Who knows about Ford Ka's

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

f*cking hell...

exactly!

All i know is the spark plugs rust up all the time and if you break one, you might aswell scrap it!

[yorkie_chris]

Nah, just pull the head off and get it drilled and helicoiled. Them 1300 engines are pretty stone age so it's none too complicated.

Originally Posted by Thingus

All i know is the spark plugs rust up all the time and if you break one, you might aswell scrap it!

or, if you are the garage my sister went to. drill it out. let the swarf go in the cylinder. then start it before cleaning the cylinder out....

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

f*cking hell...

Remember my pics of my Civic, know how much insurance wanted for that TPFT?

£1850

So work paid for it

[embee]

Nissan Micra.................honestly. Nothing much really goes wrong with them. Anyone on here had one that went wrong? My 2 were fine, so were my mate's. Just servicing.

Why go for something which has a proven track record of things going wrong on the basis that it doesn't cost too much to fix?

[yorkie_chris]

The crossmember under the back of the motor likes to rot, there's a couple of other little places which go but nothing serious. Also it's a f##ker to weld because there's soundproofing/insulation stuff inside that drips all over you.

Good car though, no particular vices and really cheap to run.

Originally Posted by custard

i have one.

have a look at the rubber seal in the boot. lift it up at the bottom where the lock on the boot lid locates an have a look at the metal sill. mine has 60k and this is rotten.
check the door sills (lift the carpet at the edge in the footwell) and check the arches for rust.

under the bonnet. take a good look around the spark plugs. on mine they rust on the engine block and are a pig to remove. when my sister had it the garage botched the removal and crap got in the cylinder heads... was expensive.

fine tooth comb through the service history, i would expect it to have had the cam belt done and proabably a new exhaust by now. if the cam belt hasnt been done would check the service intervals on them cos if memory serves it is an expensive job.

on the whole they are cheap to run and quite a laugh to drive. not sure about 100k miles though...

Early KAs had the old fiesta overhead valve engines very very tried and tested and no cam belt.The later models have the overhead cam engine with drive chain,ie no cam belt so if youv'e been charged for a replacement then youv'e been done.

clearly memory dont serve then

[Dave20046]

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Nah, just pull the head off and get it drilled and helicoiled. Them 1300 engines are pretty stone age so it's none too complicated.

just like the classic mini