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Car is dead in town, surrounded by boyracers (not sure which is worse) 
I need to know where the three earth points are. Anyone with a V8S able to give me a call on 07816 *** ***.
Dont have any tools, cant get in the boot but if the bad earth problem ive been having (see glum reaper thread) is the earth, maybe I'll be able to sort it. Where is the third earth, somewhere behind the dash?
Gonna check the bible meanwhile then head back into town in a bit.
>>> Edited by ukbob on Friday 12th November 00:39
I need to know where the three earth points are. Anyone with a V8S able to give me a call on 07816 *** ***.
Dont have any tools, cant get in the boot but if the bad earth problem ive been having (see glum reaper thread) is the earth, maybe I'll be able to sort it. Where is the third earth, somewhere behind the dash?
Gonna check the bible meanwhile then head back into town in a bit.
>>> Edited by ukbob on Friday 12th November 00:39
After the car died in the centre of town amidst the boozlehounding chavs and drunken slags, the laxxer brigade turned up just in the nick of time for me to watch them do 100 laps around me in the centre of hyde gardens 
before they decided to start parking up right near the S 
. Armed only with aniceed balls and a pen (what could I have done, threatened to sketch them?) they finally left me in peace, and I gave up on the ignition (no fuel pump prime, lights were ok though) and went home to get the bible.
A thousand thanks to Peter Humphries for helping me find the earths (learnt something and found one, which seemed secure although very dirty) My girlfriend who had come to my rescue called the AA, and using specially formulated UKbob negotiating skills, I got them to agree to take the car all the way up to Austec - Result!!
Mike will probably think in my eagerness, I dropped the car off early for its rolling road popping and banging session
Girlfriend suggested we buy our own low loader. Maybe, if I can find a V12 that can be remapped with quad sports pipes... 
Cheers for the help guys, appreciate it
before they decided to start parking up right near the S . Armed only with aniceed balls and a pen (what could I have done, threatened to sketch them?) they finally left me in peace, and I gave up on the ignition (no fuel pump prime, lights were ok though) and went home to get the bible. A thousand thanks to Peter Humphries for helping me find the earths (learnt something and found one, which seemed secure although very dirty) My girlfriend who had come to my rescue called the AA, and using specially formulated UKbob negotiating skills, I got them to agree to take the car all the way up to Austec - Result!!
Mike will probably think in my eagerness, I dropped the car off early for its rolling road popping and banging session
Girlfriend suggested we buy our own low loader. Maybe,
if I can find a V12 that can be remapped with quad sports pipes... Cheers for the help guys, appreciate it
sotonS2 said:...as I accidentally pick up the keys to a cerbera, and hoon off into the sunset
you will quickly forget the problems you've had....
Yeah, tell me about it. My wallet is so light it levitates.
Still, when it comes time to sell, someone should have a fully sorted S. If I didnt get the emotional support [cue theatrical music] from the S forum, ownership wouldn't be as half as good as it is
Rob,
The battery earth goes to the chassis adjacent to the petrol tank inside the OFFSIDE rear wheel arch. Just a single heavy duty wire to an eye terminal
The rear lights (and possibly fuel pump?) are earthed inside the NEARSIDE REAR wheel arch - - look at 11-o-clock from the petrol tank sender....This does get covered in C***P! (Several black wires to the one welded stud)
The last earth point I know of is behind the NEARSIDE FRONT wheel arch protector onto a chassis upright tube level with the sump/block joint....or thereabouts! I guess this earths all the engine ancillaries and front lights(?)
One other thing mentioned to me by David Batty when I had problems (which turned out to be the distributor--- about £240 recon, £420 new) was to check the inertia switch . This is also on the N/S front footwell bulkhead and is open to the elements. It is an easy job to by-pass this just by jumping across the 2 spade terminals on the underside of the switch. The switch shuts down the fuel pump in the event of a heavy crash, so can give the impression of a knackered pump.
Have to say all this is as it is on my car. Even if Mike and Co. at Austec do find a problem elsewhere it is worth grovelling around at these earth points with emery/wire brush and giving them a coating of silicone grease. Good luck....and think of those roof off moments!
This was what I've found on my V8S
>> Edited by nawarne on Friday 12th November 13:26
The battery earth goes to the chassis adjacent to the petrol tank inside the OFFSIDE rear wheel arch. Just a single heavy duty wire to an eye terminal
The rear lights (and possibly fuel pump?) are earthed inside the NEARSIDE REAR wheel arch - - look at 11-o-clock from the petrol tank sender....This does get covered in C***P! (Several black wires to the one welded stud)
The last earth point I know of is behind the NEARSIDE FRONT wheel arch protector onto a chassis upright tube level with the sump/block joint....or thereabouts! I guess this earths all the engine ancillaries and front lights(?)
One other thing mentioned to me by David Batty when I had problems (which turned out to be the distributor--- about £240 recon, £420 new) was to check the inertia switch . This is also on the N/S front footwell bulkhead and is open to the elements. It is an easy job to by-pass this just by jumping across the 2 spade terminals on the underside of the switch. The switch shuts down the fuel pump in the event of a heavy crash, so can give the impression of a knackered pump.
Have to say all this is as it is on my car. Even if Mike and Co. at Austec do find a problem elsewhere it is worth grovelling around at these earth points with emery/wire brush and giving them a coating of silicone grease. Good luck....and think of those roof off moments!
This was what I've found on my V8S
>> Edited by nawarne on Friday 12th November 13:26
ukbob said:
Austec have sorted the problem - a melted wire off the connecting block (I cant remember, Mike was talking yellow cerberas which distracted me
Sounds just like what happened to me a couple of hours before the new owner was due to collct the car!
It was a dodgy connection (with some scorching evident) on a connector block in behind the ignition barrel/steering wheel cowl. Took a while to find it mind!
Glad it's sorted now bob.
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