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General Car Chat / Re: Motor Factors?
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One the mighty Vivaro, it had various fault codes, this was traced to a ECP maf,, Put a Genuine GM in, all codes disappear. Loads of Ecp/GSF is crap Chinese...
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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.
Sought after classic Vauxhall due on 9th June.Less than the road tax on the
The Mexican coupe due on 15th June.
I'm hoping I can insure the pair for less than £500 if I shop around.classic Vauxhallancient sigmund
Roughly £730 for the Signum when taken in 12 monthly payments, and £600 due for second year road tax for the Bavarian.....If memory serves the first year was around £1400.
Thank goodness for our resident storeman
The Insignificant engine is a pita as the filter is at the back right-hand corner of the engine and officially requires a special funnel to get the oil to drain cleanly when the filter is removed... It's almost a subframe out job*. Sucking the oil out doesn't correct the stupid design.,,
It's not quite that bad, but the filter cap is buried in the depths of Narnia.
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Changing the oil+filter is interesting, if car isn't high enough you can't drop undertray flap down enough, .....
you need a Pela oil-sucker-outerer
I thought that wishbones that had the harder polly bushes fitted had a tendency to crack
.Bilsteins fitted to the Insignia
Better?