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Hi Thomas, I would be getting that one done soon as if its never been done you are now entering due to age/milage the twilight zone. Steve.

Hi Gareth on one of the Ford forums I was on there was a guy who was head of powertrain control at Dunton and his favourite answer always was, no one can help you if you don't give all the information you can supply, they either went away or stumped up with the goods and achieved a result, I often wondered why so many posts went unanswered, I now know why, a complete lack of information, codes where possible are the Holy Grail of engine management problems and decent pictures are the key to any other faults, still I suppose the majority of the posters are happy and thankful when they get replies and a result and that makes the key board pounding worth the effort. Steve.

Hello Cliff, Many thanks for the valid comments. It’s becoming increasingly frustrating to find ourselves - hopefully- offering constructive advice to posters, only to find, as you say, that they cannot even be bothered to return to view that advice, leave alone acknowledge it. You can add that to the all too often ‘….done/checked/replaced that’ responses received in reply to suggestions made, since the poster has omitted to let the forum know what has and hasn’t been done, as a history of the issue. Is this forum alone in suffering from such ungracious lack of follow ups? - I seriously doubt it. I’m old and grizzly, and don’t take kindly to the …’ I want, you advise, I don’t thank you…..’ brigade, and it is indeed very refreshing when thanks are tendered. I’ll pass your post on to the administrators Cliff. Many thanks again and kind regards, Gareth.

Hi personally I would leave well alone until they actually need replacing then you can get nasty with the flexable/metal pipe connection and have a go at it with some heat and a lot of plusgas it will come free eventually you just have to be patient and careful. Steve.

Gareth. Can you, as a moderator, see when people revisit the forum after their initial query? I am interested to know whether our questionners who never provide follow up information have actually seen our reponses or if they are simply too ungracious to aknowledge them.