Wiltshire Chris
Accidental Barchetta owner
Hello all,
April 1st is B day here, the day I tax her for the summer and have her first run out to get her warmed up and any problems ironed out before her MOT in mid-April. After resealing the fuel pump over the winter I was also keen to see if the fuel smell had subsided. In my short run I couldn't smell any fuel (hooray!) but:
April 1st is B day here, the day I tax her for the summer and have her first run out to get her warmed up and any problems ironed out before her MOT in mid-April. After resealing the fuel pump over the winter I was also keen to see if the fuel smell had subsided. In my short run I couldn't smell any fuel (hooray!) but:
- The speedo showed its usual signs of working, sticking, reading too high. One day I'll look at it but I just hope it behaves on MOT day
- Annoyingly the airbag light turned on. I followed all proper precautions when stripping the seats out for the fuel tank but maybe one of the connections isn't quite right or needs cleaning. I've got the latest TRW module 46535343 so I need to either bite the bullet and invest in MultiECUScan and cables or find someone local to read the codes and reset the ECU.
- While scrabbling around the floor I felt a touch of dampness and found a small amount of nice pink fluid trickling down the side of the tunnel into the driver's footwell. Having read the, very informative and terrifying, thread on heater matrix removal I'll either take the @s130 approach and try radweld or I'll bypass the matrix altogether. I'd like to fix it properly but that could wait until she's off the road again in the winter.
- I realised it's three years since the timing belt was done so that needs facing up to.