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General Car Chat / Re: MOT day
« on: 19 August 2020, 18:09:04 »
Congratulations on the pass! What rest prevention measures have you employed?
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I've not had any trouble with dropping the bolts into the chassis rails.Now you are muddling me. The front of the car is the end where the headlights are, the rear is where the tail lights are. The horizontal wishbone bolt, 88mm long is at the front, and the vertical bolt is at the back, and a mere 77mm long. I once put the longer bolt in the rear, vertical slot, where it fitted perfectly well, but involved more turns to tighten.
But I have confused the front and rear ones. The front bolt is just too short to fit the nut when you put it in the rear location......
Thanks for the replies. I cannot see the hole on passengers side, because of the part in the photo, above the bolt hole. Would this have to be removed, or am I looking in the wrong area? Do the pipes on drivers side unclip and move enough to allow access to the bolt? The nuts are under the car, as the wishbones look like they are the original ones, from when the car was made.Don't apologise, I reckon it's challenging. Haynes treats it lightly. I know he has to be concise, but he talks of the vertical front mounting bolt and the horizontal rear mounting bolt. I reckon the front bolt is horizontal and the rear bolt vertical.
Sorry for asking, it probably is a simple job. But my brain still has bad days, since the stroke.
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raid some glove box locks ......As Andy says, you have a spare and little used lock in your glove box, same key. They re quite fun to overhaul too, there is a guide on this forum. Don't get over confident and pull they key out with the lock cylinder out of the barrel, though, or all the springs and slides will ping out and vanish on the carpet.
Terry Paget - what DG is saying is that when it detects a bulb failure, it uses one of the other bulbs in that cluster to compensate. So you will still see a tail light (or whatever is blown)./highlight]Thanks, TB. I understand that. But there only three bulbs available in the red section - rear 5w light, brake light 21w and 21w foggy light. I suppose the brake light and the foggy light are interchageable, but yesterday I checked all the rear bulbs for continuity and all were fine.
Sure systems often use twin filament bulbs, so check the handbook and ensure the correct bulb types are fitted