Not on anything as big as 19mm girth, anyway 😆
Our local MOT station is very thorough and they're good mechanics but they insist on failing your car, then fixing it, then retesting it. Even if you take it in and say "it needs brake pipes and an MOT" they won't fix the brake pipes first.
I don't really think of the P38 as a "drivers car". They're more for wafting along in effortless comfort. As an added bonus they'll do pretty much anything you ask of them but like a very expensive swiss army knife, they're not really about being a knife anymore.
smooved innit!
A fashion that needs to die. In a fire.
And the results are in!
HEVAC:
NANOCOM - HEVAC.APP - VALEO HEVAC fault file
(2) THE HEATED FRONT SCREEN SHORT CIRCUIT TO GROUND.
(8) THE LEFT HAND BLEND MOTOR IS SHORT CIRCUIT TO GROUND.
(26) RIGHT HAND BLOWER MOTOR HIGH SIDE OF REGULATION CIRCUIT FAULT.
(30) LEFT HAND BLOWER MOTOR HIGH SIDE OF REGULATION CIRCUIT FAULT.
(50) HEATER CORE TEMPERATURE SENSOR CIRCUIT SHORT TO GROUND.
(51) SOLAR SENSOR FAULT.
MOTRONIC (Cleared, did not come back)
NANOCOM - MOTRP38.APP - MOTRONIC fault file
P0172 = MIXTURE ADAPTION FACTOR FRA
BANK 1 DRIVE CYCLE C
OCCURED 25 TIMES
SIGNAL TOO HIGH
FAULT IS NOT CURRENTLY PRESENT
FAULT DETERMINED AS INTERMITTENT
FAULT CAUSES THE MIL LAMP
ACTIVATION
P0175 = MIXTURE ADAPTION FACTOR
FRA BANK 2 DRIVE CYCLE C
OCCURED 2 TIMES
SIGNAL TOO HIGH
FAULT IS NOT CURRENTLY PRESENT
FAULT DETERMINED AS INTERMITTENT
FAULT DOES NOT CAUSE THE
MIL LAMP ACTIVATION
Bonus fault:
NANOCOM - SPS2.APP - DISCOII SRS fault file
CODE 008
THE DRIVERS AIRBAG MEASURES OPEN
CIRCUIT
I'd love to have a go in a Tesla and try their autopilot out. Personally, I can't wait for fully autonomous cars but I want the version that allows you to drive the fun bits and fall asleep on the motorway. Sadly it looks like the car industry wants to only produce autonomous vehicles without any controls at all :(
It's a godsend in those endless 50mph limits with speed averaging cameras. Pretty good in France too because the autoroutes are so empty.
Hmpf. Mine stopped working again on the way back from Summer camp 17 one year after Gilbert fixed it at Summer camp 16.
I'm not built for gymnastics either!
You really need to leave off the LPG until you've got the idle/misfire sorted on Petrol. Random fuelling isn't good for engines!
That's an excellent average MPG - well done :)
I'm happier with computers than spanners :)
WJ Overland? I looked at some of those but ended up with a P38 :) nice motors but I couldn't find a nice one, if you see what I mean.
I think Simon has some relevant advice on fuelling the midrange on those, or was it something to do with PRINS? Anyway, I'm sure he'll be back :)
Either way, OBD doesn't add much to LPG installs for reasons that have been explained a few times on the LPG forum, but boil down to lag. If the Petrol system makes a change to cope with a transient condition the LPG will then try to correct itself as well but the conditions will have changed so it ends up chasing the needle.
If I were you I'd get a cheapo Bluetooth OBD adaptor and the paid version of Torque for your phone. You'll have a readout of your ST/LT trims really quickly with the minimum messing about.
We're working on that :)
There will be a trip to the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge at some point, just trying to settle on an evening.
Can any of the others squirt the EKA direct to the BECM? cos the sweet sweet clunk of the locks firing the door pins up followed by the engine starting on the button was worth £300 of anyone's money!
(My P38 was stuck in a local garage with EKA lockout and a dodgy door microswitches)
Or just adjust the tyre pressures until it's sitting level!
(I'll get my coat)
but but... why not use manifold vacuum? It's free!
Rover must have had a spare committee or something
Sloth wrote:
Depends. How long is this race, and is refuelling allowed? :P
A V8 with LPG might just have a longer range if both tanks are brimmed... but I'd also like to be able to afford certain luxuries, like food!
What is the range of a petrol 4.6? I don't think I've ever brimmed the tank on The Duchess - the furthest she went on Petrol with me was when we picked her up from Bradford, or maybe the trip to Simon's for the LPG conversion.
I take it back - I'd got the wrong entrance, but there's a permanent TRO on that route (Hambleton Drove Road). Seems there was 500km of RUPP in the North Yorkshire Moors but now there's only about 3km of BOAT that are still open.
Grrrrr. There's a clearly marked BOAT on the definitive map which has a locked gate across one end courtesy of the Forestry Commission.
OK, the North Yorkshire Definitive Map is... DRUMROLL
here: http://maps.northyorks.gov.uk/connect/analyst/?mapcfg=Out_and_About
Sadly there's very little in the way of Green Lanes on it.
Actually there's a couple within striking distance, but one of them is so mild the Google Maps car made it all the way!