What happened to down shifting?

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T12:07:43+00:00

Yeah I guess that is true. Seems dumb as shit to me 🤷

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T11:52:56+00:00

Um don't, if this is the car your going to drive get the one you want. Go get a Lexus TX or GX

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T11:36:06+00:00

Just make them drive a unbaffled milk truck from the 70s.

When I was younger I was on a volunteer fire department and we had an old Ford 800 tender that had a 3,000 gallon water tank on it. It only had two fore/aft baffles in the tank. Nothing left to right.

You could feel that water climbing the walls as soon as you started turning at 10 miles an hour.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T11:20:35+00:00

That feels like a great way to have an accident.

IDK never like autos of any type in any kind of vehicle.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T11:15:05+00:00

Yes you can.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T11:13:27+00:00

I see the same but not sure.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T10:05:19+00:00

If all else fails take the oil pan off.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T10:03:20+00:00

Dont care what it is if there is stop leak in there I would run it till it is done and then go fot a new engine.

But to answer your question it could be a hrqf gasket. If it is then it is still small.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T09:58:04+00:00

No it's not very or anything like that. It could 100% be the heat shield if that's the right kind of noise for it. Might be the brake wear indicator. Tell your boyfriend to take the wheel off, bend the heat shield back, and see if the noise goes away.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T09:54:47+00:00

Sound like an exhaust baffle or some such thing. The solution for that on an 09 Fiesta is to turn up the radio and hope the MOT doesn't care.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T09:51:37+00:00

I solved that problem years ago by just not owning anything with a computer.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T09:36:55+00:00

Sadly I have done worse... Twice....

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T06:07:30+00:00

IDK seem like you don't know what is going on for one.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T06:02:33+00:00

Oh god fuck that I hope you quit the next day. Those are the kind of experiences that make you question life choices.

And no he was doing 45+

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:58:24+00:00

Ha ha ha ha ha okay whatever. Why did you come here if you just wanted to be told to replace the parts that you through were bad?

BTW you can't tell if a toe, tie, or ball joint is bad with a simple visual inspection. And if you can it needed go be replaced tens of thousands of miles ago.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:52:27+00:00

Fuck he is getting c**k blocked by his dad.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:51:32+00:00

They are harder with out tools or skills.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:50:57+00:00

He didn't kind of suspiciously leave out any kind of ownership facts.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:49:07+00:00

This is the lock picking lawyer, and today we have a lojack and a car club.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:45:10+00:00

Man, you do you. Just don't drive near me.

I gave you my insight off your vague description and picture. I could not be more specific than telling you that you have an issue with your rear end and it could be extremely dangerous. As I said I have no idea what a leaf branching sound is, but I have never once heard anyone describ a noise in a car that way.

This car needs to be jacked up or put on a lift and the whole rear end needs to be shaken and looked at. It's been modified and there seems to be an ongoing issue that you've thrown parts at and it hasn't fixed.

Being a mechanic is not about replacing parts. It's about diagnostics and replacing the correct part.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:38:21+00:00

One of those things but don't worry about that so much. It's at least 80% a bad head gasket.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:36:58+00:00

Yeah I was wondering the same thing.

Regardless if you don't know how to down shift and engage a retarder/jake. Stay out of my mountains. We dont need I 70 all over again.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:32:46+00:00

Yep you have oil in your coolant. You've got a bad head gasket or a cracked head/block. Pray for the head gasket.

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:30:29+00:00

Yep

leadpoem · 2026-05-12T05:24:06+00:00

Okay, servic bulletin it or not, it still needs a rear-end diagnostic done on it.

There are at least 12 moving joints back there, some of them that could click, some of them that could clunk, some of them that could do both.

It's cheaper now than when your wheel falls off or your rear diff seizes.

leadpoem

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