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Having sadly had to sell my F last year I'm got some accumulated spares for sale. 1) driver's side front wing - *in primer* - effectively brand new - £70 ono 2) a pair of rear lamp clusters - complete with the internal plastic covers - £35 the pair 3) clear indicator light housing - driver's side - ...

well - it was nothing like as painful as i feared. About £160 for the new arms and £360 for labour including some work on one of the sills. The subframe bolts on one side came out OK, but two sheared on the other side and he cut into the chassis, welded in new nuts and welded it up again - a solutio...

Having finally got my F back on the road ('96 model with upgrades) I was getting annoyed at having to wipe muck off the window on the hard top, which raises the question, has anyone ever fitted a rear window wiper to a hard top? Looking at it, I *think* there is room for a motor there, but I'm not a...

thanks - I dont think I'll tackle it myself (would have done once!) - but at 75 i'm limiting the amount of time I spend crawling under the car! The local garage is excellent and its tips like that which should save some money!

Just had an MoT fail on my 1996 F with a seriously corroded and multi-rewelded front suspension arm. Which looks as though its going to prove seriously expensive to fix, since the garage tells me they will have to drop the front subframe to deal with it. Does anyone know of any easy way to deal with...

Is the handbrake boot a) still available and b) in good nick? I'm needing one to replace a very tired one on my motor!

hugh

Has anyone got a BRG (colour code HAM) wing mirror with a good shell, but otherwise unuseable? Having mastered the art of changing the shell on an electric wing mirror i now need to replace an old damaged shell with a decent one. The rest of the mirror can be scrap as long as the shell is good - doe...

well - I sent off to the RemoteKey guy in Christchurch because I need a second fob anyway and he sent back the new fob and programmer which plugs into the diagnostic socket. But it didnt work (the programmer didnt show its LED as its supposed to) so I've now sent him back the immobiliser module to t...

I'd psoted earlier about the gear shift issue I was having with my N-reg 1.8i MGF and was all ready to get the car to my local garage with the things to look at list... but i cant now get the immobiliser to disengage. I've tried the obvious - charging the car battery, changing the immobiliser batter...

its always been a bit like stirring porridge - but no - its not obviously worse in one plane than the other. I suspect a cable - but until the garage gets it on the hoist I dont suppose I'll find out. And i'm told swapping cables is a pain :-( At least i've cleared the top end and stripped out all t...

Took my '96 F 1.8i in to get a leaky exhaust fixed and the garage told me they couldnt engage gear. it was working OK-ish previously, though sometimes I found i had to fiddle around to change gear, but now I'm only able to engage 3rd, 4th & 5th. With or without the engine running, I cant get 1, 2 an...

Thanks Kasper - no idea which model they came from - the back of the scrappie's store! :-) Looks like a bit of detective work needed then - ah well - its less important than swapping in the 2nd hand hydrolastic sphere I got at the same time! Its a pain having manual mirrors - even when the handle ha...

Thanks - but that's the diagram from Dieter i think - and unfotunately the colours of the cables FROM the plug into the mirror dont match those of the cables into the socket from the loomwhich is what he gives! Nor do the plugs have any obvious way of determining which pin is which... :-( I'm sure I...

Having just acquired a couple of TF electric mirrors I need to know he pinouts for the plugs on them. Dieter's diagram is fine as far as it goes - but the colours refer to the wires in the loom, rather than the wires from inside the mirror to the plug and there are no indications on the plugs how th...

<sigh> took it back to the garage who pumped up that side again (for free) but by the time I'd got back home (10 miles) it was down on the stops again with copious leakage of green goo from the rear dumbbell. So now I guess its find a decent 2nd hand replacement - presumably new ones can no longer b...

I've just replaced the batterd old hood on my 1996 MGF and its lying in the garage taking up space. Its complete but with a large variety of flora growing on it and a couple of small holes or tears and the window is unbroken, but less than totally clear!. I'm about ten miles north of York - If anyon...

Having just managed to find someone locally to me on York who could pump up my suspension, and enjoyed vastly better ride becasue of it, I came out today and the car is leaning over to the drivers side like a drunk :-( It looks as though its down on the bump stops that side, which is not good news. ...

for anyone near York, I got mine done at Greenway Garage, Newton on Ouse, YO30 2DB; 01347 848414. They'd had to be asked in advance and dig out the kit and test it, but when I went there they did a good quick job. Very satidfied! Now they have it out of the back cupboard, they would happily do more ...

>If the engine cranks. then it is not immobilised. It certainly cranked - but equally certainly there was a spark but no fuel getting through. Furthermore, there was the very odd behaviour of the key-fob/immobiliser/locking system. i know about the access code use of course - but that isn't the issu...

>Which version have you got?
>Square or Oval?

>Also which mk1F/mk2F/TF/LE500 have you got?

Durr - posted the original message late at night - its an MGF Mk1 (N reg). As to the type of immobiliser, I don't know - I'll need to find out where to look and what to look at!

hugh