Gone and got myself a Cougar...

Started by Andy, January 10, 2012, 10:54:08 AM

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Fieldy

#25
January 13, 2012, 04:14:55 AM
Quoting: Andy
Best I've averaged so far is 28.5


Quoting: Andy
It is rather nice! You have to laugh, it's drowns out the crying from watching the fuel gauge!


That's it, You're banned from all motor related forums, grab your bags and make sure the doors closed on the way out....!!

Bloody 28MPG, and complaining!

Sounds rather good to me. I work out the MPG per journey on my 2.0 Mondeo at 30MPG, The Chevy only does 19 at best.....

Andy

#26
January 13, 2012, 07:41:36 AM
Quoting: Fieldy
That's it, You're banned from all motor related forums, grab your bags and make sure the doors closed on the way out....!!

Bloody 28MPG, and complaining!

Sounds rather good to me. I work out the MPG per journey on my 2.0 Mondeo at 30MPG, The Chevy only does 19 at best...





Sod this, I'm going to the Cougar forum!

Fieldy

#27
January 14, 2012, 10:30:15 AM
Quoting: Andy
Sod this, I'm going to the Cougar forum!


Be careful, there may be some surprising content on there... Remember the name has more than one connotation....

Andy

#28
January 14, 2012, 01:03:59 PM
Quoting: Fieldy
Be careful, there may be some surprising content on there... Remember the name has more than one connotation....


Yeah, found that to my horror by doing a blind search punching it into the address bar.

Andy

#32
January 18, 2012, 05:14:32 AM
Well this week has been fun and games.

Shifted the Mondeo on Monday to some guy in South End, turned at 9:30, said 'yeah, I'll have it' bare in mind it's pitch black. Paid the full asking price and drove off within ten minutes.

That was great until...

Last night coming home from the pub, go from a 30 to a national so give it a bit (given up all hope on fuel economy!) then get the weirdest fault ever.

Traction Control, brakes warning and ABS light up, engine drops all power, lights go out briefly then blows drivers bulb, dials do a full sweep and all goes back to normal (except for the blown bulb)

Folks at ukcougar reckon it could be the alternator. The OBD screens reckon the alty is only producing 10-11v at idle and no more when accelerating.

So looks like I could be having some fun changing that!

Incursus

#33
January 18, 2012, 08:37:19 AM
Quoting: Andy
Paid the full asking price and drove off within ten minutes

Didn't you have change for a packet of crisps?


Quoting: Andy
That was great until...

art b

#34
January 18, 2012, 09:05:04 AM
sounds like a dip or spike on the alt, prob rectifier pack,

whats ya battery like

12.4v or above....
14+v when charging
This forum needs, ''YOU'' posting,Not just reading ! :moon:

Andy

#35
January 18, 2012, 12:52:38 PM
Funny you should say, got out there with a multimeter and had the car idling, a solid 14.4v on the meter. My old man reckon it wouldn't pick up a spike and would need a scope to detect that.

With the meter clipped on a revved the engine up to see if I could provoke anything but nope, solid at 14.4v

The garage over the way suggested looking at all my earth wires, check them for being properly connected, no loose connections etc. Pretty sure they looked good.

Just been looking up an FAQ section, and it suffers from one of the faults that is a high resistance link in the charging circuit meaning that when at idle the live supply for the car seems to come almost direct off of the alternator giving you this pulsing effect in the cluster lights. Its almost annoying, but can be ignored! lol

I have some work to do, thats all I know. It'll probably piss me off, but it wouldn't be motoring if I didn't.

I might have to put a request out for some drive up ramps to get to the alternator though

EDGE

#36
January 18, 2012, 01:27:58 PM
can you fit a HUGE capacito to the feed to smooth the flow?
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