OK Tom this is a cross between Question Time and Who (does not want) to be a Millionaire because the bills you are paying must be giving "Tune at Home" man and the garage a good living and ensuring a nice fat turkey on the Christmas table.
Question Time - What history do you know about the car ??? A well maintained engine can turn in 100,000 miles but the worst ever burnt out exhaust valve I have ever seen came from a 126 with about 20,000 on the clock and like yours there were fuel problems so you wonder what went into the tank :oops:
Piston rings can seize if the car is very badly stored.
Now you , do you have the tools, the environment, etc etc to do any work yourself ???
What details of the compression problem were you given ???
When in Grease do as the greasy people do :wink2:
Tell me more , tell me more I really wanna know
OK Tom this is a cross between Question Time and Who (does not want) to be a Millionaire because the bills you are paying must be giving "Tune at Home" man and the garage a good living and ensuring a nice fat turkey on the Christmas table.
Question Time - What history do you know about the car ??? A well maintained engine can turn in 100,000 miles but the worst ever burnt out exhaust valve I have ever seen came from a 126 with about 20,000 on the clock and like yours there were fuel problems so you wonder what went into the tank :oops:
Piston rings can seize if the car is very badly stored.
Now you , do you have the tools, the environment, etc etc to do any work yourself ???
What details of the compression problem were you given ???
When in Grease do as the greasy people do :wink2:
Tell me more , tell me more I really wanna know
Thanks guys,
It could well be something as simple as a piston ring or valve, but without getting stuck in and stripping it down I wont know. The RAC man spent 4 hours with me and pretty much went through everything, and I have to be honest he was brilliant! The plugs are white, the engine is running lean, it is over breathing and gets super mega hot after it has been running for a while, this is when the engine starts to lose all power and bounces around when driving.
I have just driven it to tesco's and back (because it is literally around the corner, and it didnt even like that very short drive either, so it is now truly very sick!)
I have to be honest when I bought the car it came with no history! No handbook, no service history, no previous MOTS, receipts or anything. The clock shows 19,800 miles, but it could well have been around the clock as there is no way of proving the mileage is genuine.
The paintwork is shocking, but the body is pretty solid all over including the underneath. It would be a real shame to scrap it, or break it, which I do not intend to do.
At present I live in Maidstone and do not have the garage, space or tools to do anything. I am moving back to Tunbridge Wells in January, and the car will be put in my garage (hopefully) where I can perhaps start at looking to strip it down and look at it. I do not have much technical knowledge about engines, but like you say how difficult can it be with some tools a haynes manual and lots of tea?
Right now the car will sit outside on the road until I move as I do not have the time or money to do anything over xmas, which means I am off to purchase a second car this week to get me through the rest of the winter and probably the spring too!
So things are on hold at the moment while I decide on how I am going to get around this little hurdle, but I have no plans to sell or get rid of the car.
Tom