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As kenbw2 said Van Windows Direct, they only do door ones but if you turn a door one upside down you can use it as a side one, oh and by the way the doors are symetrical so both sides are the same.

So having read some report on car forums where they use the Pug 2.0 HDI apparently the water and oil basically almost never mix on these engines as the water and oil galleries are a long way apart but but coroded fire rings blowing into the water gallery is very common failure point and weirdly often still pass sniff tests if still fireing well on that cylinder so looks like it is probably the head gasket

Does sound a lot the same, just seams so unlikely as engine so new, I will check the receipts but suspect unless Peugeot are going to warranty the engine itself (unlikely if fitted by independant to wrong vehicle) that there wont be a valid warranty, it was probably self fitted by Bristol City Cabs but will check.

Also it has just had a sniff test done before I bought it just to confirm it wasn't the head gasket.

But I have ordered a sniff test of my own just to confirm if it is the bad news, if it is then will have to hope a dose of k-seal or steel seal will do the job, they tend to work reasonably especially if you run the engine without boost for a few hours then leave for a day or so before driving.

As above sounds very much like issues with the engine loom, they seam to degrade quite badly, seams particularly bad on facelift ones, although that might be because most of them have more loom to degrde and cause issues. My last one which was a 56 plate was particularly bad with 5 volt sensor circuits all going haywire, I stripped back all the crustly loom covering cleaned it all and rebound in loom tape and all was fine except occasional EML coming on when very wet.
Luckily my 2004 I now have had brand new crate engine destined for a later vehicle and appears to had a new loom at the same time.

Yep those are the 156 sportswagon alloys like my old ones, most of the other Alfa mutispoke ones are completely useless but these are good and hefty.

Muffin 2 update, so its going in for its MOT retest today.

Finnaly got the front bearing out wouldn't come out with my neighbours 20 ton rated ratchet press, frame was twisting and I just ran out of strength.

Bought a 20 ton hydraulic press, again frame started to twist, heated the swivel hub up on the cooker hotplate until almost rosey red and tried again, still didn't budge.

Despite the big warning sign saying do not use excesive force I lifted myself up on the arm for the 20 ton jack (I weigh nearly 300lb) and there was a loud bang, which was either the bearing moving or the jack bar cracking into my head as it gave way, and the bearing started to move.

Turned out the outer raece had started to rust into the swivel hub and thats why it was stuck so badly, the frozen replacement slipped in nicely into the still glowing swivel hub and after leaving in the freezer for a day the outer hub slipped into the bearing ok.

In other news after my wife kept slipping off the flap down passenger seat I have bought a single standard passenger seat from Cornwall which will go in at the weekend.

No but I have done that bodge on a few cars and TBH its lasted as long as I have owned the vehicles. 

Yes but thats not what I meant, originally you mentioned that the engine fan comes on when air con is working, which is normal. But the trigger from the aircon to switch on the engine fan is the same as the temp sensor so uses the same circuit and relay so if that is working its not the fuse or relay for the engine fan, it must be either temp sensor for the fan or wiring (if its even hitting trigger temp), as sensor changed maybe its wiring/dodgy connection.

Sounds a lot like a slightly flat battery, not had it like this on a Pug but I have owned quite a lot of Alfas and if the battery is not tip top then you get lots of spurious errors that are not really there.

This is highlighted by fact that errors went when battery was replaced. As battery new I would put it on charge then see if OK, oh and check the charging is OK should be around 13.5- 14.5 V when running.

As for the power steering if the newer ones have speed sensitive electrically assited steering will get messed up by errors on ABS etc, if you did not get the ABS codes cleared down after they came up (they just kind of went away) I would get it plugged in and cleared down and then might be OK.

Yep like this think it suits the van shape better than my camper swirls I had on Muffin1 which were mainly chosen to A make it look like a camper but B cover particular scrape marks from when it was a van.

So my MOT went well, failure points below, on "Muffin 2" so over the winter it will be full steam ahead on the conversion going to make a few changes, going to utilise the Taxi's existing seat rails for the Rock and roll after moving one nearer th middle as seat will be less wide than existing taxi seat, this potentially should allow people to sit on the rear facing seat of the rock and roll while back doors shut so in theory it can remain an 8 seater like it is now.

I also intend to only construct a "single" height cupboard down offside this will have an oven with twin hob (yes actual oven), fridge and sink, but to be honest not much storage as water tanks and aux battery are likely to be in there too. No roof rack this time but the twin solar panels will be on there again and maybe a solar shower.

Mileage
321,729 miles

Do not drive until repaired (dangerous defects):
•Offside Rear Tyre has ply or cords exposed (5.2.3 (d) (ii))

Repair immediately (major defects):
•Nearside Front Wheel bearing rough when rotated (5.1.3 (b) (i))
•Offside Front Service brake excessively binding (1.2.1 (f))

Monitor and repair if necessary (advisories):
•Nearside Rear Wheel bearing slightly noisy (5.1.3 (b) (i))
•Offside Rear Wheel bearing slightly noisy (5.1.3 (b) (i))
•Front Play in steering rack inner joint(s) both ()
•Exhaust has a minor leak of exhaust gases (6.1.2 (a))