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The "Today I did something to my car" thread
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Had electrical gremlins over the last few days. Car was having intermittent CANBUS signal faults where it would just shut down completely, lock up in gear and leave me immobilised for 5 minutes until the car eventually groaned into Neutral and allowed me to restart it. Went fault finding, and reseated everything from the ECU, to the CANBUS loom at the back of the speedo, and finally reseated the SAM (Signal Acquisition and Actuation Module). Problem sorted.
Until it created a new one that my left hand side dipped beam and sidelight wouldn't work. Ruling out bulb failures, I went checking for wiring problems. Wiring at the headlight itself was fine (Whole front of the car has to come off to check them), but no voltage. Checked the fuses as the car has 4 fuses, one for each of the low and main beams, and one for each side. Fuses were fine. The relays are fused into SAM, so you can't replace them easily. Checked everything else before, light switch, wiring continuity, and eventually this moring decided the SAM was kaput and to have a go at it anyway. I'd end up spending about 800-1000 euro regardless, so I'd nothing to lose.
Disassembling it's a nightmare. It's made up of 4 boards which have flexible tracks to fold over on one another to fit inside, and these flexible bits crack. They had cracked in mine too, but hadn't affected continuity. I tested the soldered in relays for the lights with a 12v supply, and both poles of the low beam relay clicked without issue, so that was good too. Eventually tracked the fault to the connector for the loom going to the lights, the one on the board had nearly every solder joint cracked on it. Reflowed them all, bolted it all back together, did an ECU reset and everything's great again.
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Grand, need to improve on my starts a lot!
Got beat by a fair few and had some seriously close races.
Closest was between a CTR(Which was literally nose to nose the entire way), a 206gti and a Sierra RS cowsworth(friend was driving)
A lot of the lads down there are veterans at this stage, you need a set of wide tyres for the front and work on your launching
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Owen .. any chance get car electrical course with you,..... not really interested in to certs or what ever, just practical things, like fault find, alarm fitting/joining with original ones, car diagnostics, ecu programming etc.
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Clever chap.... TBH Tullow wouldn't be for me, it's a bit unsafe and way too easy to do damage. You going to track the car?
He was showing off I think.
Ah it's grand for most cars. Few were passing the line at 120ish and still with time to slow down.
Yeah probably going to once or twice anyway and see how we go. Need to invest into tires first though. 0 -
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He was showing off I think.
Ah it's grand for most cars. Few were passing the line at 120ish and still with time to slow down.
Yeah probably going to once or twice anyway and see how we go. Need to invest into tires first though.
Forget tyres, buy a set of wheels and a set of trackday tyres
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Rains a curse eh?
Which box are you using?
Your good one, found some rat poison there(hope there is no dead rat inside) , re-done the lever (it was rust in box), got some bolts for box top recently from one scrappy punto ....
After install, i drove couple miles, and change oil..... cofee with plenty milk color oil was goin out. Put gearbox oil which i bought for my nissan skyline(sold while ago), original nissan gearbox oil, i had 5 liters, each cost around 18 euro. hope that oil is suitable for puntie gearbox.
There is some wining noise coming, but not loud, every gear own sound . Well cant hear at all is radio on... but i recon cant get perfect second hand gearbox. I have set of bearings for these boxes, will try change them (in coming months), will see how it goes.... (full set box bearings was around 120 euro from uk). No leaks or any strange so far 0 -
I take it you put in the sporting box? We had both those boxes in 2 of our cars here, both worked well, the non sporting box whined but no leaks. They have been lying up since 2008, so they might be a bit sticky for a while, nothing an oil change won't cure. The boxes take 75W 90 synthetic oil.
The rats are long gone Its good to hear that theyre being used again and not lying up in my garage going to waste 0 -
Very slowly swapping the diff on my 850CSi (2.93:1) to an e36 M3 Evo diff (3.23:1).
Will have to change both input and output flanges, rear cover and figure out how to secure it at the front as the mounting doesnt line up!0 -
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