Recent content by flybobbie

23i 1 litre in 5000 miles which i normally top off at 4k and change at 5k. My daily drive to work about 8 miles, so not surprised at oil burn.

Not a offensive sound, like being in jet cockpit with AC converter hum in the background.

Yes the petrol tank is full at the moment, i'll try the Redex. Not used any for a few years now. Lidl did have some few weeks ago.

How long before you start hearing the pump whine and it finally failing? I noticed yesterday when some 20 feet away i could hear it. Externally loudest from under the right side rear bumper and in the cabin a like a low AC electric hum.

My car warped cam cover. Pull the coils, on mine no.4 from the front had oil around the coil pack.

Could be 14,000 wires cut in a day, just over a weeks work for 120k cars.

Machine we had travelled the other way. Getting pressure on rollers was a pain.

Well just poor quality control. BMW scrapped thousands of Mini engines, things happen.

Machine i used i reinstated as no one could get it to work properly. Needed some fiddling and experimenting. Various cuts can be programmed in. Set the machine off you have a wire cut every 2 seconds. That can be a lot of ruined wires!

I guess the contract for the E89 wires the tool was set wrong. Still BMW should have called back, but guess what..

No definitely a wire cut, as discussed years ago. I have used such a machine and seen the same mistakes. I think someone measured to the plastic housing, got it wrong and moved the cut to the switch, for soldering.

Prestone only one i use on light coloured car. Coloured stuff like Halfords stains.

Looks like someone photoed their industry launch try outs. Found the pictures i wanted.

Funny about broken wires, friends Tesla seems to have the same wire as our Zed roofs. Breaking in the connector bellow to door, in his case stopping rear door opening.

I guess the wire maker put in the wrong trim cut, now all cars have weak wires, unless later cars the mistake was spotted and corrected.