My glowplug harness rubber crumbling/breaking up when I removed it so changed it when doing plugs , it wasn’t dear around £30 genuine
what have you done to your car today ?
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That's something that's stopped me changing my glow plugs. That and the fear of one snapping while I'm taking it out. While I'm pretty sure I'm still on the original ones, they still seem to work - I only have the warning light stay on when it's really, really cold.
I'm cleaning my EGR valve today. It doesn't really need it but I might as well while I had it out to check it.
If I can get a space outside the house I'll do the oil change next week and try to get at the lower EGR pipe to undo it from the underside.
It's such a pain living where I do - everyone is working from home so their cars don't move that much, and we've only got parking on one side of the street. One day I might get a space outside the house, but if I do a quick run to warm up the oil, the space probably won't be there when I get back.
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Think the life of glow plugs is around 50k , I got the car upto temp when removing them and one was bloody tight it did feel like it was going to snap, refitted with copper grease on the threads, have you got an old tooth brush as that’s what I used too clean my egr to get all the carbon out was also handy when I removed that rubber gasket too clean that grove out
How many new words had the neighbours children learnt, after that little lot?I had my clutch, timing belt and wishbones all changed on the drive over the last 3 years.
That was an impressively grenaded clutch!
It gets worse - it was Christmas Eve 2019 and the wife was driving her dad home from hospital after a major heart operation. Cost £260 for the RAC to tow it home too 
It had only done 76k too!
It had only done 76k too!
It gets worse - it was Christmas Eve 2019 and the wife was driving her dad home from hospital after a major heart operation. Cost £260 for the RAC to tow it home too
It had only done 76k too!
Some things really do happen at the worst possible time - it's like life is really kicking you in the balls.
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He can cut the gas supply I guess but petrol I’m not so sure.
Don’t start a stampede
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Im saying nothing ?He can cut the gas supply I guess but petrol I’m not so sure.
Don’t start a stampede
Badger5 Custom Map + TIP,
3”Custom exhaust, FMIC, Bosh 550’s, BC Coilovers, ARB’s +loads more.
So that’s why there is a queue of just Seats and Cupras at my local shell?
Turns out my glow plug wiring... is fine! Yay!
Guess it was just me not plugging it in correctly. Now I just have to solve the coolant alarm going off on first start (guessing bad sensor or the plug isn't on right ?)
Guess it was just me not plugging it in correctly. Now I just have to solve the coolant alarm going off on first start (guessing bad sensor or the plug isn't on right ?)
Open the expansion bottle , you'll see two prongs , use a screwdriver or something and gently rub them as they oxidize ect you'd think there clean looking at them, had same on mine and did that, it lasted, but i still got the bottle swapped by the garage i got car from.. its a common fault but easy fix
replaced both rears last year as that cold spell we had in jan whipped them out , and repaired the old ones with other parts, the motors inside just unplug pity i cant find them as a separate part, rears are easier todo though
I may have put a little diesel in today... Only because I might get to see some family I've not seen for about six years and I'm not risking being sat in a queue where there's no fuel.
Decided to sand the cracked clear coat on my rear bumper today to see if I could get it flat and maybe even a little more presentable. It blew through in a couple of places, but I was expecting to have to respray it over the spring anyway so I'm not too fussed. I'll probably do the same to the front bumper now too - at least it gives me a reason to do it when the weather gets warmer. There are a couple of light scratches on the roof and someday soon I'm just going to go out, give it a wet sand and see if T-Cut can bring some life back to it.
There's always something quite scary about taking sandpaper to your car, but with all the stuff it's put me through lately, it's going to have to sit there and take what's coming to it.
Decided to sand the cracked clear coat on my rear bumper today to see if I could get it flat and maybe even a little more presentable. It blew through in a couple of places, but I was expecting to have to respray it over the spring anyway so I'm not too fussed. I'll probably do the same to the front bumper now too - at least it gives me a reason to do it when the weather gets warmer. There are a couple of light scratches on the roof and someday soon I'm just going to go out, give it a wet sand and see if T-Cut can bring some life back to it.
There's always something quite scary about taking sandpaper to your car, but with all the stuff it's put me through lately, it's going to have to sit there and take what's coming to it.
Both my rears have packed up over the last couple of months.
Guess im going to have a 3 door till the summer.
SEAT missed a trick there. I've always thought a 3dr Leon would be cool.
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got mine from here https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153589805626?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 its cheaper buying more,
any issues its free return , i had one with a missing spring outside lock and replaced within a week, they even said keep the old lock that's were i got the replacement motor from for the genuine locks removed, if there is a will there is a way lol
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