Bongo Fury

hershambongo wrote:Thanks for all your help and comments regarding my judder on turn off , I have just returned from my mates garage, who kindly did an oil & filter change, I am very happy to announce that he thought the van was great, with no major issues ! I still cant beleive its never had a re-spray ( all original paint ) looking forward to some happy motoring !

Cheers

HB

Hi
That's great stuff,what was your mates opinion on the Judder that you are getting when the engine is switched off.

Cheers..

Your judder and my judder/thunk are probably different but I may as well mention here that I recently had a new tailgate and as the seals are new I have to really slam it to get it to shut fully.

Until I got the hang of this, I had horrible noise which sounded like some horribly terminal engine thing. Unlikely to be your problem, but other members might also read this.

Alison01326 wrote:Your judder and my judder/thunk are .......

a judder/thunk! sounds like something to be very , very scared of on a dark winters night !!

as a description though alison , its spot on!!

Hi All ( again )

My mate at the garage just said it judders because your arse is sitting on a big lump of 2.5 ! and his young lad opened the passenger seat and said F****Ing hell look at the size of that turbo !
well it was an education !

but i really love the Bongo ( Freda ) P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Cheers

HB

P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Nope

MAZABON wrote:

P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Nope

Could even be the opposite because it's got a "F**d" badge on it!

hershambongo wrote:but i really love the Bongo ( Freda ) P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Some Mazda owners may be a bit jealous of the coveted blue oval... But they can do the same as me and disguise the Mazda connection by removing the mazda decals/badges and replacing with Ford badges

bigdaddycain wrote:

hershambongo wrote:but i really love the Bongo ( Freda ) P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Some Mazda owners may be a bit jealous of the coveted blue oval... But they can do the same as me and disguise the Mazda connection by removing the mazda decals/badges and replacing with Ford badges

jealous of the blue oval - No thank you sir

no no no Mazda Bongo all the way , Fredafury !!!, just dont cut the mustard does it

hershambongo wrote:
but i really love the Bongo ( Freda ) P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Cheers

HB

be no envy if they were still making them & fitting them with the big tdci motor out of the new transits. my mate has one thats been "chipped" and holy sheeeeeite does it go!!!

Hi

I also notice this sometimes, though it seems to be worse when I have used some (no more than 12 liters) of veg oil in the diesel, less judder on pure diesel. As a small experiment I put in £20 of higher octane BP diesel last week (£1.51 a litre). Van started very smooth and less judder on shut down also was quieter and smoother whilst driving. I know it's really expensive but interesting to see the difference

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I use that Shell V-Power stuff mostly. Costs 5% more but burns cleaner & gives 10%(ish) better MPG.

Worth a shot from time to time . . . .

mister munkey wrote:I use that Shell V-Power stuff mostly. Costs 5% more but burns cleaner & gives 10%(ish) better MPG.

interesting!

MAZABON wrote:

bigdaddycain wrote:

hershambongo wrote:but i really love the Bongo ( Freda ) P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Some Mazda owners may be a bit jealous of the coveted blue oval... But they can do the same as me and disguise the Mazda connection by removing the mazda decals/badges and replacing with Ford badges

jealous of the blue oval - No thank you sir

no no no Mazda Bongo all the way , Fredafury !!!, just dont cut the mustard does it

Its just when we viewed the van we had the choice of 2 ( 1 bongo, 1 Freda ) the Freda was the better of the two but we really wanted the Bongo name ! but ive not seen any other Freda on the road since we bought it 4 weeks back ?

MAZABON wrote:

bigdaddycain wrote:

hershambongo wrote:but i really love the Bongo ( Freda ) P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Some Mazda owners may be a bit jealous of the coveted blue oval... But they can do the same as me and disguise the Mazda connection by removing the mazda decals/badges and replacing with Ford badges

jealous of the blue oval - No thank you sir

no no no Mazda Bongo all the way , Fredafury !!!, just dont cut the mustard does it

Oh i don't know... i think it has a certain ring to it! or should that be a certain oval to it?

nicstrike wrote:

hershambongo wrote:
but i really love the Bongo ( Freda ) P.s any snobery about having a Ford Freda and not a Bongo ?

Cheers

HB

be no envy if they were still making them & fitting them with the big tdci motor out of the new transits. my mate has one thats been "chipped" and holy sheeeeeite does it go!!!

I'm with you there Nic... My other motor is a 2.0TDCI Focus...To say it isn't exactly slow sounds about right. Talk about TORQUE!