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[Guest Hooli]

I found the offical ford manual on t'internet somewhere, it might have been here http://manuals.co/workshop/ford/fiesta

[bub2006]

Just go onto autotrader and begin to post an ad, when you put the reg in it will fill in the car details and tell you if it is a cat c/d or something else, you don't get the full story though, a HPI check is £3 for a basic one, and £13 for a full one, its not exactly expensive

Cheers, I'll tell him. I'm not bloody paying! He can pay it then!

[KruJoe]

Why is "bangerfan101" showing as "banned" this evening?

[dave21478]

Every post I saw by him was some BNP style shit calling for lynchings and advocating violence. My clicky finger was circling the Ignore User button but it seems the mods were even less tolerant of his bollocks than me.

[Justin Case]

Today I looked at a 14 year old Mercedes convertible. The way in which the hood opened and disappeared into the boot before the boot lid closed over it was so beautifully choreographed that it could have been set to music. But would that music have been the Death March?

[somewhatfoolish]

Yakety Sax; everything's better set to Yakety Sax, it's the law.

[greengartside]

I've just bought an ASTRA OF DREAMZ, YO - and I need to SORN it as soon as possible because broken.

 

How and when do I SORN it? Do I have to wait for the logbook to come back? I R CONFUZD.

[clayts450]

I've just bought an ASTRA OF DREAMZ, YO - and I need to SORN it as soon as possible because broken.

 

How and when do I SORN it? Do I have to wait for the logbook to come back? I R CONFUZD.

 

Blimey, by snail mail according to this..... Looks like you can't do it with the new owner slip off the V5

 

https://www.gov.uk/make-a-sorn

 

If the vehicle isn’t registered in your name you’ll have to tell DVLA it’s off the road by post.

 

This form

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/v890-statutory-off-road-notification-sorn

[philibusmo]

Saab 95 ABS module failure, I believe its fairly common and all the internet wisdom says to send it away to be rebuilt. Not the easiest thing to do from New Zealand.

 

I know that they are programmed to the car, but if I got one from another 2.3 auto then would that negate the need for programming it?

[robinmasters]

Smelly car. What to do?

 

Clearly needs the fabrics cleaning, but what best? Is there a magic spray/shampoo/other jiz that works better than anything else?

[twosmoke300]

Saab 95 ABS module failure, I believe its fairly common and all the internet wisdom says to send it away to be rebuilt. Not the easiest thing to do from New Zealand.

 

I know that they are programmed to the car, but if I got one from another 2.3 auto then would that negate the need for programming it?

I doubt it - it will be the same as the radio etc and coded individually to the car using tech 2

[rainagain]

I doubt it - it will be the same as the radio etc and coded individually to the car using tech 2

Don't they need to be divorced as well?

[richardmorris]

Is this going to be a capacitor/suppressor or a ballast resistor?

[cobblers]

top left? that's a condenser/capacitor

[richardmorris]

Thought so, but parts places have both types of coil listed for the car which got me confused!

[clayts450]

Smelly car. What to do?

 

Clearly needs the fabrics cleaning, but what best? Is there a magic spray/shampoo/other jiz that works better than anything else?

 

Febreze ?

 

http://www.wilko.com/shop-by-housewares-brand/febreze/icat/febreze

[twosmoke300]

Don't they need to be divorced as well?

Yup

[AlabamaShrimp]

Anyone know what this thing is in a mk6 (2005) Fiesta ST?

 

 

It's started making a whirring noise when just the ignition is on and was clicking when the engine was first turned off but of I've checked it again and there's no noise so it might be temperature controlled

 

[Bfg]

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HELP Please ..  Drive shaft Citroen GS dismantling ???? 

 

The books says "place drift on claw to remove joint" and "drive the UJ from the end of the shaft."

 

soft jaws on vice. . sturdy piece of aluminium angle duly placed..

 

..but it will not budge despite big hammer action.  So I wonder if  "the joint needs to be straight ?" . .

^ as the vice is on the end of the bench (so I don't keep walking into it !) the clearance of adjoining shelf unit had to be relieved*..  But still the UJ will not come off..

 

 

Do I just need a bigger hammer and a more sturdy (steel) drift to get this off its circlip ?   Better to ask the question than to try that and bust it.. only to find out that I needed to do something else. 

 

Thanks. Bfg

[twosmoke300]

Cv joint - hang the driveshaft upside down - let gravity help you - makes a huge difference.

 

Fiesta st- is it the imrc valve - inlet flap motor ?

[Bfg]

^ Nope.. even hanging down, with a steel drift and a lump hammer it still ain't moving.

 

I've cleaned most of the grease out in parts wash to see if I could find the secret but to no avail..

 

I'm struggling here

[steveo3002]

how hard are you hitting ?   i tend to go with shaft in vice one hand on the splined end holding it straight and belt it  one with a club hammer , takes a reasonble slug to move em , more than a tickle but not enough to damage stuff

[twosmoke300]

I use a big copper hammer .

[Bfg]

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I was using a normal woodworking hammer with a good hard swing around it's long handle (as it's longer than my engineers hammer). Then I tried the lump hammer, about twice the weight of the woodworking hammer,  you can see it here on the bench ...

 

 

I've tried to hammer directly on the cv claws, and I've tried various drifts and 'other means' of getting to hit right next to the spline so as to not tilt the thing, as I'd read on one forum that they have to go down straight.  This was just one of various tries. .

 

I might add that I'm 6'5" and 220lb ..and so although not as powerful as I used to be - I have the stature and a fair amount of power to still strike quite a blow.

 

I turned the vice around so as to leave the end floating in the air rather than being against the side of my bench, but that was a fruitless exercise too. 

 

After 4 hours of trying this and that.. looking in the web and YouTube for clues, I thought laterally.. I'll wedge it off. .

^ with a spanner to span across several of the claws within the UJ joint, and another inbetween a steel shanked (ex-air-force) screwdriver and the vice .. the screwdriver being hammered as a 10:1 wedge with a lump hammer .. by a big and getting ever the more ugly shite head .. it didn't budge.   

 

I then looked at if were possible to make a plastic cone to try and stretch both inner and outer boots enough to go over the other end's three needle roller posts ?  ..perhaps not.

[Kiltox]

How do I go about getting some replica dealer plates for my Rover?

[jonathan_dyane]

Re the GS CV joint; they can be swines. The vice isn't moving on the bench and absorbing the shock is it? Otherwise I suggest using an assistant and two drifts one either side and synchronised bashing. It will succumb eventually.

[twosmoke300]

Yeh the two drift method works and I would loose the soft jaws. You won't damage the shaft with the vise .

[Timewaster]

How do I go about getting some replica dealer plates for my Rover?

DMB. As recommended by multiple users on here.

[Kiltox]

DMB. As recommended by multiple users on here.

Looks like they don't offer the dealer I need so I'll need to do some research (I have a tax disc holder but the plates are not original) and contact them

[Timewaster]

DMB do tend to do mostly Ford stuff. What Rover dealer is it?

 

Maybe someone on here has a car fitted with the plates you want to replicate?

 

Otherwise it I s google image search, or trawl the area local to the dealer with your camera!