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Might have to do that Thing is , they had an empty room and a full new bathroom delivered to fit in it , plus they had a van full of tools but still managed to cock everything up, cistern not level on wall or square with it, water entry pipe at...

Turns out the offside axle seal was well worn & it clearly had a gap around the half-shaft. Nearside as better but still not sealing well. Both bearing housings had loads of rust inside, so clearly water had been getting in there. LR-CAT...

ok, shame is I have Hawkeye and it is old at that...worry about it when we get that far!

...that this little tree/bush looks absolutely stunning for about 10 days every year. Then it returns to looking totally boring and featureless. :(

Personally speaking I’d have a 300tdi 90 on a 95 plate which my son purchased in 2018 he bought it only really knowing it had a rc galvanised chassis replaced in 2014 , not long after purchasing we realised both front brakes were seized which we...

There's no need for any sealer around the bearing hub, if the casing seal has gone it'll wash the bearings out and they'll die pretty soon. Replace the casing seal and put a touch of copper grease around the mating surface of the bearing casing...

Not sealing down properly as well then. Just put a new (decent) flush valve into it yourself

Well it did fill and then two thirds of it would flush away, but after last flush it runs from cistern into bowl constantly and water running into cistern trying to top it up but failing so I'm back to flushing with a bucket of water :(

Week later update... Fitted a new rad and very slowly refilled the coolant (well just plain water at the moment), and let it run. 15 minutes later, engine still running, and temp looks like it's sitting in the middle: I didn't let it run any...

Yes, simple with nanocom - ultility - learn security code and save injector codes, that's all

Wait till you try a Shell rapid charger on the motorways… about 90p / kWh 😵‍💫

I'll get some silicone grease and check the contact of the seal all the way round the hatch as my next move then. I remember now I had to apply extra sealant to the top left and right hand corners of the hatch as water was still getting in there.

thanks, I will report back when I have looked at the ECU, harness plug etc. I assume the ECU has to be coded onto the vehicle if it gets changed.

Your problem is completely difrerent based on the MAP/IAT related codes and readings

Tested again today on a different make of charger. It took a bit of faffing about to get the app installed but eventually it worked. I plugged the car in, opened the app, told it to start, got in the car and pushed the button and a few seconds...

If oil got inside the ECU it could have made damage which you can't repair only swappig the ECU with known good one can rule it out... on such old vehicle the only 100% certain way to fix an intermittent wiring issues is to replace the whole...

It's full, actually slightly overflowing, it doesn't actually empty, always about a third full even after a flush EDIT, flushed it and the cistern is emptying constantly now

Is your cistern full of water (once finished refilling)?

The 98 Gems is the Parts car. The 99 Thor is the running car. What of the 98 I can use plug and play?

:D Toilet paper takes two flushes and then it gets sucked slowly away at the very last minute

My autobox has been playing up recently. I went to empty it and in my case it was the drain plug that had been rounded out, so I emptied out what would come out of the filler plug, then carefully took the sump off. Somehow managed to do it...

That would make quite a floater imo.

ok, I changed the harness before but having owned it 17 years that was likely an age ago! I will go back to the ECU and big plug by the battery and start again there. The MAP sensor was replaced when this issue started and nothing changed. Is...

did you ever get this truck running better? ours is very similar in terms of the gutless performance and no I do not expect it to drive like a BMW...had it 17 years and it is not right now!

Flipping Windows 11 keeps doing random things. Frinstance the screen size keeps changing and I cannot even slide it over to see stuff. REALLY annoying. Obvs something to do with how I move the finger across the touchpad. Cannot remember how to...

I screwed half a sheet of A4 paper up and it wouldn't flush it away, took 3 flushes !

I had a couple of 530d E39s and they were both brilliant, only issue I had was a MAF on of them aside from that absolutely nothing. I will concede that the 530i was my favourite though, less torque, less fuel economy but far and away a better...

That's classic IAT signal(part of MAP) failure code... if you are 100% certain that the MAP/IAT sensor is good i must insist that it's a wiring issue on that circuit or the ECU has an internal fault... check if the red plug is free of oil and...

Both Cars Gems 98 for part delivery and Thor 99 for parts receiving are 4.6l engines

Modern loos are rubbish aren't they? So often. But the flush being slow is weird. Ours flush quick enough there just often isn't sufficient volume of watter to shift stuff. And of course the float is adjusted up to the max.