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Yeah, I believe that the local governing bodies do not have much trust in people not to run the cars even without the vehicle insurance (we do not have to pay vehicle tax as private entities, only businesses have this obligation - for now!), so we have to hand in the license plates with part of...

I have learnt this the hard way. 😅 Colleague of mine has recommended braided fuel lines from Gates, they should be a good quality but still for reasonable price, so I will give them a go.

Haven´t given any updates on my Puma for a long time. Since I bought a second car as my daily (2004 Opel Vectra C GTS), I had the Puma decomissioned (I don't know ho to call it in English - I submitted the license plates to the local vehicle register office and then did not have to pay the...

I have tackled this problem last spring. Since I had one extra pair of headlights from the scrapyard, I decided to refurbish them. I had the reflectors recoated in silver, i polished the projector lenses and sanded, polished and waxed the outside plastic lenses. I have also put in some Osram...

Here is a link to the files. There are two sizes (70 mm and 100 mm), choose whichever you like, they can also be scaled according to your needs prior to printing. They are .stl files, you give these straight to the 3D printer guy. I had them printed from ASA filament, which is very durable...

Yes, I will provide the files once I get to my PC later today.

I am located outside the UK, so posting them to you wouldn’t make much sense. I can provide you with the .stl file and you can have them printed by someone in your area.

I have created a model of the badges and had them 3D printed a few years ago. If you are interested, I can provide you with the file of the model.

Not much going on with the Puma lately. I have been busy with school and work and I had to do some work on my girlfriend's Skoda Fabia. 🥴 Also the weather is starting to be a little bit cold to work on the car outside. So at least I took my gear stick and handbrake lever covers to be...

Haven’t done much on the Puma lately, but I had the spare wheel tray media blasted and then had it sprayed with black zinc phosphate coating. So now there is no more rusty metal lurking from under the rear bumper! I have also washed the underbody and wheel wells of the car and treated all...

Hello everyone, thanks for all the answers, sorry I haven’t been so active lately. I have been quite busy this week with the start of a new uni semester. @GreenEyedPuma, I don‘t have the boot trim off anymore, but I can certainly remove it again, since it is just a matter of few seconds, and...

Hi John, I have tried spraying it with WD-40 several times as I have described here: But that doesn’t seem to work. Maybe I will have to be more persistent and also try to clean the inside with some sort of long and thin soft brush. Yes, as @yippeekiay wrote, I have installed the interior...

That’s right, that is me! Yes, I am extremely lucky to have found a car in this great shape. The biggest flaw of the car is, that is not a 1.7. ☹️ Next week I will do some big rust prevention measures, to prepare the car for its last winter as a daily, before I will get some other car as a...

Wouldn’t the car have to be equipped with some sort of receiver from the factory, to be able to work with remote keys? Or was the remote control option just a matter of what kind of key the dealer gave you with the car? If that is the case, getting a remote control key would not be a problem. I...

I am starting to think, this would be the case. It would also explain the rust being flushed out of the lock. I will try to find someone who would be able to replace the inside of my lock according to the key in my area. If I don’t, I will have to just put up with unlocking the boot through the...

Hi, thanks a lot for your answer! I have removed the trim inside of the boot to have a look at the mechanism and you are correct, there is a cable. It is connected to sort of a cam, that gets turned when the barrel is pushed, which releases the latch and the tailgate gets open. But that works...

Damn it, I hoped this would go unnoticed! I unfortunately lost concentration with a file in hand. Luckily it is not so visible, if you don’t look closely. But I have some more work to do! :ROFLMAO:

And would I be able to turn the key even by this much, if it was the wrong key for this lock?

No, the car never had remote locking, I even tried looking it up through some VIN decoder online. And also the locks look like they were never changed.

To put all the info together, I have made a little pin out diagram of the switch. I took the live +12 V from the cigar lighter in the central dashboard panel (as described in an earlier post), which is constantly powered even without the key in ignition. Other than that I proceeded exactly the...