Gilbertd wrote:

My drivers one seems to latch properly but a couple of times just recently it's come undone on it's own if I've leant forward to poke the satnav or get my fags off the top of the dash. I'll be going to the LRO show later today, but it seems they aren't all the same otherwise I would have had a look to see if I can pick up a couple.

Mine comes unlatched when I'm driving too, and sometimes won't latch when I go to clip the buckle in - it's like the pin won't slide back to let the buckle into the hole.

Fortunately it's never done this on an MOT.

There's not that much electronics and if they were any more old-fashioned the BeCM would be full of valves!

Gilbertd wrote:

You get a much better class of sarcasm, in fact, you get sarcasm without it being edited out by a moderator......

You can't believe how much I want to edit that :-D

That's getting into small genset territory... :-)

I've no problem with setting up a section for other models of RR. Someone with the appropriate magic ought to be able to wave the admin juju stick and make it happen.

I've had a very long and trying day, so I'm not going to fiddle with it right now.

"Not Loads" but I can spin up a Kimsufi box for about a tenner a month with 2TB of storage. That ought to be plenty. I suspect I'll need a chunkier server anyway since this VPS is tight on memory.

Aha, the server is a bit tight on memory and spamassassin that cleans up my mail is being a greedy pig.

Can I please be a bit "bolshie admin" and ask you to discuss the type of pipe you're getting in its own thread? Cheers guys ;-)

"just as well as it is almost impossible to get the radius arms off the diff casing .."

Oh shite, that's just what I wanted to hear before I take my radius arms off to get new bushes knocked in...

I'll look into it :-)

I really need to fix this.

Any Python programmers fancy knocking up a wee image hosting platform? ;-)

my parents place in central France which is just north of the Massif Central

A mate of mine lived in Clermont-Ferrand and then subsequently moved to Vic le Comte, lovely part of the world.

Sloth, that's rather like my mate's E39 530i Individual, but a bit lighter than Nachtblaumetallic :-)

We have a better class of nonsense here.

No, this is definitely a mechanical jerk and nothing to do with the valve action. It even does it with the EAS ECU disconnected, driving the solenoids externally.

\<puts the great big wooden spoon away>

Orangebean wrote:

Yep, that's the one Gordon. Exactly like something popping free. <br>
Not running Koni's on yours by any chance are you?

Nope, although that's one question I do have - how do you "bounce test" air suspension to see if you've got a knackered shock? My gut feeling is that the air suspension would be somewhat damped already compared to a spring (lower "Q" as it were) so it wouldn't bounce as much.

Going over speed humps the driver's side rear seems to come down with a hell of a whack.

I noticed that earlier with mine, it'll rise and fall as it adjusts itself sometimes with a bit of a "clunk". It's nothing to do with the ECU driving it, it's a much quicker "jerk" as something pops free.

Think I've had my BPR6ESes in for a couple of years now (bought them before I swapped the engine!). They must be at least due a gap adjustment.

You wouldn't lose that in a car park...

Many years ago I got a Citroën GSA off a mate who'd bought it on eBay to save it from the scrappy. It had absolutely rock hard suspension on the driver's side front. Okay, new sphere on that strut - but what's this, those spheres are brand new, they're still shiny box-fresh. Okay, jack it up, have a look, nothing. Let it down. Creak. Jack it up, nothing, pressure off and the ram moves freely, wheel back on, pressure up, let the jack down. Creak.

Hm.

Look under the wheelarch, and there's a crack down the back of the tube that holds the suspension ram where it goes into the end of the front crossmember. Jacked up, the springyness of the crossmember twists it back and closes the crack, with the weight on the wheels it starts to slide - creak - and opens up, putting the ram at quite a steep angle tilted forwards and of course it's jammed solid.

Jack it up, bead of weld down it, back down off the jack, no creak. Sorted.