After a successful week long holiday with the D2 developing no new faults, i went out before the rain this morning to try and do a couple of little jobs.
First one was to look at the boot door lock - it locks on the central locking, but doesnt unlock. After getting the boot lining off (does the Subwoofer REALLY need that many screws?!) I tried all the obvious tricks (e.g. copious amounts of WD40, checking the connections, etc). Still no joy so for now i've disconnected the electrical connection so the boot is manual locking only. Time to spend some more money!
Next was to unwrap the handheld CB radio that arrived in the post while i was away (see separate post). It was a cheap EBAY purchase, and gives another method of communicating when out laning rather than relying on PMR446. Digging in the garage there are two magmount CB aerials, and the plan was to be able to put one on the roof, then route the cable in to the car and connect it to the handheld, but both have some antiquated screw-connectors on, whereas the handheld has a BNC connector. A bit more money spent on amazon!
Another job was to look at the wiring for the dashcam. There is a spare ignition live above the windscreen which would have fed the auto dimming mirror if fitted, but of course its 12v and the dash cam requires 5v. There isn't space to easily pop in a 12v socket and use the USB feed, but there is space to hide one of these little adaptors -
Amazon product - a bit more amazon ordering and hopefully within the next few days that'll be another cable that doesnt run down the windscreen! Annoyingly i fitted one in a previous car to feed the satnav (rather than having cables running from the 12v socket on the dashboard) but didnt bother to remove it when I sold the car.
Also noticed that some beeper has nicked one of the wheel nuts... so time to order one of those as well!
and I've just collected four of these for 200
