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3 hours ago, cort16 said:

Probably in a karmic payoff for sending Davehedgehog that z4 my air con packed in on the hottest day of the year yesterday . Condenser is new, seems  to have gas in it  and checked / swapped out fuses but it’s not kicking the compressor in. Either compressor is duff or some gas has escaped so it’s now below the level . The good news is these don’t bring in fresh air when the air con is off they just blow roasting hot air .

air con relay? they certainly go wrong on a civic spaceship

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41 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

air con relay? they certainly go wrong on a civic spaceship

Second this. Very common. There’s an uprated relay you can buy direct from Honda, it’s around £40 or so if I remember. Take the relay out and if you shake it and it rattles you’ve got your answer. 

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1 hour ago, mitsisigma01 said:

How .... Do you have a way to find where a car was Motted 🤔🤔

Go onto the gov.uk MOT history checker, put in reg and look up as normal. 

You'll see a link next to each MOT saying "view test location", you'll need the reference number from your V5. 

Pop that in and it reveals the address of each test and you can also view the actual certificate. 

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Had to take my car back to the dealers for some warrant/recall work- failed engine mount, faulty keyfob and a software update, on a 2016 plate car.

This is my courtesy car for the next few days...

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Feel like I should grow a manbun and get a job cutting hair, but at least it isn't pink!

 

It's supposedly a mild hybrid, but I've not seen anything other than a flashing light when braking. Reckons I'm getting 48mpg round the doors though.

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16 hours ago, davehedgehog31 said:

view test location", you'll need the reference number from your V5.

I was hoping to find test centre location for vehicles that I don't own, especially for the only other Mitsubishi Sigma estate that has been spotted by an Autoshiter 😕

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18 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

I was hoping to find test centre location for vehicles that I don't own, especially for the only other Mitsubishi Sigma estate that has been spotted by an Autoshiter 😕

They don't allow that any more, test stations were made public for a short period about 5 years ago on the gov website but they promptly removed it and now require the V5 number

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My former Rover 216 R8 is going to be rejoining the fold tomorrow, I've agreed to buy it back from the mate I sold it to in January. For the same price, despite him having done a couple of fixes and improvements! :) 

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Stepdaughter and I had a bit of bonding time today. BiniMini has had an aircon regas. 410g of gas went in. 190 came out but the compressor shuts down if less than 200g of refrigerant in the system so while last year it tried to cool the air this year no chance. 8 degrees C at the vents, that’ll do nicely.

We’re now valeting the interior as someone spilled a can of coke in there (not me).

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A thorough Henrying.

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and a good Bisselling.

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17 years of sweaty arses, fannies and farts just from the driver’s seat……

The smell of stale smoke has largely gone now, so with the windows open, the evening sun and a gentle breeze hopefully it will come up nicely.

Next up get the service parts for its annual fluids change. Going to do the brake fluid as well as it’s quite dark and dirty looking.

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Quick jobs summary:

Replaced the old boot gas struts: one ok and one goosed.

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used spiral pins to improve my shoddy work previously at retrimming the headlining. Now looks propper AS worthy:

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had a precursory fiddle with another of my headlining gaffs. To be continued...

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5 hours ago, Pat Earrings said:

Had a full engine carbon clean today. Can thoroughly recommend it. I know there’s some sceptics however it had made a noticeable difference. Low down acceleration is smoother and a lot sharper than before. 

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Not to piss on your chips but even the people that do it laugh about how it doesn't make a jot of difference. You'll notice that it's almost exclusively offered by cheapish one-man-band remappers? Well from my understanding, years ago some guy bought a bizarre looking "HHO generator" machine from China and started hooking it up to peoples cars to make him look busy when he was waiting half an hour for the teenage lad in lithuania to email him back the modified map files. He made up a story that it was to decarbonise the engine, but initially the machines were never designed to do anything of the sort (they were supposed to be left permanently attached as part of some tinfoil hat perpetual motion / "run your car on water" scam)

Anyway it seems to have caught on, it's an easy way for a guy to earn another £30 while they're already on your driveway and because most of the time it's done just before a remap, it's impossible for anyone to do a proper like for like comparison of it's results.

It's like when they sell you "fuel system cleaner" when the car goes in for a service at the main dealers. Doesn't do anything, but it "technically" could, and it's impossible to prove either way.

 

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47 minutes ago, cobblers said:

Not to piss on your chips but even the people that do it laugh about how it doesn't make a jot of difference. You'll notice that it's almost exclusively offered by cheapish one-man-band remappers? Well from my understanding, years ago some guy bought a bizarre looking "HHO generator" machine from China and started hooking it up to peoples cars to make him look busy when he was waiting half an hour for the teenage lad in lithuania to email him back the modified map files. He made up a story that it was to decarbonise the engine, but initially the machines were never designed to do anything of the sort (they were supposed to be left permanently attached as part of some tinfoil hat perpetual motion / "run your car on water" scam)

Anyway it seems to have caught on, it's an easy way for a guy to earn another £30 while they're already on your driveway and because most of the time it's done just before a remap, it's impossible for anyone to do a proper like for like comparison of it's results.

It's like when they sell you "fuel system cleaner" when the car goes in for a service at the main dealers. Doesn't do anything, but it "technically" could, and it's impossible to prove either way.

 

True it is hard to quantify the difference with actual figures.
 

It’s something I wanted to try and in all honesty I’m satisfied, only a few quid anyway, not like it was mega expensive. 

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Gosh, that actually made me say ‘Jesus wept’.

 

Recently at the good ladies place of work they were doing an air path test on a 4.4 diesel V8 Range Rover. Engine ran on its own oil and went boom. Fortunately as they’re an accredited Land Rover specialist, and were following the fault finding process, it will go under warranty. For a £30,000 engine…

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