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Autoglym Bumper Gel works well to restore the original look of all outside plastics. However, I've found it doesn't last all that long when it gets rain on it - soon getting stained with rain streaks

"...and /or leaky rocker-top gasket." My Cav V6 engine has always leaked oil from its plastic cam covers. In the past I've wasted much time removing the covers, cleaning everything meticulously and reassembling with new rubber seals and the correct silicone sealant. Result was always a con...

"It's insane what the automatic tax adds to a car."

I'm not clear what you mean by "automatic tax". I may have misunderstood but, AFAIK, there is no difference in taxation of manual and automatic cars.

Hammerite is okay for alloy castings, but no good on steel. As per most other chemicals, Hammerite was much better on steel 30 years ago, compared to the modern stuff. Hammerite declined greatly in quality when it was taken over by Azco-Nobel - it now seems no better protectant for steel than any ot...

"Ouch, not sure where you stand with it breaking after being done by the garage,"
I might be wrong but didn't the OP say that the belt broke 3 weeks before it was due to be changed?
It would indeed be alarming if it broke only 3 weeks after it had been changed!

Yes, the lower suspension arm does get in the way of pushing the drop link onto the ARB. I resorted to breaking the taper joint on the lower ball joint so I could push the suspension arm down and out of the way, keeping it down with a weight on it. What a faff! It's really not a good design and clea...

My 1993 Cavalier has anti-roll bar drop links that fit in the same way - the rubber bush has a nylon or similar internal surface and it's just a force fit over the end of the ARB. I can confirm that it's a real struggle to force it into place - the Haynes manual recommends that you take the ARB comp...

I've just done what I should have done before I wrote my previous post and googled Vauxhall Cavalier V6 cam cover gasket. This brings up eBay and other offerings of the gaskets by themselves for around £15 (part no 90345226) - much better than what Vauxhall agents were offering when the Cavalier was...

"Don't suppose anyone has a part number for a full set rocker gaskets too? Another Christmas holiday job as mine are pissing oil everywhere" Years ago when I tried to buy valve cover gaskets for my V6 from a Vauxhall parts dept, I was told that they were only sold complete with new plastic...

Yes, a very Merry Christmas :santa to all of you who are still on this Forum - which unfortunately doesn't seem to be too many at the moment - there's just one person online at the moment in addition to myself! I guess Cavaliers are now getting rarer and rarer - but I think this is all the more reas...

Ahh... the M67. Any stranger on the M60 Manchester ring road, headed to Sheffield, would be pleased to see the M67 turnoff, signposted to Sheffield with a distance of about 33 miles. Be there in no time.......then they find that the M67 lasts for about 3 miles and disgorges you onto a narrow 2-lane ...

"The water bridge sensor (brown/yellow) controls the alternator fan and aux water pump. They can run with the ignition off, but to add to the fun, the aux waterpump does not run if the engine is running." Ahh...that's a useful piece of information. Does the water bridge sensor also provide...

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the only thing I find superglue sticks well together are my fingers!

I've now replaced the orange relay supplying the alternator cooling fan with the rather expensive, but new, replacement. All is working well again, but I noted that the fuse supplying the relay located next to it in the fusebox - and hence the supply to the alternator fan - is rated 40amp. This seem...

Did the garage that replaced your steering rack look for, or comment on, any cracking of the bulkhead where the steering rack is mounted to it? Apparently, the V6 Cavalier is more prone to this because the extra weight of the engine puts more strain on the rack. I worry about this on my Cavalier V6 ...

As a long term follow up to this, I located the relay controlling the alternator cooling fan, located in the engine compartment fusebox - GM 90459640 (orange). I replaced it in 2019 with a used orange relay sourced from eBay (at about £8.00) and all was well. However, the fan has just started playin...

I've just sourced a new alternator for my Cav V6 C25XE from Rollco (www.rollco.co.uk), although it appears to be a Delco unit. This was priced at £86 for a brand new unit which I thought was pretty good. May be worth searching for one for your 2L Cav on this site? All I've got to do now is fit the d...

"Subframe back, blasted, painted, looks great, will have a proper look in the daylight tomorrow. A touch shiny." Don't worry about the shinyness - it'll soon disappear when subjected to our salt & grit laden winter roads! The subframe will probably be better protected than when the ori...

"I've decided to "replace" the transmission fluid incrementally with the suction pump I bought recently. Today I replaced 1.2L and I'll do this 3-4 more times over the next month or so in order to not cause any problems with an older car/gearbox with a "sudden" change."...

"Slathered in thick grease, feel-good rather than help much, hope they'll not need to come off ever again anyway" I slathered the trackrod end adjusters with Hammerite underseal when I first got my Cav V6 with a few thousand miles on it, and these adjusters have remained movable ever since...

With the Aisin auto box in my Cav V6 I could never be sure which of the hex heads at its base was the drain plug - or even if there was one. It also has no sump plate that can be removed. So I resorted to sucking the fluid out via the filler tube using a PELA oil removal unit. These are much used by...

Does anyone know where I can get a replacement liquid crystal display block for the Grundig SC303? Over the life of my Cav I've probably replaced this unit 2 or 3 times with new ones, after the display slowly covered itself with black. The current unit is now going the same way but of course even us...

"There is a cover over the dash pod, It unclips from the rear, and then lifts forward off the cluster. There is a soft plastic cover over the instrument area, with an access hole for the reservoir. Like you say though, you have to be slow and careful topping up to avoid spillages down the back ...

"Our first lathe rule was do not leave the chuck key in the chuck" Ah yes, I remember doing just that on the lathe in my school metalwork workshop. The chuck key shot out, narrowly missing me and landed some distance away, luckily not hitting anything or anyone in the process. The whole cl...

When I had the same problem with a split in the air trunking from the MAF to the throttle body on my Cav V6 I found a good temporary repair to be binding it with self amalgamating tape. This particular trunking is now very hard to find and the repair lasted a good long time. It was still holding whe...