jamesoff

I'm interested in a loom, could you PM me some details?

Small world :)

Interested in a meet up (I'm in NW London, also not very far from the ACE Cafe... really should go some time), but I'm away a lot for work at the moment :(

Thanks both. For now I just wrapped some insulating tape round the end of that single wire (although it apparently hasn't been causing any problems so far) and tucked it out of the way. Where would I find the temp sensor? Can I reach it without dismantling things too much? I had a squint through the grille under the fog/indicator lights and couldn't see anything likely.

So I was just tinkering around in the corner with the airbox (investigating, because what I seem to have from a previous owner is a rectangular frame holding sponge?) and I've found what seems to be a wire that just... terminates at copper (now green copper oxide). It was sitting down the side of the airbox and there was quite a lot of copper oxide powder there too. I've swept it clean, but anyone know what the cable is? Here's a shot of the end of the cable. It's green but the camera didn't pick that out right. You can see some of the green staining on the cable wrap stuff and the body below, where it has been sitting until now. http://cl.ly/image/3n340m0X0u1I Here's where it comes from: http://cl.ly/image/1M3y1p242X1r Also, is this what my ambient temp sensor should be connected to? Since I had the bumper replaced, the temp sensor says -40 on the dash so I believe that means it's not connected. Is this the connector? Hopefully, I have a sensor and just need to hook it up :) http://cl.ly/image/3Z0G440q3p1m Edit: disabled smilies in post, it made the first URL go weird

Saw this while walking around Turin last week. Quite an unusual look. Turin by JamesOff, on Flickr

So I've just got back from a work trip to a complete set of clocks waiting for me on my desk. My question now is, since I just need to swap the LCD module over is this a reasonably easy thing to do? Anyone have a link to a guide for dismantling the module the clocks are in without breaking everything? :) Or, I could just put the whole thing in my car instead - but the mileage is wrong (about 20k too high). What would be my options to fix that? Finally, I'm thinking I might look into swapping the incandescent bulbs in the module over to white LEDs or similar - does anyone have any pointers on that?

I too need one of these, after I was a tremendous idiot and shorted something which blew it a couple of weeks ago :( Hopefully there's a stash of them somewhere we can use!

I haven't; due to other commitments I'm in a different car club already :)

It has multiplayer stuff although I haven't tried it yet. So far the closest I've got is racing against my housemate's time in the Rivals thing :)

From the time I've spent with the demo and a couple of hours this evening with the full thing, it's very good. My housemate was "working" from home today and is further through the game than me, and the game really looks like it opens up once it gets past the races where it's teaching you stuff. I haven't had any problems with the handling in it, I play with all the assists and stuff turned off and it's as drivable as regular Forza.

My pre-order copy arrived today and just spent a couple of hours playing around. The Corrado is not only present but really quite prominent - it's the first car you see arriving at the festival ... and is the car the game gives you to get started and do your first race. Not only that, but the spoiler lifts when you're doing over 40 :D

Neil M? I went to school with that guy, and randomly found him via eBay when I needed replacement bits after my crash - was a bit of a small-world moment :)

Ah thanks Wullie, when the weather improves I shall double-check it's all hooked up right :)

Just performing some thread necromancy to add to this that I flushed the ISV out with carb cleaner and that's significantly improved if not resolved the problem.

Going though the "investigation" stage with my insurance company at the moment for an accident back in April: guy overtook on the wrong side, jumped in front of me without seeing the queue I was braking for already, and stood on his brakes. Wet road, no ABS, slid into the back of him :(

I'm 32 and I've had my 16V since mid-April. Enjoying having something I can fiddle with a bit and feel like I'm improving, my previous car was a 2003 Golf GTTDI and under the bonnet was a big plastic panel which may as well have said "Removing this gets very expensive very fast".

Wait, does the missing connection to to the underneath of the plastic intake manifold (hope that's the right name) just before the throttle? I've managed to attach it to there using a combination of the bits of hose I have left, but it doesn't seem to have helped the coming-down-to-idle issue. While working on the intake stuff earlier (taking it off to reach some of the vacuum stuff) I found it had sucked in a load of oil at some point, so I've cleaned that out as much as I can, but it looks like the idle stabilisation valve has taken some of it in, and I'm guessing other linked parts (vacuum tubing?) may have also sucked some in. Is that likely, and will it have screwed up anything I'll need to fix? (To clarify further, the T-piece lower down the line with the green near it was attached to stuff by the air box - I just removed it temporarily to have a better look at the line)

So I think I found a (the?) problem :) I'd hazard a guess those two braided bits of hose (which I fished out from under the bit they're resting on now) should be joined - they certainly look like they've suffered a failure. I'll find some replacement hose and refit. However, what should the other leg of the red Y-splitter attach to? It wasn't attached to anything when I found it; that end of the hose was just hanging down the side of the engine.

Sounds like those are the things to look at, thanks both. I'll see what I can see and no doubt be back with more questions :)

Hello everyone :) On my 1.8 16v, I changed the oil, oil filter, and spark plugs (they were a mess) recently. The car feels better for it, but is now doing a thing where the revs sink very low when you come off the power (with the clutch in - say, when you're just coming to stop at a set of lights) before recovering to normal idle speed. It's sinking right down to about 500rpm, and particularly when the engine's warm (and, I guess, the oil is thinner) the oil light flickers very very briefly. Edit: I also took the cap off the distributor and cleaned a bunch of oil out of it The engine runs fine at idle and when you're driving, it's just coming off the power, particularly from anything higher than about 2500rpm or so, which causes this. Anyone have any ideas of things I can look at? Should I be able to hook up some diagnostic tool to this and have it tell me what it thinks is going on? If so, what would I need?

lilfuzzer: Are you talking about these things? http://cl.ly/391j2y1n0Z3f0Q3f3c2f If so, I'd be after some too - just taken the trim off mine to see why the plastic the number plate mounts to keeps coming loose (it's because it's not screwed in - at all! What should be hold it on to the metalwork?) and they're all destroyed, presumably by a previous owner thinking you have to unscrew them completely, rather than giving them a quarter turn. Haven't had any luck with Google finding them this evening!