Seeing it is payday filled her up at Tesco’s … should last quite a while nowadays.. trip out on Sunday to meet up with a couple of Elgrand friends ..
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What have you done to your Elgrand today?
- Thread starter Madfish
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@Stempy you should know by now I have a chrome fetish! lol
@peter strokosz borrowed my sons girlfriends mothers car a Renault Twingo Diesel to take my son to the airport. D
Did 250km to 21 euros of diesel! lol Would have cost three times the amount in the Elgrand! Just had to fill up at 2 euros 4 cents per litre!!!
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Well the bonnet did indeed dink the grill (was where it won't show--------too much filler under the front lip, all sorted now)
What will show are the minor scratches i gained by dropping the grill
(oh well a few permanent markers will sort that 
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How disappointing, you can get fine point sharpies which might be ideal.Well the bonnet did indeed dink the grill (was where it won't show--------too much filler under the front lip, all sorted now)
What will show are the minor scratches i gained by dropping the grill
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Look @Highway DaveWell the bonnet did indeed dink the grill (was where it won't show--------too much filler under the front lip, all sorted now)
What will show are the minor scratches i gained by dropping the grill
Just admit it the bad boy will not fit yours and you may as well just sell it.
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It fits, just needs tweeking
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D
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Love it mate, looks spot on
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@Bob Edwards think I've caught the tat virus 
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lovely nothing wrong with sticky back plastic and a blue peter moment
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i just got back from stempys after picking up my radio cables and i also power washed my over nats the crud that came out even after regular vacuuming was appalling
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wheres my spell checking follower should say MATS
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That is one sweet bus , nicest set of wheels I’ve seen , pity they weren’t on my grey e50
Advisory minor defect front suspention ball joint boots perished.
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Today I flushed the cooling system and refilled. Out with the green and in with the red. Bit of a faff of a job so started on the beer and will now have to finish it tomorrow.
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Why finish the beer tomorrow, what's wrong with finishing the beer tonight? 
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Fixed LPG systems on a couple of vehicles you won't be interested in
Dropped the front propshaft off my 2002 4wd Elgrand, been suspecting a problem with a UJ on the front prop for a while because there was an intermittent clicking noise from somewhere under the front that only occurred in certain over-run conditions and could be made to go away by switching from 2wd to 4wd. I let the symptoms develop to make identifying the problem component easier before removing any bits and had to wait until I had time between working on customer vehicles, but today I found time before I had to nip to hospital for an MRI scan. Found the problem before I'd even removed the prop, could make the same clicks by moving the rear of the front prop up and down, the problem is play in the front prop rear UJ.
Front prop removed
To remove the front prop the only other bit I had to remove was the undertray. Difficult to get a socket onto the 14mm hex headed prop bolts/nuts but I managed to get them all off using the ring end of a 14mm spanner and using the spanner on spanner trick to increase leverage. I reckon it too 200ft/lbs to crack the nuts off.
I could now buy new UJ's from BMR and fit them to my existing prop, price of UJ's yet to be confirmed by BMR, or buy a complete front prop from Stevemen for £35 if I collect.
This got rid of the clicking noises but my black 4wd Elgrand is rear wheel drive only now until I've put the front prop back on.
Dropped the front propshaft off my 2002 4wd Elgrand, been suspecting a problem with a UJ on the front prop for a while because there was an intermittent clicking noise from somewhere under the front that only occurred in certain over-run conditions and could be made to go away by switching from 2wd to 4wd. I let the symptoms develop to make identifying the problem component easier before removing any bits and had to wait until I had time between working on customer vehicles, but today I found time before I had to nip to hospital for an MRI scan. Found the problem before I'd even removed the prop, could make the same clicks by moving the rear of the front prop up and down, the problem is play in the front prop rear UJ.
Front prop removed
To remove the front prop the only other bit I had to remove was the undertray. Difficult to get a socket onto the 14mm hex headed prop bolts/nuts but I managed to get them all off using the ring end of a 14mm spanner and using the spanner on spanner trick to increase leverage. I reckon it too 200ft/lbs to crack the nuts off.
I could now buy new UJ's from BMR and fit them to my existing prop, price of UJ's yet to be confirmed by BMR, or buy a complete front prop from Stevemen for £35 if I collect.
This got rid of the clicking noises but my black 4wd Elgrand is rear wheel drive only now until I've put the front prop back on.
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