Recent content by peter.thinboy

It's a cylinder attached to the side of the condenser which looks like another radiator in front of the coolant radiator.

With regard to the creaking, get an aerosol can of silicone spray and with the straw provided along with plastic tubing tie wrapped to it, squirt some in the end of the slave cylinder bore with the pedal depressed and released a few times. Repeat as required.

Some years ago I put a lot of thought into buying a 2013 2.0 EX manual with low miles on it at the local main dealer as it was 10 years newer than my 2003 2.0 Executive manual which now has around 175k miles. I've had it for 15 yrs. Plus points = newer, very slightly quieter. Minuses IMO =...

I don't know what your DD is but a modern car with a clutch in good order has a release pressure of around 30 lb. with about 6 inches of travel. Not too taxing, surely?

KISS as the Americans say - keep it simple, stoopid. The manual gearchange was praised in the original Autocar road test as being possibly the best of any car on sale so why complicate the car with an auto when it's hardly a bother to change gears yourself and do you really need a Sat Nav system...

Threadlock isn't a modification is it and besides it's hardly likely to lead to a critical failure, drilling a hole for a cotter pin might but as you say that isn't what keeps a bolt tightened nor will it be on the part of the thread that is under load. Nyloc nuts are designed to be ***embled...

Out of interest Lings Honda sell tie rod ends for £96.50, Euro Car Parts have Lemforder at £37.49 with castle nut and their subsidiary CarParts4Less have exactly the same part at £25.14. Cheapest part from a well-known manufacturer with castle nut I could find was Meyle at £14.89 inc. delivery...

The use of the right type of threadlock or even a cotter pin as well as a Nylock is fine, totally unnecessary but fine if it gives the OP piece of mind. It wouldn't be fine if mods were discovered in a post-accident investigation. Anything other than the manufacturer supplied piece could be...

Thanks for the heads up. Could I ask you to message/email me when it's all fixed so I can make sure that I can access my old content? Thanks...

This topic was covered under a thread I started a few years ago. I tried to provide a link to it but it won't let me so you'll have to look under my username content. I don't know what's going wrong with the site just lately but I can't access some of my very old content going back to around...

Further update - all fitted and now behaving itself. New battery is 320mAh instead of original 250mAh and is 70% charged as shipped which results in the siren blaring when connected until the car charges it fully. It stopped sounding after a few minutes. Apologies to the neighbours...

Just to update, our 2003 petrol Executive started blaring yesterday and I managed to find a supplier for the rechargeable battery at £25 all in which is a helluvalot better than £700 from Honda. I've just ordered mine here...

Sorry, only just read this. Hope you managed to clear the ABS code OK.

Re noise, be aware that noise measurements on tyre labels are for drive-by exterior noise and not noise heard within the car.

Just to add to the database of ABS sensor replacements, I changed my RR unit today. I identified the faulty unit by connecting pins 4 and 9 on the connector under the RH side of the dashboard with a paper clip and counting the flashes on the ABS light. I further ascertained that there wasn't a...