So what have you done to your car today?

[tunnie]

Well it's done now, should get my monies worth of gas on the refill.

But as before I get feeling it won't hold pressure

Well, they empty it all out anyway


It will have to be a catastrophic leak for it to be detected on the vac test.  Have you got dye anywhere (presumably it had dye put in last time?). As if you have a tone of dye on the condenser, or the pipe up the chassis leg, etc, then you know its a waste of time regassing it without fixing that.

It's always had bit of dye around the compressor, but the old estate had that as well. Aircon never failed on that.

I think I have the O rings for the compressor somewhere and your welcome to them if you want Tunnie. 

Cheers 

I'm taking it for a regas at lunch time tomorrow, so shall see what's what 

[aaronjb]

Fitted the £20 bluetooth "Aux" adapter to the BMW last night, turned out surprisingly easy despite the fact that I had to do it twice - first time I did it I pushed the stereo back in to find that the leads were too short for the -ve lead to still reach the chassis point  Second time was a charm.

Works well.. music via the aux adapter (volume level is maybe a little low but liveable as long as you remember to turn it down a notch before going back to the radio!) and phone calls via the pre-existing BMW bluetooth phone interface (which is too old to support audio streaming).

[deric3r]

Just changed the front wheel bearings.

[tunnie]

3.2 holds it's gas, super cold air-con again 

[JDX]

The 'ol girl went for an MOT this morning - passed with flying colours, no advisories at all.
Very pleased...

[JDX]

The 'ol girl went for an MOT this morning - passed with flying colours, no advisories at all.
Very pleased...

I meant the car.....

[TheBoy]

3.2 holds it's gas, super cold air-con again 

Was dye put in?

[TheBoy]

The 'ol girl went for an MOT this morning - passed with flying colours, no advisories at all.
Very pleased...

Always a warm feeling

[TheBoy]

Thought about washing it (its minging), but decided as its off to snorbs tomorrow, it'll only get all sooty.

Piled the boot up with a load of overpriced laptops.

[tunnie]

3.2 holds it's gas, super cold air-con again 

Was dye put in?

Yup 

[Doctor Gollum]

Temporarily refitted old abs ecu... having intermittent gearbox control is better than having none

[henryd]

Temporarily refitted old abs ecu... having intermittent gearbox control is better than having none

Hmmm back to the drawing board then,its worse with the replacement is it .?

[Doctor Gollum]

Temporarily refitted old abs ecu... having intermittent gearbox control is better than having none

Hmmm back to the drawing board then,its worse with the replacement is it .?

Different codes, suggesting that the new ecu is from a V8, config and steering angle calibration (rack vs box) no wheel sensor faults and cruise works, so happy that a reconfig should sort the abs/dsc lights

Gear box now permanently in limp mode, but showing two consistent codes... output speed and battery pos, suggesting two issues rather than just the abs ecu

I only found one plug to the gear box and this has been thoroughly cleaned and dried. Some suggestion of battery/alternator (voltage) issues, so checking this will be next, although battery new in November.

Car should have been gone weeks ago, so a bit miffed at having to deal with it

[Doctor Gollum]

Voltage 13.4 at idle, drops to 12 with a load applied and gradually creeps back to 13.2 with some revs...

Looks like the alternator is getting lazy, so if I am stuck with it any longer, then it will be at least a new regulator and the Abs ecu reconfig...

[aaronjb]

Reg was an easy (and cheap) fix on the 645 - if you ignore the three days it took to liberate the alternator to get at the regulator a problem you're unlikely to have on yours