04-06-2015, 10:50 PM
Sooo, it's been a while. In all honesty I had a major 'setback' in March and haven't really been well since. Finally doing something about that though. And to that end needed to get the car 'sorted' for the next 6 months at least. MOT, tax and insurance are all paid up until next year so it was just maintenance really. Still getting DPF faults but having it gutted and remapped was just way beyond my budget. So I've done the other stuff and just hope that the DPF faults are either 'glitches' with something.
So it had another pair of Dunlop Sport BluResponse fitted yesterday to replace the tyres with nails in unrepairable places, same all round now, and the tracking done properly as well! They managed to fix the mess ATS made of the tracking, somehow it was completely wrong, last time I use them for tracking then! Front is now set up correctly, rear is only just within tolerance but I decided not to risk having that done partly for the extra cost and partly in case the bolts snapped!
Also done a major service today, after getting the OE parts at a very good price from a contact in the trade.
Did have a slight issue of bleeding the fuel system when my manual hand pump failed (seal knackered, probably from syphoning damn veg oil in the past!) so I ended up filling the filter with diesel from a can and after 2 or 3 short cranking bursts it started fortunately...phew.
So it shouldn't need any more money spent over the next 6 months hopefully, and will be covering a lot more miles than before as well which should keep the DPF happy...although it could also see me doing a lot more town miles which could have the opposite effect lol. Kinda regretting the potential faults the DV6 has but have looked into swapping for a 2.0 instead but the running costs would be significantly higher and I'd lose some of the spec that makes mine 'special' to me (HIDs, Leathers, Cruise) so I'll persevere with it for now. When the EcoBoost Fiesta's drop to a sensible price that'll probably be my next car, modern diesels just aren't worth the extra hassle and cost over petrols, especially now they've become a lot more efficient.
So it had another pair of Dunlop Sport BluResponse fitted yesterday to replace the tyres with nails in unrepairable places, same all round now, and the tracking done properly as well! They managed to fix the mess ATS made of the tracking, somehow it was completely wrong, last time I use them for tracking then! Front is now set up correctly, rear is only just within tolerance but I decided not to risk having that done partly for the extra cost and partly in case the bolts snapped!
Also done a major service today, after getting the OE parts at a very good price from a contact in the trade.
Did have a slight issue of bleeding the fuel system when my manual hand pump failed (seal knackered, probably from syphoning damn veg oil in the past!) so I ended up filling the filter with diesel from a can and after 2 or 3 short cranking bursts it started fortunately...phew. So it shouldn't need any more money spent over the next 6 months hopefully, and will be covering a lot more miles than before as well which should keep the DPF happy...although it could also see me doing a lot more town miles which could have the opposite effect lol. Kinda regretting the potential faults the DV6 has but have looked into swapping for a 2.0 instead but the running costs would be significantly higher and I'd lose some of the spec that makes mine 'special' to me (HIDs, Leathers, Cruise) so I'll persevere with it for now. When the EcoBoost Fiesta's drop to a sensible price that'll probably be my next car, modern diesels just aren't worth the extra hassle and cost over petrols, especially now they've become a lot more efficient.