Continuing to get through my list of jobs carefully avoiding the ones that actually matter like getting the closed loop working again and ECU monitor working for the first time🥴


Carpets have been cleaned.

Dehumidifier in overnight.

The dirty water thing amazes me. The carpets were immaculate 🥴

Decided to fit the centre console extension that I’ve had for about 20 years. Pleased to see Ford, as expected marked where to drill for the bracket. This is the closest to the carpets have been to being removed in my ownership.

All fitted complete with the screw cover on the rear fixing.

This was my daily for about five years until I retired it, as a result all sorts were throw in the boot damaging the rear seat backs. Not sure using filler on the dents is normal behaviour as who the feck will see it.

Primer

All done

Whilst I liked the look of the original head unit it was rubbish and nothing else is original so a Blaupunkt Bremen was installed.

MIC for hand free calls

DAB Ariel will be stuck to the windscreen once I decide if I’m going to replace it. The cable was fed up the passenger side A pillar.

I wanted to improve the interior lighting and have tried this before by fitting 21w lamps but they melted stuff🤣🤣

It’s not as simple as getting a LED replacement as Ford put 12v+ to the lamp body and 12v- to the centre pin….. the opposite to all LED lamps

Whilst being mapped the dyno guru said it didn’t respond “normally” when he needed to add fuel and he suspected my twenty five year old fuel pump🤷‍♂️. The wiring at the pump was hard and would have cracked if bent. I decided to rewire it and although I’ve never heard it being an RST issue it’s common for Sierras to have less than alternator voltage at the pump. Unwrapping the loom to replace it gave me the opportunity to include the alarm cable for the boot switch in the re wrap. Forgot to take a picture. I have a new pump coming but not arrived yet.