Advice on service items before long holiday tour
04-13-2016, 10:00 AM
#11
Where are you? I have a Sanef autoroute tag you can borrow as long as you pay the bill on your return. We are unable to go due to medical issues and it would be a shame to see it sat in a draw. The tag makes you faster than an Aston Martin and a Ferrari. We arrived in France just before Le Man's, cruising at 130kph and all sorts of supercars were flying past us until they reached the tolls when we passed them. It then took them another 15 minutes to catch us only for the same to happen at the next toll.
We have been traveling to Europe for many years, since 2002 in a S2000, apart from the standard things, hi vis vest, light bulbs etc, the only extra was oil for the pre facelift model we had. For the past 5 years we never took the space saver wheel, just a compressor and tyre goo. If you had a puncture and fitted the space saver, how are you going to carry the punctured wheel? How far do you travel each year in the UK without carrying a boot load of spares. Get good continental breakdown cover, if you do have problems you've paid for it so use it.
We have been traveling to Europe for many years, since 2002 in a S2000, apart from the standard things, hi vis vest, light bulbs etc, the only extra was oil for the pre facelift model we had. For the past 5 years we never took the space saver wheel, just a compressor and tyre goo. If you had a puncture and fitted the space saver, how are you going to carry the punctured wheel? How far do you travel each year in the UK without carrying a boot load of spares. Get good continental breakdown cover, if you do have problems you've paid for it so use it.
Thanks for the tips- this is my 19th trip to Le Mans
We have the luxury of taking the old N138 from Rouen all the way to Le Mans and then through Mulsanne to our campsite.
The autoroute is not much fun in the S - a few years ago, I did the run in one hit on the way home and caught an early ferry - almost drove straight on the ferry. Then 2 1/2 hours home from Dover. I was cream crackered....
04-25-2016, 08:21 AM
#13
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I managed to swap the aux belt a week or so back. Is a very easy task and if you have slim fingers and hands it can be done without removing the air box. ECP has a conti belt for around £16 which I installed. On my road trip now...
Edit: remember or get an image online of the belt route! Goes on the outside of the top and bottom two pullies and inside the two inner pullies.
Edit: remember or get an image online of the belt route! Goes on the outside of the top and bottom two pullies and inside the two inner pullies.
04-25-2016, 09:08 AM
#14
I managed to swap the aux belt a week or so back. Is a very easy task and if you have slim fingers and hands it can be done without removing the air box. ECP has a conti belt for around £16 which I installed. On my road trip now...
Edit: remember or get an image online of the belt route! Goes on the outside of the top and bottom two pullies and inside the two inner pullies.
Edit: remember or get an image online of the belt route! Goes on the outside of the top and bottom two pullies and inside the two inner pullies.
thanks - I wanted to check if I needed to loosen any bolts or whether I just cut the old one off and slip the new one over the pulleys...its a long time since I've replaced or adjusted a "fan belt"
04-25-2016, 09:36 AM
#15
Fitted my first one on Saturday was the easiest thing I have done on the car 
one spanner on the top wheel and lever it down <just like your going to undo the nut> and slipped it of to keep as a SPARE
got a conti-tech £14 I think.
one spanner on the top wheel and lever it down <just like your going to undo the nut> and slipped it of to keep as a SPARE
got a conti-tech £14 I think.
04-25-2016, 09:56 AM
#16
£100 to change that belt is a disgrace. Its is one of the easiest bits of maintenance to do the S2000.
- Take photo of belts as they are on the car so if you get stuck you know how they run
- use spanner to take tension of the belt by turning the tensioner to the left
- slip belt off
- get the new belt on all the various pulleys and then turn the tensioner to the left again to make sure you can slip the belt over the last pulley. Normally its the alternator pulley
I remember doing it on my old rovers where you had to screw something into take the slack and then tighten another bolt down. Was much more annoying than the honda design.
- Take photo of belts as they are on the car so if you get stuck you know how they run
- use spanner to take tension of the belt by turning the tensioner to the left
- slip belt off
- get the new belt on all the various pulleys and then turn the tensioner to the left again to make sure you can slip the belt over the last pulley. Normally its the alternator pulley
I remember doing it on my old rovers where you had to screw something into take the slack and then tighten another bolt down. Was much more annoying than the honda design.
04-25-2016, 10:03 AM
#17
Registered User
As both above, very easy just need a 14mm spanner for the top pulley which is the auto tensioner. Lever it anticlockwise which will give you slack to remove the old belt and just enough slack to put the new belt on.
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