Focking Fucus!

[steve_earwig]

It probably would save that much of you're sitting there holding it on the clutch and throttle for 20 minutes a day. Not to mention less frequent clutch changes...

[Welly]

mmmm, "the car's making that funny smell again"

[sirwiggum]

She's the one you see in the Vauxhall Corsa with carlashes and playboy stickers and a pink interior, bouncing the accelerator off the rev limiter at the lights and wheelspinning when it goes red+amber.

[FarmerPug]

Oh aye the corsa, all noise and tyre squealing but no real forward momentum.

[highlander]

For instance my throttle is controlled via a wire, same with the XUD's and I imagine most Non-HDi 406's

The cruise control on my Coupe is electronic.

I have heard of older 406s needing extra hardware under the bonnet for cruise control - vacuum pumps, valves, relays, etc. I suspect with the addition of the BSI, all this extra stuff has gone and it's all electronic now.

[FarmerPug]

id assume it is, i dont see any vacuum pumps on my hdi and the throttle is controlled by the ecu

[steve_earwig]

As far as I can make out the vacuum pump and all that went in the bin when they started fitting com2000.

[FarmerPug]

vacuum pumps only break.

[sirwiggum]

vacuum pumps only break.

And COM2000s don't?

[steve_earwig]

They break too, obviously but if you think a com2000 is expensive to replace you've not seen anything yet - a new vacuum pump is £446.39

[FarmerPug]

Yes com2000s break but its just the indicator bit the rest seems ok.
Vacuum pumps are like carburettors they are very complicated bits of mechanical wizzardry. Ok i suppose if your good around the mechanical stuff but im not. A broken ecu is much easier to change and fix than a broken carburettor.

[steve_earwig]

I agree about the change bit - bonnet open, cover off, plug(s) out, unbolt... But repair? On a carburettor you can blow through or change jets or emulsion tubes, alter float heights, take 'em completely to bits, clean them and stick them back together again. Let's see you fix an ecu with a set of screwdrivers, a few spanners, a toothbrush and a tin of Gunk

[Bailes1992]

Tonight I took Betsy for a little blast down the M4. 30 mile each way, right to the end of the M4 and back, did 70ish miles by the time I got home.
Bar the little steering shakes she was lovely sat at 65-70mph.
I'm 99% sure my steering shuiddering is a CV joint, if your just cruising and not steering you don't get any vibrations at all. As soon as you accelerate or decelerate you get vibrations and if your turning at the same time then they get worse. Nothing to worry about then

[jamjar1383]

Tonight I took Betsy for a little blast down the M4. 30 mile each way, right to the end of the M4 and back, did 70ish miles by the time I got home.
Bar the little steering shakes she was lovely sat at 65-70mph.
I'm 99% sure my steering shuiddering is a CV joint, if your just cruising and not steering you don't get any vibrations at all. As soon as you accelerate or decelerate you get vibrations and if your turning at the same time then they get worse. Nothing to worry about then

did u come up my way?? ie past llanelli???

[Bailes1992]

Tonight I took Betsy for a little blast down the M4. 30 mile each way, right to the end of the M4 and back, did 70ish miles by the time I got home.
Bar the little steering shakes she was lovely sat at 65-70mph.
I'm 99% sure my steering shuiddering is a CV joint, if your just cruising and not steering you don't get any vibrations at all. As soon as you accelerate or decelerate you get vibrations and if your turning at the same time then they get worse. Nothing to worry about then

did u come up my way?? ie past llanelli???

Yehh, did it by accident actually. Thought I'd go for a 5 minuite run, by the time I figured out what was causing my wobbly wheel I hit Pont Abraham