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Well it seems this will become a long term member of the fleet - ultimately for No.1 daughter to learn to drove in. With that in mind I have resurrected the air con although, the condenser looks terrible, so this may only be temporary. Next I plan to install remote central locking. This isn't straightforward as there is no actuator in the Driver's door, so a bit of lateral thinking required. Typically I cannot find my stash of Citroën locking motors which I had plenty of. Buggeration.

Remove the other lock nuts before anything else. You can buy a Vauxhall master key set for about £30 from the tool academy.

I'll have a look when I get five minutes, I certainly don't remember seeing another lock.

Very kind, thank you. I'll certainly need one, but I don't know if there should be a lock anywhere else on the bike... I've not discovered one yet! @comfysofa does yours have multiple locks?

I'd leave then tint on the bootlid as you risk ruining the heating element pulling it off. Great job so far. Bastard! 🥺

Sorry to see about the off, glad it isn't anything too drastic. Could you use bonnet pins in place of the bolts using similar devices to your hole locator above?

I tested and rescued mine - twice!

Well very sadly we had to say goodbye to our beloved Hollie a few days ago, what follows now is untangling the web of insursnce, vet, specialist and EOL fees. I may have to drop the S40 for a quick sale price to cover off any invoices landing this way. The admin bit is really shitty to have to deal with when all we want to do is mourn her loss. She was fucking ace.

If this is the 1.6 I don't think the timing belt is a bad job. I did the belt on my fiesta 1.4 tdci on the drive, only sticking point was the paper waterproof gasket getting displaced and me having to pull it all apart again to rectify it.

Also i should say I was really lucky with this one finding the above linked engine manual. Having an idea of what the sensor values should be really aids testing.

The A/c does actually make noises; when the a/c gas is low, you can often here it moving around the pipes. (sort of as if you have airnin thencentralnhesting),. Though the condenser looks manky, it does still have some pressure. The biggest issue with this was the temperature blender flap was stuck, it seems to have eased now I've moved it manually at the side of the heater box.

A Sunday day shift at work can be rather a quiet affair, which means I could give the car a good scrub up. By this point I'd done about 300 miles in it and achieved a lowly 45mpg.l, I'm hoping that will improve now the car is covering a longer commute - the previous owner was doing less than 10 miles each way. The next thing is to get the front wheels balanced, and try and find the rattle from the front suspension - I suspect it is the top mounts. Also there is a modification to carry out on the engine mounting - originally there was a Hyundai part for this job which is NLA in the UK, I could buy a stainless one for a tenner from Aus, but I have a selection of large washers and a pillar drill... 'We can rebuild you, we have the technology.' This plate should reduce the vibrations through the body all being well!

Update time: Taking stock of the now running Getz whilst I'm on a coach journey down to Spa Francorchamps for the GP. It is pretty straight with only on or two minor scrapes on the back arches. Inside is complete, but scruffy. The modern Pioneer headunit was a bit too annoying in use, so for now has been swapped for a Chinese DAB unit. I managed to get a replacement FM aerial from the scrapyard from 'Thirty Pound Graham' amongst a fuel rail (for testi g purposes but unrequired) and a window regulator for the S40. The old aerial had been broken off and it's base was seized to the roof. Some mild violence with some pipe grips later saw the replacement installed. I may fit a DAB adapter to it later so I can remove the magnetic one which looks a little untidy now. Also of note was the utterly crap handbrake, which to my surprise on this is a drum within the rear discs... You have to strip everything off to get into these, which is probably why nobody has bothered, I cleared out all of the dust, oiled the linkages and adjusters and cleaned inside the discs. As can be seen here, they were quite scaley. I then reassembled and used the adjusters to lock up the drums, before backing off one click. The adjusters here are very course and can be got at through an access hole in the disc. I still needed to tweek up the cables a little, and this got the handbrake holding at 3 clicks.

Yeah all sounds the same as mine, now I just get a tiny patch where the LH wiper changes direction on the screen.

Re: the fogging - I gave my front screen a good clean with some glass cleaner last night ( the good studd that smells like vinegar mixed with catpiss) and I can report that nonsuch fogging occurred on my journey home this morning. "Why dont you try it at home at home?" As Anthea Turner once said on her 'Aerobics a d Bean Flicking' dvd.

Don't worry about it at all, I'll probably find it next time I borrow dad's van! 🫣 Hollie is currently under the care of a specialist in Wakefield, I am looking at at places that might buy a kidney to fund it.

Mine does the fogging thing too, the cabin filter didn't look too bad on it, having been manufactured in 2019 although I suppose that is still 4 years ago!

I made a start on the jigsaw I got from @comfysofa recently. this was proceeded by an afternoon of tidying up the workshop so I could see a bit of the floor, before dragging in the biggest lumps. So what is it? The fully grown bastard love child of a Stihl strimmer and a Raleigh Shopper in kit form... Built up it looks a neatly packaged thing, the kick start mechanism needs rebuilding but there appears to be some compression on the tiny engine. Sadly it has been removed from the frame rather roughly, and so some wiring repairs will be required. I'm not sure if this HT Leeds has been cut or not, but I have plenty here that I have been unable to ID so I'm certain I can cobble something up. As no key was present with the bike, and someone had had a go at smashing the old lock out, I drilled through the front of it to release the tumblers and the complete barrel. I've hung the forks on just to get an impression of what parts are there and what are missing. The headstock bearings look terrible. That's as far as I got before the news that our eldest mutt has got a tumour on her lung, so I don't know when my mojo (and by extension my bank balance) will return to something approaching normal levels. As an aside, we are heading up to Wakefield with her tomorrow to see if there is anything to be done. So if anyone fancies invading my inbox for my S40 or indeed any other shit dotted around in these pictures, I'm sure the folding will come in handy. I did manage to digitise my copy of the Velofax workshop manual, so I shall collate that soon and upload it to anybody else whom may benefit from it.

The big pooch (right) has been a little off colour for a few weeks now, after an Xray it's been revealed she's got a growth in her lung, I do not know yet the long term prognosis, but I know it ain't good. She is still herself, full of life and ready to pinch your dinner at any moment, she just gets wheezy at times. She's the most loving dog I've ever known, so soft in nature and gentle with everyone. I'm hoping that it is treatable, because it'll break my heart to loose her.

He's a dentist with a history of poor filling work? 🤷‍♂️

For reference, this little Hyundai Getz 1.5 diesel has the D4FA engine, documention for which can be found here. Ok so when I first got the car, there was a raft of faults in the memory, and after I'd put the above mentioned cables back in the correct places, and fitted the refurbished starter motor, I gave it a reasonable test drive where it behaved right up until I went to pull onto my driveway. There, it cut out and refused point blank to restart. This behaviour got worse the more I drove it, although I did find that if I deleted the fault that had occurred (P0091) from the memory, it would start straight away. If I attempted to start it whilst the fault or the issue was still present, I sometimes got P1186 also. What does all this shit mean? What it is imperative to remember when dealing with fault codes is that they are only there for guidance. Indeed there are in depth tests to ascertain the cause of the fault in the manual linked above. Annoyingly, the tests pointed to the fuel pressure regulator on the rail being ever so slightly out of range. I did procure an entire fuel rail whilst in the scrappy earlier this week (and got pissing wet through in the process). However I then tested the resistance of the replacement regulator and found it to be exactly the same as the one on the car. Not only that but I also spotted it had been replaced when the parts cannon had been fired at it last time. I started to consider the circumstances under which the fault occurred, usually when slowing down, you know when I said the tests pointed to the fuel pressure regulator? Yeah, turns out that with an intermittent fault, your tests have to be a little more robust. When considering when the fault occurred, I started working my way from the FPR and up the wiring harness moving and twisting it as I went until I managed to get the engine to cut out. Some gentle prodding from either end eventually narrowed down the spot. Stripping the protection off of the loom and the slightest of tugs on the wire in question: Yep, that'll do it! I've let in some new cable and joined it with solder/heatshrink butt joints and am hoping to road test it fully tomorrow. I'll go back tomorrow and add more pictures here and a few more details of the testing process.

Full details later, but I fucking fixed it!

Fitted the starter and rectified the issues left by the clutch replacement. Had a good long road test with my youngest, we've discovered that the A/c doesn't work and the cutting out issue still exists. I'm suspecting either crank sensor or fuel pressure regulator. Here's a cool, fat, fella with his latest crap car...

Collected this morning... I did have a bit of a tinker with it, but it quickly became clear that it was going to require more attention than I wanted to give it on the seller's driveway. My neighbour Will was on dragging duties (incidentally, it was him and his partner who bought our previous bungalow from us) After a slightly hairy start, we soon had the little Getz home, I even managed to bump start it on the way home - far easier to stop with assisted brakes. A cursory inspection of the level of quality involved with the car's recent clutch - that's the main earth to the engine left off... Also the bracket to the wiring harness missed too; Shall we tighten the starter cable up? Nah fuck it, what's the worst that could happen... There starter is off now and with a local specialist to see if can be rescued, I shall be going over it with a fine toothed comb to recheck all the work relating to the clutch. Worthy mentions to the loose battery terminals and the jubilee clip missing from the (recently replaced) MAF sensor. It isn't too bad bodily... A quick wipe over of the rear arches; Looking forward to getting properly stuck in to it now.

I'm hoping to collect tomorrow, and that's certainly a fact worth knowing mwhen I'm ready to part with it again. I must say though, ULEZ is yet to become more than a playground taunt around these parts.