wesacosa Posted Sunday at 09:55 Share Posted Sunday at 09:55 11 minutes ago, Yoss said: That's interesting as mine has thing where the rear fog light warning light comes on slightly when you select reverse. You can only see it at night and it doesn't seem to be affecting the lights themselves, they still come on separately as required. This is only on the green car which is a mk2 like yours. The mk1 has a completely different set up with eight plungers in the tailgate and brass contacts on the body. Four on each side as can be seen here. So there is no physical connection between the electrics in the tailgate and the rest of the car. On the face of it this seems like lots of extra complication and a recipe for problems but, so far at least, they have been faultless. The only problem I've had in that area is that occasionally the reverse light bulbs have vibrated themselves out of their holders but that's nothing to do with above system. It was the same symptoms on mine, although the heated rear window light came on too but only when reverse was selected. When I was playing around with it last year I did notice the reverse lights didn't come on with the tailgate open but started to flicker as you closed the tailgate and were fully on when it was about 3/4 closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted Sunday at 10:00 Share Posted Sunday at 10:00 2 hours ago, stuboy said: Anyone used vcds/vag thingy.. I got disk and cable off ebay and don't communicate with the galaxy.. and I'm getting fed up.. As @Nyphur says. Check to see which serial port it's using in Device Manager. Depending on the adapter, you might need to select USB in the config too. Is the adapter plugged into the car too when doing this? They get their power from the OBD port and won't switch on fully unless plugged in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yoss Posted Sunday at 10:03 Share Posted Sunday at 10:03 ^^ My heated rear window was never reconnected when the previous owner fitted a new tailgate so I've not had that issue. It would probably be fairly easy to reinstate but I've never bothered. The amount of condensation in there makes them next to useless anyway (it still works in the blue car so I can confirm this). It's far more effective to open the windows. wesacosa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted Sunday at 10:14 Share Posted Sunday at 10:14 Private plate wanker. stuboy, SiC and Joey spud 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cade Posted Sunday at 11:17 Share Posted Sunday at 11:17 1 hour ago, wesacosa said: It was the same symptoms on mine, although the heated rear window light came on too but only when reverse was selected. When I was playing around with it last year I did notice the reverse lights didn't come on with the tailgate open but started to flicker as you closed the tailgate and were fully on when it was about 3/4 closed Used to have this with Fiestas.. try tapping the tailgate hinge pins back and forth slightly if that's the hinge they have wesacosa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted Sunday at 11:40 Share Posted Sunday at 11:40 Kent shiters meet 5 years ago today. Time moves. BorniteIdentity and Joey spud 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey spud Posted Sunday at 13:13 Share Posted Sunday at 13:13 Blimey five years already that's scary. egg 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey spud Posted Sunday at 13:36 Share Posted Sunday at 13:36 I recently bought an old Casio watch off eBay, one that I've always hankered after but when it arrived it didn't have the crisp clean dial of the one on the listing but a rather cloudy one instead. It's like over the years a dusting of the luminous coating has transferred to the back of the crystal. So today after watching a YouTube clip of an American chap sitting on his bed successfully pull a similar watch apart I had a bash at taking the mechanism out of mine and giving it a clean up. A bit of Tesco's finest glass cleaner and a soft cloth and it's come up like new again. egg, Tickman, Stanky and 22 others 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted Sunday at 15:48 Share Posted Sunday at 15:48 Saab back in service today after time off over the winter. Got down to Edinburgh no problem but a few issues appearing, oil leak now joined by power steering leak and a general baggy feel means a few new bushes are in its future. Still not bad for 220k and 32 years old though. BorniteIdentity, Sunny Jim, Split_Pin and 14 others 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertz Posted Sunday at 19:25 Share Posted Sunday at 19:25 Started a long overdue deep clean of the rear of our T25 Multivan. Bought some bristle attachments for a drill and waded in. 5 buckets later and it's much better but probably needs another go. beko1987, BorniteIdentity, Popsicle and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted Sunday at 19:39 Share Posted Sunday at 19:39 Drill brushes are fab things! All you need is a shitty wet pick up only vac then, just add water externally, drill then suck it all dry. I want to take my seats out and give the carpets a really good going over this summer, but I have the fear of unplugging seat airbag connectors on a 22 year old French pos so haven't yet. Might just do around the seats... Wibble 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted Sunday at 21:50 Share Posted Sunday at 21:50 This was the results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hairnet Posted Sunday at 22:09 Share Posted Sunday at 22:09 6 hours ago, cort1977 said: Saab back in service today after time off over the winter. Got down to Edinburgh no problem but a few issues appearing, oil leak now joined by power steering leak and a general baggy feel means a few new bushes are in its future. Still not bad for 220k and 32 years old though. do ya huf te keep it oota sight in case yon local fella sees it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted Sunday at 22:37 Share Posted Sunday at 22:37 Earlier tonight I had to go and collect four youngsters who'd been enjoying St Patrick's Day drinks nearby. It seemed only right to use the Carina E, a natural for such taxi duties? Made a bit of a discovery on the way: I knew the HRW worked OK, with every element still doing its thing - not bad for an old estate car. As it was a bit damp I thought I'd give the other switch a try, which I believe is for a heated element or two in the front screen. I don't know whether it did anything in that regard, I think it's more intended for snow/frost, but I discovered that's how the heated door mirrors are operated. Everything else I've had with heated mirrors they just work off the HRW switch, and I'd just assumed they didn't work any more. Result! Perhaps even better was that there was no vomiting, so I didn't have to apply penalty charges..... tooSavvy, Steviemillar, RayMK and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyphur Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago 23 hours ago, stuboy said: This was the results Any danger of letting us know what the connectivity problem was then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted 14 hours ago Share Posted 14 hours ago Peer of the Realm in Driving Ban! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68599661 Caught speeding 7 times in one year!! Hang on...let's look at that a bit more closely... 1. 29mph in 20 Zone Embankment. 2. 28mph in 20 Zone Kensington Gardens. 3. A316 Twickenham 46mph in 40 Zone. 4. A316 Twickenham 46mpg in a 40 Zone. 5. A316 Twickenham 47mph in 40 Zone. 6. M25 intersection with M3 62mph in a 50 Zone. 7. M4 73mph in temporary 50 Zone. My experience of driving in London... 1.& 2. The 20mph Zones are in the main not observed by drivers and if you do drive at 20mph, as I do, you often get an angry tooting gesticulating mob behind - and inevitably overtaken by a black Audi and a white van. 3.-5. This is the A316. Easy to lose track of your speed on here. 6. M25 intersection with M3 - Easy to lose track of your speed here. 7. M4 73mph in temporary 50 Zone - easy to get 'pushed' by other traffic to a higher speed as the 50 limit is only sporadically observed. And the moral of the tale - pay attention and observe the limits - but do not get bullied to go faster than the limit or shadow other fast moving traffic - none of these convictions were for particularly egregious flouting of the limit and several were just over 10%+. Sometimes takes an iron resolve - particularly in the 'temporary' 50mph's - on the M20 through Kent - I stick at 50 and am passed by 80% of traffic coming back into London. egg and Joey spud 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesapandre Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago As an aside the BBC reports that "as District Judge Daniel Sternberg disqualified the Tory environmentalist from driving, he warned that drivers who speed "emit more harmful emissions" even in hybrid and electric cars." Interesting legal point there - that the judge is taking in the whole scope of these limits in his consideration of the offence ie not just the danger aspect. Of course the admonishment may have been directed with some irony at Zac Goldsmith as a prominent "environmentalist" driving an electric car. But the jist of the judgment is that some limits are indeed there to protect the environment overall. Interesting point of law bought out there. tooSavvy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egg Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago On 17/03/2024 at 13:13, Joey spud said: Blimey five years already that's scary. hang on another one has popped up, with your Brat - 7 years ago today! Joey spud and Saabnut 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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