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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: A few parts
« on: 30 April 2022, 12:09:00 »
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General Discussion Area / Re: Make it stop😵💫
« on: 28 April 2022, 20:27:06 »He probably has somewhere to live the rest of his wicked life out unfortunately, so he really has nothing to lose along with his cronies.
I guess that's OK if you are content to see out the rest of your days deep underground in Siberia.
Depends on what the alternative is?
If, say, Lewisham in SE London, bring on underground Siberia….
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General Discussion Area / Re: Barnsley council on the ball
« on: 28 April 2022, 07:50:36 »
Got ours earlier this week, all good straight back into bank.
Apparently our council are also giving it all back to bands E-G or something like that. Not bad for a council that cries about no money, pays themselves far too much yet let’s roads, parks and anything else go to scrap, tried to charge to people to go into what used to be free public spaces and almost went bankrupt a couple of years ago. Yes, this is Bexley Council for anyone interested
Apparently our council are also giving it all back to bands E-G or something like that. Not bad for a council that cries about no money, pays themselves far too much yet let’s roads, parks and anything else go to scrap, tried to charge to people to go into what used to be free public spaces and almost went bankrupt a couple of years ago. Yes, this is Bexley Council for anyone interested
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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: A few parts
« on: 28 April 2022, 07:45:51 »
Hi
Are the estate rear bushes still available?
Are the estate rear bushes still available?
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Omega General Help / Re: Failed on emissions again.
« on: 19 April 2022, 05:25:04 »You don't need a Type Approved cat for your 2.0
Should open up a few options...
You are absolutely correct, in fact I do not believe that they make a type-approved cat in that exhaust design (although I have seen many that claim to be) but I will say that based on my other cars I have found that bin-approved cats generally only seem to last a year at best.
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Omega General Help / Re: Failed on emissions again.
« on: 18 April 2022, 16:19:34 »
Have replied to you PM.
I find that the single cat on the 2.0 never gets hot enough to work properly under MOT conditions due to how far away it is from everything. I ran it once on a 25 minute “cat warmup mode” on the emissions machine and it dropped like a stone after approximately 22 minutes at 4500rpm with the exhaust tailpipe emissions so hot it would scald you as you tried to remove the probe. I heat-wrapped mine which made it better but still went to the 2.2 one in the end.
I find that the single cat on the 2.0 never gets hot enough to work properly under MOT conditions due to how far away it is from everything. I ran it once on a 25 minute “cat warmup mode” on the emissions machine and it dropped like a stone after approximately 22 minutes at 4500rpm with the exhaust tailpipe emissions so hot it would scald you as you tried to remove the probe. I heat-wrapped mine which made it better but still went to the 2.2 one in the end.
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General Car Chat / Re: Something Different
« on: 09 April 2022, 16:02:19 »
I am more intrigued with the 4WD system
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General Discussion Area / Re: Best impact gun
« on: 09 January 2022, 11:38:28 »
I use the Ryobi one with a 5aH battery
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Omega General Help / Re: Spring Compressors
« on: 24 December 2021, 15:58:43 »This is what I have at home
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-ssc1000g-1-tonne-strut-spring-compresso/
Very nice, ideal if you work on a few cars and justify a tool like that.Makes the job so much quicker and safer.
As it's a job that I don't do that often, I have the double claw type spring compressor ........ and my full face crash helmet.
Got it for free from work when we shut our bodyshop down.
I have mainly workshop-spec tools anyway and have a theory that if I need to borrow a tool 3 times then, providing it is not hideously expensive, I purchase one myself.
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Omega General Help / Re: Spring Compressors
« on: 21 December 2021, 18:43:09 »
This is what I have at home
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-ssc1000g-1-tonne-strut-spring-compresso/
https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-ssc1000g-1-tonne-strut-spring-compresso/
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General Car Chat / Re: Renault
« on: 09 December 2021, 19:57:02 »Getting rid of what? The Zoes or the customers who they lend them to?
Will certainly help with the bad Customer Service scores, can’t complain if you are dead
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Omega General Help / Re: Tyre pressures
« on: 02 December 2021, 06:10:54 »
225/55R16 tyres on a MFL estate 32psi front, 36psi rear, most of it is round-town driving and have no uneven tyre wear running WIM settings
Tyres are Dunlop Sportmaxx GT RT2 extra load, different tyres run better at different pressures I find, especially with bigger sidewalls like the 16”
Tyres are Dunlop Sportmaxx GT RT2 extra load, different tyres run better at different pressures I find, especially with bigger sidewalls like the 16”
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Omega General Help / Re: X20XEV aux belt tensioner
« on: 11 November 2021, 19:42:25 »
Well…..
Alternator double-checked and all good. All positive leads I can get to cleaned up. It would appear that the X20XEV runs a cable to the starter motor and then a drip lead back to the alternator. The starter motor connection is the only one I have not managed on the positive side.
On the earth, it goes straight from the battery to the bracket behind the PAS pump that holds the aircon pipe. The “stud” looks like it may be the culprit as someone (not me) has had it apart and then done it up allowing the connection to twist right round and bend. All removed, earth connection cleaned up and straightened, along with the stud getting a drop of thread lock to hold it in place (it turned instead of the earth but when trying to undo) and everything reconnected after cleaning.
Whole 0.2V drop now from alternator to battery, no battery light at the moment and only glows slightly with aircon, headlamps, front and rear fogs, heated rear window and both heated seats on, then goes out as soon as heated seats switched off.
Will find out tomorrow for certain. Will also take starter connection apart Saturday when I take car into work to do oil change on the ramps and charge/test battery as access is only from underneath.
Alternator double-checked and all good. All positive leads I can get to cleaned up. It would appear that the X20XEV runs a cable to the starter motor and then a drip lead back to the alternator. The starter motor connection is the only one I have not managed on the positive side.
On the earth, it goes straight from the battery to the bracket behind the PAS pump that holds the aircon pipe. The “stud” looks like it may be the culprit as someone (not me) has had it apart and then done it up allowing the connection to twist right round and bend. All removed, earth connection cleaned up and straightened, along with the stud getting a drop of thread lock to hold it in place (it turned instead of the earth but when trying to undo) and everything reconnected after cleaning.
Whole 0.2V drop now from alternator to battery, no battery light at the moment and only glows slightly with aircon, headlamps, front and rear fogs, heated rear window and both heated seats on, then goes out as soon as heated seats switched off.
Will find out tomorrow for certain. Will also take starter connection apart Saturday when I take car into work to do oil change on the ramps and charge/test battery as access is only from underneath.
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Omega General Help / Re: X20XEV aux belt tensioner
« on: 10 November 2021, 21:37:47 »
Definitely 1x larger lead off the battery terminal than what is at the alternator. I know onFords they run a lead to the starter and then a separate one from that to the alternator, just hard to take it a part in the dark at the end of a driveway.
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Omega General Help / Re: X20XEV aux belt tensioner
« on: 10 November 2021, 20:31:56 »Bad earth?
Can only double-check.
This light has been random for a couple of years and many things have been apart and rebuilt in the meantime so I would like to think not?
Quick question as I have not looked too far at it at the moment, the positive lead runs from the battery, across the top front of the engine and down in front of the alternator. It then splits to the alternator and the starter motor. What is the split? Soldered connection, runs from starter motor to alternator as a separate lead, other?