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20th January 2019, 14:33 | #9011 |
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Looked at the brake pad warning light and its a broken front sensor. Looked in the garage and I only have a new rear, Slight modification to get the light off until I can get a new sensor. I really dislike wasting days off working on cars....
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20th January 2019, 21:16 | #9012 |
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Frabbed about with some wiring, and now have a ZT that has a parking heater installed.
I did not use any hugely expensive Webasto wiring Y loom, but a homebrew set up that looks OEM. As I have a nice manual car, there was vacant slot in the passenger compartment fusebox..........not any more it's now got the relay that operates the FBH using the Webasto three programme timer in the cubby box, or better still the Telestart T80 remote No piggyback fuses, no Scotchlocs or crimps, and all carried out in factory colour scheme wiring. Don't know if I'll be using it much though, bearing in mind I wear a tee shirt most days irrespective of weather Brian |
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About time you got converted to the glorious webasto warmth.
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Well as an aside to this, Colin 2Diesels turned up at Marina Towers today bearing three faulty FBH boards, a cubby box and a FBH water pump.
So along with the almost complete bar the coolant pump but non working FBH dropped off at my place on Sunday by Gary Nelson, and the original PCB from my FBH with a K-Bus defect, made five faulty PCB's After a bit of investigation, and utilising the problem K-Bus PCB and a couple of knacked DDE4 as spares, we now have three tested and working FBH PCB's and one that is now installed into Gary's FBH along with a water pump Don't you just love a successful day, these do make a refreshing change from the tedium of repairing diesel ECM, and four good ones made from five faulty ones isn't too shabby Brian Last edited by marinabrian; 22nd January 2019 at 20:42.. Reason: Spelling |
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I still want to fit one into the 1.8 (When time permits!)
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23rd January 2019, 09:13 | #9016 |
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MOT passed today with no advisories after soldering the airbag connectors in the snow last night, emissions passed with a result of 0.29 good results all round.
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23rd January 2019, 17:52 | #9018 | |
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This time they changed the slave but I was without the car for over a week while they waited for ramp space ( the wife was using our auto Connie by now) Eventually they rang me to collect the car . I paid the excess on the warranty and went to the car to drive home... ..the steering wheel and trim were covered in oily hand marks and the old clutch master diaphragm and filler cap dumped in the door pocket ! I started the car and couldn't get the gears as they hadn't bled the clutch properly ! My mate who works at the garage, who had been on holiday whilst this saga was taking place, calmed me down and stopped me from marching into the workshop, gave me the keys to his car and made me go home whilst he sorted it out. He bled it as best as he could so it was now working, he cleaned the car inside and out and reset the tracking as the steering wheel was left out of alignment and he brought it home for me . By this point I had other worries to deal with as my wife had broken her arm in a nasty fall so the car was just parked up and I used the Connie. Last week Brian called over to do a job on the Connie and got me to compare the clutch on his ZT against mine and agreed it needed bleeding properly and loaned me his kit. The pedal is like the clutch on a Japanese car now and after a bit more tinkering with the steering column bolts to reduce vibration the car is nice to drive once again. The garage if you're wondering is a main dealer that takes in other makes and not a back lane outfit who probably would have done a better job |
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Glad you are sorted Pete, hope the wife is on the mend no too!
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Thanks Andy , she broke her upper arm falling on cobbles in Durham and after seven weeks is feeling better enough to hopefully start driving in a couple of weeks and will claim the Connie auto for a while saving the clutch on the Tourer
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