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This is how I had to do mine when I changed my VCU. Images don't show an awful lot, but the axle stand was just back from where the VCU mounts into the TBox. If you're working on the floor, a floor jack jacked up just enough to see the box lift in the mounts is enough.

Upon reading you've changed profession to hairdresser this was my first thing I wanted to ask, but it seems we know the answer. Lots claim it is to help fuel economy, but it is only ever done by those running one on a shoe string as a new VCU costs more than the car.

The physio thinks I have broken a bone I'm my ankle. Waiting to get an xray for it. Otherwise the fuzzy headedness is going away and everything else I am told will heal with time. I am the absolute worst passenger now though, I get so anxious that we're going to crash again. Wife tells me I keep...

I got my car back! Woohoo. Still got issues with the engine cutting out, but the garage couldn't get the diag to communicate with the BeCM, which is weird. Their guess is a wiring fault somewhere between the OBD port and the BeCM. Never rains but it pours. But at least I have a solid 12 months...

I was dreading the zone being expanded when I lived in Hounslow. Luckily I moved before the zone was expanded to include it. It seems daft because the amount of non compliant cars was miniscule. The difference it'll make is virtually nill. But the impact on people on low incomes is catastrophic...

My P38 has been more reliable... touch wood. Beyond battery dying and locking me out of the BeCM while away with work, my only real breakdowns have been the alternator dying and the radiator splitting. Which over 11 years isn't bad going.

I had a 12 month warranty on my CL55 which was bullet proof. Absolutely everything was covered. Unfortunately when it was due to run out they wouldn't renew it because I'd had so much work done under warranty. The alternative they offered didn't cover engine, gearbox, or suspension... so nothing...

I got cleared to fly. Assuming nothing goes wrong tomorrow I fly home after lunch. They put us all in business class so we can lay down and sleep. Physically I feel a lot better now too. Body is still tender and brain is a mess. But it is all a positive. Hopefully I am fit to drive before long...

Doc said amnesia. I have a concussion too, and that is apparently a symptom. I remember realising we were close so braced for impact. The noise of the crash then finding myself in the stairs covered in bags and shoes. Loads happened between me sitting down and the ambulance arriving but I don't...

If it helps, my P38 was a farm vehicle before I got it. Although they are all getting long in the tooth now, so reliability isn't what it was. I've got just shy of 270k on the clock on mine. But mine isn't exactly the most reliable on here. Been running it on a shoe string budget recently, so it...

Our driver had to brake hard because traffic ahead stopped suddenly. Unfortunately a truck behind us was too close to stop. Hit us and pushed us into the coach in front. I'm not too bad. My brain got scrambled, my seat failed which allowed the seatbelt to jettison me into a handrail and down a...

Woo, my car is ready for collection with a fresh MoT. From what the wife told me, the last place that touched the ABS installed a reluctor ring backwards which was throwing the fault. They've corrected it all and no lights, no problems. Beyond they couldn't talk to the BeCM, so don't know why I...

I think I found their email. I just need to time 30 mins to sit down and type out an email that doesn't sound like I am being condescending, but that I have doubts about what they are doing.

Pretty sure the garage have told the wife my car isn't getting fixed. They seem to keep disregarding her because she is a woman, and being in the Middle East is making it difficult for me to ring and find out what the **** is going on. They've changed a part which they didn't say what, the...

Guess I am going to hell. Not really a shock though. :p

You can test them all from inside the car. Just need to check resistance across the respective pins on the abs ecu plug.

I recall 900-1200ohms as a rough guide. But can't say for certain.

Rear right and rear left are switched. It is possible you damaged the rear right sensor knocking it home which then shows rear left as being duff.

Found out the allowance for going to Oman this year is likely to be cut in half. My budget for getting the ol' bus sorted is now considerably shorter. Hopefully the garage will let me do a payment plan. :oops: On the plus, I went to visit the inlaws and we did a touch over 400 miles without a...