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That's interesting to know
I have a black box too, but apart from remote central locking no working alarm
I do have the wee red led on the dash which flashes when the engine is off, locked or not

One issue that exists and I haven't looked into yet is
when the van is locked and I unlock the door with a key not remote, there is a constant clicking
under the dash which has to be a relay.
I know it had a working alarm at one point as I see the sounder in the engine bay
I may try and disconnect the Texalarm box at some point to see if I can remove it and fit an alarm
I have control over

If my remote fails I'll be driven mad by the bloody clicking!

Give it an Italian tune up, that'll sort it

I just entered the reg into the gubment's CAZ page and my 2006 2.0 16v HDI
has to pay in all CAZ zones in England bar Portsmouth.
This did not come as a surprise, who would expect our old bangers to get a free pass?
Newcastle/Gateshead is indeed the dearest at £12.50, Bristol by comparison is £9/day

I rarely go into town anyway but my bike and scoots are exempt so could use one of those

As you've a 1.9 it must be the D or TD so bearing in mind the symptoms
I'll guess you may have a glow plug or glow plug relay problem.

Ouch!

I've had projects like that where you start out all starry eyed, enthusiastic and full of good intentions
and instead of things progressing nicely it starts to turn into a complete arse ache.
Good luck with it.

Welcome Heather.

Have look at this thread and see what mine was like in the pic at the end of thread

https://dispatchexpertscudo.org.uk/foru … hp?id=2013

Just been reading up the V90 ( looks fun!) and found this page which may be of some use or interest to you
If you're anything like me you've probably already scoured the web for any and all info on what ever bike
you have, but I'll add the link just in case as it has parts catalogue and user manuals and stuff

https://scooterhelp.com/scooters/V9A1T.90.html

The wee scooter shown previously went in easily, the latest bigger bike was much bigger and more of a struggle.
After removing the bike I swept out the van and took some pics
so I can muse over mods to the ply partition.
Currently it makes the cab warmer and quieter especially at motorway speeds
and will stay as is.
In the warmer months or at certain times like wanting to stuff a big bike in,
I may want have it more open to make use of every inch of space.
The pink lines show where the front wheel and fairing touched up against the partition
and the bike only just went far enough in to shut the back doors.
the small bulkhead is outlined in blue and the hold down points by red spots.

Section 1 could be removed but is pretty much permanent
as is the sealed up sliding door and I see no need to touch that.

Sections 2 and 3 wont be hard to remove, just few screws really and I'm mulling over options of putting hinges or clamps on them to make then even easier and quicker
to fit and remove

Like this one, a mate begged me to buy his ratty old CX in 2000
yes they're ugly af and it looked rough as a bears ass but had a sweet rebuilt engine
when I test rode it I took a strange liking to it
In those days you couldn't give a CX away and I had one more for the next 20 years
and have been all over the UK on one.
Once you understood their features and possible weak points and addressed them
you had a go anywhere, any time, workhorse.
I had a few K100 beemers for touring for few years but still kept a CX
I sold my last CX in 2020 and had no intention of getting another bike
so I'm still undecided what to do with this GL.

I have a 2001 Yamaha Majesty 250 scooter now.
I got it cheap and renovated it to use as a hack and its great fun.

I know of the tensior gadget but never had or used one.
I got my local guy to do my cam belt kit as he's very reasonable and reliable
and couldn't be be arsed to do it myself
RE tension,
there is/was a rule of thumb which involved how much you could twist the belt under tension
to give an idea of how tight/loose it was.
Its been a while since i did a cam belt  and cant recall exact parameters
but as a crude example, if you could twist the belt 180 degrees it was too loose
and if you could NOT or struggled to twist it 45 degrees, it was too tight
and if you could twist it 90 degrees under tension it was about right.
I also cant recall if this was on the longer or shorter reaches of the belt.

I repeat this is a guess from vague memory
but it was something like the above
I seem to recall doing the cam belt on my old C15 1.9D XUD lump like this