A bit of background on this project, the car was originally purchased by my Son, quite cheaply but althought it was kept well maintained by the orginal owner with dealership FSH, it did now require a bit of work.
Unfortunately Tim did not have time to do much to it in the few winter months he owned it, and of course this was all a bit sudden - you really do not know what is coming around the corner.
The car stood on our driveway for sometime but when I was susequently able to check the car myself - my first encounter with a French car - it wouldn't start! The dreded immobiliser problem, this was eventually sorted by a friendly local car electrical engineer and turned out to be a low feed voltage on the ECU - think this is a regular problem.
The car was back and at last I could start and run it and get it on the road although it did have the emissions light on, it did seem to be running realy well.
I know someone commented on the steering wheel, but really the original wheel was not an exception, the wheel had chronic melting and was the first thing I replaced albeit with another s/h one but in good condition, I managed to fit this myself without any drama.
Next problem was the emissions light, I fitted a new pair of Bosch lambda sensors myself although one was well and truely siezed in, it proved quite a difficult driveway job, but a butane torch eventually got it freed, I had already got a ELM interface coupled up to my laptop so was able to clear the code.
Incidentally, I tried a few different softwares with this but found most I tried poorly designed and some just didn't work properly, anyway a couple were good enough for 'lights out', and one good enough for a bit of real-time data logging too so I could get to understand how the sensors and contol worked for future reference - quite interesting.
There was much more to do but on the plus side, being retired, had plenty of time on my hands, my ideas and my sons ideas would probably have gone in completely different directions so there was much soul searching, in the end I had to go with my own thinking to keep it standard and go for longevity.
At this time I got the personalised registration done with his and my initials and although we have a daily runabout, it could be something my wife and I can drive out occasionally with great pride and so it is.
As I have been rambling, I will continue this thread with what else was done last year at later time and hopefully get up to date.
Just to mention that today I did the seat leather with Gliptone cleaner and conditioner, the inside smells a bit like a tack room (saddles and all that), actually there is not much leather in the seats at all, but the real bits do match up pretty well to the plastic leather effect remainder.
Did get some pictures of the 'engine room', its bog standard although did recently fit a Bosch S5 h/d battery and this really does throw the engine over, there are still a few cosmetic things to be done in there.
More later......
Thanks for taking the trouble to read my ramblings and the previous comments from veryone are appreicated, regards Col.
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