If it's the same plug as the Vectra, then you'll need a T45 sized torx bit.

I have alway wondered about the accident thing with these hybrid petrol electric cars....

Officer one..."Yes Sarge, this was the scene of the accident, but as you can see, the battery acid has helped us to clear it up rather quickly!"

Some support for ihbj!! Cut from an older thread.

Its a question of prioritising and trying to give some quality of service.
On a personal note I find that I have very little actual free time to patrol and for want of a better word 'hunt'. I work in a busy city centre. I have a tray load of 'hit and runs', normal collisions for statements and process, crime reports to ivestigate and on and on. It doesnt stop. You get rid of one and another two appear. CPS wont prosecute without a shed load of statements even though I could give a verbal summary of an accident including witness accounts in a couple of minutes. I am generally doing or en route to something. Not forgetting responding to ongoing calls for service.
Its a case of managing your own workloads and keeping your head above water. I think you would be hard pushed to find may bobbies just ambling about these days.
So having said that whilst it may take only 10 minutes or so to dish out a ticket for some infringement, the process is adding to workload and it can be a case of trying to offload some of that pressure by ignoring minor infringements. Sad as it is.
For example some people get a bee in their bonnet about pedal cycles without lights and write in to the papers moaning about Police lack of attention and there are threads in this column about particular minor infringements which annoy people. In 25 years I have never been to a collision involving a pedal cycle which has not had lights on. As a consequence in the bigger picture bikes without lights are therefore not a priority, annoying as it may be to those who demand action.
Historically the Police have been a 'Can do' organisation but we are now in the ere of Performance, Targets and Priorities. Excessive demands are meaning that we are now Prioritising and actually saying 'No sorry thats not a Police matter' or stating that it is low on our priorities and will not be responded to. If I can give an example. Kids throwing snowballs or playing football. I know it can be annoying but isnt that what kids do? Traditionally we have always been responsible for escorting Abnormal Loads. That could be particularly time consuming. Now they have been hived off to the private sector, unless of course they are particularly large.
We are going to see some big changes in the next few years and Community Wardens and private motorway patrols run by the Highways Agency are only the start!




Fullchat

its nice to be nice

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agreed, which is why i replied initially.
however, i personally prefer to stop short of spoonfeeding.

So where did the original gas go then?

And more importantly, what's to stop your new gas going the

same way?

I can't say where the gas has gone - but I have read the other posts on aircon problems and natural leakage is inherent. The car is four years old so a 10% per annum leakage would be 45% (ish) of the gas gone. This is probably a bit high but illustrates the point. The system was cooling but not as it should, and, in fact, there is no longer the slight suck as the compressor kicks in which had been there since I bought the car at one year old.

I left my car with my mechanic and he had a specialist collect the car and test and re-gas it. In these sorts of jobs I will have to trust that the aircon guy has done his job right - I have noticed a yellow dye near the aircon valves so I would say that he has done some form of leak test but I will look at the pipes behind the radiator. I went through my mechanic to get the job done as I can trust him, so I hope that the others he uses can be trusted.