Thought I had better post........

Wallace · 12-11-2018, 19:37

........as I have been lurking for a while.

Browsed the site for a while trying to make my mind up what to do with the Terrano I have had sitting for a number of years and decided to get an Mot and go from there with a view to replacing my work hack Fiesta, it's a '97 2.4 Xtreme in completely standard trim other than a towbar. I bought the car from a friend in 2011 and he owned it for 6 years, looking at the Mot history we stopped using the car that year and it joined the transport museum.

I'm having fun with it! Has already let both the missus and I down as the starter motor commutator partially broke up and destroyed the brush pack, probably more a case of the brushes wearing out destroying the commutator. The temperature gauge has been faulty since my mate had it, reads a little high despite changing the sender and I found the one the second different one he bought back in 2010 in the glovebox! IR thermometer shows temperature to be ok though so we just put that down as 'character'.

This morning on the work trip the heater wasn't giving a great deal of heat so I'll drag it in the garage later to see if there's a bleed point that needs relieving as it was ok last week.

Cheers.

12-11-2018, 19:37	#1
Wallace Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2018 Location: Middlesex Vehicle: '97 Terrano II 2.4 Xtreme Posts: 368	Thought I had better post........ ........as I have been lurking for a while. Browsed the site for a while trying to make my mind up what to do with the Terrano I have had sitting for a number of years and decided to get an Mot and go from there with a view to replacing my work hack Fiesta, it's a '97 2.4 Xtreme in completely standard trim other than a towbar. I bought the car from a friend in 2011 and he owned it for 6 years, looking at the Mot history we stopped using the car that year and it joined the transport museum. I'm having fun with it! Has already let both the missus and I down as the starter motor commutator partially broke up and destroyed the brush pack, probably more a case of the brushes wearing out destroying the commutator. The temperature gauge has been faulty since my mate had it, reads a little high despite changing the sender and I found the one the second different one he bought back in 2010 in the glovebox! IR thermometer shows temperature to be ok though so we just put that down as 'character'. This morning on the work trip the heater wasn't giving a great deal of heat so I'll drag it in the garage later to see if there's a bleed point that needs relieving as it was ok last week. Cheers.