Oil Cooler Repair

Well the new garage I'm now using have performed an outstanding job in repairing my car through the weekend. Impressed by their commitment to doing the job asked and saddened by the fact my previous garage had given me so much bull shit.

Not only had they bodged the repair and informing me everything would be okay, the issue with the tyre that they said was a leaky valve turned out to be a huge nail embedded in the tyre and the tyre was perished too..!

So now I can use her for our holiday, must give her a wash and brush up prior to leaving though.

Oil Cooler

Well the oil leak is the main transmission oil cooler and pipe work, the garage bypassed the cooler and said it would be fine to run. Further investigation via a friend turns this on it's head and I need the cooler as I thought, so have obtained quotes.

Main Ford agent have quoted £401 complete, the down side is the lead time for the cooler is 21 - 30 days which is no good for my scheduled holiday, so hoping for two other quotes to come back quicker for the oil cooler.

Oil Leak

Sunday was a mixed day locally but we went out for a drive and ended up heading into Inverness and buying some leather cream for the Scorpio.

Nearing home I could smell something burning and when popping the bonnet smoke was duly pouring from the compartment. It turns out to be power steering fluid and a large leak under the car confirmed this.

Now booked in for investigation I'm hoping it's just a hose, but we'll not know until she's up on the ramps, £72.00.