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The oil sensor most likely needs replacing. There are no Koni's for a 1.2. It's either OEM or Bilstein, not much else.
RAB
RAB
The oil sensor most likely needs replacing. There are no Koni's for a 1.2. It's either OEM or Bilstein, not much else.
RAB
The lower half of the dipstick tube is bolted to the sump and the oil filter assembly. Unbolt this and the sensor can be detached from the sump.
RAB
Glad to see you are getting the issues sorted, my car suffered terrible vibrations also which turned out to be the Dogbone mount on the gearbox this was replaced with a febi unit & has been fine since, although on cleaning & inspecting the old unit no wear is apparent but noted bolts were not very tight! When removed so I would check there first( under tray removal required)
Keith.
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Just checked the price for the gearbox mounting, part no: 8Z0199555S (1.2TDi 3L specific!) and it's £275.48
I guess I've just found out why it hasn't been replaced... it's going to have to vibrate for a while longer as I can't afford that either
MG
As far as I can determine the mount is the same on all-diesel tdi’s from the search engines.
Keith.
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Hi. You're showing a real commitment to restoring this 3L. I hope you have a warm garage! Keep at it and tell us how it's going.
Lots of updates...
The turbo vnt was seized so I've pulled it apart, stripped the exhaust turbine housing down to component parts and cleaned it thoroughly before re-assembling and re-fitting to the car. Now it goes properly and returns very good fuel economy!
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The harsh vibration coming through from the engine, believe it or not was a combination of a juddering clutch (which I still need to fix) and play in the steering track rods. It was the metal on metal end float that was making the racket!
The oil temp sensor has started working more often!
Time for a full service and some winter tyres.
MG
By the way, I am not sure if you are aiming to keep it totally OEM, but I had white dials made up by a company in Germany. Around £100.
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I am pretty sure that they could make up a black MPH Speedo face for you. You only need that half too so it would probably be even cheaper than mine.
An easy swap too and it would look totally OEM? Or would you want to keep the KPH speedo face?
Steve B
I actually started looking at this earlier this evening.
The immediate problem is that my speedometer only goes up to 200km/hr which is 125 mph.
All of the UK spec clocks seem to go up to 150mph? So if I was to use this, the speedometer would be very out as a result
MG
It does not matter as everybody will know what you mean but surely the 8/5=1.6 conversion factor should be the other way round, viz 5/8=0625, or to be more precise 0.621371.....! - Andy?...
The positioning of the MPH markings is a mathematical calculation, basically they can put the MPH marking to line up with 1.6 of where the KPH markings were.
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Steve B
....I'll be inspecting the suspension again and looking for play in track-rod ends, lower ball joints (I really hope not as they're part of the aluminium arm which is 3L specific!) etc etc...
I'm very aware of this fact. I had to carry out this change on my Lupo 3L when registering it with DVLA hence mentioning it and looking for a solution.MPH scaling is a legal requirement for a UK registered car and should have been done by the original importer, as he would have signed a piece of paper saying that he would do so.
RAB