Reply With QuoteSome of those miles are harder than others:
Was just curious. Always heard 10K was about the average. I've had my car about a year now I think, put a little over 11K. Mostly all city driving.
Some of those miles are harder than others:
Well, got the car to start! Tried to put it into reverse (only safe direction to go), bad noises came from down under, so I moved the shifter back (was not engaged in reverse, just in position). More noise, and it appears as though the brand new slave cylinder just tore itself a new a$$hole. Yay!
What the f*ck.
I put about 10,000km on my car and probably about 50,000 on the work ute/bomb truck.
I hate driving. Sort of.
We do maybe 10 000 km in the Falcon and about 30 000 in the Fairlane, per year.
Ford fan,hey?Originally Posted by wagon
Maybe........Ford fan,hey?
Hey Shocker, you're an electrical systems jebus, mind if I pick your brain?
My brother has a 90's Toyota pickup (the Tacoma, not the T100). Yea, sorry, I can't remember what year exactly. His low-beam headlights have stopped working, but high-beams are fine. He's checked all of the fuses, and even replaced a relay or two, and that hasn't fixed it. My only guess at this point would either be the high/low beam switch in the lever on the steering column, or a open somewhere in the wire.
Other than telling him to get get a V/O meter and start checking for power from the high/low switch towards the lights, I'm out of ideas to give him. You have any ideas on troubleshooting that?
I've had problems with Landcruiser stalk switches not working. Are the low beam filiments in the lamps OK? Do the parking lamps work?
Similar thing has happened to my LandCruiser. Both lights work but the switch for the high beam doesn't work. It's a dodgy switch. The part costs about 100 bucks but most auto electricians will rig up something else.
Speaking of cars. I threw the fan belt for the power steering/air con.
Anyway the pulley lost it's nut. Do you think I can find a 30 cent ****ing nut with the right thread for the pulley?
Tried spare parts joints, Toyota Gen parts. Nope. Not even ****ing hardware stores.
Turns out that in my model landcruiser despite the AC being factory standard it was up to the individual dealers to source and fit the AC and pulley systems. Result? Can't get a ****ing nut and bolt and may have to buy a new pulley system.
****ers.
Min, go and see your local auto-electrician. They usually have a pile of dead stuff you can rat stuff from.
Really do need the year or if you know if it has daytime running lights. Most likely the multifunction switch on the column though. You need to check the output from the switch to the low beam relay coil. Not sure of the pinout or colors, if you can wait till tomorrow I will look it up at work. You can check for the relay signal from the switch at the relay, pin 85 or 86. Can't remember if the switch grounds the relay or supplies power. Most likely ground. You can also apply 12vdc to the pin 87 at the low beam relay socket to check the circuit from the relay to the lights. Get me a year and i can be more specific. Oh the pin numbers are on the relay I think and there maybe a small diagram of the relay internals on the relay itself.
i got a ford zx2 2000 model, i think
everytime i press the brake the back speakers cut out.. :P
Does the speaker wiring run anywhere near the brake pedal? I would start by wiggling all the wiring under the dash (with the radio on so you can hear the result). Does it cut out when playing a CD? If it only plays up on 'radio' it could be a bad antenna - many mute the output when the signal is bad.
Yep, the filaments are fine. I'd think it would be pretty high odds to burn both of them out at the same time, but I've had weird crap happen to me like that, so I had him make sure. Yep, the parking lights work as well.
K, I talked to him last night. It's a 1990, no daytime running lights. We figured it out while I was on the phone with him last night: bad wire. I was describing what to look for and where the wires might be, and he starts telling me how none of the wires are in the plastic conduit, it's more of a rat's nest of wiring, with some of wrapped in electrical tape, some of it just strung out.
After he described that, I had him look around under the hood just on a hunch. Sounds like his truck had an engine fire with a previous owner, all kinds of stuff just didn't add up. I think someone re-wired a bunch of things from the firewall forward, and they apparantly didn't do too hot of a job. I already let him know that he'll probably be having electrical system gremlins popping up in the future. Thanks again for the help guys.
(It's a shame too, I was really looking forward to trying to walk my brother through relay testing over the phone. It would have been hilarious listening to him bitch.)
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