Chaps,
12 months ticket just acquired for the old girl. (13 months, actually. Old certificate wasn't due to expire until middle of next month, but you can take it in early.) Good feeling.
What wasn't so good were the "advisories". I had four. No, six!
Two were the front suspension top mounts. I didn't change them when I put the new shocks on a couple of years ago, and the tester reckoned there was fracitonal play in them. I wiggled them around good and hard and there may have been the slightest bit of movement, but I wasn't convinced. I can live with that.
One was 'rust'. I'm not sure why he gave me this as it all looked very sound to me, and there certainly wasn't anything that caught my eye.
One was a slight oil leak from the drain plug. Easily solved.
One was 'low brake efficiency'. 59%. (They have a stated weight of the car, which was 1470kg - I think - and the braking force has to be more than 50% of this.) I was surprised by this as the brakes have always felt strong, and I wonder whether the tyres were slipping on the rollers. The tester suggested I should bleed the brakes, which in fairness hasn't been done for a good couple of years. Maybe that's a job for the coming few weeks ... when bleeding brakes, what order should they be beld in? Is it a diagonally split system?
Last one was emissions. The CO was very, very high. It's always been around the 2.7 mark in years gone by, but this was more again. What causes high CO? What can be done about high CO? The tester suggested that it could be an air leak after the AFM, an AFM problem or a fuel pressure problem. I'm guessing the AFM possibly needs the tracks cleaning. Any other suggestions? I have a friend who is pretty good on this sort of thing so will be quizzing him this evening ....
Oli.
12 months ticket just acquired for the old girl. (13 months, actually. Old certificate wasn't due to expire until middle of next month, but you can take it in early.) Good feeling.
What wasn't so good were the "advisories". I had four. No, six!
Two were the front suspension top mounts. I didn't change them when I put the new shocks on a couple of years ago, and the tester reckoned there was fracitonal play in them. I wiggled them around good and hard and there may have been the slightest bit of movement, but I wasn't convinced. I can live with that.
One was 'rust'. I'm not sure why he gave me this as it all looked very sound to me, and there certainly wasn't anything that caught my eye.
One was a slight oil leak from the drain plug. Easily solved.
One was 'low brake efficiency'. 59%. (They have a stated weight of the car, which was 1470kg - I think - and the braking force has to be more than 50% of this.) I was surprised by this as the brakes have always felt strong, and I wonder whether the tyres were slipping on the rollers. The tester suggested I should bleed the brakes, which in fairness hasn't been done for a good couple of years. Maybe that's a job for the coming few weeks ... when bleeding brakes, what order should they be beld in? Is it a diagonally split system?
Last one was emissions. The CO was very, very high. It's always been around the 2.7 mark in years gone by, but this was more again. What causes high CO? What can be done about high CO? The tester suggested that it could be an air leak after the AFM, an AFM problem or a fuel pressure problem. I'm guessing the AFM possibly needs the tracks cleaning. Any other suggestions? I have a friend who is pretty good on this sort of thing so will be quizzing him this evening ....
Oli.
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