Am I being paranoid

[MuffDaddy]

So this morning I took the chimaera out for a quick spin and could hear a clicking (relay) possibly from the boot area? Also when I opened the bot there was what sounded like a garden water feature going on. Am I hearing the petrol sloshing into the pump or am I going mad, and what might the relay be?

Having had the fuseboard rebuilt recently I'm a little nervous of the electrics.

[Ribol]

Sure it wasn't a door solenoid clicking due to an iffy door switch, rather than a relay?

[spend]

Any Grifters been near the boot recently? They are baskets for sneakily dropping golf balls into our boots!

Wonder why they always have them in their pockets though?

[Barkychoc]

Does a Chim have an electric aerial??

[AlexanderV8]

spend said:

Any Grifters been near the boot recently? They are baskets for sneakily dropping golf balls into our boots!

Wonder why they always have them in their pockets though?

Probably to complete the set with the banana they shove down the front of their jeans.

[Roy the Boy]

MuffDaddy said:

Also when I opened the bot there was what sounded like a garden water feature going on.

The boot lid is hollow and water can leak into it via the boot hinge fixings. Mine does this and I managed to drain some water out by removing a couple of bolts holding the hinges on and opening/closing the boot lid a few times. This helped a little, but I struggled getting them all out in order to remove the boot lid completely, so there's still some water in there.

Thinking about it, my car is currently in for a complete respray, so I would hope the sprayer has removed and drained the lid for me in the process.

[Chimjunkie]

Sounds like a baffle loose in the fuel tank. Mine sloshes about for a while when i stop. Doesn't always do it though.

[scoule]

If the engine was running and the fuel level was low-ish, you may be hearing fuel from the return line returning to the tank. The fuel pump supplies more than the engine needs and the pressure regulator bleeds off the excess and returns it to the tank. On my Grif this return line is behind the tank on the right hand side - I only know this because that rubber pipe cracked and leaked on my car! Hmm ... petrol vapour in boot, spark from the boot release solenoid - doesn't bear thinking about!