#carmaintenance — Public Fediverse posts

Both #Volkswagen and #Opel / #Vauxhall use convention of #brown wire for an earth/ground (and in the case of this Corsa a black wire for L+), but in modern #ElectricalEngineering a brown wire is treated as live (could be either AC or DC) and black is often L- on older systems (nowadays blue or grey is preferred depending on whether the DC is negative or positive earthed).

I assume these conventions for #cars started long before the standardised European colours for electrical wiring in buildings and other equipment

Which you have to beware of if you often switch between #CarMaintenance and general electric work!

Today new #sparkplugs, #coolant refresh and #oil change - had to jack up car and put ramps underneath other way round rather than drive on to them - bumper slightly fouls ramp ( #bladibarsket ).

Also chocked rear wheels for #safety

Sparkplugs are #Bosch 0 242 230 806 FQR8LEU2

( #AltText contains useful info on tools, methods etc if you have a #Vauxhall / #Opel / #CorsaC #HoldenBarina with #Z12XEP #engine, I try to put this info in the text on any of my #toots about #CarMaintenance )

[ as there's spare space in this toot I added #Holden #Barina as hashtags for anyone here who is in #Australia or #NewZealand #Aotearoa ]

Also needs cabin filter replaced (alas, the one that arrived today doesn't look like right size, it will have to go back along with whichever oil filter turns out to be wrong size (there are *two* listed for this car, according to engine number but the engine number is not anywhere easy to see, and this engine Z12XEP stayed in production with Opel for the Corsa D and at some point oil filter dimensions changed..

I'm already knackered after todays work (I was at the office unusually early today for another reason), so will be getting an earlier night tonight than normal

Those other bits can wait until the weekend or early next week (as the Finance Manager has to deal with insurance anyway)

#Vauxhall
#OpelCorsaC #CarMaintenance

https://www.engine-specs.net/opel/z12xep.html

More #maintenance of #Vauxhall / #Opel #CorsaC

Replaced rear fog light bulb (bumper part dismantled, water tipped out, lampholder cleaned up then reassembled), fitted new horn.

New fuel filter, first time I've done this myself (not fun, had to crawl underneath in awkward position and avoid petrol being spilled out from old filter, self tapping holding screw goosed (fully rounded off), replaced with new one with bolt head

Fitted air filter, intake hoses have to be removed ( #bladibarsket ) so also cleaned up #throttlebody.

Went to ASDA (in my GTI, Corsa still doesn't have tax or insurance), filled up 5 litre #petrol can, topped up tank with new fuel

Still got coolant, sparkplugs and oil to change, but #car now running a lot better (no more rough idle)

#CarMaintenance

Преодолел лень-забывчивость и заехал в автомагазин купить свечной ключик. Дома есть, но короткий. Итак, вашему вниманию старые свечи! (Не романтика, не тот вариант 🙂)
* 95 бензин и практически всегда одна заправка
* накатано 58000 (много, знаю, как обычно лень было за ключиком заехать)

Ваше мнение, автомеханики? То, что электроды уже сильно покушало, вижу. Что ещё подскажите?

#CarMaintenance #SparkPlugs #AutoRepair #EngineHealth #CarTech #GarageLife

Discovered its better to leave coilpack bolts slightly loose when reconnecting their plugs due to tight harness.

Might be placebo, but car feels like it runs better after replacing #sparkplugs

Decided to take a few engine bay #photos of the #EA888 with #LumixG100D after washing my hands, so got a few bonus shots of high pressure #petrol pump and MPI (multi point #injection) extra fuel rail (there are port injectors below it which should hopefully reduce carbon buildup) - USA variants of this #engine don't get this and its been deleted from later engines (2019 onwards?) that have #GPF (gasoline/petrol particulate filter) due to WLTP requirements

#VW #GolfGTI #CarMaintenance #cars #autos #ShotonLUMIX

This is #VCDS in action on the T430 with a HexNET USB adapter connected to #OBD2 (a lot faster than #OBDEleven and less flaky)

#CarMaintenance #diagnostics #AutoMaintenance #AutoRepair #CarRepair #VW #GolfGTI #Audi #Seat #Skoda #Volkswagen #Canbus

Even an older guy like me could learn something from a pirated PDF of a early 2000s era textbook aimed at young apprentices. I'd wanted one of these caps after clouting my head on my own car's gearbox last year whilst doing the oil service, but didn't know the existed or what they were called..

#BumpCap #PPE #HealthAndSafety #SafeWorking #CarMaintenance #AutoMaintenance

Nothing to Say

I’m down to the final minutes of my lunch break on this fine Friday afternoon. I am pretty exhausted from a lack of sleep over the past… month(s) but I’m hanging in there. I had some Purdue Popcorn chicken and some peanuts and some sugar free Hershey bites for lunch. I really want a drink of water but I still have to wait the better part of an hour before I am clear to drink anything. That’s a gastric bypass patient thing. If you know, you know.

Fed Ex delivered a package today. I am not home to get it, but it contains a new guitar pedal. If I read the amazon shipping notes correctly, it’s a compressor pedal. The first I’ve ever purchased. I have this weird idea of using cleaner guitar sounds for this year’s RPM Challenge in February and a compressor will be a part of that. I bought an MXR Dyna Comp because it’s super simple and it will let me squash my clean signal down to a delightfully mushy… mush. There are two more pedals coming over the weekend. One is a Flanger, the other is an Amp Sim. I don’t have room on my pedal board for any of these kiddos and I don’t have open slots on my power brick… so I am going to need to get creative, I think. It should be fun. I don’t think I bought a single guitar pedal during all of 2024. I know I bought a couple of microphones for band practices that haven’t actually happened yet, but no pedals.

There are a lot of tentative plans for the weekend. We may be messing with our living room and we may be going to some stores for research purposes. I hope to spend some time wandering around town taking pictures with my new/possibly antique (though probably not) camera. I got a gift card for the sugar free bakery in Salem, NH for xmas. I haven’t bought anything from them in about a month, but now I am definitely going back and getting some cookies. Good stuff.

What else… I thought there was something else… One of our cars is going to get a break job. That wasn’t the thing that I am forgetting though… am I going to go shopping for a new iPhone? That’s definitely on the to-do list before we go to Florida at the end of the month, but is it this weekend? I don’t know.

I have to start practicing the guitar. The band is hoping to reconvene (hopefully for real this time) at some point after this weekend. I need to get ready for that. Which guitar should I bring to the first practice? Probably the Les Paul Standard that my wife got me for my 50th birthday in 2021. I really dig that guitar.

I know I had something else I wanted to write about but it has slipped my brain entirely. Don’t get old, kids. This is what happens to you when you get old. Stay young for as long as you can. Unless you’re already old like me in which case… sorry, folks. We had a good run, I’m sure.

#absentMinded #age #breakJob #breaks #Car #carMaintenance #carRepairs #food #Guitar #GuitarGear #GuitarPedals #homeDecore #homeDesign #homeImprovement #LivingRoom #livingRoomFurniture #lunch #Memory #Music #old #oldAge #plans #redesign #sometimers #toDoList #weekendPlans

Resetting service interval with #OBDEleven is a bear, you need to enter data for both FIX: and ESI service intervals or else error codes and strange distances appear, and code scan warned of a flaky vacuum sender in the brake servo (originally happened back in June but didn't put up CEL, I thought it best to replace before it caused further issues!). New (aftermarket) sensor ordered (curiously it has full #VW branding), installed and error cleared off #CarMaintenance #AutoMaintenance #cars

Did my first #oil #service at the weekend (after researching what was involved, they don't publish Haynes manuals for a #VWPolo 6C so got a copy of "So Wird's Gemacht".

Hardest part of the job was getting plastic cover back on (near 0 space under the ramps and the clips kept springing out), and clearing a small quantity of spilled oil (I put the drain can too near the sump plug, forgetting the oil would travel about 100mm further due to gravity) #CarMaintenance #AutoMaintenance #VW #cars

This was the strange glitch, where the car had switched the headlamp beam pattern - I corrected this in the menu, then scanned the car with ODBEleven, cleared off some codes (one for when I removed the rear cluster on Saturday, and 2 about an "implausible signal" at the door which I always get every so often (probably water into the door lock). I will also double check the beam pattern before I drive home tonight! #cars #AutoMaintenance #repair #CarRepair #CarMaintenance

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