Are they M10? Early heads were Imperial (5/16 UNC I think) while later ones were M8.
Although I said I wouldn't be using P&O again, and in all honesty didn't expect them to start up again, I had 3 pre-paid returns on a season ticket. I asked about a refund but they pointed me towards the T&Cs which clearly stated that they wouldn't refund anything while they still existed (and if they subsequently went bust I'd be unlikely to get anything anyway). Tried to book one crossing with them a couple of weeks ago but as none of their ships had passed the safety inspection they weren't operating so couldn't provide me with a crossing and booked me with DFDS instead. Paid for by P&O from my season ticket, a bit of a result really.
Then I needed a crossing going out on Thursday and coming back today. Initially we were booked on P& O both ways, then they sent e an email saying the outbound crossing had been pushed back by 2.5 hours and if this wasn't suitable they'd transfer me to DFDS. So I said to go for it and used DFDS, but paid for on my pre-paid P&O season ticket. Only problem was, we were coming back with P&O.....
They currently only have the Spirit of Britain running, so there's a crossing every 4 hours. They actually moved our our return back by an hour but we weren't too bothered as it meant we didn't have to get up at stupid o'clock to set off. Driving onto the ferry and parking up we were directed to the correct place by a smiling, not sure what the PC correct expression is these days, dark skinned gentleman who greeted everyone with a wave and a good afternoon. In the lounge it was a different matter. One English guy, who had probably escaped the chop and two others who looked like they'd picked them up from the refugee camp in Calais, put them in an ill fitting suit and told them to got on with it. English was most definitely not their first language, if indeed they actually spoke it and they didn't seem to understand it, they couldn't work the tills and they couldn't count out the change correctly if someone paid with cash (the guy next to me paid in cash, the till said he needed 65p in change and was given four 5p pieces.....). As for speed of service, blimey, the one guy on his own would have been faster without his 'helpers'. Fortunately the skipper sounded English when he came on the tannoy although we did follow a DFDS ferry across the Channel so there was a pretty good chance we wouldn't get lost.....
Not so much as done to it, more what have I done with it. Drove it from Den Haag (The Hague) in the Netherlands back home via Calais-Dover (P&O, another story). Had a little Audi A2 that needed taking to its new owner who was then going to drive it to Latvia and a load of stuff that needed bringing back so flying back, while it would have been a lot quicker, wasn't an option. We set off on Thursday and Dina insisted that she was driving my car while I drove the A2. Her argument was that she hadn't driven a manual for a long time and getting onto the ferry may have involved driving up the ramp. Recently she's used the Ascot quite a bit but only for fairly short journeys and usually only drives mine for a couple of hours at a time when we do our long trans-European trips and I need some kip.
This time we had 3 hours to get to Dover, a ferry crossing, followed by what should have been 4 hours but became 5 due to road works on the Antwerp ring road. She's sitting there quite happy, or as happy as anyone can be while creeping along at 10 mph every couple of minutes, as she's got an auto gearbox and fully functioning air conditioning. Me however, I'm sitting in a car that has a large, sloping, windscreen that makes it like a greenhouse, with an outdoor temperature of 23.5 degrees showing on the dashboard, no AC and a manual gearbox so having to keep exercising my left leg......
But, when we finally arrived she commented that she now understands how I can drive for hours at a time and not get tired. She reckons it's just like driving a sofa.
Yours is the diesel so you don't appear to have many options, https://www.lrdirect.com/stc2227-alternator. Although someone did identify a replacement regulator and brushes assembly for around £20 which might be a better option as you will keep the original Bosch (I believe) innards.
Not quite. I pulled onto the forecourt at Morrisons in Wisbech and saw another 38 filling up on the RH side of the pump so I pulled up to the LH side (having the filler in the centre of the back bumper means I can fill from either side). I'd just connected the hose to start filling and Sam sticks his head around from the other side of the pumps and says, "I think the word is, snap". We had a chat, I asked if he was on any forum (just in case it was someone we already knew) and he said he wasn't, so I told him to find the pub......
Not on Nigel's. It is definitely tappet noise coming from the top end and not an exhaust blow. It's probably one knackered follower but as it has been doing it for years and he maintains it has never got any worse, then it hasn't really been a priority.
Today I checked the tyre pressures, checked the coolant level, topped up the washer fluid and treated it to half a litre of oil (well, it is 8,000 miles since I last changed it). Then took it into the next village for a Romanian car wash and had to go over to Wisbech so filled up with LPG in Morrisons and found another like minded soul in an early Vogue SE. Will top it up on the way to Dover in the morning which will get me to Belgium as I'm doing a quick run over to Amsterdam tomorrow. Back home Friday night, Paris and back on Monday and a real long one to Sweden at the end of the month. How on earth did I ever find time to go to work before I retired?
You found it then. Nice looking car you've got there, good job mine was washed today......
As you installed it, that's a relief for you then Simon......
It's under BeCM - Settings - Alarm - Arm/Disarm.
That's different, never even seen steel wheels on a P38. Good job Greater Manchester Police didn't know abut them or mine would have been ordered with a set.....
You've been playing with your Nanocom again. It's an option under the BeCM menu for setting Arm/Disarm display.
Don't repeat a mistake that has confused a number of people in the past. You drain the oil out of the sump, release the bolts (and a couple of nuts too), lower the sump then find you can't get it out from under the car because it is hitting the front axle at the bottom and the oil pickup at the top. All you need do is put a jack under the front crossmember and lift the front of the car. A huge gap appears between the underside of the engine and the top of the axle and the sump will just fall out. Or jack it up first so you've got more room to get under there in the first place.
It's a Schrader valve, just the same as on your tyres. So can be a screw fit, a push on or one of those strange things with the locking lever.
I just use a tyre pressure gauge..... I know getting at the port on a Thor isn't easy but if you find one that will fit, go for that. A pressure gauge is a pressure gauge, it will show pressure of a liquid or a gas (or air) just the same.
Got sent a link to these and thought they were worth sharing.
Clive603 wrote:
Pox. Why isn't it showing up in the post.
Clive
It is now, you just put a link to it rather than inserting the .jpg file in the picture command. If you go to edit the post you'll see what I've done to change it.
I'll suggest Marketplace to my mate, he's not been able to find one for under £120 so far. I'll also suggest he welds it on once he's got one too!
They are also ridiculously expensive. A mate recently bought an 2005 RRS with the intention of using it to tow his caravan. Only to discover that although it has a towbar, it doesn't have the detachable ball.....
I don't know how many presses it takes before the rolling code buffer gets out of sync, but yes, random pressing of the buttons when out of range of the car is not a good idea.
I’ll try that sync process tomorrow. It seems to me that I haven’t had to use that in the past. Even when I changed the batteries I just stuck the key in the ignition barrel, and all was OK - though clearly that was with the car unlocked.
That's the difference. If the car is unlocked the passive sync will work but not if it is in an alarmed or immobilised state. In the same way you will not be able to manually sync a key using the process in the door lock, if the car is alarmed or immobilised. You need to enter the EKA to turn the immobiliser off first.
I’m going to print off the eka number and your explanation and leave them in a card in my wallet.
I've got the EKA for both cars stored in the contacts on my phone as I'll always have that with me.
Would one fob need the EKA (if it was un-synced) yet the car would respond properly and happily to the second synced one? I find that quite funny!
Yes. The BeCM knows which key you are using so will know at what point in the rolling code it is expecting to receive. So while one key can be out of sync, the other one can still be. With my Ascot, the battery goes flat if it isn't used for more than about 5 weeks so I have to charge the battery and then both keys will be out of sync and it will need the EKA entering first. Being an early car it doesn't have the passive sync so I always sync both before putting one in the spare key drawer. That way if one key dies I can always use the other.