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[TheBoy]

Car has previous form for gearbox speed sensor discrepancies as well but they weren't significant enough to be a priority... Live and learn.

Autobox speed discrepancies - usually gives a P0730 Incorrect Ratio - needs to be fixed immediately, due to the catastrophic wear it causes...

Apparently so :'(

The box hasn't gone bang to the point where it is making any noise but for it to slip and fall to shift, even intermittently, there's obviously enough debris in the hydraulic circuits to prevent the fluid getting to where it's supposed to.

And catastrophic wear on the clutch plates and the brake bands...

[Keith ABS]

Loaded the Viv up with camping equipment ready for a trip to Germany tomorrow
catching the Wednesday night ferry out of Harwich.
Travelling for two hours in Holland to meet up with some good dutch friends to convoy in with them to Stoffel Park, Germany
Large 4 day Opel show
Monday afternoon ferry back home

[Raeturbo]

Sounds great👍

[polilara]

Changed Oil Cooler to daughter's Astra J. It had "Black Ring" in top of expansion tank a long time. Heard that engine A16XER is famous of this kind of problems. That car was/is also losing coolant, not much but losing, hopefully not to oil side. Let's see if that still continues. I did not like the cooler construction; six pc. of O-rings which can leak coolant out. If there is internal leak 'Oil to Coolant' it might perhaps be possible that also coolant can go to oil?

[countrywoman]

not enough pressure in the cooling system to push into the oil TBH 15psi water and oil should be 50 + psi

[polilara]

Sure, but hot day and engine hot when you stop it, oil pressure is zero but coolant not, that was my fear...

[STEMO]

Sure, but hot day and engine hot when you stop it, oil pressure is zero but coolant not, that was my fear...

Do you get hot days in Finland? 

[Viral_Jim]

Sure, but hot day and engine hot when you stop it, oil pressure is zero but coolant not, that was my fear...

I did this job on my zafira B (same engine). Mine was losing coolant through a crack in the rear of the plastic thermostat housing. May be worth checking 😊

[polilara]

Thanks Viral_Jim and for Stemo I want to inform that we have hot days almost every Summer.  Now it does not look very promising...

[Sir Tigger KC]

Thanks Viral_Jim and for Stemo I want to inform that we have hot days almost every Summer.  Now it does not look very promising...

That's more than we have! 

[Doctor Gollum]

Thanks Viral_Jim and for Stemo I want to inform that we have hot days almost every Summer.  Now it does not look very promising...

That's more than we have! 

Technically, two sunny days justified the addition of an 's' at the end of day.

To have more sunny days than the two we get, Finland only needs three days. 

That said, far enough north and the Midsummer month  may as well be a single day.

[Doctor Gollum]

Went to look at and bought a temporary car pending fixing the S Class properly.

Working MK1 facelift Bini Cooper with almost 6 months MoT.

Needs a few bits addressing, but actually drives quite well for what it is.

[biggriffin]

Went to look at and bought a temporary car pending fixing the S Class properly.

Working MK1 facelift Bini Cooper with almost 6 months MoT.

Needs a few bits addressing, but actually drives quite well for what it is.

 Is owing a Benz,, the new Omega something needs fixing weekly.

[Andy H]

Loaded the family in and drove it. (for the first time after being parked under a tree for 5 years)
Hot sunny day :-)
Discovered that the A/C doesn't work.
Went shopping, loaded up with frozen food.
Starter failed to turn the engine over - bugger
Opened the bonnet and poked at the power cables trying to find a loose or hot connection but nothing doing.
Got back in the driving seat and started discussing how to get home, gave the key another turn - just to hear the solenoid click - and of course it started..............
Drove home, fed the kids & got them to bed & then hoicked the starter out for a post mortem.
Took the end plate off and found that the bush for the end of the motor shaft is oval and allowing about 2 or 3mm play in one direction.
The starter has always sounded a bit rattly but I never got round to investigating it. Prolonged cranking to get the thing started last week must have been the last straw.
Put the end plate back on rotated by 180 degrees, that seems to work better so hopeful that will last until I can get a replacement on Monday.

[Doctor Gollum]

Went to look at and bought a temporary car pending fixing the S Class properly.

Working MK1 facelift Bini Cooper with almost 6 months MoT.

Needs a few bits addressing, but actually drives quite well for what it is.

 Is owing a Benz,, the new Omega something needs fixing weekly.

Nah, that's a Jaaaag.  In the year I've had it TB has had to dismantle his engine twice.