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Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

TheVision wrote:

So why are Puma's so special? Have I missed something?

You know what I'm like for collecting things. Don't get me started!

Http://broadtrip.co.uk

MaliA · **Posted:** Sun Feb 22, 2015 15:11

I was saved the hassle of getting under the big car in the snow, removing six clips to get to the oil plug as there, um mm, isn't any oil in the car.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3214

Those Pumas are so lovely. Friend had one back in the day - he loved throwing it round roundabouts. Fun even as a passenger, stuck to the road like glue.

Grim... · **Posted:** Sat Feb 28, 2015 21:50

Replaced the stereo, all the speakers and put a one-kilowatt sub in the boot.

I seem to have regressed to a teenager somewhat.

I love it

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I miss my puma.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

I chnaged my car stereo this week. Nothing like that though, you charver.

Yes, charver. I'm bringing it back.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I hope you guys are sticking viper stripes on those things - preferably with white emulsion.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 03, 2015 20:00

Oops, smashed the Ka into the gatepost. Large dent in rear quarter. It might pull out. I shall visit a dent puller outer tomorrow. MrsA highly amused.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:34

Time to play the annual 'what's legally wrong with my car' game.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:39

Kern wrote:

Time to play the annual 'what's legally wrong with my car' game.

You going Banbury to the council one? It's by what was the Virgin Fi team if memory serves.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:08

MaliA wrote:

You going Banbury to the council one? It's by what was the Virgin Fi team if memory serves.

Would have liked to, but Banbury's too far north to go on a workday (although I'm an agile worker with laptop and phone, I have meetings all this week). Used a place in Bicester, and expecting to make the cost of the 'half price MOT' in unnecessary repairs.

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 15:57

Kern wrote:

Time to play the annual 'what's legally wrong with my car' game.

Legal for another year! I think this is the first time I've ever owned a car that passed first time.

(Probably will need to look at tyre treads and brake pads though).

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 19:03

OH SHIT SON

Coming in 2016.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16558

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49232

Is there much call for off-road hairdressers?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 20:28

There will be if you have the top down and the mud gets in your hair and stuff.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Grim... wrote:

There will be if you have the top down and the mud gets in your hair and stuff.

That happens in the Tomcat anyway.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 20:31

Only if someone happens to be throwing it nearby.

Nearby my house.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Well, these days, if you got into it, you might brush some mud off the undergrowth entwined through the chassis.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 20:39

This is true.

MaliA · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 20:50

Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

Well, these days, if you got into it, you might brush some mud off the undergrowth entwined through the chassis.

Man, yo cold, dawg!

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32619

Not as cold as the Tomcat's engine.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

http://store.steampowered.com/app/347990

Assetto Corsa releases it's first set of DLC next week, for £7.33.
"This package adds to Assetto Corsa the legendary circuit of Nurburgring-Nordschleife and ten new awesome cars. The circuit has been reproduced for the first time in a PC racing simulation using the Laserscan Technology, that guarantees the maximum level of precision in reproducing each detail of the track.
Features the Bridge To Gantry mode, that allows to simulate the real track day rules of Nurburgring. "

This might be of interest to someone on here

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2015 22:04

It might!

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Mar 06, 2015 19:52

MaliA wrote:

Oops, smashed the Ka into the gatepost. Large dent in rear quarter. It might pull out. I shall visit a dent puller outer tomorrow. MrsA highly amused.

Brown stuff is varnish

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Sat Mar 07, 2015 13:01

Grim... wrote:

OH SHIT SON

Coming in 2016.

Well, that's one way of resolving the lack of headroom in the rear of the evoque.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38460

It looks like a fucking slipper.

krazywookie · **Posted:** Sat Mar 07, 2015 18:59

That's the best kind of slipper

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13382

I don't think many hairdressers can afford an Evoque, it's more the car of the clientèle of posh hairdressers.

There is a dead posh hairdressers on Douglas prom, walk past there at any point in the day and I guarantee there'll be an Evoque or two parked in the vicinity. The drivers are invariably well-to-do middle-aged women (with fancy hair).

Most definitely not a vehicle for a chap.

Dr Zoidberg · **Joined:** 15th Oct, 2010 **Posts:** 5149

We might be buying a Renault Twingo next weekend. It's funny how when you start to shop round for cars, the budget just wanders up and up....

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11843

That evoke is just a Mini, right?

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 19:08

ka dying: battery light, engine light and abs light All up.Speedo dial drops to zero intermittently. Wheel speed sensor I think and alternator? What does engine light mean?

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 19:35

A low battery can cause havoc with everything else. Try and start it again when you get it home to see if that could be it.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 19:43

Grim... wrote:

A low battery can cause havoc with everything else. Try and start it again when you get it home to see if that could be it.

Will do. Thanks

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 20:03

Park on a hill in case you can't!

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 20:14

Grim... wrote:

Park on a hill in case you can't!

thanks. It is parked at bottom of drive. Car starts fine. With engine off the headlights do not dim after a few seconds and now only warning light is "check engine" it needs coolant though. I have found the Haynes book so will have a read

EDIT:
I fiddled with the battery leads and filled the coolant up and now all lights are gone. Hurrah. Thank you.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 21:44

You can get diagnostics on faults in Fords with digital dashboards.

Quote:

The Self Diagnostics Mode gives you in-depth information about your
engine and the actual numbers in digital. To use it, follow the steps:

* Insert Key but do not turn it on
* Press and hold the Trip Meter Reset Button
* While holding the reset button, Turn ignition until dash lights come on and
continue holding the button
* Within 10 seconds, the display should change to "test" in LCD font
and the needles will do a full sweeping. Release the Button

Pressing the button will now cycle through some 17 different modes

* 1. Shows a Gauge Sweep
* 2. Shows all 8's on the LCD (LCD TEST)
* 3. Illuminates all the bulbs on the dash
* 4. Displays hexadecimal value for ROM level
* 5. Displays the hexadecimal value for EE level
* 6. Shows DTC (Diagnostic Trouble Code)
* 7. Digital Speedometer - mph
* 8. Digital Speedometer - kph
* 9. N/A
* 10. Digital tachometer
* 11. Fuel volume
* 12. Engine coolant temperature
* 13. Battery voltage
* 14. ABS fail
* 15. Electronic brake distribution (EBD) failure
* 16. Illumination
* 17. Crank Sense

So get your DTC, then look it up on the interweb.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 09, 2015 21:52

Yeah, a dead battery or a duff alternator will cause all sorts of weird symptoms like that. As I discovered when I was driving an MX5 back from Much Wenlock and suddenly it lit up like a Christmas tree and left me stranded in the middle of a roundabout.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:40

Cheers. I will look up a code at lunch time.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 13:59

MaliA wrote:

Cheers. I will look up a code at lunch time.

Dt 412

And Internet says

Quote:

P0412 - Secondary Air Injection System (AIR) circuit malfunction The PCM attempts to control when air is injected in the exhaust. The DTC indicates a Secondary Air injection system AIR circuit fault. AIR circuit open
AIR bypass solenoid fault
Damaged PCM
AIR circuit short to power
Solid state relay fault
Damaged AIR pump
The AIR circuit is normally held high through the AIR bypass solenoid and SSR when the output driver is off. Therefore, a low AIR circuit indicates a driver is always on and a high circuit indicates an open in the PCM.

Which is a start I guess

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 14:13

Bizarrely, I read somewhere that replacing the lambda sensor is the right thing to do. So that I shall.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 14:16

You'll be wanting to change the Macarena sensor too after the Lambada sensor.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

Grim... wrote:

It might!

Released tomorrow...

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krazywookie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 22:42

MaliA wrote:

Bizarrely, I read somewhere that replacing the lambda sensor is the right thing to do. So that I shall.

beware! Dtcs almost always throw up a lambda code as anything that happens in the engine will upset it as it is downstream. Also the code you quoted seems to claim that your Ka has a smog pump which doesn't sound likely to me. But then I've been away from modern cars awhile.

advice: clear the codes so light goes out, drive around until light comes on again and immediately recheck, that way you get the freshest, juiciest codes. X

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 22:45

How do I clear codes?

krazywookie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 22:55

Either an obd2 code reader which are reasonably cheap on eBay (this would help with code reading too) or leave the battery disconnected overnight.

MaliA · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 23:00

Ta. Will do at weekend.

Code reader: plug it in, hit scan, Google result, yeah?

krazywookie · **Posted:** Tue Mar 10, 2015 23:36

Yup, might even tell you what's wrong in human words!

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Mar 12, 2015 10:57

krazywookie wrote:

Yup, might even tell you what's wrong in human words!

Cheers. I have ordered a reader.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22266

I have done a lap of the ring in the 500SS (it's the closest thing to a puma the game has)
9:30s and only 7 crashes.

I think i'm ready.

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