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What have you done to your Elgrand today?

RuDaPe said:
I must be lucky, I have electric curtains (02 Highway Star, Limited Edition)
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I've fitted cruise control to my E51. Bought the unit from Australia, good instructions and came with the Nissan Steering wheel cruiser control. You need to be able to solder to fit it as there are wires to splice into the loom at the diagnostic socket. Cost about £500 and works week.
 
Penners said:
I've fitted cruise control to my E51. Bought the unit from Australia, good instructions and came with the Nissan Steering wheel cruiser control. You need to be able to solder to fit it as there are wires to splice into the loom at the diagnostic socket. Cost about £500 and works week.
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I'll stick to my cruise foot, it will be far more reliable than my soldering
 
Penners said:
I've fitted cruise control to my E51. Bought the unit from Australia, good instructions and came with the Nissan Steering wheel cruiser control. You need to be able to solder to fit it as there are wires to splice into the loom at the diagnostic socket. Cost about £500 and works week.
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Do you have any more details?
 
Yesterday passed MOT retest, now ready to get advisories sorted.

If I fit the cruise control I want to use the original steering wheel buttons, so it looks like having to buy the one from Australia rather than CANM8. I found an OEM cruise control unit on ebay but they don't have the switch. Every cruise control switch advertised is the dash dimmer and trip reset. There is also a radar unit apparently for the complete system.
 
The original cc isn't particularly good apparently, the radar doesn't work too well and it's limited to a max cruise speed of around 68mph.
 
My factory radar worked great when it was working, had few of the problems others experienced regards picking up on cars in other lanes etc. It didn't work when I got it but I cleaned the radar on advice of someone on here then it worked great for a while, then stopped working again and hasn't worked for years now, I may be able to fix it by cleaning it again but I haven't bothered to remove the grill for access. The 68mph limit isn't great because if conditions are good enough to use cruise it's likely I'd want to be going a bit faster. If I try to use it now it will work for around 5 minutes then trip back to driver throttle mode throwing an error code pointing to something about solar radiation affecting the radar.
 
Original switch is available if you wanted to try and graft it into another system.

https://www.amayama.com/en/genuine-catalogs/epc/Nissan-japan/Elgrand/ne51/304-vq35de/electric/251
 
Yesterday had my black Elgrand up on the lift again to recheck wheel bearings and change front brake pads. I still can't find a problem with wheel bearings but there is a definite wheel bearing type noise especially particularly when turning left. Brake pads were only half worn and the caliper pistons were moving OK not seized or sticking but the slides were a bit sticky on the drivers side front so I cleaned and relubed them and changed the brake pads anyway. In addition to the wheel bearing type noise there's been a bit of steering judder while braking, the disks were not warped but there was the slightly sticking slides and the disks had a raised layer around the outer edges that the pads had started to ride on and make shiny, this layer had some areas more raised than others around the cicumference and it seemed these raised bits could be what was causing the judder... but I knew the complete raised bit around the circumference would come off just by tapping with a hammer and when I did that it left the disks flat/smooth again, the combination of the work I've done on the front brakes seems to have fixed the brake judder and the brakes feel a bit better on the pedal. Today I'm going to get this one up on the lift again and try to address the wheel bearing noise, I'll start by changing the drivers side front bearing because since the noise occurs mostly when turning left it's most likely that bearing that is noisy but it's a difficult call when there's no play or noise in any wheel bearing even when I apply sideways pressure on the wheel and turn it, I don't like throwing parts at stuff but the noise when driving seems bad enough to warrant it, just wish it was more clear cut and I could hear or feel one of the bearings being on it's way out.
 
Lpgc said:
Yesterday had my black Elgrand up on the lift again to recheck wheel bearings and change front brake pads. I still can't find a problem with wheel bearings but there is a definite wheel bearing type noise especially particularly when turning left. Brake pads were only half worn and the caliper pistons were moving OK not seized or sticking but the slides were a bit sticky on the drivers side front so I cleaned and relubed them and changed the brake pads anyway. In addition to the wheel bearing type noise there's been a bit of steering judder while braking, the disks were not warped but there was the slightly sticking slides and the disks had a raised layer around the outer edges that the pads had started to ride on and make shiny, this layer had some areas more raised than others around the cicumference and it seemed these raised bits could be what was causing the judder... but I knew the complete raised bit around the circumference would come off just by tapping with a hammer and when I did that it left the disks flat/smooth again, the combination of the work I've done on the front brakes seems to have fixed the brake judder and the brakes feel a bit better on the pedal. Today I'm going to get this one up on the lift again and try to address the wheel bearing noise, I'll start by changing the drivers side front bearing because since the noise occurs mostly when turning left it's most likely that bearing that is noisy but it's a difficult call when there's no play or noise in any wheel bearing even when I apply sideways pressure on the wheel and turn it, I don't like throwing parts at stuff but the noise when driving seems bad enough to warrant it, just wish it was more clear cut and I could hear or feel one of the bearings being on it's way out.
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Do you have a friendly garage near you with rollers, I’ve known bearings to be noisy only when weight is on the wheels , I.e on the road
 
Highway Dave said:
Do you have a friendly garage near you with rollers, I’ve known bearings to be noisy only when weight is on the wheels , I.e on the road
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Agreed and it does seem to be a case of only when there's weight on it, and since it's mostly when turning left most likely the osf but not necessarily.

I don't know of any that have rollers. Already have some wheel bearings so might as well crack on and change the osf.
 
Today I got behind the wheel of my Elgrand for the first time in more than two weeks. Stitches from my op were removed yesterday and all is good so took an exciting drive to the supermarket with the aid of a wrist brace. Nice to be at the controls again.
 
Got everything now except oil to do an oil and filters service. Just tried if my bmcables obd cable would work but it doesn't (got the free nds2 download on the laptop to see if it would) May buy a Bluetooth one for now as I got the nds lite app.
 
Highway Dave said:
That’s good simon , nothing worse than an annoying noise whilst driving .
Any ideas what I can do about the wife lol
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Needs a service mate 😂

You were right about no noise on the bearing unless it was loaded, yet when I'd removed it I could tell it was noisy and a bit crunchy then, seemed quiet and smooth on the car though. Can rule out the front brakes by removing the calipers but it can still be a bit more difficult to tell than usual if it's a 4wd model rather than a 2wd model due to the driveshaft with CV's always being connected, that said no more difficult than a rear bearing and on the rear there's the parking drum brakes.

I should be having an injection for a frozen shoulder now but the doctor is running behind so I'm waiting for it.
 
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