Wocha bin doin on your MG this week then?

Fitted a pair of Alpine tweeters to my TF.
Thanks to @notanumber for pointing out the wiring would be there.
Used a step cutter on the door card for a neat fit and they work a treat.

Low coolant alarm from Mr.Cotsell arrived today so that's the next job.
 

One of the plastic heater control knobs failed in the week so I picked up a second hand set of Mike Satur aluminium ones on Ebay. They are very solid but I have to say I prefer the less cluttered look of the originals

Notanumber wrote:

One of the plastic heater control knobs failed in the week so I picked up a second hand set of Mike Satur aluminium ones on Ebay. They are very solid but I have to say I prefer the less cluttered look of the originals


Can I ask why they fail?  My heater knob turns to the hot position and everything is hot but if I try to turn it down it jams half way. If I leave it to cool it goes all the way back to off again. Is this why they break because I daren't actually force it back to off.
 

I know what you mean about a tight spot in the middle of the temperature control. Mine has it to a much lesser extent and i noticed it on my previous TF.  If yours is particularly bad there then it would probably be worth an hour or two to strip down, clean and lubricate the heater flaps and linkages the control joins to. 

On mine, it was the knob for the fan which had broken and prompted the change. Unlike the others this just consists of a switch, without mechanical linkages, though it does still require quite a positive turn to click between speed positions.

The knob for the direction control fell apart when I removed it so the only intact original survivor was the one for the temperature control.

TA22GT wrote:

Notanumber wrote:

One of the plastic heater control knobs failed in the week so I picked up a second hand set of Mike Satur aluminium ones on Ebay. They are very solid but I have to say I prefer the less cluttered look of the originals


TA22GT wrote:- Can I ask why they fail?  My heater knob turns to the hot position and everything is hot but if I try to turn it down it jams half way. If I leave it to cool it goes all the way back to off again. Is this why they break because I daren't actually force it back to off.

David Aiketgate wrote:- The temperature control knob is attached to a bowden cable that operates a valve in the coolant flow pipework. It is often the valve tbat becomes stiff. Disconnecting tbe cable and operating the valve manually may free it off. (Or it may be on its way to fail.)
Incidentally, you can adjust the range of the temperature knob by moving where the cable is attached by the clip to tbe valve.( Beware tbe clip can fly off and disappear.@Ask me how I know...)