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[Kevin Wood]

There's a pulley kit for the supercharger,.about £1500 for that and a remap allegedly gets you to 465bhp.


Should be entertaining...

Until it blows up

That V6 is a proper British Leyland product... They couldn't even be bothered to finish machining it and gave up after doing a 3/4 job

.. and whilst I'm sure it makes a nice noise, the XE is a light car, there are very few occasions when I have my foot planted and wish it had more power, and I wouldn't want another 100kg up front to risk spoiling its perfect balance.

[YZ250]

Broke it.
……………

Low battery voltage
Faulty brake pedal switch
Fault thrown by EPB Module

These individual faults all seem to be able to display multiple faults like your symptoms. Hope it’s something simple like low battery voltage. 

[TheBoy]

Broke it.
Moved all the servers into hers, and took that down to Londonium!

Presumably a battery issue, rather than all that going wonky at the same time? 

Well, fingers crossed.  Though they are all brake related, bar the gearbox.  And on applying and releasing the brakes, it felt like they were taking a while to release....   ...but it has all that complex shit on it, so could still be an eco having a spaz.

The brake releasing seems too consistent, and seems to fully release to make me think its not a sticky caliper.

Do you recall that I mentioned that if I don’t pump the brake pedal before exiting rear pad change service mode, the car gets angry. This is the type of thing that I was referring to. The module throws a tantrum, not just on the EPB though. I wonder if it could be related to that. 

I did do a recalibration after pad change, so should have sorted.  And it had done 2 or 3 trips after.  But who knows. Too hot to get the diags out.

I've got an inkling that battery is knackered. And its been sat for 10 days, so could be related to battery. Fingers crossed.

[TheBoy]

There's a pulley kit for the supercharger,.about £1500 for that and a remap allegedly gets you to 465bhp.


Should be entertaining...

Until it blows up

That V6 is a proper British Leyland product... They couldn't even be bothered to finish machining it and gave up after doing a 3/4 job

.. and whilst I'm sure it makes a nice noise, the XE is a light car, there are very few occasions when I have my foot planted and wish it had more power, and I wouldn't want another 100kg up front to risk spoiling its perfect balance.

Hers is the least powerful in the range, at 163bhp.  Aside from anything under about 1500rpm when the turbo starts to kick in, it's more than adequate.  Under 1500rpm, it really does punish you though

[Viral_Jim]

Until it blows up

That V6 is a proper British Leyland product... They couldn't even be bothered to finish machining it and gave up after doing a 3/4 job

Oh ye of little faith! Honestly I always thought the v6 is a derivative of the Ford Duratec lump, rather than one of their own design.


In other news, my fine chunk of American-ness had (most of) the bird sh!t and moss hosed off it and taken down the MOT centre.

AND IT PASSED 

Clearly thriving on neglect       

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Until it blows up

That V6 is a proper British Leyland product... They couldn't even be bothered to finish machining it and gave up after doing a 3/4 job

Oh ye of little faith! Honestly I always thought the v6 is a derivative of the Ford Duratec lump, rather than one of their own design.


In other news, my fine chunk of American-ness had (most of) the bird sh!t and moss hosed off it and taken down the MOT centre.

AND IT PASSED 

Clearly thriving on neglect     

Congrats.....Detroit pig iron lives on.

[Doctor Gollum]

Until it blows up

That V6 is a proper British Leyland product... They couldn't even be bothered to finish machining it and gave up after doing a 3/4 job

Oh ye of little faith! Honestly I always thought the v6 is a derivative of the Ford Duratec lump, rather than one of their own design.


In other news, my fine chunk of American-ness had (most of) the bird sh!t and moss hosed off it and taken down the MOT centre.

AND IT PASSED 

Clearly thriving on neglect     

Well done on the rebadged E Class

The current V6 is a V8 block with 75% of the pistons fitted AIUI.

Handy for engine swaps. The Duratec lump died with the X Type generation.

[BazaJT]

Over last two days have replaced rear dampers,nsr brake pipe and front  drop links on stepdaughters 02 plate Astra convertible ready for its retest next week. It was scorchio doing that in the open!

[Varche]

Yikes , well done in all the heat

[STEMO]

Yes, well done mate 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Tipped a bottle of ceramic magic head gasket repair potion into the cooling system of Sons Civic.
Probably wont work at all but were hoping it will have some effect so he can nurse it through the rest of this year.
We shall see. 

[Marks DTM Calib]

There's a pulley kit for the supercharger,.about £1500 for that and a remap allegedly gets you to 465bhp.


Should be entertaining...

Until it blows up

That V6 is a proper British Leyland product... They couldn't even be bothered to finish machining it and gave up after doing a 3/4 job

Certainly not BL as it is a Ford lump, and far more reliable than the crock of crap over blown 4 pot Merc petrols 

[Doctor Gollum]

There's a pulley kit for the supercharger,.about £1500 for that and a remap allegedly gets you to 465bhp.


Should be entertaining...

Until it blows up

That V6 is a proper British Leyland product... They couldn't even be bothered to finish machining it and gave up after doing a 3/4 job

Certainly not BL as it is a Ford lump, and far more reliable than the crock of crap over blown 4 pot Merc petrols 

Ah, now it's a Ford... Fairly certain that when I last made that suggestion someone threw teddy out of the window

The BL jibe was tongue firmly in cheek.

As unreliable as some of the highly strung small capacity Mercedes engines are, MB are still considered to more reliable than JLR...

https://www.whatcar.com/news/reliability-survey-most-reliable-cars-brands/n26159 

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Zeke started to misfire last week on the way home from work... Ordered a new pair of coil packs as it felt like that.

Stripped it down and couldn't get the spark plug socket on no.6. Torch on and found a little rubber ring sat at the bottom, around the hex. It would appear that when I last put plugs in it, the little rubber sucker inside the socket has dropped out, and melted around the plug. It's only been there for 1000 miles or so...!
 MrsVG kindly is out to get some new plugs for me and we will see how it goes...

Obviously we're due to go away in him in a weeks time!

[Doctor Gollum]

Zeke started to misfire last week on the way home from work... Ordered a new pair of coil packs as it felt like that.

Stripped it down and couldn't get the spark plug socket on no.6. Torch on and found a little rubber ring sat at the bottom, around the hex. It would appear that when I last put plugs in it, the little rubber sucker inside the socket has dropped out, and melted around the plug. It's only been there for 1000 miles or so...!
 MrsVG kindly is out to get some new plugs for me and we will see how it goes...

Obviously we're due to go away in him in a weeks time!

It wouldn't be any other way...

I tend to remove that rubber thing and use the socket without. Once undone, the plug can easily be removed with a magnet on a stick. New plugs drop in the same way and you can get them start enough to pull the magnet off.