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Post Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:14 pm

...when you're happily cruising down the motorway, without your mobile ( :cry: ), and suddenly the engine just cuts out! Happened to me twice today, only for a couple of seconds, but long enough for thoughts of dodging traffic trying to reach civilisation, or sitting on the hard shoulder waiting for the car to fix it's self, to run through my head! It made for a very nervous journey home. Remember kids, mobiles aren't just for taking up-skirt photos on buses, never leave home without it.
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Post Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:16 pm

datourer wrote:Remember kids, mobiles aren't just for taking up-skirt photos on buses, never leave home without it.
What kids these days do that? :roll:
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Post Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:18 pm

i never do, have quite a comprehensive tool roll in the boot too

and something big and heavy down the side of the drivers seat incase of one of those real heart stopping momnets 8O
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Post Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:21 pm

Damn thats not good mate, what was the problem?

Some dirty fuck*r did that to my girlfriend in a club once, what a shame for him i knew all the bouncers - he wont forget that night in a hurry :teehee:
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Post Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:23 pm

I don't know what the problem is yet, but i suspect it's fuel related.
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Post Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:25 pm

has the fuel pump started making funny nioses or does it sound ok?
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Post Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:49 pm

Check your fuel filter (replaced it recently?) before you replace your fuel pump - been there, done that!
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:46 pm

Sounds more like the fuel pump relay to me :?

Chris, your avatar pic is sick :puke:

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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:53 pm

Yeah Chris that Avatar pic is sick, you like mopeds do you???

Sounds like the DME relay doing the dodgy to me.
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:16 pm

i usually only get that heart stopping moment just as i lose control and im at the mercy of the gods ,waiting to see if i hit anything before i come to a halt :roll:
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:57 pm

Widge wrote:Sounds like the DME relay doing the dodgy to me.
DME relay?
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:01 pm

aka the fuel pump relay, all 3 on the passenger windg are referred to as the DME relays....I think...dunno why though :roll:
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:33 pm

The left hand row of relays visible in my sig' pic'?
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:35 pm

Nope the ones hiding under the black cover right between your headertank and the PAS bottle. The black cover just lifts up.
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:45 pm

Okay, i know what you mean, thanks for the tip. Should i just replace them as a precaution anyway?
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Post Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:49 pm

Yeah, I think it's the middle one for the fuel pump, brian more will know.