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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: The Red Baron on 30 March 2012, 12:53:26

Title: elite in for MOT.
Post by: The Red Baron on 30 March 2012, 12:53:26

  ::) took it down to my friendly garage whos just started doing mot,s.
no problems with the car but the jacking beam is stuck up , car now stuck in the air.
all new equipment, great reliability eh.

Title: Re: elite in for MOT.
Post by: b4ndit on 30 March 2012, 18:41:51

make sure he has not dropped the jack to fast as they have a deadman and you have to relift it to be able to lower it

Title: Re: elite in for MOT.
Post by: The Red Baron on 30 March 2012, 18:53:44

Quote from: b4ndit on 30 March 2012, 18:41:51

make sure he has not dropped the jack to fast as they have a deadman and you have to relift it to be able to lower it

the locking pins got stuck.
only just passed on emmisions...lambda reading 1.03 (0.97-1.03)
 :-\

Title: Re: elite in for MOT.
Post by: b4ndit on 30 March 2012, 18:56:57

a pass is a pass well done try a fuel cleaner/additive may help :y

Title: Re: elite in for MOT.
Post by: doz on 30 March 2012, 19:52:00

I've always wondered what that lambda reading is all about. My LC only ever just scrapes through.

Title: Re: elite in for MOT.
Post by: Kevin Wood on 30 March 2012, 23:12:45

Quote from: doz on 30 March 2012, 19:52:00

I've always wondered what that lambda reading is all about. My LC only ever just scrapes through.

Lambda is an estimate of the fuel-air ratio based on what's coming out of the exhaust. 1.0 represents a perfect "chemically correct" mixture of 14.7 parts of air to one of fuel.

It's there as a measure to ensure that closed-loop control of the fuel mixture via the lambda sensors is working properly.

Title: Re: elite in for MOT.
Post by: The Red Baron on 31 March 2012, 09:44:30

thanks for the explanation kevin. :)