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What have you done to your Elgrand today?
- Thread starter Madfish
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- robert
- Elgrand
- E51
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arrg mine covered in bird shit at the moment
still got a good photo for tomorrow
still got a good photo for tomorrow
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Adlington13
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@robert edwards ,Oh no, no one likes bird shit on an Elgrand!! Cool, thought I would get a good photo for tomorrows virtual meet....will try and get the family in it too. 
Cool, thought I would get a good photo for tomorrows virtual meet....will try and get the family in it too. 
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- Dave
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IF I get to wash mine it looks like it will be early in the morning, you'd think i'd have all the time in the world just now but no, someone keeps finding me jobs to do
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Adlington13
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@Highway Dave I am sure you will get it washed.......Having been homeschooling my lad for 2 weeks, we used it as a "learning objective".....!!
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- scott
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- North East
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Adlington13
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Very nice. Was it relatively straight forward to do??
Was it relatively straight forward to do??
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it wasnt to bad mate hardest part watching paint dryVery nice.
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- scott
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Very nice.
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- scott
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Adlington13
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....I can imagine!!! What paints etc did you use? I have always fancied doing it but thought it might a pain. Did you remove the calipers from the vehicle?
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- scott
- Elgrand
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bought it off ebay. didnt remove caliper
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Adlington13
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Cheers, will have a look.
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- Peter
- Elgrand
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- South East
So shes back from mechanics...I thpught was jusr front brakes and MOT but no lol
so here we go...thi slist know of so far...
Front wheel bearing
front brakes
front track rod ends...both
front drop links
Front ARB ...not sure full details but think the mounts?
2 rear tyres
spare wheel needed new tyre
2 coil packs
throttle body and EGR removal and cleaning apparently....no idea lol
MAF clean
Think thats it for now lol...but been told theres a lot more to do yet....he is getting my parts for me....gotta love not being charged full price lol
But it got MOT and believe no advisories... it had failed on the emissions a couple of hours before but the clean up of EGR etc fixed apparently
so here we go...thi slist know of so far...
Front wheel bearing
front brakes
front track rod ends...both
front drop links
Front ARB ...not sure full details but think the mounts?
2 rear tyres
spare wheel needed new tyre
2 coil packs
throttle body and EGR removal and cleaning apparently....no idea lol
MAF clean
Think thats it for now lol...but been told theres a lot more to do yet....he is getting my parts for me....gotta love not being charged full price lol
But it got MOT and believe no advisories... it had failed on the emissions a couple of hours before but the clean up of EGR etc fixed apparently
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- Suffolk
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- Liz
- Elgrand
- E51
- Region
- East Anglia
Sounds expensive but at least Smokey’ll be in tip top form
Definately sounds like ARB will be the D shaped bushes.
Maybe they did the cleaning as part of the stalling investigations as well as the emissions. Don’t believe they have an EGR but likely they mean cleaning the whole intake/throttle and possibly PCV parts.
Not wishing to cause alarm but with the emissions do you think the front cats are OK or did you remove those? You could have a look at the readings, high HC can point to over fuelling and since you’ve replaced spark plus I wouldn’t think it’s lack of spark but maybe to do so with the coil packs, I mention this as another cause might be cats. Here’s my emissions in case you want to compare for peace of mind:
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- Peter
- Elgrand
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Thanks @LizeSounds expensive but at least Smokey’ll be in tip top form
Definately sounds like ARB will be the D shaped bushes.
Maybe they did the cleaning as part of the stalling investigations as well as the emissions. Don’t believe they have an EGR but likely they mean cleaning the whole intake/throttle and possibly PCV parts.
Not wishing to cause alarm but with the emissions do you think the front cats are OK or did you remove those? You could have a look at the readings, high HC can point to over fuelling and since you’ve replaced spark plus I wouldn’t think it’s lack of spark but maybe to do so with the coil packs, I mention this as another cause might be cats. Here’s my emissions in case you want to compare for peace of mind:
Will compare later
Managed to fix my drop link problem
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- south yorkshire
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- Dave
- Elgrand
- E51
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- Yorkshire
We need a how too guide mate, looks very technical to me
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- Co. Durham
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- Andy
- Elgrand
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Can you number them so we can follow the order they go on
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- Mid Yorkshire
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- Simon
- Elgrand
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- Yorkshire
Yesterday one of the things I did was wash and claybar the Elgrand. Today I machine polished it. Then thought I'd wax it... but turned out the only wax I had in stock was a bit of turtle wax circa 1993 and very thickened lol... I had enough of this old wax to do the bonnet. @Karl does wax go off? Seems to have worked on the bonnet!