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Kilburn, Norton, Bishop Auckland…
A shorter week this week, as we had a couple of days booked off, post our Essex trip, to get caught up on a few things.
Thursday morning found us in Kilburn for a cambelt service on Gareth’s 2002 MGF VVC in Copperleaf – CDX. They’d bought it last year as his wife had always fancied one, but the cambelt service history was a bit sketchy, the annual services had been done on a regular basis, but the car barely did any miles each year, with the previous owner, the cars only on 34k miles and in such good condition.
Thanks to Gareth for the garage as the weather was a tad damp. Great to meet him and have a chat while we worked, plus he makes a very good brew! We didn’t meet his wife, but hope she has some fun in the car, a perfect spot to enjoy it in.
A quick nip up to see the ‘white horse’ and then we were on our way to meet Dave in Norton.
Dave had got in touch some time ago regarding issues with a query misfire etc, on his 2004 TF 135, we’d suspected it was down to a faulty Lambda sensor, long story short. On code reading, we found it to be the case, plus it had been fitted with one of the cheap eBay ones. New Lambda fitted and problem resolved. Great to meet Dave finally, and see his impressive LEGO collection, the F1 cars were amazing! I know, we’re daft, but we love that kind of thing. We look forward to seeing him next year for the cambelt service.
Jon went up to Bishop Auckland today to carry out a diagnostics check on a Lotus Elise. Adrian had asked if we could help out with an issue of non starting. He’d recently had a new engine fitted, and then after some time the battery had gone flat, it would fire up for about one second and then shut off, unfortunately even though it’s running a k-series 160 VVC the immobiliser and ECU on the Elise S2 is a Cobra immobiliser and a Lotus ECU, meaning the P-scan couldn’t connect fully, only as an ordinary OBDII reader.
After some investigation, eliminating some more possible faults, it was found that the ECU was the only thing that could be faulty. A Rover 160 ECU could have been fitted, which would have got it running, however, the speedo and the rev counter cluster would not run with the Rover one.
The owner now has three possible options to cure the issue; replace the ECU with a stand-alone ECU, such as an Emerald, run dual ECUs with the Lotus and Rover ECU, or bite the bullet with a main dealer for a Lotus one. 😯
We have a few cars being dropped off over the weekend, ready for a busy week ahead. Have a great weekend everyone, hope the weather isn’t as grotty as forecast for some. 🌧️ – https://ift.tt/giRNCm5
