Lately with the silver Jazz (which I just traded for this new yellow one) I had gotten lazy with using the bike rack/tow hook combo (using it means I can’t open the boot see) and since I had no love for my filthy interior I had been chucking the bike in the car.
For last night’s Loftus ride I got my bike and Ash’s in the boot of this new Jazz but damn it was hard:
1) I had leather seats to worry about, the pedals on these bikes are very sharp and they’d tear right into the leather.
2) The rear strut brace was in the way and the cage is in the way of getting the rear seats to fold all the way down.
We still managed but I don’t think I’ll be doing that again. One bike should be fine but 2 is a no go.
Oh noes don’t scratch the leather!
I’ve since taken the rear brace out.
400km/tank and that’s with a LOT of VTEC YO!
Another thing that happened today. I was just driving along, slow start off the lights in 2nd and the car lost power. Accelerator was down but there was nothing, it then kicked back in. Did it again and then after shutting the car off for 20 minutes and driving again, it did it again.
Water temp/oil temps were fine. Zi thought it might have been an ECU/tuning issue. On the way home from JDMyard I realised that this morning the fuel light was on, but now on the M5 back home the needle had magically raised up past the 1/4 mark.
I thought it had to be a lack of fuel!
I made it to the Shell, opened up the fuel cap and damn there was a lot of pressure in there, so much so that a shitload of fuel sprayed out at me (great!).
Filling up the tank drove the fuel needle way past the FULL sign, it now all makes sense. I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to fix the fuel needle calibration (?!). I might just not bother with it, and just fill up every time I get down to 1/4 tank.