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No offence, but that is probably the worst conclusive answer to a potential HG fail I have heard in a while. Batty, it could be VSS but these would show up as a puff of smoke when the car has been started from cold. Smoking at idle will much more likely be piston rings i think. The engine could be losing water as opposed to "using" it! Old pipes and corrosion can easily mean you have a weeping seal or join somewhere. 145k on a G60 is nothing. If you ever do take the head off you will probably still find hone marks on the bores. The engines are really lazy! Until you get a compression tester it's all academic really. Halfords do the gunson one for under £20 IIRC. I've got one and it's not show-winning edition38 chrome leetness but it does the job fine. No drama.

yeah, they're £££ from the dealers but everything always is so no surprise there. I got a geniune one, as I couldn't find any aftermarkets with the min max lines on in black.

99.9992% sure they don't. Mine hasn't as was the case with my Mk2 16v. With regards to the head not being good enough to meet emissions, that will be for another country with stricter laws most likely.

:lol: that's a good one, although before rust falls off it actually weighs more than the original metal I think because it "swells".

test the motor is working by connecting it straight to the battery with 2 bits of wire. if the motor isn't dead you can get the window back up and then can troubleshoot the switch problem. and no, this isn't dodgy! I've done it before :nuts: like that's some kind of guarantee :lol:

yeah it's here. Shall I pop it in the post?

ugh, clauses! I think i should get a free one for R&D.

Why yes... :norty: I am thinking something more along the lines of intake flow, although this wouldn't be a million miles off! ;)

:lol: nice one :grin: Kip, I think you should pioneer this floorpan idea and then send me a prototype...for testing purposes of course...ahem...

ffs, people who mod prius' to get higher mpg need to be shot OR walk everywhere! :lol: aero mods like making the floorpan flatter do actually make a car a fair bir more economical. All race cars have them for good reason!

I didn't realise how shocking people drive until recently (moving to oxford). The amount of people who can't navigate roundabouts properly is a joke, esp when there is a ring road with at least 10 of them on! I am loving the cycle lanes, although one of them runs along side the ring road and it would be easy for someone on a bike to get squished if a car came shooting off to the left. Not fun.

p.s. I need to see your engineering pics to support this - preferably colourful swirlies :nuts:

Good luck! if you're EXTREMELY lucky it might actually fit, but will be as david wort says. The ones I've had never sit on the support panel properly. Shame you didn't do a bit of research, this has been covered a lot on the forum. There's a reason for that... Very bad move my friend. Next time, use the search.

I like to blow kisses at angry drivers and giggle like a little girl, my wife tells me to stop it. :camp: You have a wife? Huh... :|

I've driven a 24v corrado and I thought it was really pokey from idle. Very easy to waft along on the torque at low rpm, didn't give it much beans at high rpm though as it wasn't my car :nuts:

as david, plenty of people have fabbed up a sump guard / undertray for the mk2 (vortex mainly i think) which is pretty much the same front end as the C IIRC?

in my experience, it means one of the vacuum lines has come off either one of the door mechs or of the connector in the foam casing for the CL pump. pop the door cards off to check the door mech, peel the side carpets back to check the pump. Bish bash bosh.

Hi search, I search you need to use the search. search, Search Monkey.

** :clap: Page 60 is my servant** It went alright, Pete had a lot more enthusiasm than I did! I bitched out quite hard round about lunchtime. We got the main 2 front to rears done, and aligned with the brake pressure reg which was a good start. I started working on one of the rear NS lines - brake pressure reg to rear beam brackety bit - and finished that. Still got that one to do the other side and then both of the hard lines that join to the hoses to the calipers if that makes sense. Had a little scare when one of the front lines actually snapped under it's own weight when removing! Pete spotted it and it was really badly corroded so i'm gonna need to do the fronts now too....looks like the Plum will be Project Prune by the time it's finished... I still have to do the 280s so i'm not massively worried, just a bit annoyed that progress is slow, but that's down to me being lazy and tired :/ Massive massive thanks to Pete though, what a legend! Left me with a lot of his kit to do aswell. Cheers mate :grin:

ONLY reason for big wheels :|

Oh dear! Glad you got it home safe IV, surprised there was enough slack on the hose to be able to fix it like that! Interesting. I don't have cover but that time when my water pump went, it took me 4.5 hours to do 40 miles :| I was close to tears. Definitely worth the £50 a year or whatever it is!

The legend that is Pete_griff is en route as I type to do all the hard brake lines on the Plum :clap: there'll be next to no pics of it though as I broke my phone (and subsequently my camera!) and won't get a replacement until this evening. But I guess I could snap a few after that :salute:

:lol: hope it's not horrifically noisy with the r32 and sports cats... :scratch:

kwa-pshhh! Does the search function give a dose of herpes every time it's clicked? No-one uses it these days. :|

why don't you buy a new standard one? they're really not expensive. Well, not from AVS anyways.