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From: Champ on 25 Jun 2010 03:22 On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:05:17 +0100, totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk (The Older Gentleman) wrote: >Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >> NGK surface dischage plugs, at 50 quid each >*Boggle* I know! But it's troo: http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ngk+r0045Q -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Champ on 25 Jun 2010 03:24 On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:12:53 +0800, "Fraser Johnston" <ftrust(a)iinet.net.au> wrote: >> So now I'm sat waiting for my breakdown service to arrive. > >It's not in drive is it? Sounds like a transmission switch cutout? "In drive"? Are you suggesting that I'm the sort of cove who might buy a car with an automatic gearbox? How very dare you! -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
From: Scraggy on 25 Jun 2010 03:36 The Older Gentleman <totallydeadmailbox(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > >> NGK surface dischage plugs, at 50 quid each > > *Boggle* As used by Champ. And fishing boats "Surface discharge spark plugs are used in many fishing boat applications, where alternate high-speed running and very low-speed trolling..." -- I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx
From: Krusty on 25 Jun 2010 03:36 Champ wrote: > The breakdown people towed it to their yard, and then The Chap Who > Knows told his oppos to disconnect the battery, short the (now loose) > +ve and -ve terminals together, and then wait 5 mins. This apparently > 'clears down' whatever's in the system memory. Anyway, it bloody > worked. That will have reset all the ECU parameters to the factory defaults, not just the alarm. It'll take n warm-up cycles to re-learn everything now, so you may find it feels a bit sluggish for a while. > > What's the diagnosis with the race motor? > > It picked up on the centre main bearing. But not so bad as to wreck > the crank [1] - Slick has cleaned it up, measured it and pronounced it > good to go. He's also given me a list of all the bits [2] needed for > a proper re-fresh - comes to about 600 quid so far. And then there's > the NGK surface dischage plugs, at 50 quid each... They just *have* to be snake oil on a road bike. -- Krusty
From: antonye on 25 Jun 2010 03:38
Champ wrote: > > Yep, that's what it was! I've heard 3rd hand stories of other peoples > car having such problems in our office car park. Mind you, I've been > parking my car in it for 2 years. > > The breakdown people towed it to their yard, and then The Chap Who > Knows told his oppos to disconnect the battery, short the (now loose) > +ve and -ve terminals together, and then wait 5 mins. This apparently > 'clears down' whatever's in the system memory. Anyway, it bloody > worked. Nice trick - wish I'd have known that when mine did exactly the same at Cadwell a couple of years ago! Left me stranded there with the bike trailer. Couldn't jump start it as the key would turn the ignition on but it just wouldn't turn the starter over. The breakdown man checked all the obvious like the park switch (because this cove does have an auto box!) and then tried to hot-wire the starter, at which point the car decided to shut down in "anti-theft mode". Eventually got towed home through a friend's AA policy and once they'd left, I got the spare key and it started first time. Something had happened to the key, as I ordered a new one and they had to "enable" it with their whizzy plug-in computer thing. It said the previous key had been locked out, and there was nothing they could do to unlock it. It just makes you paranoid for a while after, so we spent many weeks taking both keys with us until we were happy it was ok! -- Antony |