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I've seen some massive tensioner spanner things for fords but nowt for the Honda. I don't want to risk rounding the nut off on the tensioner anymore. Any recommendations for a long spanner?

If your are modifying your car exhaust surely you would knock out the cat to get that famous owl hoot from the diesel turbo.

I think I might already have, will check my outbox.

What else goes tensioner and pulley wise in that area?

As far as I can tell from reading around it does fit. Can't find anything telling me otherwise.

i have the parts thing, but not the workshop manual.

I take it a civic 2.2 cdti alternator fits as well.

We tried to get it off today, but the tensioner beat us. One bolt and we were stuck. Hoping a local mobile mechanic will get it off for me. Although I may recondition it and sell it after buying one. Can't believe that some of the larger re-conditioners are charging 265 for an alternator.

Alternator is putting out 9.6V. Getting a christmas tree dash as well. Sounds like a bag of hammers under there, using the screwdriver stethescope, it sounds rough. After I managed to flatten the battery I took it for an hours drive, car wouldn't start at all. Took 10 minutes before it jumped...

No idea. It's noisy, not sure if it noisy knackered, or noisy fixable.

Couldn't for the life of me get that tensioner off. Is there a knack for it? Wouldn't budge.

Well the car has a knackered alternator. Battery is only reading 9.5v and is noisy as hell. Power steering pump is a but noisy as well, but will worry about that later. I read on here about non-genuine honda alternators. Anybody got more info? or recond second hand ones. Not really up for...

I miss my 440 Turbo - 18 years old and I had a turbo. comfortable, safe and fairly quick.

I'm banned from washing car parts in the kitchen after abusing the dishwasher.

I presume that the cooling is one of the main drawbacks at the moment and possibly the optics. I have a homemade light here as well that runs two cree led's which is stupidly bright (until I fried the driver) Thinking about how HID projectors work, the light is along the length of the lamp...

easy enough. Just remembered that my parrot was in he past temperamental, might have to invest in a new blue box. I had it loose in my golf's glove box so could be unplugged easily to reset.

LED technology is amazing just now. My bike lights are brighter than most car lights, xenon included, they run 4-p9s on one board. In theory they make about 900 lumens, but I believe in testing they make about 600. Sadly the only manufacturer that I know of embrasing LED technology is Lexus.

I just got rid of a saab 9-5 which just wasn't for me, but the seats were fantastic. Vector Sport - half leather and they were just right. Saying that my Saab 900 16v Turbo from 1990 had the best seats I've ever sat in, if memory serves me right.

Does the Accord have a built in mic or do I need to use my parrot mike?

Cheers. I've used a VAGCom clone in the past and it was *****. The OPCOM I had for the SAAB was ok, but only allowed code reading, however it let me mess with my mates vectra quite a lot. Have to decide if it's worth the 80 quid outlay or not. cheers btw is there a spotted on ebay section...