing the awful 'turbo lag' that many of us will have noticed (the idea that you give it some throttle, but the engine doesn't respond until a couple of seconds later while it waits for the turbo to get up to speed).

 

I recently looked at replacing my Ford petrol 3.0ltr with a 1.6ltr turbo, petrol,( most diesels still sound like a few spanners are ratting around under the bonnet.)
Unless of course you can afford the top end.

The fuel consumption was almost the same if you give it a bit of wellie, but the power output was down according to the write ups.
And this is improvements?

 

Its worse than that. Your 3 litre engine will deliver its power at a lower RPM than the smaller turbo, so less wear, meaning the engine will live longer, and therefore wont be going to the scrap yard so soon with all the un-eco implications that go with disposing of an old car.

Also, while a turbo will add a lot of wellie at the top end of the revs, they are largely pointless at the lower end of the revs, no torque to speak of when pulling away under load, whereas the larger engine will have lots of torque at the bottom end.

I think the manufacturers will get it right though now they are being pushed. Not so many years ago you'd never have found a diesel engine in a luxury car just because they were too noisy and smelly and rattly. Turbo lag will soon be a thing of the past as the technology is being pushed.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-W-Re...omobiles_UK&hash=item27caa25172#ht_1064wt_984

ok i know it is petrol and fairly high on miles but it says has had new timing belt so boys what do you think ?

 

Hopefully its been driven Caerphilly

....I'll get me coat.

 

even terry missed that one