Mark W

Hmm... are the door locks the same? I.e. can I just swap them over? That way I can at least have a working driver's door lock :) Mark

Locked my car with the key this evening, and... Twang! Something has given way in the door. Now the lock will happily turn left and right with no resistance, i.e. no locking or unlocking! Just as well I was stripping the doors ayway this weekend to fit new speakers and window rubbers :) Mark

If you're geting that good mileage you MUST have a fault! :rofl:

Anyone know where I might be able to get a wiring diagram for a 1999 Vauxhall Astra? The high level brake light in my good lady's Astra (that's good lady, not fairlady :rofl: ahem... ) has decided to remain dimly lit whenever the ingition's on. It's bound to be a bad earth, but I'd like a wiring diagram to work out where! Any help appreciated :bow: Cheers, Mark

That looks great- and I think you should do the inner panel too! Or... Get a set of 2nd hand lights and replace the single (indicator) reflectors with twin reflectors (from the donor lights- brake/side). Use the outers for indicators and the inners as new reversing lights. Then black out the whole of the old inner panel. :) Mark

As well as everything that's been said... The car's complicated enough without adding a parallel fuelling system. You'd have to wonder if the gas injectors are up to the task, especially on anything remotely tuned (maybe they are! I just don't know :) ). With the injectors in the inlet manifold, that's 6 more potential boost leaks! If it was NA and you didn't mind adding weight and you didn't mind losing what little loadspace you've got then I'd consider it. Other than that, the lower running cost would be attractive (after the year it would take you to recover the installation cost!) but IMHO it's not worth it. Mark

I did Shotokan Karate for, ooo about 3 months. Was doing alright until Sensai decided we all should do some free-sparring. I ended up against Sensai himself, he caught my punch, twisted my wrist, pushed and... ...schlock!... Out popped my shoulder. :hurl: In case anyone's interested in the rest of the story... An army medic dude decided to try to relocate it there and then. With both of us lying on the floor on our backs, he was to my right with one foot on my neck and the other foot on my hip, pulling my arm out so that when release it would drop back into the socket. Which it didn't do. He later said "oh if I'd realised this had happened before I wouldn't have tried to put it back in" !!! :xxx: Great job he did of assessing me beforehand! Anyway... Ambulance came, and they put in a drip to give my fluids and painkillers. Or they tried to- rather then the needle going into my vein, it went straight through! So the ambulance medic had to pretty much sit on my hand to reduce the amount of bruising that would occur (the back of my hand still went black). Eventually got to hospital and they sorted it out properly. So... I gave up Karate after that! :D Mark

Hmmm... pity but I think that'll be my work-on-the car weekend rather than my play-with-the-car weekend :( Mark

LOL! :rofl: Damn useful though- my car was 4 bloaters up doing the Friday lunchtime pub dash today. It's always fun crushing the legs of the person behind the pasenger seat to lock the seat itself back down! :D

Just for info I have and have had similar problems, though the cat overheat hasn't happened for a while now. When I had a big idle (2k), that turned out to be a vacuum leak from my clutch booster/servo. My gut feeling with my present problem is that it's a smaller air leak somewhere- I've bypassed the air reg which has made a noticable difference (think there's an intermittent short-circuit), and next I'll also be bypassing the idle valve to see what happens! Air filters looked ok, O2 sensors not bad but left looked a bit lazy, cleaned TBs, reset ECU, replaced PTU, replaced injector connectors, cleaned ALL other connectors. Replaced various brittle vacuum hoses. Still got to check the fuel filter- had forgotten about that! And will be doing a compression test just for completeness. Mark

Gutted for you Jay! :headvswal More things to sort out. :( Mark

I need to get some upper arms to stop my tyres wearing on the inside, but I see there are a few sources/brands out there. I was wondering- what do people have fitted and how they fair on the car? Cheers, :D Mark

Sure someone will corrent me if I'm wrong, but I think basically it's a heating element and a temperature sensor. The more airflow over the sensor, the cooler it will be.

Yeah that sounds reasonable. I get slightly worse than that on average but with lots of low-speed driving. With careful motorway driving I get about 24mpg, but I've never had the joy of using a whole tank that economically! :D It depends on petrol too. Optimax adds about 50 miles to a tank I reckon. Mark

I agree with Yampiedog. Incidentally- in general, I have ALWAYS found that a given grade of supermarket petrol performs noticably worse than that from a "proper" petrol station. Tesco 99 RON is definitely good stuff; wouldn't say it feels any different from Optimax but for 1 RON it won't anyway... Mark

:) :( :) :( ... I don't know what to think! Less weight... easy tuning :) A Z without a V6 :mad: Gone away from the general Z thang, and surely it would suit a 200sx better :( At least there's people doing this stuff though! "Bravo" as an American would say...

That's brilliant! Hundreds of Zed owners across the country are asking their girlfriends why they haven't done it for them yet! :) I know I am! :D

Yep that helps a lot! Thanks Vijay. :bow: Looks like my air regulator is ker-nackered. Only reads 1 Ohm. So is the electrical bit a heater rather than a sensor? Guess I should reset the ECU as well, and that article reminds me I haven't even inspected the throttle bodies yet. :rolleyes: Ho hum. :smw: Oh one final thing before I forget- Sod off post whores! :slap: :D Cheers, Mark

colincatchpole- whether or not it's the O2 sensor, bear in mind that by removing the O2 feedback you'll just be masking the problem! So it might be smoother but it's still not going to be right. Got a similar situation myself... Not sure if the engine will run rich or lean without the O2 sensor- you'd hope it would run rich. Mark

Ta John... Ah, I think it's the cold start regulator I'm talking about then, not the AAV. And yes- the pipe from the balance bar to the regulator is the one I removed. There's an electrical connector to it which sprouts from the coilpack/injector loom- what should I do with it? I assumed it connected to a sensor and that it should be shorted, left open circuit or something. Unless it's a feed, in which case I'll just leave it disconnected... I can guess the function of the cold start regulator, but what does the AAV do then? Does it control idling or something? Cheers, Mark

How come when they close one or more lanes for road works, they also reduce the speed limit? This only causes congestion. :slap: Obviously you need to RAISE the speed limit- for example on a 2-lane A road, if they shut down one of the lanes you need to raise the limit to 140mph to get the same amount of traffic through! :rofl:

Can't really shed much light matey but good luck getting it fixed. I've got at least 1 coolant leak somewhere and I'm bu99ered if I can find exactly where it is! Mark

(An oldie...) 2 nuns in a bath. 1 says "Where's the soap". The other says "Yes it does doesn't it". :D

Cool. On the door beyond the air vent looks good! Cheers chaps! :) Mark

Anyone...? :D