It'll have Dunlops on it then (or Britpart....).

I fully appreciate the problem, however, in this house, Dina is the one baking in the sun outside doing battle with a Honda powered mower while I've been inside watch the GP from Spa......

First thing would be to check and see if you have Dunlop or Firestone springs. I wasn't even aware that there was anything other than Dunlops to be quite honest.

They need to touch the metal sleeve in the centre of the mounting but not be touching the rubber part. The compressor also needs to be held up far enough that it doesn't touch the bottom of the plastic box.

Or just hit the flat ones with a ball peen hammer......

It's a diesel thing.....

Put the washers on the EAS pump the right way up and the problem will be solved, you'll never hear it running without sticking your ear to it. On each mounting point it should have two dished washers. The bottom ones should be concave side down and the top ones should be concave side up.

This is the one I used, worked perfectly http://www.lsoft.net/unformat.aspx

Heights look right but it definitely sounds like you got your lines crossed. The lines should have coloured sleeves at each end on them. Check to see if yours do. As you look at the valve block from the other side of the car there's the 4 outlets for each spring and the ones toward the front of the car are for the front springs. It should be front right (green sleeve) at the top and front left (no sleeve so black) at the bottom. If they are no longer wrapped in their loom, it's easy to get those two mixed up.

I downloaded some software to recover pictures from the memory card from my camera after my ex unplugged it from the USB port without shutting it down. It recovered all bar about 3 from over 400 pictures. It's installed on my desktop computer but I'll fire it up in teh morning and have a look and see which one it was. It had to be paid for but I think it was only 10 Dollars or something like that. The free undelete programs tend to only show you what they can find but not let you recover them.

Not at all. If you crop the X1-9 off the left side but leave the right side as it is, you can just see the stack of headlining shells waiting for Dina to clean them off.

You're right. NSR on the Ascot is well bubbled, OSR is pristine with no bubbling at all. NSR on both the SE and mine have a very small amount of bubbling at the bottom but OSR on both has none. Very odd.

Hmmm, that might be interesting.

Quite possibly but it doesn't matter as I've got the same cover for UK only with the AA as an add on to my bank account (one of these paid for accounts that people keep phoning me up and trying to convince me to claim the fee back). So it's the AA if I'm in the UK and ADAC if I'm not. Came in handy a couple of years ago when my mates Peugeot 406 HDi ate it's turbo and started trying to run on sump oil on the A8 between Cannes and Nice at midnight. The ADAC cover is worth it for anyone that goes over there more than a couple of times a year (see https://www.adac.de/mitgliedschaft/adac_membership/). It says you have to be resident in Germany but that is only because the fee pay system can't cope with a non-German address, you have to speak to them and pay by bank transfer.

Martyuk wrote:

I think you can get in and ban users - you just have to go into the user list to do it, rather than from the forum topic...

Just tried it, It looks like a mod can't ban users, only admin so that is down to Gordon. However, he came back online 14 minutes ago so stand by for more spam posts.......

Lpgc wrote:

People remember the same words on another forum, great memory?

Most of us still have a read of the other side just to have a chuckle at the duff advice given out by the admin over there. The thread, complete with identical title, is still current with the latest post in the last day. If you don't remember the same thread and title after a few hours, the Alzheimer's really is setting in.....

LRSV built my car as it was ordered by old bill to a specific spec, they also built things like the Autobiography where you chose the paint, interior, spec, etc so not a run of the mill, straight from the production line spec. Then they would have done other special orders like armoured versions and anything that the MoD ordered, such as the Wolf like this.

blueplasticsoulman wrote:

Unsure what's involved with the engine rear main seal. I'll wait for more info on that one.

Engine out (or at least pulled forward) or gearbox off. Unless it's leaving drops on the floor, I'd leave it alone.

The one at the front could also be the oil pressure switch or pressure relief valve O ring. But I may be completely wrong as if it was from there I'd expect to see the bottom of the oil filter in the pic.

First one is easy. The round thing is an inspection plate and there's no gasket as there should be nothing but fresh air the other side of it. You've got a minor leak from the gearbox front seal (if it's runny and red) or the engine rear main seal (if it's less runny and oil coloured). It's dribbling down and some is coming out of the join between engine and gearbox while the rest is settling at the bottom and coming out of the inspection hole.

Second one is a bit more difficult as I can't for the life of me work out what we are looking at......

If you've got your foot on the brake they shouldn't dance no matter where you are. If you've got one front sensor saying one thing and another saying something different it will try to raise to match one but then find the other says it's too high so it will adjust and so on. But with the brakes on, it should just sit there and do nothing.