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zigzag · Feb 28, 2012

Universal joint at bottom of steering rack on wife's Ka has gone all stiff, resulting in weird 'sticky' steering, very strange when your steering doesn't self centre coming out of a bend. Shall be getting the GT85 treatment for a few days. Alternative is a £150+ steering rack replacement plus 1.5 hours labour.

Crap just seems to go wrong with it every 6 months - entertaining drive is about the one good thing I can say about it. MPG is shite an aw'. Ford have been added to the 'f*** right off' list of car manufacturers.

The Ken · Feb 28, 2012

I won a spare set of steel rims for my Touran at the weekend - means I can keep the winter tyres on the current ones and fit normal tyres to these almost new ones - £26 for 4

clockworkgazz · Feb 28, 2012

zigzag":1397ncxp said:
Universal joint at bottom of steering rack on wife's Ka has gone all stiff, resulting in weird 'sticky' steering, very strange when your steering doesn't self centre coming out of a bend. Shall be getting the GT85 treatment for a few days. Alternative is a £150+ steering rack replacement plus 1.5 hours labour.

Crap just seems to go wrong with it every 6 months - entertaining drive is about the one good thing I can say about it. MPG is shite an aw'. Ford have been added to the 'f*** right off' list of car manufacturers.

I found my Ka to be good on the mpg and great fun to drive- never had any issues with reliability but this was 12 years ago.

zigzag · Feb 28, 2012

Funny you should say that Gazz, we had one about 8 years ago and it was superb, nothing went wrong with it. MPG was better too, even though it had the crappy old engine.

jimihendrix · Feb 28, 2012

Rumble":2h1zdx8k said:
Got some decent-ish quotes now - similar fully comp to what I pay 3rd party, fire and theft on the Pajero. Lots of the usual suspects were around the grand mark and the highest I saw was £4k - that's with 10+ years no claims bonus!

Rob - the sites "know" it's LHD once you put the reg number so there's no getting away from it. Lots of the classic/sports specialists were no different from the mainstream lot - seems you have to have it garaged and/or limited to a tiny mileage to get any real discount.

Have you tried Footman James for insurance ?, pretty sure you could get the Fiat on a classic policy, i was worried about the Beemer being group 16 insurance but got it very cheap on a joint classic policy with the VW Polo.

Both cars limited to 5K per year.

jimihendrix · Feb 28, 2012

zigzag":3tu3f3s0 said:
Funny you should say that Gazz, we had one about 8 years ago and it was superb, nothing went wrong with it. MPG was better too, even though it had the crappy old engine.

So what engine is in the later ones ?, i remember when the KA first came out, used to deliver them on a car transporter, lifted the bonnet and was amazed to see a MK1 Escort engine

zigzag · Feb 28, 2012

I know, the old Kent engine, mental - we had that in the first Ka and I pretty much had the same reaction as you.

They moved onto the Duratec, which is the one we've got - I think it's still based on the Kent, but with OHC.

Rumble · Feb 28, 2012

They were one of the ones I tried jimi, but they were crazy expensive. It's gone on sheila's wheels now

RobMac · Mar 3, 2012

My next build project Ive got every thing but the frame so ........... I'll be selling off stuff to finance the new frame for me "choppa"

Rumble · Mar 3, 2012

Could you no just bolt it all to a spare cindercone frame?

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