When I really have had a bellyful of this place, I favour Belgium as a a place to bugger off to. Lovely country, nice people, very underrated. Luxembourg also.

The clusters changed around 9/82 when they went from K Jetronic to LE Jetronic, and again in 1/86 when the three red lights was reduced to one. There is an aftermarket circuit board available to replace all that old crap from this guy: https://www.e28.nl/en/tellerbak-reparatie/ But, a wiring diagram...

The oval is the best place for it. It's clearly rubbish.

paulplom wrote: ↑Sat Mar 13, 2021 4:46 am Reading that I've dodged a bullet!

You've certainly dodged a few hundred quid.

OE cats have rhodium, palladium etc, new cheap ones have ceramic internals.

15 minutes on a ramp. Remove the refill plug (17mm and F.T) and then the drain plug (ditto). Refill capacity on the Getrag 250 box on 4 cyl cars and smaller sixes is 1.1 litres. I have a pump action refill thing though and it fires the oil in quickly. Tbh you can do it with the car on the ground and...

I finally (hopefully) sorted the oil leak on my 318Ti. One of those leaks that rarely troubles the dipstick but soaks everything. I'd already replaced the crank front oil seal (40 mins) and thought it was a faulty. So I bought another one for 8 quid on Ebay as well as the oil filter housing gasket a...

nebuchenezer wrote: ↑Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:45 pm Much as RBJ comes across as abut of a tit you would do well to tap his knowledge

Just saying like

Prize cunt if you don't mind.

I recall one episode of Z Cars or Softly Softly involving a crashed Mark 3 Cortina on a G registration and one of the coppers twigging it as a wrongun.

Radio 6 DJ's include Craig Charles, Tom Robinson, Iggy Pop, Cerys Matthews*, Mary Ann Hobbs and others who just love the music. That's why it's so good.




*no, not for me either