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[05omegav6]

I've only ever had to attack the alternator from above. Move the coolant reservoir out of the way and you can get down there. Granted you have to feel your way around a bit, but I can think of worse jobs.

Will be trying that approach on refitting

[VXL V6]

08:15 Windscreen chipped by stone on the A12
12:30 Return to car after finishing job to find crack emanating from stone chip
14:30 Call in at Serek's and he replaces the high and low pressure valves for the aircon and re-gasses it 
16:00 Flying piece of metal on the M6 kicked up by car in front launches itself, scrapes bonnet hits wiper blade than smashes bottom of windscreen.

I think you can safely say that I need a new windscreen.. 

[Mr.OmegaMan]

08:15 Windscreen chipped by stone on the A12
12:30 Return to car after finishing job to find crack emanating from stone chip
14:30 Call in at Serek's and he replaces the high and low pressure valves for the aircon and re-gasses it 
16:00 Flying piece of metal on the M6 kicked up by car in front launches itself, scrapes bonnet hits wiper blade than smashes bottom of windscreen.

I think you can safely say that I need a new windscreen.. 

Lucky you waited till the end of the day or you'd have needed a few of them 

[BazaJT]

Yeah,imagine trying to sell that one to the windscreen insurance

[VXL V6]

Yeah,imagine trying to sell that one to the windscreen insurance

Had it happen on a company car many years ago!

[05omegav6]

Got the bluetooth plumbed in along with the disc changers... Quite looking forward to driving to work listening to a working radio.

I might even give it a wash and take some pics tomorrow 

[05omegav6]

Driven it to work and back... loving the automatic wipers and the Bose... got a slight alternator whistle through the
speakers, (not sure if that's from the aux headunit or the main one ), but there's almost no distortion at full volume... tried most things from Enya to Eminem via Scooter, Chicane and Meat Loaf

[Steve B]

Driven it to work and back... loving the automatic wipers and the Bose... got a slight alternator whistle through the
speakers, (not sure if that's from the aux headunit or the main one ), but there's almost no distortion at full volume... tried most things from Enya to Eminem via Scooter, Chicane and Meat Loaf

10 speed 

[05omegav6]

Couldn't say, but they seem to vary appropriately 

[Steve B]

Couldn't say, but they seem to vary appropriately 

Thought you were meaning..you had put one of the ten speed sticks in 

[05omegav6]

Couldn't say, but they seem to vary appropriately 

Thought you were meaning..you had put one of the ten speed sticks in 

White one is (hopefully) being retrofitted, but black one is a factory Elite, so instead of intermittent on the stalk, it's the auto poisition

[STEMO]

Driven it to work and back... loving the automatic wipers and the Bose... got a slight alternator whistle through the
speakers, (not sure if that's from the aux headunit or the main one ), but there's almost no distortion at full volume... tried most things from Enya to Eminem via Scooter, Chicane and Meat Loaf

Scooter? He's a shouty bastid.

[Kevin Wood]

I think you can safely say that I need a new windscreen.. 

Cue phone call to insurance...

"Hello, I wonder who you use to service your windscreen claims?"
"Autoglass"
<Dial tone>

 

[Sir Tigger KC]

240,000 miles. 

[05omegav6]

I think you can safely say that I need a new windscreen.. 

Cue phone call to insurance...

"Hello, I wonder who you use to service your windscreen claims?"
"Autoglass"
<Dial tone>