Having no other option, I park my car on the streets of South London. This morning I found it comprehensively “keyed” along one side. This is a 2009 model in “Chinese Racing Green”. Colour code 293. Does anyone know if this colour might still be available (I suspect not). And does anyone have any recommendations for a good spray-painter in London or SE England?
Having neither the space nor the competence to do this myself, I eventually asked a garage to replace the servo. Hissing ceased. Brakes just the same. Fuel consumption maybe improved a little.
The battery is less than 2 years old. The readings I obtain are quite erratic, and don't correlate with the alarm light being on or off. I will need to monitor this for a while....
There is a constant hissing from the region of the brake servo on my late model TF. Well, constant when the engine is running, that is. The brakes pass the usual servo checks. And the noise isn't new - the car has passed 2 MOT tests like this. Is this normal? I wouldn't have thought so, but of course on my previous, front- engined cars the noise would have been masked by that of the engine itself.
I assume this is probably a regulator fault but thought I would post on here anyway in case there is a TF quirk. My battery ran low a few weeks ago due to near zero car use. Charged it. All well. And from this I know the alternator was putting out about 13.8, because I measured it at the time. Today, a few hours after retrieving the car from the MOT tester, I noticed the alternator light was on. Checked the voltage - 13.2. Engine off. Engine back on. Light out. But voltage still 13.2.