Jegger is being a dick. It's official, the certificate is in the post.
First off - I spent 2 hours on the seatbelt pretensioners, carefully removing, replacing wiring, cleaning connections and fettling. The result?
Flash-flash-flash-flash-pause-and so on.
Stupid thing. The MOT is due by the end of the month and this is an instant fail. I'm pretty much out of ideas now frankly.
I also took him for a short drive to see if the handling was as terrifying as I remember. Yes, it is still terrifying. Certainly something major wrong there...
However, at least I've had one fault finally pinpointed. I thought I'd have a go at fixing my OBD socket, so I unhooked it all and sprayed some switch cleaner around it. I could see afterwards that using my bluetooth scanner and the Torque app on my phone, it was at least trying to communicate now, but it still couldn't talk to the car.
So I remembered that tuonokid had been making nice noises about a program called Forescan, so I bunged it on my netbook, dug out my USB scanner and hooked it all up.
And.....
Jegger is finally talking to me! You may notice a fault code in there too - the source of all my missing power!
Not great, but at least I can stop blindly replacing parts. My bet is on the solenoid being fecked, as the engine runs very smoothly. Also, it's clear on reflection that I don't have that VCT engine note change at the switch-over revs. It would appear that it's stuck in the high-rev-range setting which explains the lack of low and mid-range grunt.
Still, Jegger's still a dick, even if he is talking to me now. :?