mac11irl
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thread revival.. can you get a boot mounted bike carrier without a towball? donkey 2 doesnt have a hitch but i equally dont really want a roof rack jobby...
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if its getting power but not moving thats the deadlock shooting bolt on the way to toward failure, get on ebay and a get a replacement ordered up asap. no point taking it apart as its just wear internally. as niceyellow says, its held in from basically 3 sides. read through Deans link above for it and its not all there, search either Bowders1 or RobClubleys guides on door lock stripping. i had to do mine with the door deadlocked. if it happens, ask what to do... its doable but slow. no need to wreck or break anything!
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main stealers.. or a fellow brisky who has one already who might help @Rustynuts is quite good with the headunits, may have better help available 👍
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i presume you removed everything that holds it in? the entire mechanism is one piece. yes theres a microswitch in there, but it may also be the dead bolt is sticking. when its doesnt work, does it sound like its getting power and spinning the motor, or is it just dead?
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i was out tuesday too, it was grand just a handy jog out. today..... i fell asleep at 2345. i woke at 0250 needing a piddle. then Sr arrived at my bed side at 340an- could i bring him for a wee? ( he never asks for company during thenigjt??) and then, 455am Jr wakes up and starts calling me.. off i go, but.. no, im not allowed on the too snall mattress, thats where he decided to go asleep. so i was on the foam tiles.. sothat was me done sleeping! managed to sneak out at 630am and headed away to the west. rverything felt a smidge "handy so i powered on, and cleared ny first 10k run since the knee pains of last January! and it was sub 1hr! legs were sore in the shower though!
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hi @Bazbro amundsen+ needs an update package via the sd card slot
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if you know your engine code @Winocan probably tell the exact part number you need - most are bosch. ridex isnt oem, do good chancf it isnt being read properly by the ecu. if unplugging it is improving things that rules out a wiring issue
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youllneed a fairly long screw driver to get those 2 grab handle screws out too, pretty deep holes to them. i didnt have any long ones in my kit doing my lock mech replacement a few yrs back, i think i had 3 screwhead holders connected together in to get them
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no experience tbh, never had a 4x4, only an auld ALH diesel. however, i recall there being many discussions about it. the better one allows for changing the power distribution between the front to rear axles (brain is tickling at me that 90% to the rear is the max) while the regular one is fixed. have a search in thi section for haldex upgrades, should find some old stuff on it
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are they oem mafs you have tried or pattern? vag engines dont like pattern mafs (among other things)
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aye, theres a couple of different haldex units too, blue and green with blue being the "better one" iirc, which ever was the TT one.
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i took christmas off.. got out last thursday for a middling 6k. was alright but near 32mins. this morning felt knackered while out, but when i got back i saw my time was 30m 50odd. a minute faster than thursday. im also changing my "sprint" gait, im trying to stretch out the stride and really push off for distance, rather than just faster leg movements on my short stride. seems to be working, i set a 2nd fastest 400m, 1/2miles and 1k! not sure where it was on the route, but surely it along the longer sprint bit plus either side of it. felt good 👍
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i was out doing a few jobs earlier around town, pick up etc. and i thought to myself. . **** id love to be up those hills on the bike now...
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cheeky, Mickvrs said the same in the other thread.. it definitely wasnt me getting warm...
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okay, id definitely be checking every single vacuum and air hose etc for splits/ bad joints and the like really really closely. i think its losing boost pressure somewhere and is over fuelling trying to make up for it.
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i set an alarm this morning - if woke up myself before it went off id get the bike out. if the alarm woke me it was a run. spud sr woke up 1 min before the alarm, so i went for a run. 6k, in the freezing cold in 31.54. not brilliant but not terrible. it was strange though, it was a clear sky and heavy frost but, there was a pocket of genuinely warm air along the last 300m of the route by the river. as in it felt like someone had a 2 bar heater on the go no breeze or anything just this weird heat. and its not like it was just the trees retaining heat from yesterday, it never got warm at all yesterday, and the sun is so low these days that bit of the river doesnt get much direct sunlight either. plus, its all tree lined for about 900m, but it was only along one section of it. turned and back up along the same way, and the temp just dropped again. weird..
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are you parked and trying to rev past 3100, or is it stopping at that while driving? iirc some diesels have a "stationary" rev limiter so you cant over rev them. it sounds likely to be turbo related though, either a massive boost leak or internal damage
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got a nice run on Monday and again on Tuesday. took my rest day on Wednesday and got out yesterday morning for another decent run. today... not so lucky. jr woke at 4am. but resettled himself. but woke again at 6am! and that was that. like a confused angry drunk, he wanted to sleep but didnt want to lie down eventually he nodded off again around 7, but thats just too late for me to get out
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quick catch up.. between the post crash aches and weather warnings during the week i didnt get out again until Thursday morning. but courtesy of the weather warnings, the accesses to my 6k riverside route were closed by the flood barriers crews. so i had to invent a new 6k route on the western side of town. bit "hillier" as in theres 5small inclines compared to the almost flat riverside route. it also means more town footpaths - so dog eggs need more vigilance - and corners and road crossings that mean slowing down too. thus... 2 runs on thursday and friday were both about 32min for the 6k. noce runs though, just more awareness needed than along the unlit riverpath ironically.
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i think it started with Audi putting that ridiculous full width high level brake light on the A7. it then morphed a bit from there into ridiculously shaped parking lights on other marques. and with EVs its because the designers all watched Tron at a conference and thought hey, that looks cool and futuristic.. like we want people to think about our EVs... lets do that!
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oh its okay, the kerb tap was literally lighter than bumping ones head on a kitchen cupboard door. all the crash impact energy was already dissipated on the way across the road. mostly absorbed by my right forearm - i think it both stopped the bike and was my principle landing point. just the roughness of the kerb bevel split the skin. i was kepping an eye for signs of anything else during the day - headaches/dizziness/lethargy/pupil dilation/ loss of visual focus etc. i do be paranoid about the kids when they bonk their noggins and on the couple of occasions weve gone the gp for a confirmation of all ok, theyve been impressed by my level of monitoring but not in that "ohhh youve done that because you think your a doctor but your stupid" way they can sometimes, it was genuinely "welldone, youve kept an eye on a lot of stuff, if more people would do that and tell us life would be easier"
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do the Nordy boys use them as unmarkeds? better than the i40s our lads have to use for everything other than the Regional Support Units getting Q7s. (though there are a few tuscons starting to turn up outside stations..) i wonder are you far from @FUBAR?
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good bye to whomsoever you are, now nameless entity...
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@Gerrycan lotta reports online of fitbits that start cocking up the distance measurements. including just the smartphone app... i wouldnt touch one of them...
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thanks, yeah, still a bit tender, and the forehead is a bit swollen, but no Cmdr Worf levels of obviousness. i can cover it with my, over due a trim, hair. right elbow is annoying as i took the fall mostly to that side, so resting it on the arm of my office chair niggles. weathers been too ****e last couple of days to go anywhere now too 🤦♂️
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