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From: hippo on 28 Apr 2010 08:37
D Walford wrote:
>
> On 28/04/2010 9:23 PM, Noddy wrote:
>
> > The new Sorrento is a very decent bit of kit for the money, and as it
shares
> > the same mechanical package as the Hyundai Santa Fe I don't expect there'd
> > be a hell of a lot wrong with it.
>
> Korean cars have come a long way in a relatively short time.
> One thing the early Sportages had over other similar vintage soft
> roaders was that it did actually have some off road ability which did
> attract some buyers and you seemed to get a lot for the money, too bad
> they weren't screwed together all that well.
>
>
> Daryl
>
>

One of the reasons Kia is seriously outselling Hyundai in the UK now is
that they have a *7* yr wty, where Hyundai still have 5.

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From: Kev on 28 Apr 2010 15:36
D Walford wrote:
> On 28/04/2010 9:23 PM, Noddy wrote:
>
>> The new Sorrento is a very decent bit of kit for the money, and as it
>> shares
>> the same mechanical package as the Hyundai Santa Fe I don't expect
>> there'd
>> be a hell of a lot wrong with it.
>
> Korean cars have come a long way in a relatively short time.
> One thing the early Sportages had over other similar vintage soft
> roaders was that it did actually have some off road ability which did
> attract some buyers and you seemed to get a lot for the money, too bad
> they weren't screwed together all that well.
>
>
> Daryl

We had a guy come along with us offroading once in his little Sportage,
a series 2 model, it even had low profile tyres but he followed us
almost everywhere. A very steep deep rutted track stopped him, but then
it also stopped the shitbox Pajero that came along as well


Kev
From: Kev on 28 Apr 2010 15:41
Atheist Chaplain wrote:

>> Why would they need to replace diffs??
>> XR6 diffs were no different to any other Falcon, just different ratio
>> Sounds like thrashing to me
>>
>> Kev
>
> because they kept failing, and to even suggest that my mate would thrash
> a car is silly, but then you don't know him, he would be happy in a
> Morris minor if they were a premium brand, he earns good money so he can
> buy what he likes, he liked the the XR6 turbo so he bought one.


Yeah but Failing how???
All I keep hearing is tails of failures and so on but no one can tell me
WHAT the failures are
most I hear is the diff made a bit of a clunk noise when you selected
reverse, But so did every ford I have ever owned
there was nothing wrong with the diffs as they still worked fine for
many years, just had a slight clunk when you selected reverse

These are the same BTR diffs fitted to Holdens are they not???
just with a different backlash setting??


Kev
From: Noddy on 28 Apr 2010 21:25

"Brad" <bradleyden(a)spammail.com> wrote in message
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> You would think that a product with these faults would be worthless, far
> from it, and indeed if I advertised my disc brake, Detroit locker 3.25 9"
> there could be some interest somewhere surely, despite it's known faults.

What known faults?

We're talking about differentials fitted to BA onwards Falcons, not 40 year
old Detroit Lockers which are noisy by design.

> They may not be what they once were, but surely they could not have fallen
> to the level of a Holden Diff.

You haven't driven either a Holden or a Ford in a *long* time, huh? :)

The differentials fitted to current Holdens and Falcons are made by the same
company, but both are very different in operation and I expect the design
spec (based on what each company is paying per unit) has a lot to do with
that. The Holden unit is increasingly finding it's way into Hotrods and
other modified cars as a popular alternative to a Jag independent rear or
the old faithful 9 inch, but Ford units can't be given away for free.

So bad are the problems Ford are having with their differentials (amongst
other things) that you'd be hard pressed to find a BA Falcon that still has
the diff it left the factory with :)

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Regards,
Noddy.


From: Atheist Chaplain on 28 Apr 2010 22:32
"Kev" <kevcat(a)optunet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Atheist Chaplain wrote:
>
>>> Why would they need to replace diffs??
>>> XR6 diffs were no different to any other Falcon, just different ratio
>>> Sounds like thrashing to me
>>>
>>> Kev
>>
>> because they kept failing, and to even suggest that my mate would thrash
>> a car is silly, but then you don't know him, he would be happy in a
>> Morris minor if they were a premium brand, he earns good money so he can
>> buy what he likes, he liked the the XR6 turbo so he bought one.
>
>
> Yeah but Failing how???
> All I keep hearing is tails of failures and so on but no one can tell me
> WHAT the failures are
> most I hear is the diff made a bit of a clunk noise when you selected
> reverse, But so did every ford I have ever owned
> there was nothing wrong with the diffs as they still worked fine for many
> years, just had a slight clunk when you selected reverse
>
> These are the same BTR diffs fitted to Holdens are they not???
> just with a different backlash setting??
>
>
> Kev

What, your connected to the internet but you want us to do YOUR research for
you.
go to a Ford forum and see for yourself.
But just for you, he had one drop its guts on the way home from work, he had
another that blew the front oil seal halfway between Parkes and Orange and
the last one sounded like he was driving a mining truck at anything over
walking pace, then you throw in the total inability to get a decent prop
shaft balance in the thing and you have a lemon.
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