My Hymer is Poorly Sick

Ral you do realise Charlie was quiet in a corner of a field, now you've stirred him and we are all waiting for the response.
 
hope you get it sorted soon and without too much stress and bother.......gook luck
 
Jays said:
This is the problem with modern diesel engines, irrespective of the manufacture.
They all will suffer this problem.
As you know you can get into a higher gear early in the RPM range.
This gives us the opinion that you will save fuel by increasing your mpg.

This assumption is wrong, use your gears increase your rpm, run hot,hot this then helps clear the the build up of particles.

The other thing to do is change your oil more frequently, go to euro parts, buy oil filters and 20 litre drums of oil, change every 6000 miles cost are pence per mile.

Short cool slow low rev travel is the modern diesel death call.

A tip we were given was to run at 3000 rpm for 30 minutes.

Did clear the fault , but you need to change your driving habit to keep it clear.

Maybe i am typing *hit that others will disagree with, but it did work for me.
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My new to me car was very slow and lumpy not wanting to cruse over 40mph,problem was a old man in eighties used it as a sunday go to church car,i did a couple of very high speed runs up to donegal and back,now runs smooth,good acceration,good cruise and can top the ton.:scared: keep her lit.
 
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Cheerful Charlie said:
Look on the bright side you have the best sounding FIAT out there :lol-049:
Feckin things sound horrible they are shite , every time I hear one now I cringe .
I think the salesman is still in shock from when I told him that's a lot of money for a feckin old Fiat .:lol-049:
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Just so I am clear on this. You don't like Fiats?:idea:
 
our woodwork teacher had a wall of his own offcuts and an obviously rehearsed line of patter ie for strength we have hardwood light enough to fly we have balsa wood (which he informed us was also a hardwood?) hard wood like hickory and pretty wood like walnut, he had many others each with its own attribute, my hymer has a curved drawer set under the sink it had dodgy plastic plastic catches so i fitted retaining bolts dropping down from the curved valance above , l assumed this was a price of plywood steamed & curved after it smashed when the drawers flew open on a bend i found it to be corrugated cardboard with a veneer front , in reality not really a piece that’s meant to carry anything so no need to be more substantial but an indication of how they save weight in the construction, modern vans like wully’s dethleff have electronic locking bolts,
 
That’s right ken handy but somthing more too break one of the small motors broke after about 6 month Dethleff dealer wanted £70 for motor turns out it’s a central locking motor from any vw £6 from euro parts
 
hairydog said:
It seems a shame that high spec motorhomes message are built with Fiat mechanicals. Not only do they seem to be less reliable, but parts tend to become unavailable long before the motorhome is too old to use.
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Apart from ford all car makers stop holding parts long before the 10 year rule,which by the way if the co goes belly up there is nout one can do.:scared:
 
hairydog said:
Perhaps Mercedes don't like paying Mercedes dealers' workshop rates.
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Problem with that theory is Mercedes set dealer warranty rates !

A few years ago my own car was an Izuzu trooper 3.0 l diesel and a glow plug had gone, got one of the lads at work to have a look didn't really want to know they are not located to change.

A couple of weeks later I traded a Subaru to RN Goldens in Huddersfield who were Isuzu dealers as part of a very casual conversation mentioned my plug, to cut a long story short it appeared there was an outstanding recall on the turbo ...this was a vehicle almost 6 years old.

They booked it in changed the turbo which meant an oil change and replaced the glow plug which cost me only the price of the part ..the bill to Isuzu £ 2100

That's customer service , loan car etc. Possibly the luckiest customer ever and I had never dealt with them

Channa
 
My Hymer has a low battery now. All Phil's fault as if I hadn't spoken to him I would not have dropped into Doncaster to get a set of hydraulic levellers from SAP last week. Now I have been pumping it up and down in wonder and amazement. I even dropped the front wheels off to check that they actually do come off, unlike my Transit based twin-wheel Chausson which needed pushing of with a jack ( Jacking off???) because of corrosion.
 
Rae found the sensor for me, it is in an easily accessible place.

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Well done Rae it takes a special person to get that far under a van.
 
hairydog said:
My previous car was a Mercedes estate. It was well into its teens in age and had well over 100,000 miles on the clock. The garage said there was a cross member underneath that was badly corroded and needed replacement (at huge cost).

I took it to the Mercedes dealership. They looked at it, then arranged for me to bring it back for someone else to look at it. He looked it over, then the next week they asked me to take it in for warranty repair.

I had to pay £39 for four days of loan car whilst they fixed it (for free). The work was done by a Ford garage. Perhaps Mercedes don't like paying Mercedes dealers' workshop rates.
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I do think my old car 1995 was well out of warrenty with 314000 on here,but some one else liked her and payed me £200 for my baby which when i bought her at 7 years cost me all of £10,do you thing i got a good deal.:sad:
 

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