Battery may well have suffered if it has been sitting around flat but don't forget you now have a lot more compression that you had before so it will turn over slower.
Try giving Phil (Holland&Holland on here) a call on 07803 582070, he's recently broken a couple of Thors.
What year is the car? Up to 99 model year, the latches are identical to those fitted to the MGF and can be bought from here https://www.ukmgparts.com/product/mgf-mgf14-exterior-bodyshell-panels/door-lock-rh-mgf-tf-rhd-fqj102262pma at around half the price of the P38 latches. The P38 has a 6way and a 1 way plug, the MG latch has a 6 way and a 2 way, all you do is ignore the grey wire in the 2 way plug. 99 and later cars use the same latches but with a different 8 way plug (with only 7 ways used) but there is nothing to stop you chopping the pugs off and swapping them, wire colours are the same.
Swapping microswitches can be done but it isn't straightforward and is a real PITA.....
Sounds like you have an iffy driver's door latch. That would explain the tailgate not working (if the driver's door is unlocked, it supplies a ground to the tailgate) and the central locking not working on that door.
My local Timsons had to order in the BMW blank to cut my key but any key cutting place should be able to do it.
CNG conversions are a common alternative to LPG (Propane) in many European countries, particularly Italy. There's a number of trucks running on it in the UK now too. Energy density of Methane is slightly better than petrol or diesel (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density) although you will use slightly more of it due to the stoichiometric ratio (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoichiometry).
The other downside is the tank, Propane needs a tank capable of storing a liquid at around 10 bar (145 psi), so fairly simple to construct, but a CNG tank needs to be able to store the gas at around 10 times that, LNG needs an even greater pressure.
The video is up, https://www.facebook.com/509538518/videos/pcb.10160034835373519/1352692638625194 Steph is from 18 seconds in......
Ahh yes, but they can charge them instead and add to the revenue they are losing because they aren't driving a car.
davew wrote:
Looking forward to seeing the pictures..
Pics are there, you just need to click on the links.
Morat wrote:
So, I think the Simon's home LPG pump is FAR more interesting!
Same here. Should it reach the stage, as it has in some areas of the country, where I can't fill up with LPG locally, a full tank is enough to get me to Harwich or Dover after which I'm in clearer thinking countries where I can fill up just about everywhere.
Just tried to edit the post so the pics appear but Google drive does something odd with the url so they don't show up.....
She did it! It looked a bit touch and go this morning, very little wind and no cloud but the airfield aren't allowed to start operations until after 9:30 in teh morning and by then the wind had got up a bit and the cloud was rolling in. Fortunately the weather was still acceptable for jumping. She did a days instruction yesterday before a final briefing before the jump. Last night she was buzzing with information which she claimed she'd forgotten completely by this morning, in fact she reckoned her mind had gone completely blank...
Thanks to everyone that sponsored her, the final total was £1,628. As they say without pictures it didn't happen, so here's a few.
Suited, chute attached and final radio checks
First one into the plane (so last one out).
Last ones get on board before take off (for the aeroplane geeks amongst us, it's a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan)
Apparently, she was accompanied by two instructors for the first 7,000 feet freefall (with her in case she started to tumble but not actually helping her) before opening the chute at 6,000 feet and then she was left on her own while the instructors had a bit of fun. As it was her first jump, her chute was larger than the normal ones so she would descend slower and as she only weighs about 8 stone that meant she came down nice and slowly.
Coming in to land. A bit away from the drop zone as she was directly above it when still 2,000 feet up, her instructor had landed by then so radioed her and told her to move away so she could glide in but moved away a bit too far.....
which meant that she landed on the other side of the brow out of sight and had a long walk back to the minibus that would take her back to the airfield.
But after getting back to the field, out of the harness and suit she was still a bit shell-shocked. It took her about 2 hours and a bacon and egg butty before she remembered how it all went.....
I suspect the video I shot is a bit crap (not looked at it yet) but she paid to have video shot by the two instructors that accompanied her so that will be uploaded once she has it.
I'm not going to try and get into the efficiencies just make a couple of points. There's already trucks running on CNG and LNG (with a few on LPG too) but only a few prototypes running on batteries. Both these fuels need holes in the ground to extract the methane (unless you happen to have a herd of cows) so are still fossil fuels so, while better than diesel (anything is better than diesel in my opinion) still not ideal. The cost, both in money and pollution caused, makes Lithium batteries far from zero emission, it just doesn't come out of the tailpipe. While the arguments against Hydrogen are, presumably, valid, if Cummins the company that makes and supplies engines to the likes of MAN, Volvo Trucks, Renault trucks, Iveco trucks and probably a few more I've missed, not to mention engines for ships, have gone down the ICE running on Hydrogen route, there must be a future in it. The engines are basically diesel engine converted into very high compression ratio petrol engines and use Hydrogen stored in Carbon Fibre tanks as their fuel.
Personally, I said about 5 years ago that I would give battery electric vehicles as they were then no more than 10 years unless range increased dramatically and charge times fell. That doesn't seem to have happened with 300 miles on a full charge being regarded as the most manufacturers are going for. Driving back from the south of France a couple of weeks ago, the Autoroute matrix signs were warning of out of order charging facilities at two consecutive service areas. I stopped for LPG at the next one to see a queue of Teslas (mostly UK registered too) at the charging stations. I was able to fill my tank, have my lunch and set off again while some were still waiting to plug in. As a commuter vehicle there is a place for them but as a viable means of all round transport I don't think they have a future.
@karlos01, don't forget that you are running on LPG and if the LPG calibration is slightly out that will also cause too lean (or too rich) codes so may be a totally different problem.
From what I've seen the idea behind it being a renewable energy source is that by producing it by hydrolysing water using electricity from renewable sources, you've got a zero carbon fuel.
davew wrote:
although as a general point I am sure with the GEMS you will know that the related MIL Codes (especially with off/on marginal values) do often take a while to show up
But it isn't a GEMS, it's an L322 Supercharged.....
It probably just needs syncing to the car. If the battery has been flat or disconnected it will lose sync so is normal. If it is locked with the key, it can be unlocked with the key so the immobiliser will still be on but being turned off when you unlock. It has probably had a cheapo replacement case fitted and not glued together properly but if the LED flashes, that is a good sign and suggests it is working.
To sync make sure all doors, bonnet and tailgate are closed, put the key in the door lock. Turn to lock and hold there, while holding the key turned press and hold the lock button on the fob until the LED starts to flash faster (about 3 seconds). Release the fob button then turn the key back to centre. Then turn to unlock, hold, press and hold the unlock key on the fob until it flashes faster then release. Turn the key back to centre and try pressing a fob button, that should have synced it so it will now work.
Assuming it does and you are in the UK, take your V5 and some form of ID into a LR main dealer and ask them to provide you with the EKA code. They should give you a printout with things like radio code, EKA, lockset bar code, build date, etc. free of charge. Go to your local Timsons and ask them to cut you a key blade (you'll need to tell them it is a BMW blank) so you'll have a spare that you can use while you send your fob to Jon here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265688990980 to be refurbished. Even if the sync doesn't work, you'll still be able to use your cut blade while Jon works his magic on your existing fob.
My other half works for Cummins, who supply diesel engines to numerous truck manufacturers, and they have produced and are testing an H2 fuelled IC engine for trucks. Spotted quite a few H2 filling stations in Germany earlier in the year, nearly every station on the Autobahns had LPG and CNG as well as the liquid stuff too.
As I see it the problem is that technology moves faster than Governments. They make an announcement that we should all go zero carbon at a time when EV was the only option. Now we have H2 fuel cells instead of batteries, H2 ICEs that work, synthetic fuels and there's no doubt other options coming along. At least the Germans have realised and won't be phasing out ICE powered vehicles from 2035.
You don't need both, just one or the other. 7 pin was standard for years but some caravans needed extras, like an ignition switched live and reversing lights so they went over to twin sockets. The 13 pin ones came much later as they include everything. If towing just a standard trailer all you need is 7 pin. That gives L and R sidelights, L and R indicators, brake lights, rear fogs and ground.
Unfortunately RAVE doesn't cover the Sport so can't look in there. P38 has spare sockets ready to plug a trailer socket loom into, I would assume the Sport does as well. You'll be looking for unconnected sockets lurking behind the rear lights.
A quick check of the parts catalogue suggests you need YMZ500522 which is an expensive way of buying a 7 pin socket with wires and plugs to go into sockets that are already there (somewhere).....