I finally got around to installing the cargo cover! I want to again give a big thanks to RobertDIY for repairing and selling me one of his cargo covers as well as Neil (scot850) for sourcing and sending me the templates he had, which has been very helpful. The templates require those pieces of trim ...

There are 3 things that come to mind: 1) No thermostat fitted - car may never get up to temp and will run cool as well as the heating system 2) Blocked heater core - Not common, unless plain water has been used or someone has used liquid head gasket fix that can plug that and the engine radiator as...

The job is done! There wasn't any obvious copper stop leak in the old core like I thought there might be. I might try to flush the old core with water just to see what happens. It's definitely not the original heater core, but I don't know how old it is or what brand it is, appears to have been a ch...

I like that theory, I looked into that exact problem few years ago when my car was having surging idle problems making the car undriveable (the problem was the ETM, and I was in extreme denial about it because the ETM was new, lol). I ended up plugging a small gap in the bottom of the flange where t...