Ooh yeah, we're modding.

Yes, congratulate yourself with a pat on the back.

On par with me fitting Toyota Celica headlamp washer pump and even a lamp washer jet to a Nissan.

Or the amstat printer switch and leds as an engine check code system.

Or the bust BOC O2 gauge as a boost gauge. Had to put a nail though the flame trap gauze it was sealed with solder after some idiot student had wafted the torch over it. Then move the pointer to show

Or the 4 resistors including a variable resistor (is this climate control?) spliced in to recalibate the air con thermo amp thermistor.

Ah yes, sorry. To work the front skooshers the pump works one way and to work the rear the pump runs in reverse. There are 2 terminals in the connector. Multimeter showed 12v and -12v when operating front/rear wash switches and 0v when both were activated at once.

Sorry, my Electrical terminology isn't up to much and I didn't investigate very far but you are probably right. One will be a switched

To be fair, it is French. So it's possible that the engine drives a pump which builds a head of water in the headlining to drive a pair of hydro-electric generators, one for each windscreen. This sounds a bit sensible though. I blame the Citroen rationalisation influence.

How ever it works, it seems to work as it should so I am satisfied.

Noted.

Couldn't you just fit a new thermistor?

(c:

Rad, dude!

Ah yes, I did the rad in February. In another demonstration of drunken construction communism the new one, from a Peugeot dealer, bought using my VIN number and everything, came with a screw fittng for the cap and no new cap. The old cap was a sort of quarter turn affair and didn't fit the new Rad.

John McScrap fitted me out with a cap off a Laguna for free. Seemingly its the same thread as the brake fluid reservoir. (c:

Are you sure that the rear washer doesn't work via some sort of osmosis ?

I unmodded the Golf after "a quick word" with East Kilbride's Finest" regarding the legality of my tacky fake kraut plates.

They had a point to be fair. I would also like to plead right now that "it wisnae me" that fitted them in the first place.

I also unmodded the burst fuel regulator vacuum hose off the inlet manifold.

You're right up there with the modding aristocracy.

"Bob Sherunckle" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

Yeh, yeh, yeh - and they haven't heard that before...

Thames Valley & Herts plods certainly heard it from me when I had French plates on my CXs... Not, of course, that it was in the _slightest_ bit true in either case...

RichardK may also remember the set of plates that I brought with me on purchasing a certain non-taxed/MOT'd XM...

All of the preceding may, of course, be thoroughly fictional.

No, not even French glass is capable of rusting to that level.

I know of someone who lives in Wales who bought 'euro look' plates for his Alfa 75.

Unmodded it with an unburst hose?

There are loads of vacuum powered emissions control gubbins on my Peugeot. Systematically disconnecting them has made it much more 'tractorable'. Ah, I see there's a thread about that now.

Very kind of you to say.

Not sure if it's the thermistor or the thermo amp. I don't have spec for the thermistor and as it's encapsulated in a shrink jacket it's likely to lose any marking in the removal, or I'll find it's been sanded off [1]. The thermistor is wired into the thermo amp and not on a plug. The thermo amp is £105 (quote 10 years ago) about the size of PP9 battery and is potted in solid rubber. It's the one bit of electronics on the whole car that is potted. Dim-dip unit, headlamp motor timer, power window timers, door lock timer, headlamp/screen wash timer, wiper control, aerial control, ECU are all easy to open and inspect. Tells me there's less than £5 worth of stuff in the thermo amp and they are hiding it.

You rule!!

Good story. Did I ever tell you lot about the time I replaced my MK2 golf headlamp lens (well the inner one on the quad lamp models) with the bottom of a Robinson's cordial bottle? Perfect fit and from a distance you'd never know :)