Thanks, I'm really pleased that we got to the bottom of it because other than the fact that it made loads more noise than the 14 year old Polo it replaced she loves it.
We were quite lucky to find a 1.4 16v Eleganza with Skydome that the garage didn't really know the value of so we got it for the same price as a 1.4 Dynamic! Nothing else within a few thousand pounds really took her fancy so this one should be a keeper.