MuppetCheck wrote: » Yay her too. They're tasty wheels on a w202. You must feel every pebble in that yoke!
dgt wrote: » Oh look, page 220.... Experimenting with other 17's I have here. Yay or nay?
Dartz wrote: » They look alright on their own for sure.... but without seeing the alternative I can't call them an improvement.
Simonigs1.0 wrote: » Jesus! I thought my RCZ was low
Special Circumstances wrote: » Low is slow in Ireland. Take enjoyment from beating pretty much anything away from a bad speedbump
CianRyan wrote: » I can assure you, low certainly is not slow in Ireland. What do speed humps have to do with it? Who's racing in a housing estate?
job seeker wrote: » A fail/refusal on a interior brake light bulb. Can I just arrive in with the problem fixed? Or do I need to call to let them know.
Big Nasty wrote: » Should be just a visual - no need to book
bear1 wrote: » I'm fairly sure at this point that the rattling on acceleration in the Honda isn't bloody normal. This weekend I'm bringing it to a diesel specialist and asking him to take a look and if there are any issues with what the mechanic changed to write them down so I can bring the car back to him. EML came on last night again after I thought it had been resolved and the car has become sluggish. Getting it up to 140 was a task in itself. So here is my opinion on what has happened so bare with me. Mechanic says 3 of the 4 injectors have been replaced (I'm going to bet on 2nd hand ones or my bill would have been a lot higher), before the car went in it didn't create any noise on acceleration. Now I have a very loud ticking noise or metally noise which increases with the revs. I may be wrong but I always thought that if you replace the injectors then they need to be timed properly? And that you need a specialist tool for this. So could it be plausible that the mechanic simply swapped the broken injectors (they broke as he was removing them) plugged the 2nd hand ones in and away he went? If they weren't timed properly could this lead to them causing performance issues plus clanky noises?
bear1 wrote: » Thanks lads.@Interslice - yes you are correct, I was getting mixed up with the fuel pumps @Ybfocus: I know, can't believe it and this sort of thing always seems to happen on the build up to Christmas. The more digging I do the more I'm starting to be convinced it is the injectors causing this. I asked on the Honda forums regarding the heat shield and I was told that it shouldn't be that as it is not part of the timing chain replacement process so in other words it shouldn't even be touched. What gets me is that why aren't the injectors rattling on idle? Could it be because the engine is under no load and that only the minimum amount of fuel is needed to keep the engine on?
Interslice wrote: » Still using a drop to keep it ticking over a idle. Alot of compression still to be done. Does it go away if your going down hill and you lift off the throttle. Injectors should be off then.
YbFocus wrote: » I would have thought it would be constant.What about when you come completely off the throttle while travelling? Does the sound go away? If it does then I'd be thinking injectors for sure, in modern diesels the injectors close and the car is essentially off. That'd give an indication. Could it be tension on the chain? Although I'd assume it'd be louder with no load as the turning force would tighten the chain.
bear1 wrote: » Exactly, just cruise normally or braking the noise goes away. Tap the accelerator or give it welly then the noise comes on and you have feck all power, well not feck all but nowhere near as powerful as before it went in.
YbFocus wrote: » Sounds awfully like an injector, maybe it has enough flow to idle and help it not be completely missing but enough to hinder the progress as usual?
bear1 wrote: » Jays we're getting to da bottom of dis now lads! Fairly sure myself it's either 1 injector or multiple ones. Wouldn't surprise me if all 3 were of utter ****e quality. Injector know is what I think they call it.
YbFocus wrote: » I assume it'd be basically undrivable if it was down on three bad injectors though bear. We got injectors flow tested and cleaned before going into an engine before at 20 an injector, maybe that's a possibility?
