Morning all!
Friend has a 450 which has done about 90k miles & has developed a noise from the engine which you can hear in neutral at idle as a rattling noise from the clutch area (I stuck my head underneath). Like rattling nuts in a tin can. The car drives normally apart from the auto mechanism being less good at changing gears now so she is manually selecting ATM which is working fine so far.
A quick search tells me that sometimes one of the springs or other bit of metal in the clutch assembly can break & rattle around in the housing. I might be completely wrong but the auto issue could be connected to the clutch going out of spec. Perhaps ;-)
Anyhoo, the car lives in Hastings & I'm wondering if any members here could recommend a workshop nearby that could do the business, ideally with the experience to judge what the problem is before pulling things apart. We've been to smartcarspecialist.com in Guildford before but it's quite a schlep.
Cheers :-)
Friend has a 450 which has done about 90k miles & has developed a noise from the engine which you can hear in neutral at idle as a rattling noise from the clutch area (I stuck my head underneath). Like rattling nuts in a tin can. The car drives normally apart from the auto mechanism being less good at changing gears now so she is manually selecting ATM which is working fine so far.
A quick search tells me that sometimes one of the springs or other bit of metal in the clutch assembly can break & rattle around in the housing. I might be completely wrong but the auto issue could be connected to the clutch going out of spec. Perhaps ;-)
Anyhoo, the car lives in Hastings & I'm wondering if any members here could recommend a workshop nearby that could do the business, ideally with the experience to judge what the problem is before pulling things apart. We've been to smartcarspecialist.com in Guildford before but it's quite a schlep.
Cheers :-)
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