Hi, Guest
02-07-2007, 09:48 AM
Well, my little excitement for the day...this is a new one...to me anyways....
Was picking up a friend yesterday after she dropped her Focus at the garage for a new tranny (seems the diff blew...find out more tomorrow), and on the way back to work, I drove through a lot of slush (about 8in deep) in one patch of road (turns out the water main burst). I didn't think much of it...made the belts squeal for a few seconds, but nothing unusual.
Anyway, after work yesterday, went to start...and OMG!...I thought something had busted for sure. There was an awful knocking at idle....bad vibration sorta thing. Popped the hood, couldn't see anything, so then I took a quick look under the car...and lo and behold...sheeted in ice all the way along, with giant icicles hanging down. So, I figured it had to be ice doing something...drove 7K home, felt the vibration seemed to be just under the seats area....car drove normally, no problems.
Then this morning, same horrible noise on start, and then vibration etc at idle....so, I thought I'd test my ice theory to make sure....at 1pm, drove to our storage depot (heated), and parked inside, and left it there all afternoon till 5.30......went back...all fixed up, no horrible noises...just one hell of a puddle on the floor!!...lol
I'm soooo glad it was nothing worse! I was imagining all sorts of broken things under there...engine mounts, exhaust mounts...etc etc....but all good now :D
S.
Was picking up a friend yesterday after she dropped her Focus at the garage for a new tranny (seems the diff blew...find out more tomorrow), and on the way back to work, I drove through a lot of slush (about 8in deep) in one patch of road (turns out the water main burst). I didn't think much of it...made the belts squeal for a few seconds, but nothing unusual.
Anyway, after work yesterday, went to start...and OMG!...I thought something had busted for sure. There was an awful knocking at idle....bad vibration sorta thing. Popped the hood, couldn't see anything, so then I took a quick look under the car...and lo and behold...sheeted in ice all the way along, with giant icicles hanging down. So, I figured it had to be ice doing something...drove 7K home, felt the vibration seemed to be just under the seats area....car drove normally, no problems.
Then this morning, same horrible noise on start, and then vibration etc at idle....so, I thought I'd test my ice theory to make sure....at 1pm, drove to our storage depot (heated), and parked inside, and left it there all afternoon till 5.30......went back...all fixed up, no horrible noises...just one hell of a puddle on the floor!!...lol
I'm soooo glad it was nothing worse! I was imagining all sorts of broken things under there...engine mounts, exhaust mounts...etc etc....but all good now :D
S.