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Pick up my first Puma on Friday night. This is probably going to come across bad, but to others don't let my bad luck put you off. It started first time on my test drive of it. And then first time every time I restarted it after that. However on Saturday morning I got up and jumped to go into town to do some shopping, only to find the battery was a flat as a pancake. A quick load and charging test with a new battery on it confirmed all was fine and it was just an old battery that was knackered from where the car had just sat on the seller's drive, so no biggy. Unfortunately for me, that wasn't to be the end of my woes though. On Sunday night I jumped in to nip out to go to the shops (I see a theme going on here - maybe it doesn't like the shops
). Anyways I got to the end of our road, went to pull away and it just grinded 1st gear and jumped out of gear. After a couple of times of putting it into 1st gear (so it's not the selectors) I realised that 1st gear had gone as it just jumped back out of the gear. A couple of calls to a couple of mechanic's told me I had simply just been very unlucky because although rare it does happen from time to time and there is no way the seller could have known it was about to happen. Fortunately for me, I have a father-in-law that is owns his own business and is a mechanic, so it's now down there having a replacement gearbox fitted.
In the short time I have had to drive it, I have to say I've been quite impressed with it and I can't wait to get it back. A least I know the cambelt has been changed in the last couple of years so that's a worry I don't have to think about immediately.
Look forward to exhanging posts with you all over the coming months.
Ian.
may as well drop a new clutch in there too if it is open (need new release bearing as well if fitting new clutch)
So that's another little thing to add to the list of mechy bits being done.
Hi Ian,
