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Reporting in late. Yesterday afternoon I took the Rangie for its MOT. Totally clean on emissions. Mr. Tapley was happy with the brakes and all the lights and horns work. So a clean pass with no advisories. :D

Best sort the battery drain. Otherwise depending on sunshine at you local area, get a solar panel, or one of these Noco Genius chargers. I could not get enough sun due to local trees, but that Noco kept my Blue P38 batterys until I fixed the...

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Blow it up to 60psi or more, easy to let some out if you have to use it, NBG if it has too little pressure.

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I always carry and have done for many years the Holts puncture repairs cans. Have been very handy on a late wet and windy night just to get me home 👍

Now you'll be sure you won't need it for another 10 years!!

You've made me pop out and check mine. Looks brand new but flat as a pancake. I've never touched it in over 10 years. Looks brand new wheel and tyre. Suppose I'd better put some air in it:)

It was still there. Then i put it on the car lol!! Tyre looks repairable so that's good

Refilled the gearbox today and surprisingly after having it's valve block bolts tightened it still works LOL. Photo of refinished sump and for those that have not seen them, photo's of the gearbox under tray and engine under tray. Brake pads...

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I looked

You're not telling me heated front seats are not working like that, are you? 😁

They'll warm the seats up nicely 🤣

Couldn't motivate myself to do difficult stuff under the car, so I did this instead:

Thanks everyone! Need to check that out this afternoon after work!

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1- Pos Starter Trigger from ignition switch. 2- Main Pos Power from battery. Negative Power it gets through the body of the starter motor from the engine. Edit - Oh and that red cable that goes from the solenoid over and not connected to...

I old I don't do tecknicker things!

The spare?.. well.. it's spare.. innit! Do i need to go look at it?

As you say more protection on rough lanes but I never had any undertrays and no issue ever occurred even with copious amounts of abuse. You could try replacing it with substitute. What about little extra sound dampening under the carpet?

These flair tools work very well, mine came with some nuts as well...

Nothing. Story of my life.

Right that didn't work I shall try again lol.

Sooo, I think I narrowed my electrical worries down a bit, maybe even to the root cause but that's to early to tell for now. Got a new battery today, and then did some other testing. Everything is working, including the interior lights...

Ok - an update. Garrage said 3 week wait. In the meantime I decided to back probe the 5th pin of the airbag DCU. It was staying above 11.0v on crank, I also ran a wire to it directly from battery via a 5amp fuse to see if that helped but error of...

Thanks folks, so I'll get a flanging tool, some copper-nickel tubing and all necessary fittings. A man needs something to do during the next winter! By the current rate, I'll do the cylinder heads myself next year! 😳

Ahh, you're no fun Keith, makes for great excitement when you turn the key :) :)