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Posted by BLE-NIMX on Sat Jun 9 10:11:41 2012, in response to Re: Poll - Who should win the R211 contract?, posted by SelkirkTMO on Fri Jun 8 19:54:05 2012. I spent the last three days tearing through the old gal north. Except for a pair of rusted resistor grids which might need a megger testing, it took power the last time we hooked it up a couple of years ago. Not bad for a car with more cobwebs and beehives sitting longer in outdoor elements than fire damaged R44s with blue stripes. Only one of the low voltage relays failed after 15 years of storage, and that was in the MG circuits which was modified anyway by removal of the trickle circuit. For a simple unit switch run groupbox, there is no reason other than deferred maintainance I can see by design as to why these cars were failures. They were a close identical to the WH R10s. I repaired a lighting and a 24 wire circuit short both caused by pinched wires while being handled by those who should have known better. One thing i noticed is where OEM wiring bundles existed, the string used before zip ties was still keeping everything tide and away from screwholes and brackets, while at replaceable switches and ESPECIALLY under the seats where they hacked into the original door feeds to run the bundle lengths to meet the new pocket motors, , wires were laid on the FLOORS, no zip ties, running near the door guides where water inevitably gets in and soaks the insulations. Either TA only viewed the new doors at a test to look at for a few years knowing it wouldn't last longer than that or were going to replaced by the R46s as originally planned. I swear they just phucked those cars up so bad and didn't fix em. The electric motor and air brake shops at CIY did alot of work on R10 parts when the tens were getting greener compliments of capital money like those NYAB rotary screws. They probably didn't see an R16's parts unless they had to during the R46's fiasco |
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