white944
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Started on the niggly bits on the S2 today.
Steering was a bit vague and steering wheel wonky, turned out it had a whole degree of toe in so corrected that and centred the steering to satisfy my OCD.
Next job, having had to extract a distressed Eastern European car washer from inside the day before, was to perform an exorcism on the central locking, which was giving the S2 Christine - like tendencies. There is a Toad alarm system fitted which provides the remote locking, and the whole thing was going haywire. the car would lock when it was supposed to unlock, lock you in when you switched off the engine, with your only means of escape to open the window and unlock the door with the key, and unlock one door whilst locking the other. After quite a bit of head scratching, this turned out to be the microswitch on the passenger door handle playing up. Not really needed as there is the remote system, so simply unplugged it for now and normal service has been resumed.
Tailgate next. This was refusing to open, and the S2 has no manual release operated by the key, so crawled inside and opened it up to find the little crank on the motor broken. fitted a spare one and happy days, an opening tailgate.
More jobs to follow including interior lights and cranky instrument cluster, but satisfactory for a morning's tinkering.
Steering was a bit vague and steering wheel wonky, turned out it had a whole degree of toe in so corrected that and centred the steering to satisfy my OCD.
Next job, having had to extract a distressed Eastern European car washer from inside the day before, was to perform an exorcism on the central locking, which was giving the S2 Christine - like tendencies. There is a Toad alarm system fitted which provides the remote locking, and the whole thing was going haywire. the car would lock when it was supposed to unlock, lock you in when you switched off the engine, with your only means of escape to open the window and unlock the door with the key, and unlock one door whilst locking the other. After quite a bit of head scratching, this turned out to be the microswitch on the passenger door handle playing up. Not really needed as there is the remote system, so simply unplugged it for now and normal service has been resumed.
Tailgate next. This was refusing to open, and the S2 has no manual release operated by the key, so crawled inside and opened it up to find the little crank on the motor broken. fitted a spare one and happy days, an opening tailgate.
More jobs to follow including interior lights and cranky instrument cluster, but satisfactory for a morning's tinkering.
