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SeriesLandy 18th October 2013 08:34 PM

Unlucky kev but not a bad fail.
With the fog light, if you are using the sierra stalks.
Take a feed from pin 56 (brown/black wire) on either connector and use it as the relay earth and the fog will only operate with dipped/ main beam.


ayjay 18th October 2013 10:00 PM

Well done, nothing serious as expected. :) At least you have a list if things to fix . Its just a pain having to go back for another test:rolleyes:

voucht 19th October 2013 08:07 PM

So sorry to hear the news Kev, really :(

Well, it is small things you will easily fix, and you look to be positive, so it is comforting.

Your call will be soon on the road. Hopefully winter will come a bit later in the UK that it does here in Sweden (I fitted the winter wheels on my every day car today :eek: )

Good luck!

ayjay 19th October 2013 10:15 PM

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/images/p2260601.jpg
Sylvain says he's got his winter tyres on.
This is a pic of his local Aldi car park:D

TheArf 20th October 2013 10:41 AM

No its not that was coedpoeth last easter

Arfon

K4KEV 13th November 2013 12:25 PM

cheers for that tip Steve it worked a treat.... slowly worked my way through the failure sheet and glad to say everything is done and I have my retest tomorrow. I will elaborate on how I fixed them later on today.

flyerncle 13th November 2013 02:35 PM

This time ;)

voucht 13th November 2013 04:34 PM

In French, we say "merde" to wish good luck (no need to translate I guess ;)).

So, "merde" for tomorrow Kev! This time is going to be the good one :)

Davidbolam 13th November 2013 06:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by voucht (Post 94472)
In French, we say "merde" to wish good luck (no need to translate I guess ;)).

So, "merde" for tomorrow Kev! This time is going to be the good one :)

Good luck kev.

David

K4KEV 13th November 2013 07:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by voucht (Post 94472)
In French, we say "merde" to wish good luck (no need to translate I guess ;)).

So, "merde" for tomorrow Kev! This time is going to be the good one :)

It will be effin merder:p :p if he fails it this time lol
Anyways please excuse the lack of activity on here ....have had a few surviving day to day issues, but I am back on song now so the fail list

Well the handbrake was straight forward enough, buy a new cable and get it swaged to the right length and retro fit it.....took nearly a day as the tank had to come out ....beware if you are thinking about using Newcastle don't use any kind of "cable joiner" it wont do.

The under-reading speedo was fun as I had put that dash in so it was not going anywhere jeeez it was a big pita but sure enough my research did prove worth it when I drilled a hole roughly where I thought the potentiometer would be and it was.....after making a record of speeds to rpm it was just the slightest tweak clockwise to bring the reading to a passable level, but even if it is still out I can get to it at the re-test .

kick up on the headlamps turned out to be a relatively easy fix.....after grinding a small glass locating "bobble" down I was able to move the lens and reflector around 10 degrees to get the kick up the right way.

Easiest of them all....axle weights, just simply typed up a letter on pc saying I was the manufacturer and I was informing the examiner of a design axle weight change.

Rear fog light was resolved using Sirieslandy's diagram further up this page.

Coil spring "locks".....I was not sure how I was going to sort this one out, I was not keen on the examiners suggestion of small grub screw through the threaded ring seat as it would defo create a weakness at that spot so I decided to fabricate a aluminium jubilee type clip to clamp on the shock body but also have a small tab that locates into a notch on the threaded spring seat .....this provided two "locking actions" and no need to take the spring off.....I have had to sacrifice a little adjustment, but I can live with that for the mo

only have pics of last item on list....see next page


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