My latest new to me toy arrived on Friday. A bargain 3.0i. eml light, airbag light and 2 flat front tyres with circa 330 days MOT. CAT free, parking sensors, powerfold mirrors, premium audio, heated electric standard red leather seats.
Inflated one tyre and fixed a replacement front wheel as the other tyre wouldn't inflate.
Taxes and insured, took it for a spin do get half a tank of 99.
Cleared all faults other than the airbag. Half a mile from home it threw a Xmas tree. Scanner said front right wheel speed sensor.
Jack out, wheel off, speed sensor removed. Stuffed a small wire brush in and spun the disc to clean the ring, refitted a used sensor and sorted that fault. Replaced the bonnet struts with some stock items. Checked the oil level and took the cap off. Cleaned with brake cleaner and with the same rag, cleaned out the fill hole too. Suspect condensation through it being sat a while, will monitor.
Having changed the passenger seat belt buckle assembly, pyro, wires and yellow connector block on Friday evening, the fault to ground remained, I found I had a bilaterally compatible SBSL, disconnected the battery, swapped in the SBSL, put everything back to rights, cleared all faults and bingo. All dash lights cleared. No warnings no nothing.
Just to replace a suspicious rocker cover gasket now as I get smoke coming off the rear of the manifold so suspect a bit of a drip. Also have a squeaky steering, clearly coming from the top of the column area.
Many thanks to
@GenZed @enuff_zed and
@Street for always being my go to people for advice, irreverent chat and insight, opinion and instruction, long before I joined on here.
Finland
Yorkshire
Coventry
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