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General Car Chat / Re: Water in Astra J Fastback Boot, year 2010
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Check the seal where the wiring loom connects to the rear lights, pop the lights out for a better look
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Looks like Thursday is old farts driving day out, for effs sake 35 in a 60 on a clear road. Then the road ruiners have filled a layby with gravel to wreck some side roads (same ones they ruined last year by the look of it) and have temp traffic lights so they can load wagons. 20mph and loose gravel signs on the main road so of course the old farts are slowing down even though the side roads have not been tared.Round these parts, it used to be everyone drove 15mph below the speed limit* so when all the limits got lowered to 50mph, everywhere was 35mph, with not too many overtaking opportunities. Now its started to creep to 20mph under the limit, making overtaking potentially easier.
*Except when they get to 30mph villages, when they speed up.
It was 60mph instead of 70 between two junctions on the M1 at Tinsley.Or was it because all the traffic took a different route because that one was too slow?That's just ended because......work this one out.....air quality has improved. Now, has it improved because of the speed reduction, in which case why increase it again? Or is it just magic?There's an environmental argument against such low speeds as vehicles simply aren't designed to travel so slowly... Not to mention the fact that localised pollution is increased by virtue of traffic build up.
Lundun being a case in point as localised pollution increases in direct proportion to each drop in traffic speed/flow.
Yet, some motorways have displayed the Matrix boards to reduce the speed limit to 60mph to 'improve air quality' (supposedly)...the M1 near Sheffield being one
Finished a head gasket repair on a friends 1.4 Turbo Zaf C.
I guess that is the smaller vent hose from the top of coolant elbow at the gearbox end of the engine to the header tank?
Yes it was this hose, 5 minute job thankfully. So much space in the engine bay!
I'm wondering about the exhaust flexi though when the time comes, can same thing that was done on the old 2.2 Omega's be done. In that the old flexi is cut out and a replacement welded back in?
I'd also like to clean the throttle body but not sure how. The ZafiraC forums are all into bonnet lip spoilers, rear wiper deletes and air intake replacements.
Finished a head gasket repair on a friends 1.4 Turbo Zaf C.
Wife has one of these (2016 SE 1.4 Auto) - I really should dump the coolant on this. Been giving it annual oil changes with Dex1 Gen2.
It does low miles, but lots of stop/start town stuff.
It's been very reliable so far, just changed the coolant hose that goes from the coolant tank and plumbs in what I assume is the main coolant engine feed. The one with the metal clip, it was starting to weep a bit.
It blew a windscreen washer pump around 2 years ago.
But apart from that since 2019 been a solid mummy wagon.
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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'm of the old skool,, undo sump plug, and make a mess on the floor as the tray is positioned wrong,
I've a Pela because one of my Smarts doesn't have a sump drain plug, but I do remember having a car where the under tray fouled the floor before it came off.
Yes springs will be worn. Yes I think the OEM shocks are sachs.
The negative camber is just one side so something bent or damaged on drivers side I suspect.
That points towards an issue either with the cluster or the connection from the engine ECU.But engine right on high rpm. Car starts to stall when accelerating. Maybe I should start with (crank and/or cam sensor)?
The dash is the one major difference between the Catera and Omega, and without seeing behind the cluster there may be additional wiring/plugs for the extra displays/warnings.
I suspect that the alternator only feeds the charge light (and battery voltage gauge), whereas the rpm signal comes from the engine ECU information (crank and/or cam sensor).
If the pedal trick works*, any codes may highlight a discrepancy.
* It should as the car is DBW.
The speedometer issue is almost guaranteed to be unrelated.
Previous owner said that they changed crank sensor from omega.
(head gasket on these is done without removing the chain assembly and timing cover).
I really can't picture how this is done.
How do you remove the head and cams without taking the cam sprockets with it?