Wullie

Sorry, just in after too many glasses of red wine followed by some "Your Granny Wouldn't Like It" real ales.It's a sensor that picks up the temerature and keeps the fan running after you switch the ignition off. Perhaps it has been removed by a previous owner. I think if they fail in the wrong way it can cause the fan to run continually flattening the battery but it's taken me about three attempts to type this and I am probably wrong. I'm going to bed now.

I just looked at mine. It's white.

Here's a quick pic with a yellow arrow pointing to it. Note to self - Must clean engine bay.

Yeah, they'rr metal and have two liytle poined tangs on the screw side that are supposed to dig into the plasterboard. I flattened these with pliers and then just offered them up to the hole and screwed away till they tightened. The paintwork wasn' affected as far as I remember but if you're worried about that you could use a fibre washer or suchlike to make sure.

Mine is held on by the 2 screws though the number plate. I've been intending for a long time to use those collapsible plasterboard fixings that have a set screw running through them. You put the fixing in, tighten the screw till the collapssing legs fold up against the back of the hole and tighten. Remove the screw, stick it through the number plate and tighten up. Used this on other cars for replacing broken bits and it worked OK.

Just popped out for a quick look at mine and davidwort is correct. It's actualy a brown wire inside a black sheath though mine is just a bare terminal, the plastic cover has run away at some point. The run on switch is in front of the oil filler cap mounted on a bracket.

It's reasonably covered in the Haynes manual for Golf and Jetta 84 to 92.

Is that all? Surely two legs.

Quite like rust free lightweight fabric panels as well. Though it looks like mice could be a problem.

Looked a lot better in the first pic. Couldn't see the axle stands

A CV joint will stop knocking when you dip the clutch as there is no drive being applied to it. Find an emptyish car park and drive in figure of eights, if it happens both clockwise and anti clockwise it's probably the CV joint. You can reach under the car and grab the balance weight to see if it's loose.

Pink sounds lovely :camp:

Is the central locking pump working? Take the vacuum tube off the central locking pump and have a suck/blow on it and see if the pin moves when you do that. It could also be a fuse, or a broken wire from the drivers door handle.

The thing in the picture is the track rod end and the "bolt" is part of the whole track rod end. It sits in a tapered seat and won't just pull out. A seerator like the one Mawrick suggests would be ideal to remove it. If you try to hammer it out from underneath you may spread the bolt and land yourself in another heap of trouble. It is possible to shock them out by giving the end of the steering arm a whack with a heavy hammer but personally I don't like that method.

Sorry, I've missed most of this thread. I started to watch the Grand Prix on Sunday and just woke up.

The electric windows stay "active" for a while after switching off. Not sure for how long or what deactivates them. Saves you turning on and off the ignition to use them.

Washed it. It's white!!

Don't really fancy a fake Ferrari with an MR2 engine.

Make sure the handbrake is OFF when you try to wobble the rears as the wheel will be clamped by the caliper and any play will be disguised. And chock the other wheels for safety.

When I did mine I used a small pair of mole grips to hold the screw securely. This let me line up the screw and get a bit of force behind it without anything slipping. The screw gripped right away and the pin was out in no time.

At the bottom of my street there is "Meadow" which the estate residents pay for grass cutting and maintenance. It is used by people from all around the area to walk their dogs and I got pi**ed off by some who left their dog crap lying there so I took some pictures and the next time a community cop was in the area I told him about the dog crap and that I had pictures of the offenders. I was told to destroy them as I was infringing their rights. When I asked what would they do to prevent this happening he said to call the police and they would send someone up to investigate!! I did this the next time and two days later someone appeared and said there was nothing they could do as they would have to catch the person in the act of leaving their dog sh*t behind. At this point I gave up and went for a pint.

Can't afford to try it, it's only available online at £40 for a 330ml bottle, and I stand corrected, it's only 41%. News report below. You might recall Scottish brewer Brewdog laying claim to the title of “World’s Strongest Beer” with their Tactical Nuclear Penguin brand and its 32% . Well the German brewer who had the previous record, Schorshbraue’s 31% beer, weren’t going to take that lying down (that comes after the drinking). They struck back with a 39.44% beer, still under their name of Schorshbraue, to take back the record. You can tell what’s coming next from the casks of the Fraserburgh based company. Yes, it’s a 41% beer called… Sink the Bismark. With a name straight out of the Daily Mail’s “How to appeal to people who remember the war” the Battleship Busting Beer is available online in a 330ml bottle for the pricely sum of £40, which is the price of a fine bottle of spirits. That’s by design, says Brewdog’s MD James Watt, “Beer has a terrible reputation in Britain, it’s ignorant to assume that a beer can’t be enjoyed responsibly like a nice dram or a glass of fine wine. A beer like Sink the Bismarck should be enjoyed in spirit sized measure.” You can find the beer online at Brewdog, and if the Germans are persistent, then expect to see a 43% beer in the near future called “We Love HMS Hood”.

If strengh is a concern why not "Sink the Bismark"? It's only about 42%, brewed in Scotland and is currently the strongest beer in the world. Best English ale I've tried is Old Essex Ale, brewed in Lewes.

Got to be Leffe or Afligen or any of the "Abbey brewed" beers for the Belgian GP. Quite superb

My first car was a Morris Mini Minor, original version of the Mini, and it had no wing mirrors as standard, only an interior mirror. Different "commercial" type vehicles with no rear view fron the cab had either one or two wing, or side mounted mirrors. You would really have to look up the latest regulations but I've had too many real ales tonight to be bothered doing that.