AVAS.. Poor Yorick! ♥️🎱

[tooSavvy]

Well..... First port of call = PAS Dipstick.

Fluid is just wetting bottom tip of (presumably = low) skinny stick, poking down from screw in bottle top 🤔

I'll refill to top of the 'skinny stick' dipstick + tonight, when I park, I will slot an unfolded newspaper under the front (nipped by tyre) and tomorrow we will see colour of drips [green in PAS] 👍😐

The car came with 'throwaway' 3month Warranty 🤐. I may just read it up....

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[tooSavvy]

Ffinn Ell . . . 🔧⚙️🕑

 

'Designed for Living'!!

Origami+ (... no clues to find ALL the screws 🤬)

Used a sheet of folded stiff paper to 'funnel' PAS juice... Now up to FULL 👍

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[tooSavvy]

Imagine yourself standing near a shop, the shop is being refitted.... Inside, a guy is slicing 3/8ply with his circular saw <zeezeeingnnninngggg>.....

Imagine me, sitting in my car, having that soundtrack played out through the bulkhead [except when turning on a roundabout/over half lock] IT'S DRIVING ME NUTTZ 🤪

I know the pumps have a rep [all Vx forri say as much] but mine was totally silent until 3 days ago 😕

Is it eating itself 😵‍💫

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[tooSavvy]

Someone... oot there, in the Webbie Netherworld... has stated that the PAS Motor DOESN'T run in 'dead ahead' and any noises will be heard when it is UNDER LOAD 😯...

Bit of lateral thinking here >> as the Alt puts a whacking current INTO the PAS Motor [when PAS is loaded] could the corrollary be the Alt is making the noise/bearings... And 'shuts up' when heaving juice into the PAS 🤔

Do we reckon, with the hood up, I'm going to get a  crack at locating this 'whine'... ✔️

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[tooSavvy]

After some further thoughts..... It can't be the Alt.

The noise 'runs on' & dies for a second AFTER the engine has stopped, so must be standalone source 😕

I will listen with the hood open.....

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[tooSavvy]

I stood infront of the car, hood up >> it's the PUMP 😕

[tooSavvy]

Fitted my 'reversing sensors' 🔧✔️

Perhaps the line of location is mildly sub-optimal.... but CrashBar is right where it should be 🙄.

Drilled and numbered the fly leads..

Fed them singly through the little gap, under the light pod.

I have taken a 'fly lead' of +12V off the rev lighting plug and just need to pick up a -Ve Ground.

I will not be using the led display (it has the bleeper in it) so everything will be bundled up behind the clip-in grille over the lights.

I needed to make a small notch, in the lamp casing, where it crushes the foam gasket... allowing the sensor cabling to come through into the boot 👍

Not wired up at this time.... Lunch Gong!!

 

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[tooSavvy]

Ahh...... Lunch, mmmmm 😉

Picked up Ground from chassis nut, just below lamp unit ♥️

Gentle fold over to consume all lengths, cable tie + snip off. Feed into void 👍

Bleeping Marvelous, M9 💰

 

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[tooSavvy]

After somewhat shambolic 'jiggery pokery', with a BMW estate rear spoiler >> just not making it!

We have received today my 'revised contender' = flat across width ✔️ thin in section ✔️ and good proportion/profile ✔️ 😎

 

A Porsche part for £22 delivered 🙄

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[tooSavvy]

Whilst lying under AVAS arse, squinting up, wrapping together the reversing sensor cabling - bright sun 😲...

... I was in awe of the humongous back box + it's NEWness 🤣. The front Flexi was done by the seller 👍

General chassis condition is NON rusty & all the fuel hoses and brake lines are looking factory fresh.... Lanoguard lash worthy!!

Bought on 60,700.. Now 63,550 >> good test drive for 1st month 🚀

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[tooSavvy]

The lip spoiler is a glass fibre sandwich, with the locator diaphragm glued in...

 

Removing the inner, with a chisel and then using a very sharp wood chisel to skin/peel the adhesive = bastard ITCHY HANDS 😕

It will all prove worth it, in the end 🤣

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[tooSavvy]

Well.... That was fun [not..🤬]

Just crested the main road, at Westerhope, on our way to The Poachers for lunch....

NO PAS.... Like a flipping elephant is sitting on the bonnet!!

I'll have to wrestle AVAS back home and get my Oily Spanner on the hunt for a scrappy ZF pump (needs Tech2, apparently for the CanBus)....

That's us on the bus for a few days 😐

AVAS = 💰💰

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[tooSavvy]

My local guy, Kevin, has done a few...

If I get the pump, he will whack it in 👍

Canny ✔️

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[tooSavvy]

Been out to the car.... taking photos of the Pompe 🙄

 

..... guy at the breakers needs to know EXACTLY what I have.... Like there are two versions of my Astra ZF Pompe.

I only see ONE in my Webbie searches..

As long as we're all happy, eh 👍

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[tooSavvy]

Pompe @£50 cash ..... Collect 1pm.

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[tooSavvy]

Looking at this 'monkey snipped cabling, in yard' photo.... 😯

 

Seems this motor is pulling them amps 😲

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[tooSavvy]

Though the PAS is dead, I'm still helming AVAS (developing those he-man muscles whilst I'm at it....).

Gots to say the Rear Parking Bleepers are a revelation!! Very difficult to chop the estate back end in with confidence of NOT tip-touching >> small rear window 😶‍🌫️

My Bleepers are punching me straight in @10" min = solid beeeeee 😉

Maggikkk 👍

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[tooSavvy]

Pompe Achieved ♥️🎈

 

.... And we have Top Up, as required ✔️

 

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[tooSavvy]

Dropped the pump into the garage + top-up fluid.

He is quite busy, one man and a gofer operation, so is looking to have AVAS up on his lift Thursday. I will take it around on Wed pm, he will put it on the lift before he goes home and it will be clay cold in the morning, 07:30 start.

Reckons on dropping the subframe.... 

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[ProgRocker]

Has the Astra replaced the Getz?

[tooSavvy]

2 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

Has the Astra replaced the Getz?

Yeah.... #laughter mocking Bart#

Wanted an auto/slush.... Began eliminating cars as they got newer but without slushhie.

The Aisin 4sp is fitted to GM Saturn >> the Septics can't break it *BIG selling point for me 😉.

I've wanted an estate for a lifetime... Just never hit the GO button.

I don't much like the 'astra slug' shape BUT when I spotted an H estate [with rear dark glass] giving off 'classic square back' vibes.. unlike sloping Wagons.. I hit the BUY button!

The fact it's broken doesn't bother me, I'll hammer the fuck out of it... then something else will pop 🤣

It's a quiet, roomy WooshVagen🚀 ♥️

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[tooSavvy]

Anyway.... More IMPORTANTLY!!

Tyres 😯

On the front a fresh pair of Sailwin Antares 68 tyre 👍

 

Had a wee moment, just Sunday, as I sailed straight on negotiating a mini rbt... and I've been having bother 'getting off the line' as they light up under acceleration... Wet roads, of course.

None of the allys are kerbed 👍

I think the Smart Money is on Kumhos 😐

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[tooSavvy]

As a 'side consequence' of AVAS being crocked ..  SWMBO likes to be out/have lunch in a pub = 💰

Staying near home/lunching in the house is making a 💰saving!!

That 'positive cashflow' is contributing to my ultimate repair bill ⚙️🔧👍

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[Stanky]

Kumhos are decent IMHO, I've had some for 35k miles on an Almera , yonks ago, they wore well and gripped fine, and I now have PS71s on my 200bhp RWD lexus and they grip fine, especially so in the wet. They'd be a fine choice on the Astra.

[tooSavvy]

Just stuck my head around the door, at the lockup... Shuffling strategies currently applied should see AVAS positioned on his 2 poster @Teatime Thursday.

Job ON ... Friday✔️😉

He has had a bit of worrying news.. Landlord of building is selling up and new owner doesn't want a sitting tennant. He reckons he'll just go back on the tools.

Exchange & Mart: Newish 2poster for sale 😕

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[tooSavvy]

I'm really missing my driving AVAS 😕

..... Weekend Beckons 🚀💞

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[tooSavvy]

Yo, Ho and UP she rises...!👍

Car is in and the mechanic went under, looked up... and started $wearing 😵

*Good call >> not trying DIY with TJ + Axlestands 😶‍🌫️

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[tooSavvy]

YaY.. 🎈🎈🎈🎈

Car all done.... NO Xmas tree lights!!

£80 2hrs (+£50 pump) = £130 ♥️👍

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[tooSavvy]

Swift blast around the edge of nowhere...

88miles and extremely 'twirly whirly' in those tight turns 👍👍

To quote Donkey... "Back on the road again!"

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[loserone]

37 minutes ago, tooSavvy said:

edge of nowhere

O hai