Mike and I have had another car playing day yesterday and so I thought it was time to fit my cat bypass pipe i bought 3 years ago.

With my car over my pit and my air tools at the ready the exhaust was off in 30 minutes ! I had a look in the cat and it had broken up slightly but still flowed OK and was spot on for the emissions for the MOT (0.02% CO)

Brilliant , or so I thought..... :roll:

When I came to fit the cat bypass pipe the fit was abysmall. We had to spend an hour chopping filing grinding etc. just for it to fit. :evil:

I hope that the quality of these have vastly improved because the one I bought was very very poor.

Just warning everyone else who thinks this is going to be a mornings work.

NickT.

I have recently noticed that when i corner into a right hand bend sort of sharpish, i hear a bang as though something has hit the inside wall of the luggage compartment (which is empty).
Anyone experienced this or may know what this is?????
Cheers

I'm having over heating problems as the cooling fans aren't kicking in when the engine gets up to temperature. The temperature sender unit is new. Wondered if it's a relay problem or is there another switch that turns the fans on. The fan fail switch isn't lighting but that might just be the bulb.
Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated.

Ps would like to know how to get onto the locked How To's part of the forum.

Cheers
Tom
DOC372

I am just in the process of putting all my dash/binnacle/come to that most of the interior back in :roll:
Anyway I have got to the glove box and for the life of me cannot remember or work out how the catch goes. not on the lid but on the inside of the glove box.
Would somebody be good enough to take a picture of theres and post it please to jog my memory. Thanks
Chris

Hi All

I am after a jack compartment cover with the clips that secure it to the body

My car did not have one when i imported it

does anyone have one for sale

many thanks

Craig

I know this has been brought up on the odd occasion, but I need to find out what my specific problem is.
I ventured out yesterday, on what is usually a short trip (7 miles). When I get to the multi-story carpark of the Hilton I kindly asked a closeby work contractor to press the button on the ticket machine so I could get in the car park. He says "Yeah, no problem mate. Nice car by the way, is there supposed to be steam bellowing out of the back!!!!!" Arrrrgggh. I backed my car up and turned the engine off, and looking at my temp gauge, noticed it was running at the top of the red!!!!!

The young chap kindly gave let me top my system up, after waiting 30 mins for it to cool down. I struggled to start her back up, but once running, has been fine since, except for the fact I have no fans kicking in!

Today, I checked all the fuses in my fusebox, and all were fine. I then removed the connector from the otterstat and shorted out the pins to see if the fans kicked in, and they didnt!!! So...Im now stuck, as I know very little about the wiring system for the rad fans.

Can anyone tell me if there's any other fuses, or indeed (Id imagine) a relay of some sort that is vuneralble to failure? Or should there be something else I can check?

Hi. Just looked for a blown fuse that makes my full beam not work. It is ok. I did notice however that fuse number 2 the engine control 20 amp fuse had melted in the holder but not blown. What does this fuse do and what is engine control as there are 2 engine control fuses. The car refused to start and there was no sound coming from the fuel pump. Sorry to be a pain but my misses has packed my manuels and my disks with the manuals on also as we are trying to move house

Hi all,

I've just updated our club website gallery with the pics of Donnington from last weekend:

http://www.deloreans.co.uk/features/car ... other.html

There is some movie footage from inside Bozzy's as he teared up the track, but I still need to cut it together.

I'll post another update once this is done.

cheers

Tris

Hi guys. Can anyone help me with my headlights please. When my lights are on and i go to full beam only my side lights work and dip beam goes out. I'm guessing this is an MOT failier :roll: Any sugestions greatfully received.

Hello,

I got to go out and drive a Delorean again yesterday, one that I am interested in buying. Its in very good condition, inside and out.

However, I found that changing down into second gear was very tricky - even the owner had trouble. Working up through the gears is no problem at all (nice and smooth), but going from 4th or 5th into 2nd was difficult, as the gear did not consistantly engage.

Is this a common problem on a DeLorean, and is it fixable? Or is it a quirk of the car and something that I just need to get used too? Maybe I'm too used to using modern gearboxes - do I need to double de-clutch going down?

I'd like to know as aside from that issue, the car is in superb shape and I'm hoping that it can be mine shortly!


Cheers,

Simon