On the spanner. Car trouble.

Manual gear box Keith? 5 gears? Do you pull away in 1st or 2nd?

Back later.

If its a manual, is it when you change gear ?

Keith is it some thing like no1 in this post

https://www.vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk/index.php?threads/1-7cdti-bad-mgp-engine-grind.349670/

I have a 2011 1.7 zafira and don’t have any noise. The 1.7 isuzu engine has been going for years in 1 form or another our mk3 cavalier had an early version of it. The only problem I have had with it is the egr valve which seems to be a common thing on these later engines. The vauxhall “specialist” I bought mine off said it was his biggest selling item for the 1.7

No worries Graham.

Keith I lifted this from a US site:

“ The 2013 Have the six speed manual. This is a dual-clutch system for the six speed. Clutch went bad, at first reverse was hard to engage, quick degraded so I could not get into any gear, mechanic found almost no wear on clutch plates. Dual clutch system cost $700-1000. Clutch job $1,700, from a reasonably priced shop. ”

I have a thought about this: ” Today I decided to reverse the car 11+ mph before moving forward and there was no small grind noise when reversing and when moving forward also no small grind noise???? ”

I wonder if it’s clutch-connected? Does it have a hydraulically-operated clutch? Maybe master or slave cylinder leaking? Check pedal operation, is it hard or soft? I do know that those dual-clutch systems can be pigs, hope for your wallet’s sake the clutch is OK. After speaking with an old gearbox guru on the phone, I learned that the 6-speed box began life in the petrol models, 1.8 and 2.0 litre. It was introduced into the diesel Cruze later. E bay is full of gearbox parts and whole boxes for them.

If you find a cause and a solution, plz let me know.

Good luck Keith!

Keith

Keep your eye on the egr valve ours started making funny crunchy clicky type noises on start up when it started to go bad (might be worth taking it off and giving it a clean dirty job though). Normal operation is more of a whirring noise when turning the ignition on. I should of mentioned it in my previous post but probably had a few too many to remember.

Had a funny tiss tiss tiss noise in one of my Mini’s once. The engine started to run rough too.

Turns out the over flow hose had come off the carb float chamber at some point and now the float valve had got stuck so petrol was dripping straight onto the exhaust manifold. Tiss tiss tiss ?

Bob Williams wrote:

Sometimes it was down to something left in the boot, door pocket or glove box.

Reminds me of this old classic 😀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmf0YjZXqo

Last week my daughter finally past her driving test and within the hour she was on the phone to ask about our old car. So the Jazz is now hers and reciprocating back and forth between her home and Addenbrooke Hospital where she works. It has probably done already done another 300 miles. So it is well into its second hundred thousand miles.

This left me with the ‘new car’ in which we went to see our younger daughter in her assisted living quarters. That all went well until it came to starting up for the return journey when the damned thing decided that it wanted a change, or at least confirmation of the language. Not what I needed and with no obvious way to back out of its demands it ended up labelling everything in Spanish. The handbook was about as much use as a chocolate fireguard when it came to correcting this errant behaviour, though once back home a little hunt and peck finally allowed me to track down the well hidden route back to language sanity. At least it had used conventional Western European lettering rather than Russian, Arabic Chinese or something similar.