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Hope you had a great day mate!

Hope you enjoyed the snow mate - Many Happy returns!

Hope you enjoyed the snow mate - Many Happy returns!

nice one Rich!!

good work on finding that fault Jeff. I can certainly sympathise with the cricked neck and back trying to get the damn fuse box out. I've about given up on my similar fault so I'll probably give you guys a bell and leave it with the experts :D

good work on finding that fault Jeff. I can certainly sympathise with the cricked neck and back trying to get the damn fuse box out. I've about given up on my similar fault so I'll probably give you guys a bell and leave it with the experts :D

looks amazing mate - good work!

ok let me rephrase that - as standard does the Z have an extra lead that connects from negative to the chassis/engine block for extra grounding? will I risk causing any damage if I run the car without any extra grounding? :)

I've just removed my age-old grounding kit and gone back to a stock negative terminal clamp. Does the standard setup have any additional earthing that I need to obtain and reconnect?

Another 'update': I went out and bought a brand new battery for her this morning. There were a couple of suggestions on the net that even though the battery manages to hold a charge (well, for a few days when not used) it could still be the battery that's at fault and causing gremlins in the system - the old battery has been in the Z for about 3 or 4 years and with a parasitic drain and being on maintenance charge fairly often I thought it might be worth replacing. £85 and a high-powered battery later and the buzzing is still there, lol. However to be fair to the old girl she fired up straight away and other than the ticking you get when you've not run the engine for 5 months she was fine. Topped the oil up, took her for some petrol (ticking stopped by now so that's good), then gave her a good blast along some country roads for half an hour and, apart from the buzzing and the feeling that she's not running quite right (like on 5 and a half cylinders), she still went like a b***ard! In a way I didn't want her to drive so well because I've been thinking about consolidating the Z and the Civic down to one car and have been thinking about calling it a day (or rather decade!) but that's for another thread. So basically, I'm still none the wiser but at least I've ruled out the old battery as the culprit.

Thanks Jeff. Happy New Year all!

thanks for the continued suggestions everyone, they're all very valuable. she's been off the road since this problem started and tbh I can't be arsed to look into it until the weather warms up a little. I'll keep this thread updated with my failed attempts to fix it!

well, hats off to the quality and amount of work done. not sure about the design though...

I've had a ZedWorld one for a year or so and had no problems.

RIP Sir Patrick Moore. :(

Thanks folks, esp. redwine :yes: . I've seen a few comments on the tinterweb that say it's a good idea to start with the battery - even if it appears to be functional. I've had battery drain issues for a long time now (i.e. a few years) - even across two different batteries, although one of them has now totally failed and blows a charger fuse when I attempt to recharge it. I'll do a few more sense checks and then consider buying a new battery. If there are still problems then I'll have to try and trace for any earthing issues, although lord knows where to start!

thanks Osty - not sure whether related but I noticed a white powdery residue around the clamp to the positive terminal where I have the maintenance charger attached.

Update on this - I received the LC RLY through yesterday (thanks dkboro121), plugged it in today and guess what... ... still buzzing!!! it's definitely that relay, I can feel it buzzing when I place my finger on it (to get it to buzz I just push the throttle with my finger). When I remove the relay with the motor still running, no buzzing. So either, by sheer amazing coincidence, both my old one and the replacement have failed, or there's something fundamentally wrong with the fuse box itself? The car still runs sluggish, about 650rpm and feels 'weak'. I've not taken it out for a drive, just let it idle for a few minutes while I've been swearing at it. This is both with and without the relay plugged in. I did notice that there were a fair few drops of water around the fuse box area - it's the first time I've noticed this, probably by combination of leaving the trim around the fuse box off while I've been working on it, and the cold weather and ice no doubt melting and running down into that area. Perhaps the issue is water ingress, albeit I've never had this problem before (and it started a couple of months ago before the cold weather). Any ideas anyone? :( I'll read up on Jeff's wet fuse box thread to get some pointers.

Happy Birthday Jeff! :thumbup:

one of my workmates reckons that although the yellow lights were on around the track - there was a green light at the end of the straight and Vettel passed a marshall holding a green flag (which overrides trackside lights) so Vettel in theory is in the clear. Don't know how much of this you could tell from the telly though!

congrats Noz - when I get my Z back on the road I'll have to pop along and see what you can do for her!

signed with pleasure! sometimes the way we look after our soldiers is disgusting.

^ lol, I'd rather use 3.1.1 than 8!

Nowt wrong with XP Pete! It still holds its own even if it is 10 years old! I don't know what spec your current PC is but I reckon with a bit of TLC (I.E. removing the 20 anti-virus programs you've probably got on there and a good defrag and rebuild) it'll come back up to speed... ...or you can just buy a new one :x:

Still no news on FB yet - I wish him all the best - he's helped me out two or three times with the Z.