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That looks like it came from the inside! At least it's repairable though..........

It's a weird feeling when someone pulls up in a near identical, fairly rare car. Had it happen once with the Jag - also in a petrol station. Same colour/model/engine/year etc and i'd only gone in for £20 to start the engine with. He was kind of shocked when i said it would last me another 3 months!

Nice but a lot of money for a car with no MoT! This vehicle's MOT has expired You can be fined up to £1000 for driving without a valid MOT. This vehicle may be MOT exempt, for more information refer to MOT exemption guidance G609 AJH HONDA LEGEND Check another vehicle Colour Red Fuel type Petrol Date registered 1 February 1990 MOT expired on 18 June 2023 Get an MOT reminder by email or text. Download test certificates If you think the MOT expiry date or any of the vehicle details are wrong: contact DVSA. Date tested 8 June 2022 PASS Mileage 93,713 miles Test location View test location MOT test number 8466 0160 4366 Expiry date 18 June 2023 Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories): Nearside Rear Upper Suspension arm damaged but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i)) Offside Rear Upper Suspension arm damaged but not seriously weakened (5.3.3 (b) (i)) What are advisories? Questionable last MoT as well! 🫠

Last time i went to Specsavers, i was told "You definitely need them - this is a greengrocers!" Now when i visit the opticians, i ask for a pound of carrots and a pound of onions, just to be on the safe side!

Style is classless though, you either have it or not..............................

Very nice! There was a brand new 3.0 Coupe (USA spec) on UK plates just round the corner from me for a while a few years back, lovely looking car but i suspect when the owner PCS'd, it was shipped to wherever they went. Don't think we ever got white as a colour choice here?

Many moons ago i joined the M11 from just south of Cambridge on my way to a Rover meet so no prizes for guessing i was in the Sterling at the time. I deliberately joined and stayed in lane 2 for the simple reason that about 1/2-3/4 down, lane 1 became a slip road for a roundabout over the motorway. I got up to cruising speed and as i reached that speed, i noticed a black Jag X-Type join the motorway - a stretched X-Type. Black and stretched? Funeral car presumably. Soon after this thing went past on my inside at around 3 figures mph, not only were they undertakers but they were also Undertakers! In fairness they came off at the next junction (the one that lane 1 was a slip road for) and the poor car probably needed the cobwebs blown out after crawling at funerial speeds. Probably the best example of undertaking but i could type for hours about all the bad examples..........

People like that give drivers a bad name, regardless of what car they have. Even more annoying is they consume oxygen...........

My response under those circumstances would have been "because you stayed inside while i was washing the other two - you could have come and washed the Jazz!" Both of mine are fairly clean at the moment thanks to giving the new pressure washer a test run the other day........

Just because they have considerably more money than sense and can afford to buy a BEV, why should the rest of us (relatively) normal people subsidise them? Tehy want to be Flash Harry (or Harriet) then they can pay, same as the rest of us have to! Entitled wassocks! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!

Have you checked fuse 8 now?

Thanks Pete - with that extra knowledge, i'd be looking at fuses 8, 19 and 20 in the cabin fusebox and 22 in the underbonnet fusebox.

That's probably a lot of the problem! Without having a wiring diagram for the Elysion i have no idea which fuse it will be, however you should find a fuse in the cabin fusebox marked "Instruments", "Charging", "Alternator" or something along those lines - check and perhaps even change that on a hunch. Should bring up the charge warning light on KP2 with the engine off. The warning light should go out when the engine starts, like all other cars. Do you have a 12V test lamp at all? If the fuse doesn't fix things, you'll need one for diagnostics on the charging system No worries!

There should be two fuses that are related to the charging control and another big one related to the alternator output - this is one of the big wire link fuses in the underbonnet fusebox, usually rated at 100A. Does the charge warning light come on with KP2 before you start the engine?

Clockwise as you view the piston

I've got one in the shed that isn't worth the metal it's made from! Wouldn't do the job so resorted to the pin-wrench again!

.......... or an angle grinder pin-wrench. All need inward pressure on the piston but the angle grinder pin wrench works well for this too.

The drivers think they're in a milk float............

I replaced the head unit on my CR-V for the same reason, new unit is a 9" touchscreen with built in satnag and does a nice job on the sounds too!

I absolutely 100% agree - same as diseasels were in the mid-late 80s and now look! Companies springing up to claim against manufacturers for wrong emissions claims, no doubt there will soon be health-related claims against diesel manufacturers too. What almost everyone forgets is that BEVs are only clean at point-of-use - before that they are dirtier than their equivalent petrol (and probably diesel) variant.

Welcome aboard!

It could well be the "be all and end all" of the problem! If the alternator can't sense the battery voltage, it won't charge properly so will stop charging - also you should NEVER disconnect the battery of an alternator equipped vehicle with the engine runnng as it can damage the alternator and also the ECUs of which there are many on your car! It causes voltage spikes known as transients and they can kill ECUs either instantly or sometimes a long, slowm lingering death with many weird and (not so) wonderful faults along the way! A neighbour of mine bought a Ford Kugs a couple of years back, unbeknown to him it had previously been jump started with a boost-charger (the kind that give an extra 400A or so for starting) and the transients for that damaged several ECUs. Obviously by the time the ECUs died, it was out of warranty and cost him nearly £2k at "mates rates" to have it fixed using secondhand ECUs and getting them reprogrammed to the car!

Yes, disconnect the battery earth cable and put the battery on trickle charge. Next, get yourself some fine emery paper or wet'n'dry (do NOT use ordinary sandpaper!) and go through the fuseboxes, removing each fuse in turn and clean the blades with the abrasive paper. Refit but pull and refit the fuse several times as you refit each one to clean the fusebox contacts. Once you've done ALL the blade fuses you can find, take the battery off charge and reconnect the earth. Turn the key to KP2 (Key Position2) and ensure the charge warning light illuminates. Also check all other lights that should come on with KP2 are on and then start the car, take it for a test drive but not too far until you're sure this has cured the problem. My theory behind this is that one or more of the fuses have got corrosion on the blades, this is becoming more common as our cars get older and while they pass enough current to start with to operate the various consumers, as they are on, the resistance caused by the corrosion increases with heat which then causes more resistance and hence more heat. Eventually the resistance is too high for the consumer(s) to function. The GPS takes more power than the instruments as a general rule of thumb, hence why this goes earlier than the instruments. As for the P0325 Knock Sensor fault, has anyone done anything about this yet?

Pete beat me to it and i like it too. As a custom job for the sake of a custom job, i'd probably say no but as a repair, especially on a pearlescent finish to start it's an excellent idea - gets round trying to match a very difficult finish and, surprisingly, colour!

Pete just put into words the encouragement iwas trying to think of to give you Paul - jobs on cars are never plain sailing! For example, i'm trying to renew the tyres on my CR-V and my trolley jack gave up the ghost with the front not quite in the air and not quite on the ground. Managed to jerry rig the jack to lift the rest to change the wheel but now it's useless until a part arrives - also bought a new trolley jack as it's already 10 years old and other things are going to wear out too. Perseverance is the big thing, even when it seems as if you've hit rock bottom, the only from there is up so it can't be all bad!