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Cloggy Saint wrote:Still, over a grand for a rusty touring with no mot and big miles isn't the end of the world.

I was quite pleased! It didn't really show it's miles though, only original parts were the shell, bottom end and a few panels!

nickso wrote:Ballsy to sit in car park hotwiring a car for 15 minutes.

It's a commuter station. Ticket office closes at 10am and very little activity from then until 4ish.

Yes, it was seen on CCTV, they watched the guy steal it! Took him about 20 mins to do it. 5 mins having a look around, then 15 mins in the car and under the bonnet before driving off in it. It's not much help though. Hood up means you can't make him out. I just can't believe it hasn't been found dum...

Thanks Adi. I'd had the wheels I bought from you refurbished in satin black and they looked sweet. They had kumho winter tyres on too so quite distinctive.

Jules1965 wrote:Mate, I work not far from Theale station I will keep a look out when on my travels, rgds Jules

It used to be parked there most days! Was stolen from right by the entrance. I live out towards Aldermaston.

To update... The car has still not been found! I've now settled with the insurer too. For everyone's info, the car was an 1988 F plate with 216k on but a shed load of history. It was in pretty good condition too. I'm sure the rust was setting in though. The MOT had lapsed 3 weeks prior to it being s...

Thanks guys.

Keep an eye out for anyone breaking a white touring or offering a set of satin black 15" bbs with Khumo winter tyres on!

No news yet from the police.

Yes, white tourer, huge mileage at over 200k but a bit like Triggers broom (everything's been replaced!)

Got a few pics on FB but can't link to them.

Really gutted as I loved that car! I'd just fully refurbed a set of BBS too.

Not expecting to see it again. Any damage is likely to write it off due to the value.

My 325 Touring was stolen today from Theale (nr Reading) train station car park. Last saw it at 0720 and it had gone by 0625.

Reg is F56RRD, it's pretty identifiable on black 15" BBS OE wheels with silver centres, black kidney grill etc.

Please keep a look out

Thanks Brian. I'm going to bypass the heater for now just to keep the car going. Will get the dash apart asap.

Anyone?

So today, the passenger footwell gets soaked with coolant. Had a search here and it seems that the Electric Heater valve is likely to be the cause and on taking out the glove box I can see that it's wet. What's the best way to go about rectifying this? Do I just replace the valve? If so, what parts ...

Wipers broke in the pouring rain when I was about 5 miles from home. Ended up with some string out of the windows and me and a mate pulling it in turn!

LEt me know what you think is better for snow: 1 4WD 2 RWD 3 FWD I think?! What about option 4... The car fitted with winter tyres. Friend has a Range Rover td4, his wife has a fiesta for shopping trips. At the start of this year, the fiesta had winter tyres, the RR didn't. The RR was useless, the ...

I've put 185.65/15s onto 15" BBS, will go and get a picture if you want. Personally I think they look fine!

Running those Nokians would see you still mobile all winter round. WAtch the link I posted earlier to see how good proper winter rubber is on ice.

The Touring is our cheap and cheerful run about, I'd rather be out in that when there is an increased risk of people crashing into you than in the 6er. After last year I wanted to give winter tyres a try so I bought 4 Kumho KW23's for £150 delivered! These have gone onto sme 15" BBS that I bought f...

The Touring is our cheap and cheerful run about, I'd rather be out in that when there is an increased risk of people crashing into you than in the 6er. After last year I wanted to give winter tyres a try so I bought 4 Kumho KW23's for £150 delivered! These have gone onto sme 15" BBS that I bought fr...

School boy mistake! I'd cleaned the outside of the disc, but didn't appreciate that the inside needed cleaning too. Have given it all a clean and grease and it's now 100% everything is spot on.

Did you try Brians method of connecting two of the pins by the switch? IIRC, this will prove the pump works (or not!)

"Pull out the switch, unplug it, and link the brown wire on pin 2 to the brown/black on pin 8 with a short piece of wire, and the ignition on. "

Bump need some help!

Have taken the motor out and cleaned it all out.

However, on putting it back in, my intermittent setting still doesn't work and now, the fast wiper setting doesn't work! Is there anyway to diagnose the relay itself?

Get some more pictures up, that looks immaculately clean!

The pump is good, I tried it using Brian's method. This bypassed both the switch on the dash, and the switch inside the motor gearbox. Of the two, by far the most likely to be the problem is the one in the gearbox, which is often a rusty mess as a result of screenwash water leaking into the gearbox...

The pump is good, I tried it using Brian's method.

I'm planning on taking a few pictures of the motor as I take it apart, hopefully they will be of use to someone else in the future.

I've just used this method to sort my car out. Have had battery problems for a while with it finally giving up this weekend. Put a new battery in this afternoon and then hit this problem with it not idling and needing revs to stay going, albeit lumpy as hell. So, went out and started the car, used a...

Did you make any progress on this?

Did anyone make progress on this? My m20b25 will start OK but then rev lumpy before stalling. It needs constant revs to keep it running. Any ideas?

I'm going to take it out and have a go over a few evenings this week. Will keep me out of trouble. Still need some ideas on how to fix the washer though?

As I don't have a multimeter (and can't find my soldering iron!) I've just tested the wiper module as per Brian's instructions, I can hear a click when I cross the pins but no wiper motor.

Is it worth me rebuilding the wiper motor?

LOL @ Brian! I found a post from you back in December last year that's explained it! The exact problem is that I have no wash or wiper from the switch. It has worked, but died a few weeks ago. Before it died, I had the problem of it parking in random places and also working of it's own accord when t...

Right, thanks to another excellent post from Brian that I've just found out that the module in the pic is the lamp check module and not the one for the wiper!

Will get back out there tomorrow when it's light.

Cheers fella

If the switch lights up when you push it, then the relay (K9) and fuse (26) are both OK. Pull out the switch, unplug it, and link the brown wire on pin 2 to the brown/black on pin 8 with a short piece of wire, and the ignition on. This should make the washer work. Find the rear wiper control module...

Thanks for the replies guys.

So, I'm definitely OK with 13cm in the front and 10cm will go in the back without any work?

My Touring came with no speakers in it, I'm going to be using it much more over winter so want to get a radio in there at least. After much searching, it seems that I need 13cm speakers for the stock front locations. But I cannot find a consistent answer for the rears, some people say 10cm, others s...

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