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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Board
- Topic: what have you done on your mgf today?
- Replies: 1627
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Re: what have you done on your mgf today?
I'm just gearing up for a trip to Italy in the 'F', at the end of next month. Going via the French alps and then the tunnel of Frejus, then to Turin and north to lake Maggiore. It's about time it had a decent run out. Hasn't really been anywhere since before covid.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: General Board
- Topic: what have you done on your mgf today?
- Replies: 1627
- Views: 3062412
Re: what have you done on your mgf today?
I need counselling! I went out with the Mem'Sahib today in the 'F' to have lunch with some friends. During the meal it rained and I had to drive home in the wet... that's the first time I've got it wet in over 5 years!
I hope it hasn't caught a cold.
I hope it hasn't caught a cold.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:52 pm
- Forum: General Board
- Topic: Insurance
- Replies: 6
- Views: 190
Re: Insurance
I'm with a French on-line insurer called "Eurofil" - for 3rd party fire & theft with windscreen cover I pay 193€ (£165)
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: General Board
- Topic: Remote Engine Start
- Replies: 5
- Views: 157
Re: Remote Engine Start
Go to the greengrocer and buy a large King Edward. Place it next to your bed and then you can get a potato clock...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Looking at purchasing a MGF
- Replies: 6
- Views: 239
Re: Looking at purchasing a MGF
Are you looking at buying a car with an already failed head gasket?
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:29 am
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Alarm issues after flat battery
- Replies: 16
- Views: 433
Re: Alarm issues after flat battery
My 'F' still has sporadic issues with the alarm. Sometimes when I lock it, it's fine other times it goes off after a minute or so. I have got to the stage, after messing with the boot lid wiring loom on several occasions that I just don't bother locking the car any more. There's nothing inside it wo...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Air intake identification help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 287
Re: Air intake identification help
Sorry? Couldn't hear what you said!
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Air intake identification help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 287
Re: Air intake identification help
Cheapest option? Buy a one size fits all cone filter from the bay of E. I have one (I'm tighter than a submarine's window)
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Hood & frame cross compatibility
- Replies: 6
- Views: 498
Re: Hood & frame cross compatibility
Yes, but you can't mix the covers and frames. ie Mk1 cover goes with a Mk1 Frame and a Mk2 cover goes with a Mk2 frame.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: General Board
- Topic: what have you done on your mgf today?
- Replies: 1627
- Views: 3062412
Re: what have you done on your mgf today?
First outing for 2024. Nice and sunny down here today, 18°C so just right for a spot of "roof-down" motoring. The car fired up first flick, as usual. (I keep it on a battery conditioner over the winter). The roads were dry and they don't salt round here, so I had a nice little round robin of about 2...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Midlands (Heart of England)
- Topic: Advice Needed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 32119
Re: Advice Needed
It's very difficult to give specific advice without seeing the actual vehicle. If it's the subframe mountings that are corroded, they can be fairly easily replaced, given the likely problems to be encountered (as mentioned in the previous post). However if the actual floor pan of the car around wher...
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Car unsettled over bumps
- Replies: 10
- Views: 29836
Re: Car unsettled over bumps
Has the car had the hydragas spheres re-gassed? Is the ride height correct at 368mm (front) or has it been fitted with lowering pins?
I personally wouldn't run either make of tyre you mention. Toyo T1Rs are the dogs.
I personally wouldn't run either make of tyre you mention. Toyo T1Rs are the dogs.
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 1:29 pm
- Forum: General Board
- Topic: what have you done on your mgf today?
- Replies: 1627
- Views: 3062412
Re: what have you done on your mgf today?
Good subframe that one - the towing eyes are usually battered to death, especially on an 'F' when the hydragas has depleted.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: wiring up TF instrument cluster to check mileage
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18517
Re: wiring up TF instrument cluster to check mileage
I don't know about the MG TF but a friend of mine bought a replacement dash/speedo for his BMW thinking that it would show a lower mileage and when he plugged it in the exact same mileage came up on the new one - so, in that particular case the mileage was stored in the ECU and not in the dash/speed...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: New Battery - FLAT
- Replies: 5
- Views: 42657
Re: New Battery - FLAT
If the battery is less than a year old then it should still be under warranty and Halfords should replace it, providing you still have the original receipt. However when you say you "give it a run" a couple of times a week, do you actually take the car out and run it for 10-15 miles at least, or do ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 7:38 pm
- Forum: Members Classifieds
- Topic: 2001 MG MGF 1.8i - leather seats and trim.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 37117
Re: 2001 MG MGF 1.8i - leather seats and trim.
It's nice enough to have a punt at but if I'm honest, I think you'll be lucky if you get much beyond £500 for it. The cam belt is out of date and the next MOT is not that far off either. The problem is that the car is not an early 'F' (so close to "Classic ULEZ age") nor is it worth much more than t...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 7:41 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Exhaust downpipe
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8464
Re: Exhaust downpipe
If it's possible to remove some metal with a rotary file, you can use the joint gasket as a pattern to mark the new flange in order to give you something to work around. Good luck.
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 3:08 pm
- Forum: Technical - Sponsored by Brown & Gammons
- Topic: Exhaust downpipe
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8464
Re: Exhaust downpipe
I suspect that the part at the bottom is for the 1.6 K series engine, and yes it probably will affect performance (IMHO).
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:15 am
- Forum: Welcome
- Topic: New member
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5388
Re: New member
Be interested in seeing a 1995 MGTF... they weren't launched until 2002. I presume what you have is an early MG 'F'.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 5:40 pm
- Forum: South Coast
- Topic: 1st MGF now on display at the British Motor Museum
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4685
Re: 1st MGF now on display at the British Motor Museum
Despite its age, the MGF is still a very pretty car, roof up or down. Mind you, I'm biased.