TeflonTom

Its caused by the power supply units. Basically the ground connection in the audio is derived from a synthetic 'ground' from the transformer, each device does this seperately so you can end up with the grounds having a voltage differential betwen them and hence the noise. you can get a device called a dti which isolates the grounds and matches the impedance of the source and destination devices, also a di box may do the job.. i see and hear ground loops and thier associated problems daily! Example being a laptop and projector plugged into different phases on a 3 phase mains installation you can get a ground loop induced onto a vga signal cable (analogue) which gives you wavey lines on screen.... or it could be a powered musical instrument plugged into a mixing desk in a remote location gets induced hum ir interference.

Where I used to live I got into a dispute over bin collections after the bin lorry knocked my fence over, I complained the second time they did it, and by the fourth time they knocked my fence down I took the proper hump with them, the following complaint led to te bin men getting cocky and when they came on collection day they would deliberately leave a cluster of a few neighbours bins blocking my driveway so I had to get out and move them on a busy main road, after a few months of this they recieved another almighty telling off from their boss after I filmed them doing it which lead to them stopping to bother emptying my bins at all for about 12 weeks! So basically I called the council one afternoon and said that they need to sent somebody to empty it in the next hour or I would take action, sadly for them they didn't get to me in time so I loaded the both wheelie bins into my pickup and took them and emptied them both on the nice new carpet in the lobby of the civic offices with a note saying they could keep them.

This reminds me of the crossing from hell i had years ago from Le Havre to Portsmouth, set off in a moderate storm with only one of the engines running, storn got worse, people rolling round everywhere bumping into each other and things going everwhere, cars sliding about. We got blown off course and had to divert to Weymouth because there wasnt enough power to head into the wind on one engine.

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Jeez, the kevlar has started to delaminate on that, get it changed, something has contaminated that at some time like a water leak or possibly thats been sat parked up unused for some considerable time.

Sadly no i dont have a pickup any more, my mrs crashed it.

Hi morrispaul. Wasnt yoyr pickup the one where one of the ignition drivers failed inside the ecu i seem to remember?

The front springs will be the same im the hatcback estate and pickup, but the rear springs are unique to the specific model. Estate springs will interchange with hatchback ones, but the pickup ones are totally different. Sadly there aren't many spring kits available for these any more, they've sort of become obsolete now, only the expensive premium brands still do them

no further than low earth orbit... man has not been more than 400 miles from earth.

yeah seen those grainy images before, the retro reflectors could have been put there any time. This isnt definitive proof in my opinion.. frankly the notion of flying to the moon in a glorified firework is absurd even with todays technologies.

That's a real shame, i saw one of the old ones go steaming past me at 3am this morñing with the 5 cylinder engine going full bore. Awesome engine derived from a porsche design. One of the best selling points of the flimsy focus rs. They've probably gone and ruined it now then.

I quite like that focus, does it still have the volvo t5 engine?

Hi guys, im thinking about hacking up a computer power supply to use as a desktop power supply for electronics projects, plenty of regulated positive and negative supply voltages tapped straight out of the transformer. Was thinking using bullet style terminals for ease of connection. anybody tried this before?

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What I want to see is high res images of the moon landing sites. Seeing as they can take pictures of things millions of miles away why not dispell the hoax theories once and for all.

The only one that might cause a fail is the track rod end, the play is down to the discretion of the tester.. If the disc back plate is loose then rip it off and chuck it in your next door neighbours wheelie bin when they are at asda.

As above, genuine vag stuff comes neat normally, on the label it tells you the dilution ratio you need to do for certain temperature protection ranges.

The other thing that's vital is that you don't unplug the throttle body whilst the ignition is turned on, I made this mistake 150 miles from home once, kangaroo'd itself all the way home until I could reset it with vcds.

The settings for he throttle body are in the ecu, not in the throttle body itself. It all centres round the adaptive running conditions which the ecu brings in when the throttle body gets dirty and fouled up with oil and sludge.

I don't get it personally, why don't they just make the car £500 cheaper?

On the Felicia there will be a F on the key blade, which is short for festcode or 'fixed code'. What this means is that all of the keys have a fixed code which doesn't roll onto a new code when the engine is started. Rather than removing the chip from he key you can have an auto locksmith clone the current working key to a different key so long as that also has an F type chip fitted.

Fit the swirl pot on the drivers side just above where the fuel injection hard pipes come up, you ought to run if off a dedicated relay too. Make sure you plumb in the fuel hoses correctly too or you can end up with an air lock in the swirl chamber, normally there's 2 unions at the top and 2 at the bottom.. One of the tops is where the supply hose from the tank goes, the bottom goes back to the tank return.. The other bottom Union goes to the inline pump and onto the fuel rail, then the return back from the engine goes into thie other top union... A diagram would have been so much better wouldn't it..

its simple physics, more load is more heat, less voltage is needed to create a spark if the combustion chamber is hotter.

If you have a multimeter you can do some primary and secondary resistance tests on the ignition coil to assess if its faulty, its a good shout though, you need more voltage to make a spark at lower engine loads. I have had these fail intermittently before. but as you have stated it starts fine then plays up once the throttle is pressed, you can almost certainly dismiss an ignition fault or vacuum leak. i would start with cleaning and resetting the throttle body.