megadodo

No, its drums I'm afraid!

I have a whole rear axle off a 2.0i sapphire, its taking up space so its yours for £20 is you want it ?

Most electrical problems are due to bad earthing and the symptom suggests this as well. check the earthing point for the faulty side. Best of luck

It's to do with the current draw. The relay can switch high currents reliably and through as short a route as possible without having too big a voltage drop. You could use the horn push on the steering wheel but its not good at shifting high currents as the contact area is unreliable throughthe sliding contact as the steering wheel has to the inconvenient thing of turning the front wheels left and right. It also means that smaller diameter wires can be used at the switches. Imagine all your switches being wired with fat wiring, just look at the wires at the ignition switch! Hope that helps?

Thanks to one and all, certainly much clearer in my head now! I am almost ready to scrap the donor car (all bits for the 2b removed, just some potentialy saleble items to come off now) so what do I do about the V5 etc. Do I register it as scrap, if so how do I keep proof of the age related stuff etc. Will a scrappy take it away without signing it over to him?

Thanks Nigel, that makes sense I suppose. While on the subject of VIN numbers what do I do? I have the donor car's documents and VIN plate but I guess I can't just rivet it to the chassis and that I have to make 1 up and stamp it somewhere?

Hi Folks, My first post! Probably not my last either! I was obviously under a mishaprehension that once you had passed your SVA you could get the car registered and reading through the SVA posts I see there is a BUI. My questions are as follows, is this relatively new, what does it entail and what's the point of an SVA test if the car then needs a BUI, or am I missing something.