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I swear whoever designed my Celica was a moron :/

Removing the radiator should be oh so simple, it's only held on by 2 clips and has 3 hoses and a thermostat thing attached to it.

Except that to undo one of the hoses at the radiator end you have to remove the plastic guard at the bottom of the car.
You have to remove the fans as well, but in order to remove one of them you have to undo the fusebox.

So what seemed like a "remove some clips, undo hoses and slip it out", has turned into a full workout this morning :(
 
Think yourself lucky, to top up my gearbox oil I had to:

Jack the car up, remove wheel, remove arch liner by snapping several plastic clips

Put the wheel back on

Lower car down

turn to full lock

Put my whole head in the wheel arch and undo the plug, top it up by, and this is the proper method, filling it up until it squirts out onto the drive

Buy new plastic clips (wait overnight)

Jack car up, remove wheel, fish out bits of broken trim clips from holes, refit arch liner, put wheel back on.

All struck me as a bit excessive.
 
I had to clean up the connections for my fuel sender unit, on most cars you remove and access panel and bam, there's the sender unit. But ohhhh no, Ford in their infinite wisdom didn't bother. So the job was as follows:

Jack car up
Remove rear wheel
Remove spare wheel cage
Remove Heat shield
Unhook a couple of exhaust mounts
Disconnect fuel filler hose and return hose
Disconnect fuel inlet and outlet to fuel filter
Remove tank bolts and lower tank down with trolley jack

Thanks Ford.
 
I still have to fit my brand new radiator, which despite being OEM for my car has an extra hose attachment :confused:
 
Only replacing rad and so on so that I can sell the car at some point in the next few months and get an MR2 again :/
 
want to change a crank sensor on a 190e?

well you'll have to remove:

the whole airbox assembly
the fuel lines from the fuel distributor
the inlet manifold
the oil filter and housing
then, and only then may you be able to reach the darn thing, if you have the slimmest hands in the world.

Cheers MB.

To the OP I know the feeling!
 
Still annoys me how on Subarus you need to remove the battery and washer bottle to change 2 of the spark plugs. Not sure how you get at the two on the other side.

Still at least the lambda sensor is east to change (on my old Legacy at least)

1) Turn the wheel full lock to the right
2) Unplug sensor connector (by battery)
3) Insert lambda sensor socket on two extension pieces through passenger front wheelarch and unbolt lambda sensor.

I suppose in some ways it makes sense, with modern iridium spark plugs that bloody car got through lambda sensors (and MAF sensors) faster than it did spark plugs.
 
thecremeegg said:
Yea the mk4 golf headlight bulbs are easy to change, takes minutes
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Quite, even minutes might be too long :p

Not sure if Fox was being facetious or whether he really thinks you need to remove the front bumper to change the bulbs in a Golf..
 
mjt said:
Not sure if Fox was being facetious or whether he really thinks you need to remove the front bumper to change the bulbs in a Golf..
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Officially, you do. The correct and official method for bulb replacement in a Mk4 Golf involves removal of the front bumper.

It may be possible for some people to just about manage it without, but the 'correct' method involves bumper removal.

The MK4 Golf's an absolute nightmare to change a bulb on! I've done it, and it took about an hour, even a mechanic friend says that they're one of the hardest cars to do something as simple as a bulb change on. The problem, as with so many modern cars, is that you can't get your hand in to the back of the headlamp unit as there's so much stuff in the way. Apparently VW mechanics dismantle the whole front of the car, then remove the light unit.
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If you're doing your high beams you need to pull the headlight out. There's the two torx screws at the top and you'll have to pull off your front bumper to get to the other two.
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etc
 
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