The last fault I saw on the Nano was to do with a low voltage on a serial bus (or similar). I'm afraid I just wiped and carried on because I was late for work. Now I know it'll start eventually I'll take down the details if it comes back but I didn't think it was related at the time.
Bad technique, I know :(
I'm putting this under Electrickery but it's just a guess...
Recently, with the colder weather, the Duchess has decided to be a little bitch to start when cold. She used to start absolutely immediately, hot or cold, but now she can take repeated attempts to start. The starter/battery seem perfectly healthy and the engine cranks over nice and quickly. Eventually she'll start on a few cylinders and then the rest cut in over 2-3 seconds.
Where should I start looking?
Is there any point in getting one if you already have a Gen3? Not that I've checked yet, just curious :)
Heater cores are always buried in the dash and dashboards are always tedious to remove :(
When I rule the world, all cars will have maintenance hatches for any component that isn't guaranteed for the life of the owner!
So Jennifer Anniston had your car? Wow, check for ginger hair, that stuff lives for ever! :)
Looks like fun :) As long as there's bacon sarnies I'm in :)
I've used bicycle chain lube for door locks in the past with good results but I'm changing over to graphite in the future - dry lube seems like the way to avoid frozen locks.
Sadly it was Orangebean who is no long with us.
Yes but the UK changed over to metric - the yanks didn't. Or not officially. So I'm confused as to why an American car built in the US with an American engine still uses metric stuff all over the place. The gearbox I could understand as its an AW4 (joint project between Borg Warner and Aisin Seiko) but I don't take that apart so I don't know if it's metric or not.
I have a Jeep that uses both Imperial and Metric nuts/bolts. I still can't figure that one out!
Well, I'll be heading down to Dorset again in January, maybe I could drop by Swindon on the way back and buy you a beer? :)
I'll be packing a spare compressor....hehehe
That's a damn good idea!
I cooked a steak when I got in :)
Yep, he did :)
A very cunning inflatable bag thing, like half a blood pressure cuff opened the door top like a wedge but with no paint damage.
He went for the door handle first but it was deadlocked.. seems odd?
I tested when I got home just now and it doesn't pop the doorpins on shutting the door no matter where the key is. I'll have to check through the BECM options to see if I've switched something off without realising. Had I known it didn't do this anymore I wouldn't have been so blasé about the door pins in the first place.
I'm sure the half shut/full shut/pop door pins thing works, I've done it before on this car (panicked until I realised I could push the door to pop the pins up) but this time it didn't work. I'm assuming it's because the key was in the ignition, but I can't be sure until I'm back in and able to test. The only other difference is that the headlights are on. I can't see any logical reason for that to make a difference, but this IS a P38...
I have everything but small fingers available, in fact there are waitresses working tonight....
Green Flag are on their way. But could you PM me the tailgate method please?
Unless the key is in the ignition 😆
Door is fully shut...
So, I was rushing.. left the key in the ignition, went to open the boot, caught the door pin on the way out, got to the boot button to see the door swing shut. Locked. No second fob.
Is there any other option to breaking the window? the tops of the doors look a lot sturdier than my old E30's.....
Help!
The car is at work, near the boss's bedroom and the headlights are on. If the alarm goes off overnight, the car probably be dragged away by a tractor.
Last year mine was 28ppm. I forgot to write it down this year :/
At last - an alternative!
Definitely 8mm ID from the throttle body to the expansion bottle? I had it in my mind it was 10mm so ASH might be getting a cancellation anyway.
Don't forget the swirl flaps on BMW diesels that saved the planet by lowering carbon emissions by hurling themselves into the combustion chambers of otherwise perfectly serviceable engines. (if you're kinky for diesels).