Recent content by Mid-life-crisis

Anyway, enough of this nonsense, what about my window? any thoughts or suggestions or tests to do?

Don't we all just love a good Saturday evening banter

We'll all stay up late drinking Guinness, listening to U2 sing Riverdance and watching Ireland thrash the rest of you in the six nations. ..... just saying

Not quite, I'm in Northern Ireland so probably it's the ghost of Brexit. You know it don't you? It's the one that makes the Irish Sea impenetrable to some Mainland GB companies

I've had this fault for a while but haven't had the cohoonas to tackle it. The rear passenger side window of my 2002 L322 3.0 sometimes descends at random. Usually the drivers controls will command it up again, I think the rear window lock keeps it up, but this doesn’t always work. All the...

Also I changed the oil and filter while I was at it. I'd forgotten that some prick had broken the top hex off the oil filter cover and it's pretty tight getting a band round it. Don't suppose anyone has a spare filter cover or can let me have the part number?

Yep, it missed that bit out nicely, and it also missed out the bit about needing many hands to get the belt back on again and making sure not to trap the belt behind the idler pulley bracket so having to take it off again Alternator it was - fixed now

Connections all look and feel tight. It's the alternator I think Some kind salvage gentlemen are sending me a replacement. Manual says Belt off PAS pump unmounted and pushed to the side Alternator pulley off Alternator off Is that about right? One question, how do I get the Alternator pulley...

Aaaah, so it's the battery or the alternator or a bad connection. I'll have a poke about tomorrow and let you know

Here's the data so far Battery fully charged and not reconnected to cat 13.34v Battery connected to car ignition off 13.1v Ignition on but car not started 12.4v Engine started and idling 14.0v Engine at 2000rpm 14.1v Engine idling for 5min 12.7v Engine idling and lots of load (heaters...

2002 L322 diesel So, happy fathers day. An early gift of a battery warning light that came on this morning, went off after 5 min and then came on and stayed on. After about 5 starts she's refusing to turn over - just that horribleclickk when I turn the key. The battery voltage at that point...

Getting into it you say! Several weeks and a couple of headlight washer motors later .... and even then I had to introduce an additional relay into the washer system for reasons even I (a chartered electrical engineer) don't fully understand! West who?

Remember, the headlight washers only work if the headlights are on and there's enough fluid in the washer tank. Also, they only squirt every 5 (I think) flicks of the washer switch. If I remember correctly, the left (passenger side) does some of this figuring out and controls the right side.

Tricky of York has an absolutely elegant solution, which should (of course) have been the original design. But oh no, they give the design to the lad (or lass)who has a new drawing board and a sparkling new degree in mechanical engineering and he (or she) comes up with an amazingly elegant...