That's interesting. My old Classic LSE was a hard dash but was L591 AHS so either yours was on a personal plate or mine was one of the very last hard dash ones. Not sure on the VIN but I must have a scan of the V5 somewhere......

If you've got the sub and CD player you've got the high line system with amps in the doors. The rest of it is the same as the mid line with bass, midrange and tweeter in the front doors and bass and midrange in the rear but the midrange doesn't have the amps but is fed directly from the head unit at speaker level. So if you drive it with speaker level it will distort unless you knock up a set of attenuators but line level from a tablet won't be enough to drive the amps.

Sounds more electrical than mechanical if it was working before. The switch under the gear selector simply applies an earth to the Pink/Green wire that goes straight to the transfer box ECU. If it doesn't get that earth, it won't tell the ECU to select low range so you'll get nothing on the dash, no beeps and no signal to the motor on the transfer box.

By the way, that isn't a long post......

You can see everything the the heating system is seeing on the Nano. Go to HEVAC, Inputs, Values and the screen will show you:
· Ambient temperature (c): This reading gives the external air temperature or air entering the ventilation system.
· Aspirator temperature (c): This reading gives internal cabin temperature.
· Evaporator temperature (c): This reading gives the evaporator unit's temperature.
· Heater core temperature (c): This reading gives the engine coolant temperature where the coolant enters the heating system.
· Road speed (Km/h): This value is generated by the ABS ECU using information from its wheel rotation sensors.
· Road speed (mph): This value is generated by the ABS ECU using information from its wheel rotation sensors.
· Engine running: Y or N
· Solar sensor (w/sqm): This reading gives the effective strength of the sun as detected by the Solar Sensor mounted beside the Alarm LED on the top of the dashboard.
· Distribution motors (%): This gives the current feedback position of the motor that drives the flap controlling air distribution inside the vehicle. As the distribution buttons are pressed the flap should move to the position which gives air flow to the selected direction (feet, face, screen etc.).
· Left blend motor (%): This gives the current feedback position of the motor which drives the flap controlling amounts of hot and cold air to be blended together (effectively the temperature of the air coming out of the vents). As the requested temperature is changed by the user the flap should move.
· Right blend motor (%): This gives the current feedback position of the motor which drives the flap controlling amounts of hot and cold air to be blended together (effectively the temperature of the air coming out of the vents). As the requested temperature is changed by the user the flap should move.
· Left blower return: This is the feedback value returned back to the Hevac ECU from the left blower motor, used by the ECU to determine the actual voltage at the motor. This reading value also allows the Hevac ECU to detect Blower motor faults.
· Right blower return: This is the feedback value returned back to the Hevac ECU from the right blower motor, used by the ECU to determine the actual voltage at the motor reading. This value also allows the Hevac ECU to detect Blower motor faults.
· Air conditioning grant: When the A/C button is pressed an active low signal is output to the engine management ECU (The Request). This then looks at factors like engine temperature, load, current acceleration etc. and according to when these conditions allow, grant Air conditioning. This involves it engaging the clutch to drive the Air Conditioning pump, altering its internal fuelling to compensate for the load imposed by the pump, managing along with the Hevac the Condenser fans, and also telling the Hevac that Air Conditioning has been granted.

There's lots of BMW influence in the P38, more on the later ones. The only thing I can think of is there's too much slack on the cable from the vacuum thingy to the throttle. Have you adjusted the cables (throttle and cruise) up as per RAVE?

If I root it so I can remove the bundled stuff that I don't need and all languages except English, will I be able to restore it to factory if I need to or is it permanent?

Yes, 8" and that seems about right. Big enough to see but small enough to carry around. There's enough stuff in the car when I go away, so two tablets is a little overkill really. I suppose I could put the tablet SIM in an old phone, bung it in the centre cubby and use that as a hotspot, although it is something else that will need charging. I've already got an addition 3 cigarette sockets (one on the side of the centre console for the satnav, and a double socket at the back of the console for the fridge behind my seat and to keep the EAS/LPG laptop charged) along with a pair of USB sockets in the rear ashtray.

Presumably something like this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/32GB-10-1-ANDROID-7-0-TABLET-PC-4G-LTE-OCTA-CORE-DUAL-SIM-1920X1200-IPS-XGODY/272737468132 is crap?

I've had it since around October so no chance of sending it back. When I was offered it I was in two minds whether I would actually find a use for it but as I'd just negotiated a £20 discount off my mobile contract and it was only going to cost me a tenner, I was still saving a bit. I figured it might be useful when I was in Europe so installed Hola VPN and then put BBC iPlayer, ITV Hub, My 5, All4, UKTV Play and Mobdro on it so I could watch TV wherever I was as well as the Planet Rock app and Excel. In fact, Mobdro allowed me to watch the Mexican Grand Prix on Sky Sports F1 while parked up in a French motorway services (serious bit of bad planning there, not being at home when the GP was on...). Pull up at the services, go get a coffee and sit in the car watching the GP with the audio through the car stereo.

I expected it to use a huge amount of data but using the radio app for over 30 hours and watching TV on it for about another 6 hours total and it used about 700Mb so still nowhere near the 4Gb limit I've got. O2 used to do a European traveller bolt on which was a couple of quid a month but gave discount on roaming data and calls but since last summer the rules changed and the networks are no longer allowed to charge for roaming so the data and calls used in Europe come out of my normal allowance just the same as if I'm using the phone or tablet here. The only difference is I don't pay for MMS messages here but they are 40p each to send from Europe.

The Filllpg app works perfectly on my Windows phone and I've got the POI file loaded on my Garmin satnav (along with European POI files from www.mylpg.eu). If there were more apps available for Windows phone, I'd be happy to just stick with that and get a Windows tablet but it just isn't going to happen now. Mobdro only works on Android anyway.

Having seen me looking at new tablets, Dina is already working out what she can use mine for when I don't need it any more.......

Jailbreaking is just as much a mystery as rooting. I started out on MS-DOS, progressed to Windows 3.11, then 95 and finally ended up with 7. My phone has always been a Nokia so the current one runs Windows 8.1 and my work phone until recently was a Blackberry which was an ergonomic disaster but worked. Then they changed out work phones to Samsung J5s on Android which was the first time I'd even seen Android. They were a complete disaster as the Samsung/Android security wouldn't talk to our work network security so after only a month they were swapped for iPhones. That was about 4 months ago and I'm still getting my head around using that! People may knock Windows but I don't have a problem with it and it does what I tell it to, it lets me uninstall anything I don't want installed which it seems Android won't.

I looked at the Lenovo one and also this https://www.svp.co.uk/asus-zenpad-z580c-8in-tablet-black-intel-174-atom-169-z3530-32-gb-android-6-0-marshmallow.html?___SID=U then realised there's a problem with both, no SIM slot, only Wi-Fi. There aren't that many hotspots when driving through rural Europe......

Welcome, drag up a stool and buy a round. You're in the minority with an oil burner but most of us can help with everything else and there is the odd diesel expert around too if you need them.

I'm thinking along the lines of the latter. It does most of what I want it to do although the language changing trick is what is really annoying and it looks like I can't delete the languages I don't use (like all of them except English....). It was a freebie from O2, all I pay is a tenner a month for the SIM, so I might try phoning them and seeing if they will swap it for something else at minimal cost.

Is there any way of turning off updates? There seems very little point in filling the memory up with updates for stuff I'm never going to use anyway, so even if they can't be removed they can at least be made as innocuous as possible.

blueplasticsoulman wrote:

Bit of a basic tablet but not the worse. You would be able to do far greater things with root access and a custom rom. Depends how confident you are messing about although it's not difficult. Rooting will enable you to get rid of all the bloatware as they are installed as system apps. Gain root access and then get a system app uninstaller from the playstore. With root, you can put apk's where you like with a bit of fiddling. Not sure if your tablet has an sdcard slot, but if it does, you can gain more RAM by creating a swap file.

All info here

I accept that it's basic or it wouldn't have been given away as a freebie! Rooting sounds like something randy animals do so I've no idea how it relates to a tablet..... Yes, it does have an SD card slot and I've put a 32Gb card in there. Some apps installed to that, the odd one has been moved to there but others flatly refuse to move (or say they are moving but never do) even though it tells me there's 25Gb free. The info you linked to may as well be written in Chinese for all the sense it makes to me I'm afraid.

I did a complete re-install on the tablet and found that even though I'd set the SD card as the default location for downloads, it still put some into the internal memory. I was able to install an app and then move it but not if I installed a number of them so the internal memory was getting full. If I tried that the Move to SD card button was enabled but once poked it became greyed out with Moving shown. No matter how long I left it, it still didn't move. There's loads of bloatware loaded but it won't let me uninstall them, only stuff I've downloaded myself. You are right about the updates, with a clean install it has a decent amount of the 4Gb remaining after Android has loaded but once it has updated everything then that is down to about 400Mb. Should there be any way to turn updates off?

Brian, there's no menu button at top right on the languages screen, just a magnifying glass to allow me to search (although quite why I would want to search for a language when they are listed on the screen in alphabetical order). Probably something that was improved in later versions of Android.

You wouldn't think a starter would be such a critical component, after all, you only need it for a couple of seconds, but with a dead one you can have a car that is perfect in every other way. But as you can't bump start an auto and they stopped fitting starting handles many years ago, if the starter is dead, you are completely stuffed. I used to carry a spare in the boot when I went on my European trips for just that reason. I had visions of stopping for fuel in the middle of nowhere and being stuck there if the starter died. It did eventually but at home so I just crawled underneath and bunged the spare on. Really must get that one rebuilt so I have a spare again. My car clocked over 350,000 on my way back home on Monday (and nearly up to 351,000 now)......

Sound deadening, but it fell off mine years ago (or someone took it off and didn't put it back as it's never had one since I've owned it). For the top bolt you can either use a very long extension and go in from the front but I found that a 3/8 drive universal joint wrapped in insulation tape so it is almost rigid and a 2" extension means you can get the ratchet in immediately behind the starter. If you don't want to disconnect the battery, carefully slacken the nut holding the cable so you don't earth it against anything, then when the cable is off, shove a lump of heater hose over then end of it to insulate it while you take the starter off.

BrianH wrote:

Do you actually need the French language on the tablet? I've not got an Android 5 device handy, but going into settings/Language & Keyboard/Language shows the installed ones, you should be able to remove French (if its installed, though would expect it to be if your finding it changing to French) and that might stop it.

That would explain why it didn't change when I was driving through Poland, Lithuania and into Latvia, it doesn't have Polish, Lithuanian or Latvian installed. It does have French and quite a few others I have absolutely no need for but how do I remove them?

Yup. You can set the default under the optional configurations tab but you will also need to set the in and out of idle upper and lower steps all to zero or it'll still adjust to default + upper limit.

Certainly sounds that way. Top bolt is a bit awkward to get to but not a difficult job at all..