Don't have a go at Nodge - or we WILL find you - and we WILL kill you - (;-)) - Seriously - he is the briefest, most informed, and most helpful that you could wish to meet on any forum - No bull**** - just the facts Madam!!!!

Sunday Lunch

If you read about the one wheel up test on this forum you will see that a lot of effort and discussion has gone in to standardising this test so that different owners can get a pretty definitive measure of their own VCU - so it's well worth taking the trouble to arrange a similar test - ie a...

Perhaps you still have air in the system

I always fully fill my tank and log the mpg - my figures on my F1 are done thus - the figures on the F2 are off the computer but the first coupla fills seem similar - time will tell. They are both Autos by the way. If I kick down the F2 hard at 60ish I can kick out a brief cloud of black smoke...

Keep us posted after a longer trial - I have the blanking plate in stock but still familiarising myself with a base-line performance before I start tweaking - currently getting 28ish with mixed driving (2010 F2 TD4) - and I was surprised to only get the same on a motorway run at 70/74mph - I...

Hmm! ... maybe if I hit some big problems somewhere down the road - but for now - as a guy whose soldering iron needs a blowlamp to heat up the copper bit - and got lots of spanners and nuts'n'bolts but no little bag of spare electrons - I might go with "it ain't broke so don't fix it" Might do...

Yeah - I just paged through all the live data menu for the F2 TD4 and it's a bit sparse compared to what is read on the F1 TD4 or the F2 SD4 -(I saw your youtubes on the live data menus) - there is no fuel pressures indicated on the F2 TD4 unfortunately.(Hawkeye V8) I was wondering whether to...

I had a VW beetle that I put rings and shells in but failed to tighten up the flywheel properly. When that came loose I dropped the engine out again on my own in 17 minutes - those were the days - simple stuff

How can I tell if my FL2 2010 TD4 Auto has been remapped? (I have a Hawkeye) - it seems bloody quick and the fuel consumption on short trips is circa 20mpg - would it show up on fuel pressures or any thing like that?

Actually I did not find that the 1mm difference in tread depth made a measurable difference when swopping tyres around - unlike mixing in a different spec Michelin spare - and I think you need to check your decimal points

I wouldn't totally argue with that - the moment situations require some torque transmitted to the rear the system provides it instantly - hence four wheel drive feel - but in steady straight line running there is minimal load on the IRD so the gearing is about smack on.

I think that is the essence of this gearing - the small difference of 0.2% allows perfectly for the difference in weight and hence rolling radius front to rear - any remaining small differences at steady straight line running is soaked up by the fact that we do not have rack and pinion with the...

I just worked off one pair of ramps but four bits of 5" x 3" give me enough to slip under to do the final levels as my garage floor is flat and level - slim line Hippo ramps (;-))>

Here ye go

Get a six point impact socket - grind off the lead-in chamfer so that you get maximum engagement onto the plug - get a couple of long extension bars on the socket wrench so that you can lean the end on the transmission tunnel and keep everything square - and use a breaker bar rather than a...

Done a Haldex service on my new (to me) 2010 FL2 - Gen 4 Haldex - followed a good youtube video by a guy that did a Volvo - used the same tricks as him except I just "kissed" the corner of the flange with an ungaurded grinder to let the pump just pop off in my hand - His tip on making a hot...

Having just got a FL2 2010 td4 auto HSE+ 93k which had a Service History with main agents up to a year/10k ago. Asked myself should I get a b service at the Main Stealer to keep it going - or not as I have not paid a stealer ever in circa half a million miles - got a quote - chin dropped - and...

Yeah - awaiting a response

Has anyone found a link to a manual for the Hawkeye Total - I can only find earlier versions