NANO MEETS 2018 ( Join Us ) On 12th/13th May
 

Hello all members /owners.

Our second Nano meet of the year is not far from starting May Saturday 12th & Sunday 12th 2018.

At our usual venue the Four Ashes Public House.

You are all welcome to attend so hopefully see quite a few of you at one if not more of them throughout the year, you can find our calendar on our nano forum, the link is also at the bottom by my signature.

There is free camping on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th May for those that want it, either bring your tent, caravan or sleep in the car.

Also there are plenty of local B&Bs/ hotels at reasonable prices, details on the links page of our website below for those that do not fancy camping.
http://www.midlandsnanomeets.co.uk/links.html

There is a full English breakfast with tea/coffee on both Saturday & Sunday mornings 10.00 am for around £5 but we need to get the numbers 15 minimum for the £5 cost less than 15 then the breakfast will cost £6.50, therefore if you are coming please state if you would like breakfast, saturday or both days, there is also a Saturday evening meal if you wanted to join in the social part the Saturday evening.

As always there will be advice & help for those jobs you would like to tackle and have not got round to, we also have free T4 sessions sometimes we have two T4 which helps cut down the waiting time.

I will be carrying the usual free plenum spy hole mod trays, intercooler bends with added Viton O-rings, Viton coolant cap O-rings etc.

More details on the Nano website via the link in my signature below remember our moto.

" You do the work , we supply the expertise "


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Photo courtesy of Rob (trebor )

All owners are welcome, please come and join us

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I have a family Christening here in Dorset on the 13th of May so can't make it but I have just booked the Premier Inn Greenfield Lane (only £68 for 2 nights:D) for the June dates.

Cheers Ian

is there any one going who could retro fit cruise control to a Diesel.



I have all the gear but no Idea.....;)

[QUOTE=Number 6;2616458]is there any one going who could retro fit cruise control to a Diesel

Post on the nano site on the jobs thread John and somebody might step forward to help you

Hi John.
As Rob says to be 100% sure post on jobs thread on nano forum, but I am 98% sure Jamie may be able to help you out with it.

I Ian
Thank you for posting yes as per our PM we will see you in June ;) cheers Arctic

Cheers Rob/Steve I have post on the nano site:D

sadly about then we will be off to Germany to a club 75 event in our 75 :o the first one i had to go to Durham :o i hope to go to one again soon

Is the loom already in the car? Do you just need all the bits plugging in? If so easy enough, takes about half an hour :)

Its business as usual at the Four Ashes, few of us met the new landlady tonight who is just setting up for business and she is very keen to keep our meets with exactly the same arrangement, free camping from Friday if you want it, breakfasts at £5 inc hot drink, so come on down......................

Ok guys only 7 days now until the May nano meet, you are more than welcome to come and join us, if you do could you please state if you would like breakfast, this helps us work out how many the chef needs to cater for.

If you click on the link below my signature it will take you to the nano forum, you can register there if you want to, if not then just turn up.

There will be the usual plenum spy hole trays, if you need one just take it out of the blue bag & leave your old one by the bag. foc
https://i.imgur.com/EQFUPp5l.jpg1

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PCV filters some already made up there are a couple of the BMW vortex ones.
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https://i.imgur.com/Jq1Bnfyl.jpg4

Gold resistors
https://i.imgur.com/WQCKDXKl.jpg5

Coolant tank cap with Viton O-rings fitted foc I also have the O-rings if you wish to use your own cap.
https://i.imgur.com/xtgZZwfl.jpg6

Inline stats already made up ready to fit.
https://i.imgur.com/XKxO9ktl.jpg7

Intercooler Viton O-rings with the bend already attached foc
https://i.imgur.com/EgJPNUOl.jpg8

The ultimate under tray fixings.
https://i.imgur.com/a8Cysrfl.jpg9

Please ask me at the meet should you require any of the above as some will be locked in the boot of the car, hope to see a few of you there cheers Arctic.

Any handbrake compensators at this meet? Moonstone V6 has had shoes and cables adjusted but still pulls up very high!
Worked great on Copperleaf, passed MOT with no advisories, thanks.

Hi Martin.
Yes always carry at least 4 SSC to each meet ;) Arctic.

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12th 13th meet up
 

Hi Steve, still ok for handbrake and plenum mod, new car new start.

HI Steve.
Yes no problem see you there. ;)

If your interested got a whole mg zt cdti mk 2 if anyone needs bits

could do with the hand brake mod steve

Hi Kev.
I can sort one out for you what day are you coming to the nano, ? if not then you would need to send me a PM cheers Arctic.

Stopped on the Four Ashes just turned 6 this morning (Thursday) and the field looks good. Grass is short and just a few Molehills and the ground is firm under foot. So looking good

I Derek
Thank you for your quick recce of the nano field, from your description it look like the moles have not been to busy, so only a couple of rakes / shovels would be needed, if at all, see you guys 48 hours or so.

Some owners will be camping Friday evening also caravan parking I will be there around 16.30pm to help erect the tents etc.

My black car is full of water gain, despite sunroof mod, I am not sure yet if I can make Saturday, is it something you could check if I do? I'm told the drains sometimes come off at the top, but I daren't touch near there because of pillar airbags. :( Fed up of it now. :(

HI Dawn.
It is not something I could take a look at on Saturday as i am fairly busy, i am sure someone would be able to help though, i should imagine if the drain tube had come adrift at the sun roof end you would have roof lining wet as well.

OKay, I'll order some scuttle clips and try that. I hope its not the screen - that leaked on the 1.8 as well as scuttle. :(

Saturday meet was great I counted 32 cars at one stage, fans fitted, vis motors repaired and replace thank's to Mr Dave (stocktake) vortex filter fitted, several SCC, several head lights cleaned & polished AndyNo1, intercooler pipes fitted, plenums, radios fitted jubs, and lots more the meets seem to be getting bigger :D don't forget all owners are welcome, see some of you tomorrow cheers Arctic ;)

Great meet yesterday ,nice to catch up with people, thanks missus chris for keeping me filled up with tea all day, and a big thanks to arctic for that hand brake mod that he dose

Great day out, but best of all we drove back in a completely different car! Both VIS motors replaced and stuck flap freed up just could not believe how the V6 can perform even the autobox seems to change gear better. Thanks Dave.
Plenum spy hole done and bonnet catch, even got under the bonnet cleaned up.
See you all at next nano.

what an fantastic weekend. Thanks to Chris and Pam two wonderful people and thanks to Chris for showing me how to remove and refit bumpers. Steve Artic for the tip to fix my 1.8. All in all a great weekend. Roll on the next one

Really enjoyed myself yesterday. Being out in the fresh air after spending 2 months indoors did me the world of good. Roll on June! :}

Although I had my name down for this one due to the wifes car packing I could not get away. Although I have managed to replace my fan and get my rust nuts of the air intake by removing the slam panel.

Hopefully the next one.

Stubs

Lovely and sunny today, and my sunroof leak has been attacked once again! The old boy should be dry now thank to super chip! :) Almost had a disaster after as my bonnet wouldn't open, but soon sorted and fixed by the lads. As always, many thanks!

Here's my soggy old fella drying out a bit in the sun! :)

Well what can I say that is the May meet over, what a great turnout both Saturday & Sunday, quite a few new owners this weekend which is nice it means we are doing something right :D

Big thank you to Mark for bring the nano tent, more so in the fact his wife is just getting over a knee op which she needs help to get over :thumb: top man.

Fantastic to have Mr Vis on site also, i know a few members and owners have gone home this weekend with a giant smile on their faces when traveling back, finding out how those V6 engines should run with working Vis motors :cheers: Dave.

Nice to work along side Richard on his car fitting a new condenser, fan, vortex PCV, it helps the members get to know their own cars, thank you also to Les for helping Ian on his fan next to us, Chris & Pam for keeping watch on the plenum bag, & the left and right nano ramps, which came in quite handy so they will also make another appearance at the next meet :lol:

Thank you to Chris (superchip for sorting out Dawn's sun roof drains, we have decide it is not a good idea to use those nozzles from bath seal tubes etc, as it seems even if they do have a jubilee clip they can get pushed out if the ducks bill as not been cut off.

Thank you to all the crew who once again turned up to help at the meet as always, and last but not least all the owners & members whom attend to get help and enjoy a good day out see you all in June :thumb: Arctic.

I took a few photos but smashed my phone as I got out the car on my drive! Will try and get them in the Nano gallery tomorrow. There were some gorgeous cars today, but even the V8's were shadowed for me my John/Mischief's celestial. Wow, that colour totally drew me in! A stunning colour!

Steve - I like your back lights! They don't look the standard upgrades out there? :)

Thank you for all the help
 

Thank you to everyone who made me feel so welcome today, always well worth the drive from Essex. Thanks to John who help with the door actuator and
Massive thanks to Steve (Arctic) for all your help and everyone who stayed to help with the drama of the rear light unit. The fix was superb in the end.
Great to be around true enthusiasts.:bowdown:

Had a clear drive home so was back for 6, the tip to turn left and head straight for the M6 saved me loads of time.
Cheers
Paul

Thanks to all who helped me fit the condenser and fan. Regass is tomorrow so we’ll see if all that effort has been worth it. Learned plenty as well which is always useful. Then on Tuesday I’ll fit my DD unit.

Victor, were you the one Chris was helping as well as me? I love to put forum names to faces, although I don't always remember!

12th 13th meet up
 

Yet again Steve (Arctic) to the rescue, saved my ECU from a dip in my plenum pool! carpet now drying and also got a hand brake now, no chasing the car down hills anymore.

Thank you Steve, awesome job as ever.

HI Steve.
Yes we may have caught the ECU drowning in time, still keep an eye out for any unusual effects going on with the car as it may have got a bit of a soaking with the water sloshing in about in the plenum, I will contact you about Thursday evening or Friday afternoon about what we talked about at the nano and your days off ;) cheers Arctic

Actually saw this one on the day, a very lucky escape that as Steve says may develop problems later, needs to be monitored. Tide mark was well up the pollen filter.

Thanks for fixing the VIS motors on Moonstone, total transformation!

Went in today for change of auto box fluid, garage changed 3 litres, said the stuff that came out was black, 123,000 miles and nothing in history to show it had been done before. Customer recommendation bring it back in 2 weeks time to do the same again.
Made a real difference to the changes. Will take it back in a couple of weeks, but cost £162.30 to change 3 litres? NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD-NAUGHTY WORD- expensive job. Did it need a diagnostic check @ £40.00 + vat to do this job?

A diagnostic check should have shown the historic fault codes of the failed VIS motors before I fixed them, did they mention it? If not then they haven't done a full diagnostics.

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Cheers Steve will await your answer.
Started stripping down the zt on the drive