Well, that's been a fun week. Fell ill last Friday and only just today out of bed. Exciting times they were not. Anyway. I need to remove the BECM & engine ECU but is there any way for me to secure/lock the car without the BECM fitted and the driver's door latch being busted as well? I'm going...

What size tank do you have? I was surprised at how long it takes to fill up LPG over here. Back home in comparison seemed as fast as filling the petrol tank here. Here though I have 100 useable litres, 40L more than I did there.

Definitely taking the weekend off. Plenty of motorsports and football to keep busy there. I've worked on plenty of Ford's in Australia that say otherwise. As Grrrrr says in the dark it can be quite a show. Most start with the tiniest crack in the outter skin and grows from there. I will have...

Update time. I think I am going to end up breaking to be honest. I don't recall if it was here who helped me back earlier in the slightly less colder months of April and May when I had to break into my car because the driver's door latch had locked shut? Anyway, when my son and I went to open...

Yes slightly warmer days. They still call it summer. I call it the warmer period. It certainly isn't a summer, not that I know of anyway lol

Cheers. I reached out to Rick and he says it is something he can do. I think the one you mention in Wales is the one I saw. Don't know. I do know I need to move the coil packs though because there is no way I can get into work on them. Where to mount them is a minor price to pay. I've seen a...

Thanks and hopefully he will but I'll message him all the same.

I've also found a bloke on ebay who repairs BECMs but he is on holiday til the 6th of Sept. Does anyone here know what that entails and if especially that doing it can set any BECM to match my car? I ask because I have a 100% known and in perfect condition BECM, albeit it's in Australia. I have...

I had a thought. Can the coil packs be moved to somewhere where they are easily accessible?

Yep as are the power wires. All of them are, every wire that is. It just doesn't make any sense to me. I'll have a better look tomorrow. I'd prefer OEM but just now I'll focus on the HT leads.

To be honest when it comes to that I'd rather pay for new and do it once. I managed to get out and check for spark and I found 3, 7, 6 & 8 were all very weak. By that I mean I needed to hold the lead onto a metal surface to even make a noise never mind see a spark. Whereas the others I could...

Thanks. I'll go back and have another look later.

I didn't know that so thanks. 1,2,3,4 are all on the left bank when looking at the block from the front, right? Or is it across the block? Honestly right now I can't remember and I don't have RAVE at hand to look again. I swear I forget things the moment they go in.

Ask away. Yep done it. Tried the original and a second indicator stalk and it changed nothing. well, except I now have 2 indicator stalks.

Hmmm. So what's been happening; I haven't solved the issue with the instrument lights. I have pulled out every connector, cleaned them all and made sure every wire was located correctly in its connector (leads me to the BECM and I have no clue at all with that!). I need to buy some new bulbs...

Should be able to hook in something like that for the IC. I have until Feb to sort it so thankfully plenty of time. But then, with these things "What next?" seems to be an oft mumbled phrase.

Here's a good thing that happened last night. Went for a drive to pick our daughter up from the train station and we noticed the gear display was working and illuminating as it should. That hadn't been working since these troubles began. So that's a little win. What happened to make it work; I...

Just for clarification, I wasn't suggesting I didn't know if each switch has its own bulb as I am aware they all do. I was stating that I wasn't sure if there was actually a bulb in there at all. As in someone had removed it when the dash was out a few years back and forgotten to reinstall it...

Yep tried them both bud. Cheers though.

I suspect the whole car is faulty in some way or another and replacing everything with brand new still may not fix the issues. :D