Stilo My Stilo Multiwagon JTD the S-Wagon lol

Shadeyman said:

Cruising at 65mph on the motorway the trip computer in our Multiwagon shows 62mpg ...

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+1 Agree.

Well there must be something very very wrong with mine then if you lot say you can get 62mpg.

But then i guess it would say that if you get up to cruising speed and hit the trip reset.

Muppet1 said:

But then i guess it would say that if you get up to cruising speed and hit the trip reset.

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I wanted to know what mpg I was achieving when cruising. The only way to do that is to reset the trip while cruising. Reseting it before reaching cruising speed will give me an incorrect reading.

tim woollands said:

regardless of the mpg, nice car ratty looks bang tidy.:slayer:

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Thanks dude, it got its first clean yesterday justa quick wash to see what teh paint is like and i reckon a day with my rotary polisher and it will be mint so as soon as we have soem good weather i will get out there and go nuts.

i did manage to give drivers door card a clean yesterday usinga sample from a mates company (he hasn't decided if he is gonna make it to sell) but i could not believe how good it was usinga microfiber towel the leather cam up like new.

still have a couple of faults which i will work through over the next month, bought a multimeter as i get a pre heat warning somtimes not all the time though and then it goes off, so i will check teh glow plugs and see what that says.

i also have a passenger side light bulb out which i just looked at and decided i was not going to try last night lol, but i also have no fogs, even though the light illuminates in the dash and i get no bulb out warnings, so i popped the battery cover off and tried to check the fuses but they are well and truly stuck in would a squirt of WD40 do any good or shall i get some electrical contact cleaner, one fuse top was broken and the fuse had gone but the pins were stuck in the fuse board so i will need to get that out and clean that up before popping in a new fuse.

also i have an alarm fault too, no siren, i am going to check the fuse and if thats not it then i will have to look at the sounder and see if i can get that working not a biggy but if its there and not working i a gonna try and fix it lol

also another problem i have is the electric window button panel, the rear window does not work from it on the passenger side but does on the drivers side (the rear window does go up and down from the rear though) shall i pull the panel apart and give it a clean with electrical contact cleaner? do you think this will work or shall i just buy a new one?

thanks for all your comments by the way i am well happy with my wagon its everything i wanted and needed.

cheers

robin

It's very sensitive to up and down gradients too though... I can get 70mpg on a smooth run at 60 on my way home from work on a three mile stretch, but 45 the other direction, and it doesn'l look up/downhill.
My trip computier is showing 50.1mpg for the last 1000 miles, which is steady driving, town, and mway cruising at 60.
I certainly dont get over 60mpg cruising at 65 though - more like low to mid 50s. I can get mid to high 50s cruising at 60mph

well i ordered a new de badged grill from fk in germany, and it turned up yesterday, took the old one off and fitted this in minutes, i really like the clean look, now i need to lower it next



cheers

robin

Well did you lower it?

Deisedakdak said:

Well did you lower it?

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well... you know what i just enjoyed driving it so i haven't yet, i do have a few bits i have collected though and i aim to have it all fitted up next month, drilled and grooved discs all round, twin 3" outwardly rolled exhuast and -40mm pi springs.... i have some other plans for it too, buit i have mainly just been getting it really clean and replacing some of the rusty hex bolts for new ones etc etc

but very soon i will post some new pics

I cant wait to see what you do with it!

thanks podge, spent 4 hours saturday getting the bumper off.... used loads of plus gas and went gentle, got the most stubborn bolts outs but a few snapped, someone has already tried getting the bumper of before as the 2 lower bumper bolts driver and passenger were snapped, mananged to snap 2 of the passenger headlight bolts, but managed to get the 2 lower bolts working the upper will need drilling and i have just orderd some studd removal tools so i can pull and replace them, i also snapped the wing bolt but i will drill that out and get some of the plastic fitting that you can screw into and fit them up all in all though wasn't that bad and enjoyed getting dirty working onit.... the upside is now i can get the bumper off in 10 minutes as i timed myself after lol.... gonna replace all bolts with new and copper grease them up will do that when i am fititng the suspension

not really done much to the wagon except drive it.... but this is waht i ahve done and what i have ordered since i got last july...

front mtec drilled and grooved discs (to be fitted)
rear grooved and dimpled discs and mintex pads (to be fitted)
plasma smoked volt gauge very useful (to be fitted)
double a pillar pod (to be fitted)
debadged fk grille (fitted)
air horns (to be fitted as the original hooter packed up)
full set factory mudflaps (fitted)
osram fog light bulbs (fitted)
new side light bulbs (fitted)
stilo mats (fitted)
jvc ipod ready cd player (fitted)

bidding on a smoked boost gauge

to order next week, pi lowering springs, and get my stainless twin 3" exhuast fitted.

i have also replaced some nuts fuse box cover was just loose so i have done that and the battery was only held in with one bolt so i have sorted that too, also when i got it the fuse for the fuse the fog lights was stuck so i have managed to get that out to.

on my list of fixes are
glow plugs ( i get the warning but it still starts first everytime, and goes away once its been warmed up and started 3 times until the next day)

blower fan, wont go pasta qtr on the digital climate

sort the air compressor fuse out as that has broken in the fuse box

fix the sunroof (well the blind anyway the blind opened and then just didn't shut one day)

so thats my little fixes i need to along the way

also a service and new timing belt is on the cards

cheers

robin

my plasma volt gauge i have and now tested, pretty simple to wire in just 2 wires



and i wanted to try wrapping again, tried before and the vynal just lifted, so got some better stuff this time a 4d carbon look, and it seems to have worked alot better this time.

i did my ash tray and both front electric window panels







cant find the pic of the drivers side one though, this has come out so well i am gonna do my climate control surround and stereo surround next

looking good,hes the rest of the car coming along ??

CFREITAS said:

looking good,hes the rest of the car coming along ??

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its getting there.... i have just been making sure its super clean, and colecting bits and bobs for it.... hope to have it all done by august and then it will be case of doing the serviceable jobs and changing the blind motor.

Looks good! I did my old facias in carbon, I'm now doing the climate and CN+ facias in matt silver but so far the wrap has not arrived after 2 weeks, going to mail the seller.

I like the idea of a volt gauge now I've seen yours, do you have a link to where you got yours? What two wires to you connect it to?

MarkThompson4 said:

Looks good! I did my old facias in carbon, I'm now doing the climate and CN+ facias in matt silver but so far the wrap has not arrived after 2 weeks, going to mail the seller.

I like the idea of a volt gauge now I've seen yours, do you have a link to where you got yours? What two wires to you connect it to?

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thnaks dude, i bought my vynal of sk vynal on ebay arrived the next day, yeah i was gonna do it silver but thought i would have a nother go lol

the volt gauge i got of a guy on ebay he only had the one, but search mcgill motorsport shop that where the gauge is orginally from dude, the 2 wires will wire into the back of the cigarette lighter plug as that has a switched live, could possbly wire it into theh switched live feed from the stereo too but i have always used the cigarette lighter in the past 5 cars i have fitted them too.

i will do a guide when i fit it which will probably be a couple of weeks as i am waiting on my boost gauge and my pillar pod

cheers

robin

finally got my rear brakes sorted, my mate dave fitted them went on a treat



behind the wheel



front next just need some new pads and then hopefully august will see it lowered and a mufflerectomy

well my horn packed up a while ago.... which is annoying so the bumper had to come off. now when i took most of it off before to get to the passenger headlight to change the bulb it took about 3 hours as i was gentle with the bolts but still a couple snapped, luckily the ones that snapped are held in by riv nuts so i will be drilling those out and fitting new rivnuts again but any way as i used loads of plus gas, the bumper this time was off in under 20 mins, the drivers side bolts were easy enough to get out and no brakage, got to the old horn and found a bad bodge, someone at some stage had put a new 2 cor wire into the horn plug and then rather than use spade connecters had just wound the sire round the horn and used sellotape....., so that would not do, i pulled it out re did the wiring and fitted new spade connectors then fitted new horn from the twin horn set i got i used just one its plenty loud enough, and i have a spare lol, bolted it on and hey presto i had a horn, then it was putting it back tgether although i noticed the bumper support had some surface rust, i cleaned that up and then gave a liberal coat of rust killer, waited till it went black and then gave it a liberal coat of anti rust primer followed by a new lick of matt black paint. next job if get my headlight washers working as they don't do a thing so gonna check the fuse and then if thats good will check the motor by swapping the wireing over to my windscreen washer, if that doesn't work i will then swap motors and if that doesn't work i give up lol

any way some pics

bumper off



close up of new horn



bumper back on



on another note i have found a webasto dealer and fitter, so i am going to pop in to speak them about my sunroof although i an pretty sure its the blind motor that is causing the problem i am going to let them have a look as they are literally just down the road from where i live

thanks

robin

rat20v said:

next job if get my headlight washers working as they don't do a thing so gonna check the fuse and then if thats good will check the motor by swapping the wireing over to my windscreen washer,

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Presume you know the headlamps have to be switched on for the washers to work.

rat20v said:

if that doesn't work i will then swap motors and if that doesn't work i give up lol

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Windscreen and headlamp washer motors are different. The headlamp one is very high pressure to enable it to lift the hydraulic jets.
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Davren said:

Presume you know the headlamps have to be switched on for the washers to work.

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Yep tried that too nothing motor is not making any noise at all even tried the 5 sec windscreen wash and still didn't work

Davren said:

Windscreen and headlamp washer motors are different. The headlamp one is very high pressure to enable it to lift the hydraulic jets.
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ah.... i didnt know that, every day is a school day Thanks Davren