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I got my arch liner for a facelift mk1 which is slightly dfferent from a non facelit from and delivered by Autodoc.,.....................
It was over a year ago but I guess you could try there..........................

OAT you are so correct in what you are saying about it all  .................
As you may have heard a consultant I saw diagnosed me with a debilitating condition [I found] that turns out to be a dyspraxia to my left side ...................
their take on things was I was dragging my left leg and had balance problems for starters ..................
So even though I have reports from consultants at the hospital and my GP ...................................
The goernment decision maker [and I've been refered to neurology] said there is nothing wrong with me ................................
And So Apparently I can run the four minute mile with you. ....................

I'd try KENBW2's theary, but it's many years ago now my 307 with a 2.0 hdi had a dicky injector and would not start at first when it felt like it it would go an hdi expert mechanic thought fuel pressure regulator/sensor on fuel rail was wonky as that was symtoms it was giving at time but in the end tested injectors for holdiing the enormous pressure and found one leaking quite badly and could not hold the minimum pressure needed for starting. Hdi's don't like things like water or cooking oil.   

P.S.I was lucky and found a working but noisey second hand injector with right codes on it inc suffix letter and no need to code them in.

p.p.s.My DW8/B  Camper-Van has a flat battery after sitting for winter, I think its down a glow plug relay athough ECU says glow plugs heating on dash I don't believe it.

JohnDragonMan: had the front wings off his mk1 face lift.............
I'm sure he found the fog light wires for his van tucked up behind the inecator wires............
I wonder if its the same on later vans.....................

Casper sorry Im not on line much these days I just saw your post .............
still got the Van...... but I have been diagnosed with some kind of condition currently that has left me very debilitated

If you go to Glencaple near Dumfries it's self ...........
opposite the Nith hotel if your lucky there will be a space in the motorhome stop over there from memory its free ..........
I've stopped on the old harbour when it was used as a mucky car park and I've had a little bit to drink .........
Also seen the bore go up the Nith river here aswell.......
They also did maybe still do decent grub in the Nith if you fancy a bite.........
Ive been going to the swan pub in kingholm quay which is now up for sale of late for my grub .................

Casper I have not been on here much lately and I am older again next month[less than three weeks now] having had nothing but ricers or a couple of british I thought there was some thing wrong with me when I admited to likeing a fat boy but then I thought it was the denim blue satin paint I liked...............
Then it transpirered I fancied a shot on a Honda 750 Shadow a black spirit one that along with likeing a Mondeo I saw got me worried ...................
Don't worry gettin older doesnt hurt and also I'm in worse overall shape than you.................

I'd say..................

My back box on Van fell off a few years ago just before MOT time on a trip I seam to remember getting a cat back system for it from B&M exhausts who do a load of cats also.............
The only other thing I also seem to remember is the sleave didnt fit and was returned, I don't know if someone had been there before us ...........
We made our own conecting sleave in the end.........................

I now seem to remember thinking thats a small diameter pipe......................

It looks very much like a replacement steering wheel or a wheel cover either stiched on by yourself or recovered by a professional or one of those you buy at an auto store........................

Let us know what cure you find or go for ............................

I would go with casper that it's protection for the filler pipe etc but just take note that on the other side is the self above the wheel arch and may offer some structural assistance other than a handy spot to sit the other battery like mine is

We stopped a few times at Sango Sands campsite..............
We = the boys escaping and out to play ......................
I can remember a few times there, One where we had pitched on to much of a slope near the road and I slide off the sleeping mat through the night ..................

I think it was that time we met a guy who had just retuned from a trip to Spain on his pizza bike and now taking his dog on a sponsored tour of uk he was 71 ...He'd put 38,000miles on that in 4Years .................
We have one bike each as she wanted her own when I was thinking on trading mine in for a 1050 tiger
I've got a little 650 a 2005 the same age as Van  with barely 22,000 miles and hers just over 7,500 miles with hers out of MOT  longer than mine as she's unable to go any real distance on it now ............
Mine has been out of MOT for 18 months nearly 2years because of lockdown like Van usage..............

Another time when a tent collapsed with the wind coming off the sea .......................
Also the time my bike trousers fell down when I was on my way to their very basic camp kitchen ................
They  do have there on the beach section a wooden walk way on a sort of ridge out to a viewing area ...............

I'm not so sure I can manage going down to Smoo cave now......................
If you go over the road from the toilets/ car park area to the corner there are holes in the ground going into the cave ...................
you get a much better view in the cave especially if you take a boat tour .........................

With the Van we normally stop before or after Durness althou I have stopped in a sort of lay- by near that corner at smoo cave ...................

If on heading east out of Durness you take the loop rather than the short cut up the hill ..................
you'll come to/pass John Lennon aunty's cottage that he spent his summer holidays in hence the conection there ...................
Apparently he tried to buy the area and crashed a hire car with yoko and his son julian in it when up that way ..................................
I'll dig out and upload a buch of photos.....................

Love it and great to hear of these trips .................
I have done several trips up there Applecross and the campsite there was a great favorite with the bike for a while...................
Also when time permited the campsite at Durness and a visit to Smoo's cave as well as the not as good John Lennon Garden memorial.....................
Did a version of the north coast 500 before it was called that and famous in and on bike, car and Van several times ..............
Did the tour and the whiskey tasting near the newish built Tain bridge in the Glen morangie Distilary  and others up north obviously ................
My latest desire is for Mainland Orkney ... Sailing not from Scrabster but From Gills bay with Pentland ferries, The history there along with the ease of finding a decent park up in Okney and also going to Dunnet head the Uk's most northerly point on way there or back ..................................
Acctually one of the jobs on occasion was to go to the Norfrost Factory with the artic in Castletown for freezers usually very near Dunnet head on the john o groats to thurso, dounreay etc road ........................
I love heading up that way but my partner is no longer really fit enough to head up there to do battle now with the hoards in the summer months and although we've done it before age, infirmity and along with hospital appointments has scuppered the better winter months for us both .........................
Like Kenbw2 I'm now wanting to throw caution to the wind and go ..............
Oh BTW you can't expect to do a week up North of Scotland and expect to stay dry every day...............................
Although a couple years ago now and one of last real outings for the Van bar other than obviously going to skye right before lockdown...................
We wondered why everything was closing ..............
Naively we then thought to check out and plan as it would be nice to try an island hopper and see the outer hebredies as we have still to go there .........................
But anyway I really quite enjoyed our Campbeltown and Dunoon trip ...........................

Years ago I had A Renault truck which did much the same .......
Come to even the smallest not even noticable hill temp would rise then fall after weeks of head scratching I was told by an older guy who was younger than me now probably ..............
To check the stat. ..................................
It turned out to be sticky and late on opening ...........................

Was probably slowly failing ...................