Chris A

Plus, in my case, more on the floor than on the wall

Doubt it, doesn't he just shred them?

I belive that if you dropped a burning match into a dish of petrol the vapour will burn but the match goes out in the liquid. I'm not going to try it petrol is far to expensive at present . . .

Unless it's under dash wiring 🔥, then with any luck you get to smell the problem before it goes critical.

Don't you mean they took advantage of having a free van to drive round Europe and fill up with cheap booze and could mark it down to road & load testing

Intersting piece of film, thanks for sharing Colin. The bill for paint used in the film must have been HUGE as it looks as if every version of the van was the same vehicle, judging by the registration plate. 🙄 I half expected the pick up to be the same van after being attacked with a hacksaw . . . .

Play your cards right and you might get the cement mixer & rotovator thrown into the deal

I had a couple of times something similar with my Yeti. A small piece of grit stuck between pad/disc/backing plate, can't remember exactly where. It was bad enough to freak out Madame who made me return home . . .

That's what I've got, they can be mounted in any direction

As Puglet1 says, what are the units. Mine were a bit fiddly to set up initially but since then I've had no problems with their use nor with putting the hood up or down. are you certain it is the reels that are causing a problem and not the hood frame, for example?

I also have a 13/60 convertible with them fitted to the standard mounting points on the arches and have no problems with the roof.

The filter was mounted the correct way, there were markings on it. I was just curious and as the plastic was discoloured it wasn't possible to see if there was any debris.

I also use the cheap version just before the pump. I change it when the plastic becomes discoloured, i cut open the last one I removed to see what the state was - pretty clean. At least with the glass/plastic filter you can see if there is any deposit rather than having to open the pump up to have a look.

Just realised I had headphones on so couldn't hear what you were typing🎧

Can you write a bit bigger I'm slightly deaf

Wimp!

There is a system where you can block numbers here as well, doesn't work very well. The gouvernment recently changed the laws so these types of callers had to call from 'proper numbers' not ones they change every 5 minutes. I keep out landline unplugged unless I want to use it, all the contacts I need have the mobile number - hardly ever get cold calls on it.

I hope you you installed it for him and explained very slowly and clearly how it works 😁

Actually I mislead you they have a maximum of 90 hours, so they are slower than you thought. Our watering hole was manned until 4am this morning then opened up again in time for the last batch of riders this morning. They leave in several groups at fixed intervals over a 12 hour period, the last setting off at 5am this morning. At midnight there was a constant stream of headlights coming up the hill to the village. anyone in a car trying to pull out onto the main road would have been well advised to turn round and find a different route. https://www.magisto.com/video/PAIBOwUEQy81RAJpYw?l=vsm&o=i&c=c&fbclid=IwAR2X5cl6WgcozzY3gfL5y5cyGQjz6nx16988wZ68MqO5ffgx_jhtoyfM1lk

You must have done the rewiring a while ago when it was normal for the sockets to be for 2 pin plugs. Now they have an earth, a pin not socket this way old 2 pin items can still be plugged nto them. The current (🙄) house still has a couple of these sockets dotted about the place. After serious thread drift we are back on track due to the mention of 'purple wiring'. Assuming the circuit isn't a 3 phase, then the purple could just be a live. From my book, in French, the colour specs are given as: Green/yellow : earth Blue: neutral Red or any other colour with the exception of blue, green or yellow : live

We bought the first in 1990, moved here in 1994. My wife bought a small village house as a workroom at the time when she was still doing work for theatres in Britain but shortly after just did work for Disneyland in France. We sold the first one in 2007 and moved into a house in the village and when my wife retired in 2009 she sold the workroom. So just the one.

I don't mind doing electrics, just hate having to work upside down, bent in 3 directions in a cramped space under the dash. In fact when we bought our first property here in France it wasn't even connected to electricity, never had been since it was built ( we worked it out as being 1803 from archived plans in the Mairie and its name 'L'An Dix'). Once we had EDF bring mains to the house I did all the wiring, to French norms into the bargain. With electrics you just have to be logical, methodic and have a good selection of swear words to hand! I spent the morning with a copy of the wiring diagramme as set of notes with what to check in a logical order to isolate the 'culprit'. I started by checking which of the purple wires was in fact connected to the fuse, it turned out to be the one that wasn't being used so swapped them over - the lights had been working with the other one which I now suspect was a replacement from some point back in time, why I don't know. No change to the situation. Confirmed I was getting power to the column switch. Ran a test wire from battery to via multi metre to main beam wire running across front of car under bonnet, power to the lights but no lights. Checked all the connections and then found I had main beam. Main beam warning light on. Switched to dip and no warning light, as it should be, it was lighting up even on dip even though no dipped beams. Checked the main beam flash function, it wasn't working yesterday when I tried it with my charming assistant who needed help to get out of the car after wards, today I used a piece of wire to hold it in the 'on' position as my assistant was 'resting'. Now lights up and activates main beam. Dipped lights still not working. Did the same test as for main beam and checked the connections under the bonnet, dipped now working. Closed bonnet and retested main/flash/dip, all fine still. All I can assume is that there was some dodgey connection in the circuit that I have now sorted, at least for a while. Note to self : check all lights each time I use car. Hate it when the problem is solved and I don't know 100% why. Can now move on to enjoying a drive out Tuesday/Wednesday to cover the part of the Paris Brest Paris cycle ride that comes through the village tonight and tomorrow morning as they head to Brest and Wednesday when theu come back. Mad bu**ers, 1200Kms to be covered in 70 hours! 6800 riders from 70 countries this year, it happens every 4 years. For Wednesday certain of us will have a free drink & snacks stand at the road side, plus blankets for those that need to crash out. There is more to life than Triumphs, apparently.

Couldn't see as I had my head under the dash at the time, hence the impromptu test of the horn 📯

Probably also for the CT (controle technique) the French MOT which for my 13/60 runs out next weekend. I spotted a split in one yesterday while investigating another problem, the split must be very new as although greasey it isn't that dirty. The gaiters are both held in place with plastic cable ties - don't blame the French the car came like that from the UK. I'm going to order the pair on the basis that if one has split the other won't be far off doing the same, and anyway my supplier sells them as a pair.

Don't know about that but the horn does work, tested today.