danmcl

There's a bit of a nub on the indicator connection ring that wears down and gives you false indicators or sometimes no indicators. The same thing happened mine, turned out there was also an accumulation of hair, dust and fluff on the indicator stalk contact ring, the grease catches the fluff and the indicator arcs a bit and ignites it. This is sometimes accompanied by intermittent indicator relay clicks and also intermittent indicator activation or indicators not activating. To remove the steering wheel is not a difficult task but you do need a breaker bar and a 24mm socket. There's a guide on here somewhere but it basically breaks down to Disconnect the battery for at least 30min before commencing work. Remove the steering column cover and disconnect the (If I remember correctly) yellow connector for the airbag, it's a flat cable. Turn the steering wheel so that it is at 90o. There are two openings on the back, insert a flat bladed screwdriver and turn it until you feel the airbag retaining clip release. Then turn the wheel through 180o and do the same on the other side. Gently pull the airbag module towards yourself and be careful that you do not damage the connector and cable between the airbag module and the wheel. There is a 24mm nut on the top of the steering column, throw your breaker bar on that and loosen it up. You can do this whole operation without removing the module but I would recommend it as I wouldn't want it going off either in my face or into my nads. Mark the nut with a centre punch after you have removed it, it is only good for 5 removals and reattachments. Mark the steering wheel and the sterring column with a permanent marker across both, this is so you can realign the wheel when you replace it. It is a tightly splined wheel so you can be close but not close enough and have a non-level wheel, not dangerous (I don't think at least) but really annoying and not visually pleasing. Remove the wheel by gently pulling towards you, you might need to rock it side to side to get it to release on the splines. the indicator stalk should now slip off easily, replace with the new one. Replace the steering wheel being careful to line up the alignment mark you made earlier. You did make one right? Reattach the nut and tighten to the correct torque. I don't know what the value is unfortunately. Mine was set to "tight enough, but not ripping the arse out of it" i.e. by hand. Reattach the airbag module connector Replace the airbag module, starting with the lower clip, then pushing it home at the top where the horn "buttons" are located Reattach the airbag connector on the steering column. Replace the steering column cowl. Reconnect battery and cross fingers airbag does not deploy. Start car, again cross fingers that airbag does not deploy in face. Test indicators. Job Done. I think my new indicator stalk cost £40 odd at the breakers, I had had it replaced from a scrappers before but it didn't last any length of time, may have came from a similarly aged car so might have had the same amout of wear.

Same thing happened mine, turned out it was an accumulation of hair, dust and fluff on the indicator stalk contact ring, the grease catches the fluff and the indicator arcs a bit and ignites it. This is sometimes accompanied by intermittent indicator relay clicks and also intermittent indicator activation or indicators not activating. To remove the steering wheel is not a difficult task but you do need a breaker bar and a 24mm socket. There's a guide on here somewhere but it basically breaks down to Disconnect the battery for at least 30min before commencing work. Remove the steering column cover and disconnect the (If I remember correctly) yellow connector for the airbag, it's a flat cable. Turn the steering wheel so that it is at 90o. There are two openings on the back, insert a flat bladed screwdriver and turn it until you feel the airbag retaining clip release. Then turn the wheel through 180o and do the same on the other side. Gently pull the airbag module towards yourself and be careful that you do not damage the connector and cable between the airbag module and the wheel. There is a 24mm nut on the top of the steering column, throw your breaker bar on that and loosen it up. You can do this whole operation without removing the module but I would recommend it as I wouldn't want it going off either in my face or into my nads. Mark the nut with a centre punch after you have removed it, it is only good for 5 removals and reattachments. Mark the steering wheel and the sterring column with a permanent marker across both, this is so you can realign the wheel when you replace it. It is a tightly splined wheel so you can be close but not close enough and have a non-level wheel, not dangerous (I don't think at least) but really annoying and not visually pleasing. Remove the wheel by gently pulling towards you, you might need to rock it side to side to get it to release on the splines. the indicator stalk should now slip off easily, replace with the new one. Replace the steering wheel being careful to line up the alignment mark you made earlier. You did make one right? Reattach the nut and tighten to the correct torque. I don't know what the value is unfortunately. Mine was set to "tight enough, but not ripping the arse out of it" i.e. by hand. Reattach the airbag module connector Replace the airbag module, starting with the lower clip, then pushing it home at the top where the horn "buttons" are located Reattach the airbag connector on the steering column. Replace the steering column cowl. Reconnect battery and cross fingers airbag does not deploy. Start car, again cross fingers that airbag does not deploy in face. Test indicators. Job Done. I think my new indicator stalk cost £40 odd at the breakers, I had had it replaced from a scrappers before but it didn't last any length of time, may have came from a similarly aged car so might have had the same amout of wear.

It took me a few go's to get mine off, but I found the trick was to get the orientation of your screwdriver blade right and *don't* put it all the way to the bottom of the well, I've had mine off a few times to replace the indicator stalk, watch the connections on the bottom and when taking it off, watch the clip at the bottom as if it releases unexpectedly you'll hit yourself in the mouth with the airbag module. DAMHIKT.

Nah, I think that's a bit gash I like the Steering wheel, off the 3L i think Lovely job

Jazz blue with loadsa pearl. Either that or R32 blue

And that's why I must feel at home here

nerd porn.... Nah, its for a large 'merkin client (see what I did there ) They want to store loadsa stuff (I can't tell you what) It has a brother as well that lives in our office thats just a straight replica of it, replicated every 30 min just to be sure in case if goes offline, its the only real way to back something like that up. It does have a bigger brother (48TB) but that was too much space for what they needed. The initial data load is expected to be 1-2 TB and grow at a phenomenal rate. BTW if anyone hasn't guessed I'm a giant IT nerd.

I forgot this is how it got to the datacentre A perfect fit, had the highest bandwidth Lupo in the world I would reckon for a while at least

Tis 48 500G discs in 4u. It's a big fecker coming in at 70 odd Kg. Am liking sun servers at the moment.

I think that qualifies as "pwned" Is that a thumper too? I do realize this could turn into a completely porn based conversation, but hey, maybe that's not a bad thing

18 Terabytes of sexy ZFS storage Yay Me!

Dynolicious doesn't use the GPS at all, otherwise it would prompt you to allow it access to the location service on your iPhone. As velocity is a derivative of acceleration (or vice versa, I can't remember) you can calculate your speed delta based on your acceleration, so for dead starts, its the difference between your current speed and 0. One thing about it though, you need to have it firmly mounted, I did mine on my leg to see how it does and if it tilts at all it throws the accelerometers out of whack and you end up with mental readings like accelerating at 2.3G (I bloody wish!)

I'm getting a weird noise from my driver side suspension (is this the near side or the off-side, I can never remember), its like a bonging noise, like if you hit it with a hammer. It only happens on the driver side and only on full lock. I had a look but can't see any damage on the spring (which is what I am assuming is making the noise) Any ideas? I do need an excuse to buy a set of coilies or at the very least a set of lowering springs from VW....

I wrote off a Megane Scenic (old shape), completely my fault due to lack of experience and going too fast for the conditions I was going down a country lane at night shortly after having passed my test and saw what i thought was the road ahead, turns out it was another lane leading to a gate, saw this at the last minute and slammed on the brakes and threw the wheel to the left to try and make it round the corner. Car breaks free and starts sliding on the diagonal, I clip a telegraph pole taking a good inch chunk out of it and ripping the passenger side wheel off, this throws the car round even more and the two driver side wheels go into a ditch and flip the car onto the roof. Am now hanging upside down by my seatbelt and scrabbling for the door handles to try and get out. I started really freaking as I was trying to get the door open normally but being upside down it wasn't behaving itself (surprisingly) I undo my seatbelt and land on my feet on another passengers legs breaking one of them. I have to lie on the roof of the car and kick out one of the back windows to get out. I get out and there is the family that own the field helping my passengers out and one of them even takes the keys out and gives them to me, they take me into their farmhouse as my passengers all lived nearby and walked home, even the guy with the busted leg! I was sooooo worried about what my dad would think/do as it was his car (and our only car) but he was just happy for me to be alright. The worst part of it was when I realised what was happening when the car was sliding was that it all went quiet and went black and white. Big orange flash of the airbags going off and next I'm upside down. First thought was "How in under **** am I going to explain this?"

I have a rule, if I'm not willing to kill the animal myself then I'll not eat it. There is very little I won't eat but I wouldn't touch that poo. That is just excessively cruel and the people that do it deserve similar treatment.