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when i rang up to insure my mini they went through a long list of mods - the only one i said no to was disability.... all in all STD mini these days

the high pressure pump is on the end of the engine, and runs off the cam - one of the failure modes is the key that drives it i am putting 2 and 2 together( open to being corrected) - the fuel pump is in the tank

it does depend on your reader - before i picked up the foxwell for land rover i had 2 general engine only ones - an RAC one which read nothing and the elm327 with torque app which did the trick. I ended up with foxwell NT530 which i can add more vehicles to, a lot on here seem to go icarsoft...

not sure on the icarsoft the handbrake mechanism inside the drum does seize up, and it becomes a bit digital. Nodge did his recently and there is a write up on it if you look for his posts. easy enough to do just tricky to get the drum off..

I always ran the race mini on pure water with no issues - was out of the car and stripped over winter. I tried some waterless coolant (got my hands on Renault stuff) and she cooked every race. There was a recent discussion on an audi forum about the VAG coolant Gx. G11 was out in the 80s its...

I always hear across all makes about the BCM needing reset, I call BS on that - unless of course you change battery capacity that would need an update to keep things right. but like for like swap - would be the same as winter and summer driving in my opinion - the whole point of it is to know...

yep slowly squeeze it in a vice along the seem while rotating to open it and save the casing. if the battery has discontented, solder her up and away you go - working intermittently it sounds like that's all it is. I did buy a new case and battery but never used them. the case came closed with...

Rebuilt the luggage cover - I ran over it after leaving it out to get something in. Twang could be a word, i stripped it down to get the metal part off to re-shape as i flattened it a bit. sort of back to the right shape, and after an hour of a few choice words getting the spring rewound and...

when i last put my mini through the tester got physically stuck as the seats where fixed and he was a tad larger than me, he then dropped it into the brake test and tore off the exhaust, blamed it on a loose exhaust but i had just re-sealed and secured it for the test. anyway - he "found" holes...

still a little confused here lol the stud is the threaded bit the nut goes onto only the nut is the bit you turn to take the wheel off only the nut has the lock bit in it. i did my pads last night - those locking part of the wheel nuts are not fit to carry the torque required to fully tighten...

need a scan to see what is going on - could be a low oil/ fuel pressure sensor triggered cutting things short - something like that Is this with your finger held on the go button or short press and release?

@sharmanator43 sealed from the inside!! that means the water is either sitting on a join for the bodywork and will rust through at some point - or is sitting on the edge of the window which will go cloudy at some point.

next time it is below 5 degrees out try this- dont start the engine but turn on the ignition, this will cycle the glow plugs so if it is an issue with them i would imagine you will get the same fault but without cranking the engine. the glow plug light will stay on for a second longer than the...

need a decent code read and set up as nodge said before you flush more money away Top tip i found out at the weekend that helps - rather than jump in and hit the go button on a cold morning - turn the ign on first - ie foot off the clutch, this lets the glow plugs do their work - as indicated...

early ABS only used the sensors on each wheel, if you hit the brakes hard and locked up all 4 wheels no ABS lol it was 86 or 87 i believe that Audi fitted a 5th motion sensor to their cars (ur anyway) to stop this. My Father was an HGV mechanic and he said all the young lads used to complain...

He is not wrong – it’s a mod I do on race engines and have it on my Mini – may be a bit more crude but same idea – the engine needs to breath to get rid of back pressure which is not clean air so it will reduce the oxygen going in and therefore the performance. Suppose it’s a bit of work for...

our quality department stuck a large sign up in their department saying " do it right - do it once" - i printed off a tiny "revision 16" label and stuck it in the corner - no one ever noticed lol

"timing chain,cam belt kit," TD4 then lol just sounds like a normal service history. The FL2 was a test bed for next gen landrover and as such the diagnostics are rumored to have been hidden (lack of live data), which makes it hard to figure out whats up.

Like yourself i have seen lots of posts on this but i dont believe that i have seen an actual failure, of course it will eventually fail if not sorted sometime. But on the FL2 the belt for the alternator does not drive the water pump or camshaft, so it will not toast the engine, you could pull...