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Fixed, got help from me mums bloke, used decent voltmeter hu was shorting, took it apart and blew it with a hoover, our theory was that a lil tiny bit of wire had fallen inside and was therefore shorting it all works at moment so fingers crossed eh

Rite ok tested battery and got with engine off, 12.97 volts with engine on 13.80 volts that sound alrite or isit a bit high with engine off i rang T+Ms in colchester and they said they could look at it saturday if i want but its like £40 an hour labour and im not 2 rich so not 2 sure yet...

yea course :-) thats as believeable as me saying that i never speed :-) ok u may have slowed down a bit at first but doesnt take long 2 get back in2 the habit

yea i thought if u didnt pay within a certain time the fine went up??? i wouldnt know for sure ya see, as i never speed anywhere

yea i know, geting out of me depth, will check battery output when i get home, then its time 2 ring an electrician and get me wallet out :-( just hoping its sumin simple and cheap and not sumin sstupid like new alternator

lol wasnt funny, must have looked like a right to$$er, took me ages, in the end i asked the bloke 2 come out and he showed me quickly, then i put it back down, then he went in and i tried again and i couldnt do it lol wouldnt come up, as u have 2 lift it from a certain bloody side...

lol remember first time, went 2 view it, drove near 100 miles 2 c the RSi couldnt work out how 2 open the bonnet 4 absolutely ages lol, didnt realise it needed 2 b pulled up from near windscreen lol anyway drove it and hmmm wasnt the best as the brakes didnt work at all and it had a wheel...

ahh i knew i was spelling it wrong, cheers lol

hmmm gay, time 4 a electricion then, will b a charge 4 a callout aswel wont it?? or could i just take it 2 a garage maybe and have them take a look, or electricion best bet

Rite ok first of all my hu kept blowing its fuses, so i took it out and then 1 nite i started car and a different fuse blew, in the dash compartment under glove box, i lost all dash lights and half sidelights, replaced fuse and alls gd tidied up hu wires yesterday and all is fine, all...

ok new problem, havent drove car in dark 4 few days, now 2nite im set 2 go home, start car, turn on side lights, no dash lights come on, passenger side lights dont work, turn on headlights and fronts r now ok but only 1 rear works, still no dash lights apart from light sayin i have...

cant believe police have done nothing about this pr!ck who was selling the wheels, so blatently urs its unbelieveable, just shows that they cant b arsed as no1 was hurt and ur insurance covered it, even though they wouldnt have gave a toss if ur insurance werent goin 2 cover u useless...

oops lol, its Friday i have an excuse + just showing my love 4 the clio :=)

good petrol consumption fast enough so far reliable

been driving 2 years, 2 months ish now, no convictions has 7 day wonders but thats all, ok i speed on a regular occurance had 1 of my cars wrote off b4 bcos sum bloke was speeding and crashed in2 me, i refused 2 let him move his car and got police 2 measure skid marks, this was on a...

Name and Shame, and go talk 2 the manager of the place and tell them 3 other places have said its shoddy work and needs re-doing ask for it 2 b done properly or u want money back, if u get nowhere time 2 tlk 2 citizens advice

http://www.gunson.co.uk/acatalog/pocket.jpgU face=Arial color=#0000ff http://www.gunson.co.uk/acatalog/pocket.jpg/U well thats what it is, gunson pocketmeter 1 couldnt find any better pics on the net

ive declared mine, lowering, de-cat, alloys, ice but it dont cost me anythin extra, if i was guna b charged loads extra then id probly not b so sure

ok m8 cheers, prob best if i find a pic sumwhere of the voltmeter thing ive got aswel was 13.99 from halfords, pocketmeter i think its called will c if any1 can help, if not will PM ya and give u a call its just worrying that when testing the yellow wire it gets hot, very hot very fast...

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i tried voltmeter thing on all settings and only place i got reading was place i used it in and it was 16 with engine off and with engine on it was giving 17/18 so i take it , it must b volts?? im not 100% though so im guna tlk 2 a m8 and get them 2 help me as im not 2 gd with voltmeters...

rite well talkaudio site mod has came out with this: Well, sounds to me like the red is probably your illumination (i.e will go positive when the headlights are switched on), so test that. Black is definitely your earth That leaves yellow, and what other colour? Yellow and the other...

hmm lets see, had car 2 months now i think not including ICE: £150 lowering total £120 tints on sunday £30 decat £120 driveshaft + engine mount fixing so about £420 so far

yea it was a bit worrying m8, the wires from the voltmeter were really hot, almost melting hot that was just testing the yellow wire, so must be problem with yellow wire?? yea 16v i think, i was told that it should be between 12-15ish sounds like hu is ok though, sounds like its just...

Ok UPDATE: first of all I tried using the voltmeter, wonderful stuff, attached neg from battery up to the neg of voltmeter, then i attached voltmeter + to the yellow wire readings of 16 basically, and everything got hot pretty fast tried same with red wire, and got no readings at all with...

ok cheers m8, will have 2 try it later, working till 1pm then got hour drive with no music to do fireservice written tests, im hoping its just wiring if internal fuse has gone what am i looking at roughly 2 fix, its a 3 yr old sony minidisk player

from talkaudio: Find a suitable earth (something you know is DEFINITELY earth) - run a wire from the negative terminal on the battery if necessary. Then put the earth probe from the multimeter onto that, and the positive probe from the multimeter on the other wires youre testing. The...

yea there the wires ive got!! so worth getting lots of wires and going straight from battery to hu and c what happens, and hope it works, if it blows then hu is at fault, if it doesnt blow then its the wiring b4 it gets 2 the hu?? so i need 2 wire up a + wire from pos battery with 10amp...

havent got a multi/voltmeter gota go buy 1 soon just had a play after being advised on talkaudio, Isnt the blue wire only there 2 tell hu when 2 turn on off etc? Ok this time, I disconnected negative, put new fuse in hu pushed plug in back of hu, fuse is fine, reconnect neg on...