What have you done to your car today?
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That's a fantastic result, the interior looks amazingj3nks79 said:
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Barty said:IMG_2230.jpeg
Optical maintenance today
Barty your OCD is contagious
Attleborough, Norfolk
Bit late, but yesterday I had a very enjoyable hour on the latest project car. (2.2i, only 52k, EPS fail and misfire, plus needs some cosmetic love)
Got my young apprentice, Ed (11-y-o) to sort the misfire, more or less on his own.
1. Listen to the exhaust note and note that it smells strongly of petrol.
2. Connect up the code reader, work through the menus and discover 'Misfire - No4'.
3. Top cover off, work out which is No4 and remove the coil.
4. Take out the spark plug and note it is wet and smells of fuel.
5. Refit spark plug and fit a spare coil.
6. Start the car and it runs fine.
7. Code reader again, still shows misfire (as it stores it). Erase code and check again. All clear.
8. Refit covers.
In all this, the only job I did was to reach the rear top cover bolt (Ed forgot his steps!), undo the spark plug and then check it was properly tight afterwards.
I also showed Ed the steps on the code reader the first time round. He remembered it all the second time.
A very simple job, but one he could do start to finish and see the results.
Gave us both great satisfaction, and it's good to see his tool-handling skills improving and that he is thinking logically through the problems and understanding we only change one thing at a time.
Got my young apprentice, Ed (11-y-o) to sort the misfire, more or less on his own.
1. Listen to the exhaust note and note that it smells strongly of petrol.
2. Connect up the code reader, work through the menus and discover 'Misfire - No4'.
3. Top cover off, work out which is No4 and remove the coil.
4. Take out the spark plug and note it is wet and smells of fuel.
5. Refit spark plug and fit a spare coil.
6. Start the car and it runs fine.
7. Code reader again, still shows misfire (as it stores it). Erase code and check again. All clear.
8. Refit covers.
In all this, the only job I did was to reach the rear top cover bolt (Ed forgot his steps!), undo the spark plug and then check it was properly tight afterwards.
I also showed Ed the steps on the code reader the first time round. He remembered it all the second time.
A very simple job, but one he could do start to finish and see the results.
Gave us both great satisfaction, and it's good to see his tool-handling skills improving and that he is thinking logically through the problems and understanding we only change one thing at a time.
unlucky!
Fitted new hub caps to my repainted wheels, for anyone who saw the state of them before.
Drove a few hundred miles through the Cotswolds and back and got sunburnt! Lots of fun!
I bet your good lady wasn't smiling for too long though Danidej_z4 said:Proved that if you're buying a 3m cantilever parasol, the Zed is the best car to use for transportation.
Also, lovin the colour of my alloys as the sun hits them!
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Dubbedown, where did you get your steering wheel done at? Looks great! Mine is pretty ratty...Dubbedown said:
Pulled the MAF sensor and cleaned with MAF cleaner to see if that might help with the bucking in 1st and 2nd gear. It has been an intermittent issue. So far the last 3 times it was driven, it hasn't bucked. Will need to drive it a few more times to see if the bucking is really gone. Just want to do one thing at a time to see if it helps. Prior to cleaning the other week, the clutch was fully out and it was bucking pretty badly. Need to figure out for sure what is causing this.
Let's just say the list of jobs when we got home was long, very long!patriot66 said:I bet your good lady wasn't smiling for too long though Danidej_z4 said:Proved that if you're buying a 3m cantilever parasol, the Zed is the best car to use for transportation.
Also, lovin the colour of my alloys as the sun hits them!
Screenshot_20230604_220245_Gallery.jpg
