Hopefully it works as well if not better. Interior is black top to bottom and with leather seats... when we actually get those three days of summer a year, it is...toasty.

People that think AC is a waste of time in this country are either just too cheap to fix it, or don't feel heat. I become a moody bastard if I'm too hot very quickly :) I have it on year round on auto so it helps keep the interior dry too. Not like it really makes a prehistoric V8 any worse on fuel either!

If you're precious about the state of your car, I'd stick to the sealed road surfaces :) Mind you, a lot of 'normal' cars do head in the direction of the fun route - either they turn off somewhere beforehand or take it very slow at some stages!

We've all seen Marty's engine bay from his repeat trips. It'd be a bit more black if it weren't for that route :D

It isn't really smaller in terms of capacity by the looks of it - its narrower in width, but taller. Perhaps a smidge thinner and with thinner rows that are common on more modern condensers. It also looks like it has quite a few more rows, which should be more efficient. All in all - with no steel encasement around the edges at all, it should have fewer issues with corrosion.

Haven't got it gassed yet sadly - at this point it'll probably be next week before I do.

Ah - my bumper seems to come off enough the bolts stay cooperative!

I think the first time I took it off I probably used my impact gun to break the E14 bolts loose, which may have helped.

The weather isn't looking too bad at least down here on the weekend. That said... it was just as cold here today.

Might bring my 45kw space heater just in case.... it's freaking April!

My 2015 vintage condenser has sadly succumbed to incontinence, in the same week that my BMW rubbed through one of the lines and also emptied itself of its precious refrigerant.

Anyway - back to coolpartsuk on eBay and ordered another one. When this turned up, I was sure it was the wrong one...

Upside down and the fact its narrower with pointy outy brackets threw me off... but it does in fact fit! And as a bonus, the fan mounting holes line up perfectly, whereas the previous couple of aftermarket in the 'old style' have been a bit of hit and miss... mostly miss.

Has held vacuum, so off to get it and the BMW gassed at somepoint.

Gilbert's idea of 'pleasant' leaves a lot to be desired :P

They're not that bad I suppose, but not that fun either!

I'll be up for both days.

The heater certainly isn't needed in the UK, but the engine is the same in all markets - perhaps with a few oddities like secondary air injection in the states, and running open loop (possibly just GEMS?) in Australia etc.

Mine went a long time ago - I think I might have been the first to use the single ply hose from the ever-unreliable Auto Silicone Hoses on eBay? It's good stuff, and at some point I should try and get some more to have it to hand if I need it on others!

You need to post those pictures to Facebook, you know to those that were 1 million % sure it is definitely bearing shells...

the P38 Doctor, I believe? Doctor of what, I don't know...

I thought a decent MOT tester should be expecting the lights to come on and go off too these days too - to try and get around the old tape/lamp out trick. I'd personally prefer my airbag to have some chance of operating if I am ever unfortunate enough to need it anyway.

They'll still get it wrong with a P38 though and the ABS lamp. My favourite has been our red one being passed just fine on the Monday, and the same garage failing my silver one on the Wednesday.

My bad - I read rear mud shields and assumed you meant the mud flaps that have two varieties.

That is a crap load of cash for some pressed metal brake shields.

I've just bought CAT101160 and CAT101170 - fitted perfectly. And very cheap. I should have a twin exhaust - though one half is missing, so I only have the passenger side currently, where an early P38 with single exhaust would have been drivers side only.

Either way, I can't see with either single or twin exhaust how these would get in the way.

My engine has no number at all, to confuse things somewhat, either on V5 or engine itself.

But I've no idea of the history of it... the vehicle is/was, so far as I can tell, a pre-production Wabco D/Bosch engine prototype or test vehicle. Lots of handwritten build stickers on bits and pieces, experimental warnings on the Wabco ECU, calibrated cluster (not the same as the police ones), prototype fusebox label, and a Thor engine in a 97-98ish P38. Coolant plumbing didn't match either GEMS or Thor parts either initially, though now its entirely custom bar bottom hoses.

The XM engines are certainly interesting - what is more so about this one, is how it appears to have been stamped out. Weird.

Shame - quite a clean engine inside!

My silver P38 appears to have a crack or some other porosity behind no6, as the plug over time rusts, and on start up it would miss quite badly on #6 till it sorted its life out.

"Fixed" that temporarily with proper water glass solution and water - which has stopped the coolant loss, missing and excess pressure in the cooling system. Unfortunately, the rest of the solution appears to be dropping out of er solution and causing sludginess in the header tank, so I need to give it all a good flushing soon.

I'm not sure what to do long term though... one of the body mounts is badly damaged on the passenger side and would ideally need the body off to repair it properly. So depending on the next MOT results it may or may not get a new engine down the line... :/

So we're going with 6th/7th of April - works for me too :)

I don't think mine need doing, but I'll be around anyhow.

But your address is useless on its own if I don't know that you live there. It won't necessary personally identify you as being someone that lives there by itself.

Equally your name is useless on its own - Bob Smith isn't unique to person X. There might be a person Y and Z too also called Bob Smith.

Version X of Bob Smith and Address A however, could be personal data if Bob Smith X lives at Address A. Together, that's unique personal data that identifies Bob.

But good luck with it. I'd just not use BT or turn it off if you're that bothered.

Probably did have the battery backed sounder - but likely already dead. Big cube like things with a 4 pin plug that is a little loom that splits to two two pin plugs. One is permanent power and ground, the other is ground and signal from the BECM.

Both my cars have always-on trackers in them that report back to my own tracking server.

Costs me nothing to do, and I have other family member's cars of varying value on it too. In my case, it means I have some chance of recovering them if they were ever taken as a crime of opportunity or whatever.

Having the siren work though would alert me if someone broke INTO it.

Most UK spec cars will have had the battery backed sounder.

I recommend getting rid of them at this point - as by now the batteries will either have failed entirely, or be failing. And in the worst case, as you've found out - overheat and cause a fire.

I replaced mine with a standard 12v siren, and set the BECM alarm sounder settings to 'klaxon' so it will drive it properly. If you're not fussed about having a sounder, you can just disconnect it and be done with it - though may need the procedure as Gilbert has stated above if its still working.

55w on paper.

Given they're plastic, I wouldn't be inclined to try anything higher than that. I doubt the wiring is up to taking much more either from what I remember of seeing it them.