Bix said:

I had a spare outstation, so chucked that on. Still no dice.

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Enthusiastman said:

Do you value your sanity??

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Enthusiastman said:

Weight up your options buddy.
1. Is the car really worth messing with now??
2. Will it pass its next M.O.T with ease??
3. Cost of road tax these days??
4. Cost of fuel these days?/
5. Cost of insurance these days??

Do you value your sanity?? I did and in the end i binned off any hope and desire to own a P38. Best move i ever made mate. There are plenty of other decent vehicles out there you can buy and enjoy and use as a reliable daily. You could always trade your P38 in against anything that comes along or scrap it like you mentioned.

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Enthusiastman said:

Weight up your options buddy.
1. Is the car really worth messing with now??
2. Will it pass its next M.O.T with ease??
3. Cost of road tax these days??
4. Cost of fuel these days?/
5. Cost of insurance these days??

Do you value your sanity?? I did and in the end i binned off any hope and desire to own a P38. Best move i ever made mate. There are plenty of other decent vehicles out there you can buy and enjoy and use as a reliable daily. You could always trade your P38 in against anything that comes along or scrap it like you mentioned.

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Flossie said:

P38'S are awesome
Sayin' that, mine hasn't gone wrong...yet.

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Datatek said:

In case your spare out station is duff you could swap the one from the passenger door that works.

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RangeRoller dt said:

I’m still coming to terms with @domino ‘s decision. £1500! I’ve seen far worse up for £2G lucky he got any fingers left

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Datatek said:

What a helpful post NOT

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Flossie said:

My mates P38 has the exact same issue as @Bix , I swopped the outstations around and , same, still a dead door, the suspected outstation worked fine on the other good door.
Googling about it seems the purple/black wire in the long outstation plug is power in. I've yet to investigate this for him as it's nearly always in constant use or its raining/cold. He's currently running around with no door cards, A post panels, becm panel and under dash panels. I'm no expert but with help off here and semi educated poking with a DMM you and I should be able to sort it @Bix .

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Datatek said:

In case your spare out station is duff you could swap the one from the passenger door that works.

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Flossie said:

My mates P38 has the exact same issue as @Bix , I swopped the outstations around and , same, still a dead door, the suspected outstation worked fine on the other good door.
Googling about it seems the purple/black wire in the long outstation plug is power in. I've yet to investigate this for him as it's nearly always in constant use or its raining/cold. He's currently running around with no door cards, A post panels, becm panel and under dash panels. I'm no expert but with help off here and semi educated poking with a DMM you and I should be able to sort it @Bix .

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Enthusiastman said:

Weight up your options buddy.
1. Is the car really worth messing with now??
2. Will it pass its next M.O.T with ease??
3. Cost of road tax these days??
4. Cost of fuel these days?/
5. Cost of insurance these days??

Do you value your sanity?? I did and in the end i binned off any hope and desire to own a P38. Best move i ever made mate. There are plenty of other decent vehicles out there you can buy and enjoy and use as a reliable daily. You could always trade your P38 in against anything that comes along or scrap it like you mentioned.

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Bix said:

I'll give that a go next.


It was a purple/black I found a small repair on. Assuming it was a P/O. Unfortunately didn't fix anything splicing in a strong repair.


Although I mentioned scrapping it in, a P38 was a dream car from my youth. I've had mine for 10 years, the biggest issue with her is she is my daily driver. Really P38s need to be a weekend toy... or at least have a spare reliable second car in the stable. Sure MoT season is stressful, but that's the charm.

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Enthusiastman said:

Weight up your options buddy.
1. Is the car really worth messing with now??
2. Will it pass its next M.O.T with ease??
3. Cost of road tax these days??
4. Cost of fuel these days?/
5. Cost of insurance these days??

Do you value your sanity?? I did and in the end i binned off any hope and desire to own a P38. Best move i ever made mate. There are plenty of other decent vehicles out there you can buy and enjoy and use as a reliable daily. You could always trade your P38 in against anything that comes along or scrap it like you mentioned.

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Bix said:

Had the whole loom out the door because I couldn't get my fat hands in the gap between A post and door. Couldn't find **** beyond a nick in the purple/black wire which had been repaired over 10 years ago (not done in my ownership). Although my DVM was being a bastard, so stopped for food. My concern is the break is on the vehicle side somewhere, at which point she is for the scrapper.

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Enthusiastman said:

Weight up your options buddy.
1. Is the car really worth messing with now??
2. Will it pass its next M.O.T with ease??
3. Cost of road tax these days??
4. Cost of fuel these days?/
5. Cost of insurance these days??

Do you value your sanity?? I did and in the end i binned off any hope and desire to own a P38. Best move i ever made mate. There are plenty of other decent vehicles out there you can buy and enjoy and use as a reliable daily. You could always trade your P38 in against anything that comes along or scrap it like you mentioned.

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Henry_b said:

You could buy something else and end up with a whole heap of other issues, at the end of the day every problem has a solution, if people gave up that easily then there wouldn't be any P38's on the road or indeed any slightly complex vehicles.

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kermit_rr said:

It doesn't have to be an older vehicle, new cars aren't always the driving appliances they are made it to be, just harder to fix without dealer software and tools

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kermit_rr said:

Doing some research.. it seems the only cost viable route is to buy a top hat block and swap all the bits off mine myself.. problem is i don't have the space to do it.
Other options eg getting someone else to do it seem to be too expensive, especially as my motor isn't a pristine example to start with

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Henry_b said:

You can get a complete Thor engine for a few hundred quid and fit it quite easily, you'd be surprised how easy they are to pull out. that being the only pull out I do "fnarrr"

Might even snag a nice 4.6 to drop in there, straight swap with some info changed via nanocom to the BECM.

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