Phantom_Mark
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Hi guys,
Just a couple of little niggles to fix and a couple of questions please.
First up.
Our car is due a service, just to bear that in mind.
Heater.....
Car comes up to temp on the gauge as normal to be honest, sits around half way within 6 miles at most, even on these cold mornings, never goes above half, so pretty normal, however even with the cabin temp set to max the heater feels quite luke warm at best, I never remember the heater being this weak in the past, any ideas ??
Related to above.......the aux heater thingmy, I can hear it and it often is still running when we switch off the car, and often emits smoke from passenger side front wheel arch, something I read before on these forums is normal ?? But what exactly is it supposed to be doing if the heat in the car is luke warm at best anyways ??
O/S Rear Window.......
Seems to have dropped off the runner, is it an easy job ?? guessing just a case of pulling the skin and re-seating it ? how do you stop the window dropping from the runner again tho, is it compressed/crimped ?
Rover Ron Tuning Box - with switch........
I bought this nearly 2 years ago when we got the car, I fitted it and we had some problems, so I pulled it and it has sat gathering dust since, however I have decided to try and take these problems head on, so first problem,
1. Occasionally the car became difficult to start when hot
2. Fuel economy dropped through the floor, we get around 35mpg average without the box fitted, with the box notably less, to an extreme on one occasion.
3. The occasional stutter
4. Fuel gauge seemed to have a mind of its own sometimes
All of the above problems disappeared once the box was removed again, hence we never bothered with it since ??
We had a new genuine MAF, so fairly sure we can rule that one out, still need to do the EGR bypass, and still need to do the crankcase breather upgrade (thats probably desperate actually)
Any help with the above bits much appreciated thanks.
Just a couple of little niggles to fix and a couple of questions please.
First up.
Our car is due a service, just to bear that in mind.
Heater.....
Car comes up to temp on the gauge as normal to be honest, sits around half way within 6 miles at most, even on these cold mornings, never goes above half, so pretty normal, however even with the cabin temp set to max the heater feels quite luke warm at best, I never remember the heater being this weak in the past, any ideas ??
Related to above.......the aux heater thingmy, I can hear it and it often is still running when we switch off the car, and often emits smoke from passenger side front wheel arch, something I read before on these forums is normal ?? But what exactly is it supposed to be doing if the heat in the car is luke warm at best anyways ??
O/S Rear Window.......
Seems to have dropped off the runner, is it an easy job ?? guessing just a case of pulling the skin and re-seating it ? how do you stop the window dropping from the runner again tho, is it compressed/crimped ?
Rover Ron Tuning Box - with switch........
I bought this nearly 2 years ago when we got the car, I fitted it and we had some problems, so I pulled it and it has sat gathering dust since, however I have decided to try and take these problems head on, so first problem,
1. Occasionally the car became difficult to start when hot
2. Fuel economy dropped through the floor, we get around 35mpg average without the box fitted, with the box notably less, to an extreme on one occasion.
3. The occasional stutter
4. Fuel gauge seemed to have a mind of its own sometimes
All of the above problems disappeared once the box was removed again, hence we never bothered with it since ??
We had a new genuine MAF, so fairly sure we can rule that one out, still need to do the EGR bypass, and still need to do the crankcase breather upgrade (thats probably desperate actually)
Any help with the above bits much appreciated thanks.
