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See I remember the cruise working last time I borrowed it and it being a funny system to get it going but I just couldn't get it going this time. It was probably for the best as I might have fallen asleep on a couple of the longer motorway stretches.
Please don't feel bad about the aircon, stuff happens, I was just insanely glad that you let me borrow it for such a great trip. I'm very used to roadside maintenance and diagnosis and I'm really not the type to just give up and abandon a trip due to a small issue.
For example on this trip to the Highlands the list of things that were fixed on the roadside or in car parks on different cars:
Brake pad replacement
Bleeding brake fluid
Supercharger belt tensioner (this was an extremely lucky catch)
Bumper re-attached
Loose and broken undertray re-secured
Front splitter re-attachedAnd a split manifold was diagnosed and ignored
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NurseHolliday
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Thanks for the write-up NH - must have felt a bit "what I did on my holidays" but it was a great read.
Sorry about the air-con fault - very embarrassed about that, it's booked in to have the whole in-cabin section of the system stripped out and the fault found.
I've also requested the (much) thicker IPD rear ARB be put on at the same time.
Tyre wise the largest you can go with these cars (with rolled arches) is 235/40/17, for which I'd need those BBS rims.
Cruise control - this is a funny system, it's vacuum operated, and as it's a cable-throttle it works by moving the pedal up and down.
If you turn the cruise on using the slider on the stalk nothing will happen - likely the car will start to slow. What you have to do is hold the switch on the end of the stalk in the "All ahead full!" position until the throttle opens without you pressing it down - that means that you've just moved the cruise speed past whatever speed you were doing.
You can now use "Flank speed!"/"Reverse engines!" commands to fine tune the speed.
Any pressure on the brake or accelerator pedal cancels cruise, and you need to re-enable it by sliding the switch to off, then on again.
I use it infrequently but it is fun in an old school way.