Sorry for my late reply, I’ve been away. Done quite a bit of work, changed front lower wishbones & bushes, all drop links & arb bushes, new back box, ns rear sill welded, underside under sealed & cavity wax to box sections, loads of other little jobs. I’ll get it mot’d soon & see how I get on. It’s been off the road for about 8 years but it’s a nice car & deserves to be saved.
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Well I tried it but it was the same, however whilst rooting around I found that my air temperature sensor was unplugged from the inlet manifold & someone before me shorted the plug terminals together, no idea why. Anyway I have plugged it back in & it’s running okay now.
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Hi folks I’m after some advice. I have a 1.8VVC fitted with a 48mm alloy TB & aftermarket air filter. I have recently done a full service, fuel filter & cambelt change. Car starts fine, warms up correctly & drives good, problem I have is at idle after warm up I get a surge now & again up to about 2K & if left longer the idle becomes rough & stalls. I have another VVC & have swapped the IACV & reset it & also the TPS & it’s still the same. Any advice would be welcome, thanks.
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I paint my mirrors and door handles recentley in flame red as they were badly faded. The door mirrors are attached with a couple of screws and are easy to remove, you also need to remove the doorcard and disconnect the heated mirror plug. The doorhandles a a bit fiddly and I found an excellent post with pictures in the how to guides on this forum to be able to remove them. I used masking tape in the mirrors rather than taking them apart and then rubbed down the red with 400 grit sandpaper and then 800 grit wet and dry, three coats of plastic primer, then red and then laquer and they came out great.
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