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Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 4675981 times)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #27975 on: Yesterday at 22:32:44 »
In the interest of keeping busy, I started going through the ML as it's filthy inside and has a few electrical gremlins.

Found and fixed the corrosion causing a taillight bulb warning and established the cause of the number plate bulbs not working.

Then removed all the boot trim, partly to clean it and partly to access the fuel tank sender wiring as the gauge doesn't work. Found evidence of mice having chewed up the sound deadening foam behind the boot side panels... :(

Then replaced the non working light sensor for the auto lights along with the overhead control panel as the one in the car had obvious issues including a burnt out bulb that had damaged the lens so it looked pretty manky. Turns out the reason the bulb had failed was because said mice were using the back of it as a toilet. Which also explained why the auto lights had stopped working... The panel is an ECU on the body CANBUS and this failure could also be behind the battery drain that the previous owner had solved by pulling the radio fuse but I will investigate that separately.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #27976 on: Today at 00:38:23 »
As Swmbo went metal detecting with our son, I fired up the Mig welder and did some more repair work on the Omega.  >:D
A bit more to do, as I didnt have that much time between shifts, but its getting there. Soon be time to get back on the cosmetic issues that I originally planned before I discovered the rust.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #27977 on: Today at 07:18:19 »
Quote from: Sir Tigger KC on Yesterday at 22:08:35
Quote from: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on Yesterday at 17:38:20
Quote from: Rangie on Yesterday at 16:58:25
Given the RRS a much needed wash, been up by the river over the fields with the dogs every day this week, so much dust around I've never seen the land so dry around here.

Yep....same here. Dry as a nun's pussy.

On the plus side there has been no need to mow the lawns for the last couple of months. :y

Mine's dead.  :-\
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Our back lawn is in a terrible state but the front is lush, very strange.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #27978 on: Today at 10:18:04 »
Quote from: Migv6 le Frog Fan on Today at 00:38:23
As Swmbo went metal detecting with our son, I fired up the Mig welder and did some more repair work on the Omega.  >:D
A bit more to do, as I didnt have that much time between shifts, but its getting there. Soon be time to get back on the cosmetic issues that I originally planned before I discovered the rust.

Sounds like you were metal detecting as well!  Did you find any?  ???   :P   ;D
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