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On my 90/91 SRi petrol H-reg 20SEH the "fuel pressure regulator" lives next to the fuel pump at the offside rear corner of the car. Exposed to the elements this has now corroded and sprung a leak so needs to be replaced. The local Vaux dealership were not able to identify the part no but c...

I'll start asking around anyone I can think of in the old school. Worth their weight in gold dust.

Tks - I'll add this to the message stream to my garage that has accumulated over the weekend ...

Many thanks - I will pass the info on (!). If anyone has a KM-566 that they'd be prepared to loan me I would much appreciate.

RE part 1: Looks like mine could be borderline 20SEH / Motronic 4.1 / 1.5. (I took delivery in Jan 91, I can remember). - can I deduce which? - does it matter? - I may have slightly misquoted my garage man RE part 2: - he seemed to think that checking all the connections etc would be a laborious job...

tks.

I think the problem foreseen by my garage, who is very clued up as a GP but doesn't claim to be a specialist surgeon, is that the N-reg ABS would have been designed to mate with an N-reg ECU / electronic environment / braking system etc, and that you cannot just regard the ABS as a totally separate ...

Unfortunately your suggestion Alan came thro too late for this morning's investigation. All the above turned out to be to no avail cos the unit I've got is too old - no grey wires and paperclips etc. It wil be down to painstaking checking of all the connections and terminals and things, including th...

Rest assured that all the above is being gratefully passed down (up) the line, tks. You would think that this would be known to the service dept of the main Vauxhall dealeship in Newcastle but I fear that if the problem doesn't respond to Tech 2, all is lost. For anyone following the thread I found ...

My ABS warning light is coming on continuously and Tech 2 (?) diagnostics doesn't appear to be able to say why. I don't have the EO something or other diagnostic plug fitted. Next step is to investigate the ABS unit directly - can anyone let me have a copy of the wiring diagram? H-reg 1990/91 / 2 li...

I painted mine with black Hammerite and it all (correction: quite a bit) just chipped off!
From what you see many folk go around with nice paintwork on top but you can see the brown stuff clearly on the chassis below. Never could understand why.

Does wonders for my personal ego that

"And as we speak, my LS does not have an interior, rear doors or tail gate." May be after we have finished our speak? Worth a check.

My humble SRi doesn't have as far as I know traction control, heated seats / switches, Meta self destruct or ejector seat buttons. There is an ashtray somewhere.

My Vectra-C has all these functions, but 15 seconds of wheel spinning on snow or ice, and the whole lot shuts down.

ABS sensor ring replaced. Hopefully problem solved.

I was told by Vauxhall Newcastle today that you can get a Masterfit ("trade discount") card just by applying on line. The myvauxhall.co.uk site gets your registered in the Service Club OK but no sign that I could see of the Masterfit card for those wanting their own spares. Anyone know the...

As you say it's probably not worth the hassle if at the end of the day there would be no greater effectiveness and if most if not all failures can be identified by having a quick look at the front sensor rings when the car is on a ramp. I believe that with more modern systems you can get traction co...

Hopefully replacing what has now turned out to be a broken / corroded front o/s sensor ring will solve the problem without having to resort to K pins and paper clips and things. I am told that it is not possible to upgrade my ABS

If electronic diagnosis proves to be impossible for the reasons stated then it ought to be possible to do a lo-tec mechanical check involving spinning the wheels individually (having removed any corrosion on the sensors) if I have understood correctly. I suppose that the ABS either works or doesn't ...

Tks for the extensive research which you will understand that I will copy and paste to my garage man rather than try to figure it out for myself.

Sorry to hear about the accident, it wasn't serious I hope? It was a low-speed slow-motion loss of control near-miss - the kind where you have time to get a flash-back of your sinful life to date before the crunch, which in this case in spite of me being @ 45° to the intended direction of travel me...

I believe that I've got the lump between the passenger door and the sill :( But the man who has been servicing the car for the past umpteen years has got an electronic gizmo that can read fault codes and the like so hopefully he will be able to test it. At present the indicator is not showing whilst...

Tks, noted. I seem to remember that some time back there was some corrosion on the pick-up (?) near the road wheel and when this got sorted it was back to normal service. At least as far as removing the flashing was concerned though there is always the lingering suspicion that the system itself migh...

During the last cold snap I all but had an accident as a result of losing control at low speed on what I suppose was a hidden icy patch. Subsequently it occurred to me that the ABS might have been (partly) responsible - the light had been coming on and the system needs to be checked out. Which trigg...

That's very interesting. The whole subject is a bit of a minefield if you consult all the various sources and I missed this one. I'll bookmark the quote for later use hopefully! I've got the original VIN.

20 SEH non-cat pre-facelift 8-valve motor (overhauled and rebuilt). Somewhere buried in another thread I mentioned the long-standing problem I've had - tendency for the car to stall in the last few yards of coasting / slowing down in neutral to a standstill. The temporary "dip" in revs is ...