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Also worth getting bio fuel friendly hose, ethanol is known to rot older type of lines. Been there done that.

only one little blue potentiometer and that screw plus the uk chip of course

I can confirm to motor change as I've just had to do it myself. Desolder the four pins first then use an 8mm hss drill bit on the riveted bits. Do it by hand and very slowly. This gets rid of the lip perfectly without damaging the board. Then wiggle free..again, gently. Replace with good motor and back in business.

Easy way to tell is the brass screw holder next to the 5k symbol top right of the board if the dial is facing you. On the japs it's on the 100k one

I can't see why not. It's the circuit and the chip that'll be different. All they do is tell the needle how to move. Gotta be worth a punt.

If the circuit board is an actual original UK one don't bin it. It's possible to replace the motor from another less desirable one. They'll all use the same motor and you've only to grind off the pressed lip and de solder the pins.

whats happened there is the shaft came out when fitting the dials. ruins the hair spring in the motor.

I got parts off Mike a couple of weeks ago do unless he's had complications he's about

get bio friendly fuel hose. The ethanol is causing issues in old lines.

As title doesn't really matter if it's still attached. Willing to travel

I've been using their maxlife oil. Sorted the oil leak out i had and it's running fine.

I've been using a valvoline oil in mine for a while. Works just fine.

Don't rule out the fuel ecu. It has cold circuit, maybe you have a corroded joint on the board, just enough to give irratic signals to the main.

It breaks probably because some people just yank it off. It's held in by little blue clips and a nut and bolt on either end(accessible once boot trim is removed) If you need to remove it just use long reach pliers and be gentle. It's it length that makes it fragile. Also the brake light bit is still there and has foam around it to seal. The price difference between them is absurd.

recommended is 10 40 semi

Thing with water is it travels and gets in through the smallest of gaps. Just got to be methodical. I had a leak for years that travelled into the sills and the well. Was due to it having had a small smack in the rear corner with the previous owner and a seam had cracked on the lights housing along with one in the petrol filler. Drove me nuts

I've been using valvoline max life part synth 10-40 in mine recently. Stopped my front seal oil leak. Engine seems happy (100,000 plus miles on it now) the last 2 people to service it "forgot" to change the seal. I'll do it myself next time.

What about uk headlamps. I thought the difference was on the plug end?

As for damage when removing/fitting. The strips are attached using little blue square push in clips and a nut and bolt set up on either end. Remove your tailgate trim and use long nose pliers on the blue clips and breakage should'nt be an issue. Id assume most folks just tug at them and wonder why they've snapped.

Yeah I'd go with the mapping. I've had a chip in mine that was based on the jwt. I'm replacing it with the stock chip as it just overfuels to the point I can smell it in my decats. I've a straight through system after my original system kicked the bucket and a proper tune is really the only way to go, having everything matched to your individual car. Welcome to the getting increasingly rarer manual uk club!

what do these have over the platinum ones just out of interest?

I've had a set of these mats in my car since 2002. Definitely made to measure. Mines a uk so no fairlady

I had pretty much the same thing on my uk spec. Once the clocks were eliminated it was traced back to the hicas ecu. Replaced that as resoldering didnt help. All been fine ever since. I've replaced or fixed pretty much every ecu on this car now. Started falling like dominoes. - - - Updated - - - It passes through hicas first from what i recall.

Good luck!

oh dear..pretty sure thats been put up by a well known rip off merchant. Theyll be lucky to get it. David kemshall i think is the guys name