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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 27 February 2026, 14:57:48 »

Ahhh yes, indeed.

Netware on a nice token ring 16 4!

Ive a halon ext in the garage!

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 27 February 2026, 08:45:09 »

Yes, never had no functionality.

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 27 February 2026, 07:31:51 »

And whilst ranting about Cisco - it's a daily chore in my professional life - their useless crap servers....

Like all server manufacturers, they provide an out of band management capability, provided in Cisco's case by what they call Cisco Integrated Management Console, or CIMC.  And it goes non responsive all the time.  It has a watchdog timer to restart it should it go unresponsive, but apparently that runs from the CIMC itself, and therefore goes unresponsive itself at the same time.  Cisco's solution, rather than fix the bloody shit?  Suggest we do a 260 mile round trip to pull the power cables out for 2 minutes.  The irony of having to do that to fix out of band management is lost on them.

I mean, when was the last time you saw an HPE iLO of Dell iDRAC lock up?  I'm guessing never.

Lol Ive a case with HPe currently about their ilo functionality on one of their new servers

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 17 February 2026, 07:22:12 »

Ive dealt with that situation for 3-4 people and got them all connected to Fibre within a few weeks.
Fill this out with my neighbour can, but I cannot, it sounds like a database error.  should be then able to order.
https://www.openreach.com/forms/fibre-broadband-availability---customer-form

As for order to move services, check carefully the correct way, the wrong way will (or used to) see your broadband cancelled too.

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General Car Chat / Re: Merc MAF code

« on: 08 February 2026, 16:31:11 »

Took the EGR cooler off, and can see one end od the EGR now which didnt seem overly dirty.  blew it out, but not gone back together yet.
Getting to the other end is challenging.

However, once that was off, I can see the bottom of the inlet manifold, which I beleive should be dry.  If grimey indicates a failure, they often crack underneath.

I think this means Ive got to strip down much further and swap that out, not sure thats in my capabilities, will grab a quote too. 
(this is the job sped up and made to look easy : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNoqeqIfLQ   or a somewhat less condensed version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsGe9wIb0vw )

Vid and a couple of pics I could manage with a little usb scope camera

https://images.omegaowners.com/images/Jimbob/WIN_20260208_14_54_47_Pro.mp4

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General Car Chat / Re: Merc MAF code

« on: 02 February 2026, 10:32:28 »

The code just doesnt delete.
EML goes out when i reset, but comes back next start.

This car hasnt needed much doing to it in reality while ive had it, so blockages building up anywhere are more than possible.
Had a DPF sensor a year or so ago, and that failed charge pipe.

Given that EGR and its cooler needs to come out to get much further, makes sense to look at it first.

Seems to be a commonish fault of Inlet manifolds breaking around a 2nd bolt, having watched vids of both, think egr gubbins counts as a lot of what needs removing to get near it

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General Car Chat / Re: Merc MAF code

« on: 02 February 2026, 08:50:23 »

Fill level of DPF = 180% ? That doesn't sound right, although I know nothing about diags on that car.

I beleive ash / soot differences, and full is about 400% but could be wrong

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General Car Chat / Re: Merc MAF code

« on: 02 February 2026, 08:27:17 »

DPF diff pressure very low and yet there is a back pressure of over 1 bar?

What state is the EGR?

Untouched in my ownership!

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General Car Chat / Re: Merc MAF code

« on: 02 February 2026, 05:19:00 »

Has the air intake hoovered up some water?

Nope, not even been through a big puddle

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General Car Chat / Merc MAF code

« on: 01 February 2026, 16:53:14 »

Ive got a P010162 code : MAF sensor 1 has a maulfunction.  The signal comparision is faulty.

Car is in Limp, EML on and wont clear
W212 OM651 engine

Ive checked all the hoses I can see, had both boost pipes off, HP one was changed last year as it burst.
Can see, or feel, or anyway detect an air leak anywhere.  Used light, feel, very basic smoke test (bottle full of smoke near inlet)

Any ideas what next?  I fear its an inlet manifold swap which doesnt look huge fun.
Luckily ive a little project car I can drive while I work on this.

Some reports from my Topdon tool - expand professional report section
https://euait.x431.com/Home/Report/reportDetail/diagnose_record_id/2b77a267getZ3bAEDhAEnROMoG/report_type/D/l/en-us

https://euait.x431.com/Home/Report/reportDetail/diagnose_record_id/211a1316getZ3bAEDhAELrDhnR/report_type/D/l/en-us

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 02 January 2026, 13:45:05 »

Sorry to hear that Steve, all the best

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 07 December 2025, 11:48:20 »

Had all 4 alloys on the merc refurbed.  they were in a disgusting state from a previous refurb before I bought it, and some werent holding air very well.
Stripped, tidied, primed and sprayed.  very happy.  Were diamond cut previously, but opted for a more long lasting repair.

Popped a new thermostat on the kids corsa as drove that one day when mine was out of action to find it wouldnt get to temp.  lovely now.

Put some coolant in the project corsa to see how it heated up with more than just water, and didnt seem to overpressurise.  other than replacing stat, coolant flange and one hose....it may be all required.  not the HG the RAC diagnosed.   not that I mind either way, was got to get my hands dirty on.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Openreach

« on: 30 November 2025, 09:34:00 »

I forgot to mention, I also have a 'free' UPS+ box from BT

Thatll be because youre old

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat

« on: 23 November 2025, 10:09:09 »

All looks cool, guess once you have it and learn its capabilities you find uses very easily.

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General Discussion Area / Re: 3D Printer Chat

« on: 21 November 2025, 13:02:31 »

Cool looking bit of kit, and not cheap!

What do you find yourself making?   I can think of a few things I'd make and then not sure on inspiration after that