pslewis

Great

I have not got the interest in you that you appear to have in me - glad you have a good job and good money ......... not that it means diddly to me

Pete

micared

So why reply then, you old fcukwit?

pslewis

You STILL here??

I thought I told you to go and .... yourself?? Do it, thats a good chap

Go and sell your car instead of playing on here get a re-spray sorted out! You never did say why you bought an Impreza in such a puke colour?

Pete

Moray

Exactly my thoughts as well lol. I think they should shoot anyone over 70 to save on pensions. That way you dont horde money and become a miserable old boring nasty man, with pissy pants. PSLEWIS is that acronym for Pissy Lewis ?

pslewis

If you say so

Pete

Moray

You love editing dont you. First signs of insecurity and losing a battle! Any last words? I am smarter than you and always will be

pslewis

What were the first signs before the internet then

You make me laugh, alone in your teenage bedroom, surrounded by StarWars Posters, mummy and daddy downstairs watching Corrie ........ I'm very close aren't I?

Anyway .............. bed

Pete

Moray

You always go back to childhood references here. Even with other posts, are you a paedophile? Do you have a webcam Mr lewis? Where is Mrs Lewis?

micared

Yes, clearly I'm still here, I've been keeping an eye on the obituary column, but everyone makes mistakes, and they must think you're still alive.

Nice of you to refer back to the car, it's obviously a source of great angst to you that it remains unsold. Please don't worry too much about it, I don't, as I said before, I've moved on to something even faster now. All the better to break all those nasty speed limits with. Can't wait to road test it down your street when it comes back from getting the brakes removed and the engine horsepower doubled. Hopefully you live in a 30 limit, they're the ones I like to break the most.

How's the engineering going?

pslewis

I'll book a bed for you at the local hospital, "Surgical Removal from Anus of 30MPH Speed Sign"

Pete

pslewis

Yes, I have a webcam ..... I have linked it to photobucket - could you check its working for me? Image will be updated every 10 minutes, but I don't move much!

Pete

This is my web-cam link:-

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...etesWebCam.jpg

Bubba po

About time the thread was locked, Mods.

pslewis

Hardly, have you ANY idea how many people are getting entertained??

Serious question, before I get under the car - does the splash shield need to come off, or is there a cut-out for easy Oil Change?

Pete

Moray

Excellent lol

Moray

Splash shield off

pslewis

Cheers Mate!!

Screws or nuts??

Pete

Moray

I am certain nuts as only done mine once since had it. Stick copper grease on them when you put them back in. At the back I think there are two screws.

pslewis

Okay, Dokay!!

Pete

Moray

A piece of **** to a man of your calibre. Hardest part is getting jack in right place and lining up axle stands, unless you have pit at home or ramps to get up on. Always fancied one of those jacks you can lift whole car up with for diy home use.

pslewis

I've got a 4 post lift - but I need to use the jack to remove wheels as the bars on the 4-post do not line up with any great support under the car (so I don't risk it)

Pete

Moray

What make is it, ive contemplated getting one before?

pslewis

Good heavens, now you're asking ..... its in a big garage I have access to - I know its about 30 years old (maybe more?!) but does the job

Pete

Moray

It will be a heavy duty professional one then. I was thinking of the machine mart ones you can get for around £400 - £500

micared

Ooh, get you, keyboard warrior alert.

Mark_S

The MAF went on my MY00, the car was 3 yrs old at the time, low mileage, no induction kit. In fairness there were warning symptoms though.

pslewis

Could you expand?? What was the mileage??

Plenty on here would like to know what to look for ....

Pete

Mark_S

The mileage was I think around 10-12,000. The symptoms for me were erratic acceleration, if anything the car 'felt' faster at WOT, it would pull very hard and then back off a bit, then pull hard again. The final straw though was the CEL lighting up when I was crawling along the A1 at about 60mph. Had the car looked at by my main dealer who could find no problems or fault codes stored on the ECU. Quick call to BRD who explained it was possibly the MAF, after new one fitted car was like new again!

The MY00 MAF is about £70 to replace and takes no more than 5 minutes, so if you should get suspicious all is not well then best to replace it.

pslewis

The MY99 and MY00 cars all hesitate at about 3000RPM, mine has done it since new.

I guess the thing is to note any 'difference' in running.

Pete

Mark_S

My car never suffered from hesitance before then (although it had been breathed on a bit by Professor Rawle).

When I think back the hesitancy was not particularly subtle.

pslewis

Maybe my MAF has being on its way out for 5 years??

Pete