New Cerbie Owner. woohoo I hope

[cupra20v.t]

purchased my first 4.2 cerbera last night, a bit wet for a proper test drive but none the less i tried. im very happy with it, and i owuld like to congratulate all cerby drivers for driving while looking through a letter box. i cannot believe the limited amount of view through the front windscreen.

i didnt get it until late last night so it needs a good wash and polish as well as good going over to tighten stuff up and a thouroughly check things.

one thing i need is a manual for how to work all the buttons and knobs inside etc. as some of the symbols are too feint to see properly. also can i buy new symbols from some where?

what does the silver push button on the right od the steering wheel do? it illuninates red when pressed.

how do i host pics?

[Dave 500]

cupra20v.t said:

what does the silver push button on the right od the steering wheel do? it illuninates red when pressed.

Think it might be your fog light

Congrats with the purchase

Edited by Dave 500 on Wednesday 6th August 10:47

[Nefarious]

Steering wheel buttons:
Top left: Squirty wipers
Bottom left: wipers (cycles through the different speeds)
Top right: Full beam headlights
Bottom right: Horn

Either side of the radio:
Windows up and down

Twiddly knobs to the far left of wheel:
Heater controls (one hot, one cold - push for on and off).
AC on and off in the middle

Twiddly knob that lights up green to the left of wheel:
Sidelights and dipped beam

Button to the right of the wheel
Fog lights

HTH

BTW - if you look on ebay, there's a chap who sells aluminium replacement buttons, and you're bound to find a manual fairly easily.

Edited by Nefarious on Wednesday 6th August 10:58

[cupra20v.t]

sweet cheers guys. ok so its fog lights cool. why put the fog light button all the way over there from the headlight knob i will never know?

my windows are really sluggish, it may be because the battery is hardly chraged. its on charge as we speak but if they are still sluggish is the a remedy like greasing runners or lubing up moving parts behind the door card or is it a case of new or refurb the motos

[cupra20v.t]

first drive i was scared stiff, hammering down with rain and 360bhp under my bum. just cant wait for a bit of dry weather and a charged battery lol

can i put pictures up here if so how, im used to doing it on other forums using urls etc but i cant find any options on the window

[BigAl83]

Hosting pics i found the easiest way was using photobucket and taking the [IMG] file and pasting it into the text.

[Gazzab]

racing green and others sell the black n white button stickers.

[cupra20v.t]

thanks will check out racing green.

[Old Geezer]

Hi
If you got to this site

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave.hinns/servicing....

A Cerb owner has loads of info and an owners maual you can down load.
He is on Hols so it might not work, and is quite slow.
Do a saveas I have been recomended!

ETA-- Good louk!!

Edited by Old Geezer on Wednesday 6th August 11:47

[cupra20v.t]

yeah ive been on daves site, but keep getting server error so i will wait for him to come home and then save the sections. cheers

[Byker28i]

Back now - flew back in in the early hours this morning. The FTP server didn't escape a teenage party! Bear in mind some of the sections of the workshop manual are quite big (60Mb)

Welcome to cerbera ownership.

[amazon]

cupra20v.t said:

why put the fog light button all the way over there from the headlight knob i will never know?

my windows are really sluggish

Welcome!

[Marian]

Congratulations on buying one in the nicest (and fastest colour)

[FarmyardPants]

cupra20v.t said:

sweet cheers guys. ok so its fog lights cool. why put the fog light button all the way over there from the headlight knob i will never know?

my windows are really sluggish, it may be because the battery is hardly chraged. its on charge as we speak but if they are still sluggish is the a remedy like greasing runners or lubing up moving parts behind the door card or is it a case of new or refurb the motos

Welcome to the fold, she looks a beaut

On the window front, new motors will help. They're not too shocking cost-wise. My drivers window is still quite slow, though. Turns out that the runners aren't curved to the right shaped, more like kinked in the middle, so there is some friction there. They're attached to the door by about a thousand allen bolts which appear to have been welded in and rounded off in my case

Enjoy your new car, be warned they are quite addictive

[Duke Thrust]

Lovely looking car!

[cupra20v.t]

thanks guys, i must have take it out 5 times and shown a dozen people the car since i got home from work at 4.

one small problem i have is with the wipers i can turn them on and they work but thery never stop or return to their original place, they seem to stop at the ten to position. any ideas of how i can adjust these or make then wipe the full screen and go back to their resting position.

[Nefarious]

cupra20v.t said:

thanks guys, i must have take it out 5 times and shown a dozen people the car since i got home from work at 4.

one small problem i have is with the wipers i can turn them on and they work but thery never stop or return to their original place, they seem to stop at the ten to position. any ideas of how i can adjust these or make then wipe the full screen and go back to their resting position.

You can either replace to park sensor (do a search), or practice your ninja timing reflexes on the button.
I'm doing the latter at the moment, as my wiper motors could do with a refresh anyway, so I'll do the park sensor at the same time.

Oh, and BTW, what colour is that? Mine's purple too, but a much bluer version (AM Highland Purple)

Edited by Nefarious on Wednesday 6th August 17:53

[cupra20v.t]

the colour is called chianti strmist, its blackberry which goes a lovely prple in some shade of sunlight. cheers for the info

one other question is where can i buy one floor mat from as the drivers one is worn out. it has to be the right colour though with cream piping (purple/blood red sort of shade)

[Marian]

Nefarious said:

Oh, and BTW, what colour is that? Mine's purple too, but a much bluer version (AM Highland Purple)

Chianti Starmist unless I'm very much mistaken

[funbobby]

is that the car topcats were recently selling?