Recent content by HLRSeagull

No offense taken mate !! I have good friends that work for AA and Green Flag so its good to get the insides of what actually goes in in comparison to my own work . I know who I would rather be with but like you say a bad experience or two will always cloud your judgement and I cant blame you...

I'm not slow !!!! :p

Just to clear up the uncertainty on the 10 year old vehicle thing here goes ..... RAC will cover a vehicle over ten years old no problem the only thing you can't do is buy vehicle based roadside assistance only for a vehicle over 10 years old . So if you buying recovery then the age of the...

Press and hold lock button, insert key into door, turn to lock, turn to center, remove key from lock, release lock button. Press and hold unlock button, insert key into door, turn to unlock, turn to center, remove key from lock, release unlock button. Should work :)

Had to share this with you guys today ... As most of you have guessed from my previous posts I am an rac patrol for my day job well I got called out to a disco 1 today ... Symptom .. Wheel change spare Notes ... Customer says wheel nut just spins round and round and can't get wheel off ...

Hi peeps, I have been browsing through the old threads trying to decifer what is what with respect to alignment of the steering box relative to the steering wheel. When I worked for BMW years ago there was a preload adjustment on the steering box and this had to be aligned with a little arrow...

No mate some of the freelanders definitely have a dizzy cap. I know that from spending half hour looking for a rotor arm bolt once on one ... Got the rotor arm off quick in the rain and then damn bolt slipped out my fingers took me half hour to find the damn thing

Maybe I need to take a bit more notice of the ops symptoms ..... Facepalm The misfire cylinder 2 was a dead give away his engine doesn't have a distributor cap and I missed it .... Doh

Take the distributor cap off and then hold the coil lead to the centre of the rotor arm whilst someone cranks it ... Hold the ht lead with a pair of insulated pliers though because they do bite sometimes. This is a good way of testing the insulation of the rotor arm as they are well known for...

Good old Sussex by the Sea Where abouts are you ???

Egr valve bypass done , removed valve and replaced top hose .... New illumination bulb behind heater controls New wiper blades Adjusted handbrake up as needed too And last but not least printed off London to Brighton application form to send off , this will be my first ever run but won't...

So do you have to drill into the door frames i assume ??

How do they fix to the doors ?? Stickies or screws ??

Soaked the egr valve in duck oil ready to get the damn bolts undone in a couple of days time for the egr bypass / blank off

Yes you can buy them individually from britpart . I just converted my headlamps from electric load level to manual adjusters and fitted these new clips too