TinTentTourist

As you will well know, owning a Galaxy, there is always something waiting to catch you out when you least expect it!! I hope to get it done this week, but once again I am amazed that a fault like this should arise in the first place - a breaking system reliant on push fit plastic pipes, or am I just mechanically naive?

My turn (I hope) to contribute to the forum, and I am no mechanic. :blink: Occasionally my brakes were very hard to press, happened a couple of times, but seemed to resolve itself. Then one day it didn't. Garage diagnosed I needed a new vacuum thingy fitting (ouch) But the couldn't do it before I went on holiday. Did a bit of web trawling and had an idea based around some similar faults and my own intermittent symptoms. Using a torch I could see a T piece behind the fuel filter, but couldn't get at it. I could see that both black plastic pipes going into the T were split and were loose (losing vacuum I guessed) I was going to cut off the split and push the pipes back on, but couldn't get at it, the fuel filter was in the way. One flash of inspiration later, I put a blob of gasket sealant on the end of a bamboo cane and carefully "blobbed" it onto the cracks and T piece. Left it to cure, then fired the car up. Vacuum restored, brakes working fine. :D I was extra careful the first few days but gradually forgot about the repair and have since done over 1000 miles. Visual check and it looks like when I first did it, pretty neat. I am not recommending or endorsing anything that compromises safety, that is for yourselves to judge and no doubt debate, but since you folk have helped me out several times, I thought I would try and add something. Martin

I just got mine off ebay complete with alloy spare, for

Hi all Well mine is double broken!! First it was jammed half way down, then the bold sheered off as I turned the wheel brace to lower it. :rolleyes: So can anyone help please - ebay has nothing at the moment and I know my local scrap yards do not have a Galaxy in. By the time I have paid for a new tyre (rusty 3" nail through the side wall) I can't afford what Fraud are asking for a replacement. I will have to do without for the time being unless anyone has a spare I could buy off them. Thanks in advance Martin

You GEM.... thanks to your photo, I identified my problem and my missing chip!!! Then following a search of the contents of my Dyson I FOUND IT ;) :) :lol: :lol: :lol: chip back in key. car works Happy bunny. Thanks so much.

Thanks guys. I think I'll take the bumper off and have a look at the wiring. If I do have any broken wires it will be easier to see and fix - also, if I swap a sensor for the one next to it which I believe does work, I will be able to confirm the sensor is the fault and not the wiring!! (That's plan A :rolleyes: ) It will all have to wait until I get some more double sided tape to put the number plate back on though!! Thanks again.

Thanks to this forum I have identified a non-clicking front sensor as a faulty one, though I recognise it could be a broken wire... My question to those who know these things... Can I get the sensor out from the front or do I have to take the bumper off? Thanks

I agree with steve.m - I use the same ones, a bit expensive but very good - I would recommend one flat and one convex!

My 2003 Gal 1.9 Ghia came with plastic headlight covers on it, I don't know if they were on from new, it was 18m old when I got it. When I washed the car last week I found the OS one missing. Can I ask, are the Ford parts, and if not are they available elsewhere? Do the ones mentioned come with the little clips..... As Andymet says, the little markings are ideal for dirving abroad!

Another inspiring result from the Fraud Main Stealers.

Thanks again for some useful pointers. I did tell the garage about the steaming up/ not demisting. And I also told them it was coming up to being 3 years old and to give it a good going over to check for any warranty work that might be needed. Of course they can deny any conversation ever took place (as they have in the past - but not this particular Ford dealer). But do the garage have anything to loose? If they say to Ford "yes he did report it, but we mistakenly diagnosed it/ failed to find it" etc do they have anything to loose? Martin

Thanks chaps, I am encouraged by your comments. As you say the dealer has nothing to loose - except my custom. I will have to pay up front for any repairs as I understand it, then claim back. Seems like negotiation from a point of weakness to me, but there is alway the small claims court! Regards Martin

I have a 2003 1.9tdi Ghia Galaxy first registered on 31.03.03. 53,000 miles. Full Ford service history. It was fully Ford serviced on 17.02.06 prior to it's first MOT and tested in good time too. I did everything I could do in case I needed to make a warranty claim, and all seemed fine. Then summer came early and I found the air con did not work. (blowing warm - no flashing pannel) Had it re-gassed and it still did not work. Had it checked independently and the compressor is believed to have failed - very expensive repair

What's a M.a.f? have I got one - do I need it fixed?? :D Sounds good. Does it fix climate control problems :D (only kidding about cc - only a lot of cash fixes that!!)

I had this... may be a bit late but it turned out to be a screw that had come out of the window winding mechanism, (can't remember if it was loose and rattling or in the bottom of the door and rattling!) hope it helps - took almost a year to sus mine!

Or the South Cumbria area !!!!

I was in your position last year and here is the answer.... I bought the stick on things from Halfords for

I think it really is a black art. :) :o I've spent the day trying to avoid going to the main Ford stealer, and I've had all sorts of advice. The bottom line is bring it in (to the Ford garage) and we will eventually fix it, and then charge you an arm and a leg, and one of you children's limbs too, and perhaps you wife's as well

Noted thanks - I have trawled the forum and it is broadly helpful. Looks like I have the single system, so I probably have too much gas in it now! (is that a bad thing considering it leaks out????) There are no independents advertising locally so I may have to go to the Ford main stealer. Thing is I only have a month 'till I holiday in France towing my tin tent and the "little darlings" are set to boil unless I get it sorted.

Count us in on this too. :D 3 years and 3 month old Gal with 53k miles on the clock, and as soon as we get a bit of hot weather we find the climate control is trying to cook us. Checked the forums and went to our friendly NON Ford main dealer garage for a regas. He wanted to have a go with his fairly new piece of kit. So on the fancy little Sun aircon reconditioner we find we have 0.08 of a Kg of gas in the system!! Which by any standard is not very much. NO oil comes out and a vacuum test shows we have no leaks - so there is hope. Then, it starts

THE ANSWER........ is simple. I bought a set of beam deflectors from Halfords for

Thanks all, I think I've hit a nerve with one or two though! From all my research it looks like there is no real answer from anyone, official or not. I think what I will do will be a mix of everything. I will try and blow up the template provided by my local dealer. I will then guess where it should go on the glass part of the lense having removed the plastic shields first. I will use black insulating tape to avoid the issue with glue residue and mask the places indicated on the template. I will then never drive at night and ensure that when the beautiful French sun sets, I will see it through the bottom of a glass containing a nice French red wine. I will also follow the advice of another well respected English authority and in the immortal words of Basil Faulty, "Don't mention the 2012 Olympics" Who won again, I just can't remember :D Regards Martin

OK OK I give up.... I want to be legal in 3 weeks time when I emerge from the Eurotunnel, but I cannot find the answer to this problem. How do I fit headlight deflectors to my fancy new Ford Galaxy headlights. There is no glass lense with nice little lines to follow, just pretty, smooth glass. My Ford dealer gave me a printout that was almost completely useless. It talked about photocopying a template and then blowing it up on a photocopier with some fancy piece of maths to make it the right size... then there are still no lines on the headlight to match it to!! I could always guess,,,.. there is no way a Frence policeman would ever be able to say I was wrong (I hope), Anyone got any ideas please? Regards Martin