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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation

« on: 17 July 2020, 12:04:51 »

Yesterday I remove both rear bulb holders to change the orange indicator bulbs, which were losing their orange films. While I had the opportunity, I removed all the other bulbs, and checked them for coninuity - all were OK, none were twin filament. I then checked all the other lights, all were OK. I called out SWMBO to check the brake lights, should be two, I said, there are three on, she replied. Number plate light is on.
 

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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation

« on: 17 July 2020, 10:27:58 »

Canbus cars have a system whereby the car will use alternative bulbs if one blows. The blown one may not be obvious

Jolly clever of it. So the ECU knows which bulb has failed. It would be helpful if it also advised the owner which bulb had failed, so that he could replace it. Tech2?

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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation

« on: 16 July 2020, 20:01:33 »

Pre MOT I changed both rear trafficator bulbs, colour pale last year. I checked all lights, all seemed OK. Rear fog light was RH only. assumed normal. Do I need to reset the InSP message?

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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation

« on: 14 July 2020, 14:58:58 »

As you were. The above worked first time on my Vectra. Ben brought his Astra here today, I tried the same trick, but it failed. His car says InSP2. I went through the same routine, the InSP2 flashed 10 times, then changed to a line of dashes, but when I switched off InSP2 reappeared. I am puzzled.

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General Car Chat / Re: Service due light cancellation

« on: 11 July 2020, 20:02:37 »

Thank you gentlemen. Job Done.

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General Car Chat / Service due light cancellation

« on: 11 July 2020, 07:10:21 »

Astra 1.6 DS06 is due MOT in August. Last year it got an advisory note for service due light on. I recall a post on how to cancel this light, but cannot find it. Please remind me.

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General Discussion Area / Re: A certain admin......

« on: 08 July 2020, 19:47:39 »

Many happy returns, TB!
The first 75 years are the best, so they tell me. They could be right.

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General Car Chat / Re: 1959.....innocent times.

« on: 08 July 2020, 19:33:56 »

My first car was the Austin 7 version. That was in 1960, it cost £550, and I bought it in London so that I could part exchange my Velocette Venom in the deal The power of the Austin 7 was 32bhp, against 36 from the Velocette. My friend Roger Barge bought a Hillman Imp later, and allowed me to drive it to a wedding in Birmingham. It went well. I recall the engine was based on a Coventry Climax fire pump engine, all alloy. The throttle 'cable' on the early models was pneumatic, a hose running from throttle pedal to carburretor butterfly; wonderfully light and friction free, but too light for its own good, and caused throttle butterfly pivots to wear out prematurely, and was replaced on later models with a conventional bowden cable.

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Omega General Help / Re: Possible new car!

« on: 08 July 2020, 14:33:08 »

Looks very clean and MOT record is impressive for a 19 year old car; MOT due 3 Oct 20, mileage at last MOT 77K. MOT claims colour is red, it looks blue in pics. I bought a car like that, 2.0 petrol manual, for £300 7 years ago. I fancy they may have gor dearer recently, though not so much as the Citroen CX manual petrol turbo I sold for £200, and I saw one this forum (£6K?) recently.

Good luck with it!
 

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General Car Chat / Re: Project anyone?

« on: 06 July 2020, 22:04:08 »

Maybe Albs could do with le upgrade?  

I had one of those, ran it for several years, 1992 on I think. Nice car, very fast, and little trouble. It lacked driver headroom, which disappointed me as I had run a CX 2.4 family estate earlier and that had plenty of driver headroom. As it got older, air leaked out of the suspension balls, the hydraulics maintained the vehicle height, but the ride got harsher. I replaced it with my first Vx Senator about 1997. I bought the ex-police Senator at auction at Witney for about £3000, put the Citroen in the auction and got about £250 for it.

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Omega General Help / Re: MOT extensions

« on: 04 July 2020, 07:41:27 »

Furthermore, the anticipation of MOT date to get the extra month before expiry, is not 31 days, nor even 30 days, but a month less one day. So if your MOT expires on February 28th, you must submit car for test on January 29th or later.

as it's always been

 .... the earliest date you can present your car for MOT is printed on the MOT

Absolutely right. MOT certitificates have changed so much over the years that I have ceased to read them thoroughly, just checked date of expiry and list of advisory notes. I' not alone in thi failure.

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Omega General Help / Re: MOT extensions

« on: 03 July 2020, 12:34:51 »

Furthermore, the anticipation of MOT date to get the extra month before expiry, is not 31 days, nor even 30 days, but a month less one day. So if your MOT expires on February 28th, you must submit car for test on January 29th or later.

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Omega General Help / Re: Thanks for the birthday cake and cherry!

« on: 02 July 2020, 20:59:34 »

I invite you all to join Dave and me by clicking on Terry Paget on the name block on the first post, before midnight.

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Omega General Help / Re: Spare Connector

« on: 02 July 2020, 16:50:42 »

Glad you're home again. All I could see thereabouts are the two horns and a pump, see pic above.

Pic above shows the radiator drain tap and the bose emerging from the pump. If there is a lead off a horn a honk will reveal it. I am not sure what the pump does, someone will tell you.

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Omega General Help / Thanks for the birthday cake and cherry!

« on: 02 July 2020, 14:07:47 »

What a friendly forum this is