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Second is likely where youve sanded it on the other side of 1" masking tape doing the lights. Hit it with come coarse cutting compound and then polish it up.

Hi everyone, I'm looking for outer sill panels for a ph2 172. I'm sure they're available from Renault for a fortune, but are pattern versions available? Has anyone used some and able to make a recommendation? As usual, I need about 200mm each end. Thanks!

The conclusion of that episode was that Escargot needs scrapped and they need to buy something else basically.

It's 5 takeaways over a decade. I think the Chromecast and firestick were purchased in '16

Ordered an Nvidia Shield Pro on Amazon prime this afternoon, thanks for the replies gents!

I guess I mean no obvious hardware faults, decent glass etc. Would you take the S22 Ultra over the S23 plus even given the curved glass and issues it brings? I worry it'll be a pain with covers and so on? What's the story with the Nothing Phone? I've seen bits and bobs and they look cool, be...

I have a very long in the tooth Moto G(30) which is knackered. My work phone is a Samsung S21 which was lovely new in 2021 but a bit small. Instead of a new budget phone like the G75 (£200) I'm tempted towards something like a Samsung S23+ used which is a little more money but seems like a lot...

I don't mind overkill particularly, but I'm 38 with two kids rather than in my 20s now so I want something that 'just works' and will continue to, without excessive fannying around.

After a long run of XBMC/Kodi and then just casting stuff from my phone with a Chromecast stick (now dead) I've been left browsing TV with an early firestick (shoved it in one morning after the Chromecast died and the kids were wearing me thin). It's laggy and horrible and Netflix has just...

It would make sense before you remove it to do the usual checks of plug condition, compression test and so on to make sure all is well. Once out, look over it before cleaning and find any leaks which should be addressed whilst out. If you're doing the cambelt you'll need to do the two blanks...

Cheers, I'll have a look. It's a proper pain, as blue was blue and red was red and yellow and green are just about anything now. I always drop the bottom hose, but you'll never get the full 7l out, about half if you're lucky on most cars. Short of removing the radiator and heater matrix and...

I've just replaced my radiator and flushed the engine with a hose and then two flushes of water, running it to temp inbetween to circulate with the thermostat open, so I'm fairly happy that its now just plain water in the system. Now I need to put coolant in. Because I wont get all the water...

Check the three small relays in the engine bay fusebox and swap them with one another, they go faulty where they still click but dont operate correctly/reliably.

Are they not just bonded in?

Hoses used to fail on older cars at age, primarily due to construction and materials I suspect. I've had a few from the 90s fail and weep coolant from the ends where the reinforcement is exposed, so a leak from the bore to the reinforcing layer and subsequently replaced them. Between myself...

It's easy to get disheartened when small issues start to pile up and make the car 'feel' worse than it is. Your initial list reads to me as: 1) Niggly misfire you've spent time chasing, which is now really annoying and the primary thing to get fixed 2) A coolant leak over weeks which you're...

How much is a used seat? Or if the car is newish, a new bolster cover? I'd be looking to get the money from the dealer and pay a trimmer to replace the panel, or bolt in a replacement seat

What are people using for small parts storage? I've been using these for years: But they keep updating and adding features and now they seem to be about £30 each which is about 3x what I'd like. £££ What's everyone else using? Cheers

Some of the cars in the background, and their respective ages at the time are cool!

Does your code scanner let you view the live data from the lambda as a graph? High CO and the lambda off scale suggests there's something funny going on with the engine/fuelling rather than just a dead cat I would think - but happy to be proven wrong!

old/malfunctioning lambda sensors - if not replaced recently I'd replace the front one. Defective coolant temperature sensor causing enrichment - Check with an OBD2 scanner Poor thermostat preventing temperature reaching the correct operating range - parcel in check with above CAT not being hot...

This, I think the last time I used tools on a car to get home was when my bora spat the innards out of the turbo on Stelvio. Clamped the oil feed and switched the inlet pipework around and finished the trip with no boost. Since then I've always made it home, up until a month ago when the Z3...

£700 for my current one when I bought it in 2017. Needed a battery, tyres and an MOT along with all the usual niggly clio faults that needed sorting. 2 weeks driving later it spat the crank oil seal, produced a massive smokescreen and contaminated the clutch

Rear beam bushes

It's a brave new world. Policing driving without regard for context, or correctness of data reporting. I think I've probably peaked at 2019 registration year and I can find no excitement for modern cars at all.

Yeah agreed! Battery voltage is good, and I've tried it with a battery charger connected to elevate it a little too. Main earths are also good (battery to body is new, gearbox to body was cleaned up when the box was out for a recent clutch, Main engine loom to body shares a post with the...

I'm not sure I follow, most alternators are fed +12v to excite them (and the battery light is in circuit) and once generating the bulb sees +14v from both sides and the light goes out - so the 'exciter wire', alternator control, warning lamp are all the same thing. Does this work differently...

Edit: Who knew there was a time limit on editing posts? Not me. Could a kind admin overwrite the first post for me? Hi everyone, I have some strange faults on my 2002 172 ph2 which may or may not be related, so bundling them here for advice 1) My alternator exciter wire is live all the time...

Hi everyone, I have some strange faults on my 2002 172 ph2 which may or may not be related, so bundling them here for advice 1) My alternator exciter wire is live all the time, I posted about this previously [here] and haven't found the fault, I've simply left it unplugged meantime and the...

Do the resistance values check out for the buttons?