Fuel filter change, air filter change, oil and oil filter change. Topped the screen wash up and added rainex. Even with eye makeup remover I can't get the oil marks off my arm.

Washing up liquid and a good scrub with a green pan scourer is what I use. ;)

I used to use that and washing powder. Will try again later. Thanks Nodge

Bit late to this conversation, but after any spannering I often wash my forearms with WD40 and a rag to get the worst of the oil / grease off, then its either the aforementioned scrubby pad, which still works, but hurts significantly less when worn, or nailbrush but always with a proper hand cleaner. I keep a 5 litre bottle of hand cleaner with the hand pump nozzle thing in the bathroom in the cupboard under the sink. My favourite stuff is the AutoSmart hand cleaner, "Extra Hands" it is a little pricier than a lot of the other brands, but it is craxy good, even effective against paint. My second choice is the loctite orange handcleaner, it has orange / citrus stuff in it, so is a pretty good degreaser, but not as effective against paint. And swarfega, although being the eponymous brand for all industrial hand cleaners, is IMHO rubbish, don't waste your money on it, oh that reminds me.... #storytime

(Quick eminder that I work offshore on oil rigs and or vessels)

I remember one rig I was on for about a year, on which we were given swarfega green (without bits), which was absolutely ****ing useless as a hand cleaner. It had no particulates in it for scrubbing action, and it seemed to be imiscible with the oil, while simultaneously being hydrophobic and refusing to interact with wet dirt on our skin. The only way we could make it work in any shapr form or fashion was by grabbing sachets of sugar from the teashack, and mixing that in to the swarfega as an aggregate to scrub our hands. You do not want to imagine the mess created by a twenty odd person drill crew, who had worked a 12 hour shift, hurredly splashing about with the frustratingly futile swarfega and sachets of sugar, trying to scrub the oil based "mud" (drilling fluid) and general grease off their hands as quick as possible, so they could get in to the galley and get fed before the galley closed...
 
Loaded the car with all the eldest daughter's stuff to take back to her uni digs in Cardiff.
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This morning I had a low coolant message on the dash, which accompanied the Terrain Response Unavailable message I've had ever since I changed the Haldex fluid and cleaned the MAP sensor a couple of Saturday's ago.

So while pondering why I'm loosing coolant, I happened to look down at the MAP sensor, and noticed its plug sitting on the throttle body, adjacent to the sensor. So that got plugged in, and suddenly the TR Unavailable message was gone. So I can only assume I'd not pushed the plug for the sensor fully home, and it fell out shortly after I put the bonnet back down the other week. Oddly there was no MIL, and not really any difference in power delivery, although I have noticed that the low RPM response is improved, which is a bonus.

No to work out where the coolant is going, which is an odd one.
The coolant was low, but oddly when I released the pressure cap, the coolant level rises quite a lot. The pressure also remains overnight, which is also quite odd.
 
This morning I had a low coolant message on the dash, which accompanied the Terrain Response Unavailable message I've had ever since I changed the Haldex fluid and cleaned the MAP sensor a couple of Saturday's ago.

So while pondering why I'm loosing coolant, I happened to look down at the MAP sensor, and noticed its plug sitting on the throttle body, adjacent to the sensor. So that got plugged in, and suddenly the TR Unavailable message was gone. So I can only assume I'd not pushed the plug for the sensor fully home, and it fell out shortly after I put the bonnet back down the other week. Oddly there was no MIL, and not really any difference in power delivery, although I have noticed that the low RPM response is improved, which is a bonus.

No to work out where the coolant is going, which is an odd one.
The coolant was low, but oddly when I released the pressure cap, the coolant level rises quite a lot. The pressure also remains overnight, which is also quite odd.
I hope it's not head gasket related. :eek:
 
Bit late to this conversation, but after any spannering I often wash my forearms with WD40 and a rag to get the worst of the oil / grease off, then its either the aforementioned scrubby pad, which still works, but hurts significantly less when worn, or nailbrush but always with a proper hand cleaner. I keep a 5 litre bottle of hand cleaner with the hand pump nozzle thing in the bathroom in the cupboard under the sink. My favourite stuff is the AutoSmart hand cleaner, "Extra Hands" it is a little pricier than a lot of the other brands, but it is craxy good, even effective against paint. My second choice is the loctite orange handcleaner, it has orange / citrus stuff in it, so is a pretty good degreaser, but not as effective against paint. And swarfega, although being the eponymous brand for all industrial hand cleaners, is IMHO rubbish, don't waste your money on it, oh that reminds me.... #storytime

(Quick eminder that I work offshore on oil rigs and or vessels)

I remember one rig I was on for about a year, on which we were given swarfega green (without bits), which was absolutely ****ing useless as a hand cleaner. It had no particulates in it for scrubbing action, and it seemed to be imiscible with the oil, while simultaneously being hydrophobic and refusing to interact with wet dirt on our skin. The only way we could make it work in any shapr form or fashion was by grabbing sachets of sugar from the teashack, and mixing that in to the swarfega as an aggregate to scrub our hands. You do not want to imagine the mess created by a twenty odd person drill crew, who had worked a 12 hour shift, hurredly splashing about with the frustratingly futile swarfega and sachets of sugar, trying to scrub the oil based "mud" (drilling fluid) and general grease off their hands as quick as possible, so they could get in to the galley and get fed before the galley closed...

I use the Manista yellow stuff. Works really well & much better than the various swarfega. Have occasionally pre-degreased with brake cleaner when really grubby !!
 
Bit late to this conversation, but after any spannering I often wash my forearms with WD40 and a rag to get the worst of the oil / grease off, then its either the aforementioned scrubby pad, which still works, but hurts significantly less when worn, or nailbrush but always with a proper hand cleaner. I keep a 5 litre bottle of hand cleaner with the hand pump nozzle thing in the bathroom in the cupboard under the sink. My favourite stuff is the AutoSmart hand cleaner, "Extra Hands" it is a little pricier than a lot of the other brands, but it is craxy good, even effective against paint. My second choice is the loctite orange handcleaner, it has orange / citrus stuff in it, so is a pretty good degreaser, but not as effective against paint. And swarfega, although being the eponymous brand for all industrial hand cleaners, is IMHO rubbish, don't waste your money on it, oh that reminds me.... #storytime

(Quick eminder that I work offshore on oil rigs and or vessels)

I remember one rig I was on for about a year, on which we were given swarfega green (without bits), which was absolutely ****ing useless as a hand cleaner. It had no particulates in it for scrubbing action, and it seemed to be imiscible with the oil, while simultaneously being hydrophobic and refusing to interact with wet dirt on our skin. The only way we could make it work in any shapr form or fashion was by grabbing sachets of sugar from the teashack, and mixing that in to the swarfega as an aggregate to scrub our hands. You do not want to imagine the mess created by a twenty odd person drill crew, who had worked a 12 hour shift, hurredly splashing about with the frustratingly futile swarfega and sachets of sugar, trying to scrub the oil based "mud" (drilling fluid) and general grease off their hands as quick as possible, so they could get in to the galley and get fed before the galley closed...

I make my own hand cleaning concoction. Fairy Liquid and used coffee granules (fully leaded or decaff :D). Cheap and effective, unless you drink instant coffee.
 
Do love a scrappy
There used to be a brilliant one near me which always had a high turn over of stock and they only ever charged £2/£3 for most bits but sadly they stopped doing spares recently. There is another one next door but it doesn't change the stock much and they charge a lot more. I did well to get the tail light and for a tenner, I'm still happy.
 
There used to be a brilliant one near me which always had a high turn over of stock and they only ever charged £2/£3 for most bits but sadly they stopped doing spares recently. There is another one next door but it doesn't change the stock much and they charge a lot more. I did well to get the tail light and for a tenner, I'm still happy.
I remeberbwhej I was younger you could go into the cars and take what you needed, now all health and safety and massive mark ups
 

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