I installed HID high beams on my '97 just after I got it and they've been faultless for several years now. I guess there are good ones and bad ones.

I tend to agree - I think it would be very hard and prbably impossible to fit the rear bushings to the front arms.

Just to sort out the facts from the fiction: Mike Russel did rip me off and I know that he's done it to others. About a year or two ago I was even contacted by a solicitor who'd read my posts. He was representing a woman who was taking Mr.Russell to court for similar offences. I was asked to...

I believe they are for the shock absorbers. I haven't installed mine, they're still in the box, but I have done the rest of the front end and the rear radius arms and one thing is certain: If your workshop got the front and rear radius-arm-to-chassis bushes mixed up you would certainly have a...

I'm on the same Britpart bushes now for about 20.000km and have had no problems. With violent wobble like this you would basically need to loose a bushing completely before it got that bad, in which case you should be able to locate it quite easily. It sounds like something under your car is...

Well, obviously...:)

Thanks! I was hoping to find a relay with built in flyback protection, but if not I will install a diode. So you agree that the resistor dummy load would not be needed when converting from early type to later type, only when going the opposite way? H.

How on earth would you turn the prop with all wheels on the ground? H.

Hi My car does not have a relay in pos RL3. It's a '97 4.6 HSE. The replacement panel is a JFC102550, the old one is probably a JFC102400 (to be confirmed upon removal). So, will I need to follow the diagram, or do I simply trigger a relay with the existing feed to the clutch and run a...

Thanks! OK. The wiring loom seems pricey. Is there any reason why I couldn't just bodge it by using the existing feed to the compressor to fire a relay and then run a dedicated supply and fuse through the relay and to the clutch, with a resistor across the coil if it doesn't work directly...

Check your earths, or better yet: eliminate them by installing a good jumper from your battery negative to the engine block and another from the block to the body. If your starter relay is triggered, you should also hear the starter solenoid trying to engage the starter. Is this the click your...

Thanks both of you. I suppose I'll just have to try it and see if it works or not. Is the required mod described anywhere, in case I need it? Can you tell me how to access the screws in the fascia without damaging anything? Thanks, Henrik

Hi, Well, it's the one I was advised to buy, since there was an inherent firmware fault in the earlier units. So the one I've bought is a JFC102550, whereas the old one is a JFC102400. Still plug and play? H

Hi all, I have bought a replacement hvac panel for my '97 HSE. Is this a plug'n'play job or will it need to be set up somehow before it will function? I'm thinking about the positioning of the blend-flaps and so on. Thanks!

Never mind where it goes to for now. You need to eliminate bad earth as a fault, especially since you had smoke coming off the cable and you can hear the starter clicking. Get a good heavy gauge jumper cable and run it from your battery negative to the engine block. For good measure, put a...

I didn't know, but now I do. I suspected it, yes, but it's always useful to ask someone with a similar car how theirs behaves before forking out for parts I may not need. There are big differences in shock absorbers - a Porsche settles far quicker than, say, an XJ Jaguar. Thanks Data, for...

No offence, but it's not the EAS. I know how it works and it only comes into play after this bounce has settled. This is a bounce like any old car with tired shocks - I simply wanted to find out how "loose" they're meant to be. It does the exact same thing if i bounce on the bumper - i.e. it...

Yes, I know that. This is not the air suspension leveling. The car approaches the light under braking, the fronts compress until the car comes to a halt. Then they bounce back up as you'd expect, but then it bounces again once or twice (considerably less, of course, than the first rebound), and...

Hi all, I haven't noticed any difference in the ride as such, but I have noticed that when coming to a halt at a red light, the car seems to rock up and down maybe twice before coming to complete rest. It may have been like this since I got it, but I only noticed it recently. Are my shocks gone...

Thanks, I'll give them a try. Henrik