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Sorry to drag up an old-ish thread, but I'm considering a cat back powerflow exhaust off an mb6 for my MC2, will it bolt up to my stock setup?

Awesome, pulled the fuses and now it seems to respond a little quicker to the throttle. Job done (for now), cheers guys!

Yeah I thought the photo was necessary! All these fandangled electrics are new to me...The polo seemed to run on a 9v battery and the Volvo is pretty straightforward! The ECU reset is a good call. I read up and found you pull the ECU fuse and the backup fuse...is that right? Couldn't see it on the fuse board diagram...

IT'S ALIVE!! The part came in today so I ripped the old crap out: Something that might be useful to know if anyone else has this trouble is that the new switch didn't have the cable to power the little red light that illuminates the key hole so you have to reuse the old one and put a couple more spade connectors into the new chocolate block connector piece. Managed to change the ht leads, plugs and dizzy while it was immobile too so next is an oil and filter change.

Not yet...the part was supposed to be in on Saturday but it got delayed until Tuesday. Fingers crossed it should only be a quick job to replace.

Cheers for the replies guys! I think that black wire would've been the earth for an alarm box out something...it was already disconnected when I found the mess of wires. I don't know who fitted it, I noticed on the last MoT that the previous mileages shows that between 2009 and 2011 it only did 1200 miles. Unfortunately I've put almost double that on it in less than 2 months! But it did fly through the MoT on Tuesday with only two advisories about play in the steering rack and the handbrake.

Aha! No it doesn't but it may have had. The key fob is tatty and doesn't look like it is standard Honda issue. Do you reckon I can get rid of that lot then? The stock switch wiring should look like this: Dan

My initial thoughts were some sort of code reader wiring...but I think that's a multi plug in the passenger footwell?

Here's the switch: Melted solder?: Spliced wires: Birds nest!: Fuse holders etc: Micro jack:

Hi guys, Went to start my MC2 Aerodeck this morning and it would start on the key but add soon as you let go of the key it dies. After a lot of head scratching and forum searching I've hopefully tracked it down to a knackered ignition switch. There's fuel getting through so it's not the fuel cutoff and if the key is held in the start position it runs, albeit smokey as hell and the starter isn't having much fun! Took the column apart to get to the ignition switch and it looks alright but one bit of solder looks a bit melted. Ordered a new one from Honda and decided I would start figuring out how to replace it. The four wires off the switch have been spliced into with two red wires which go to a birds nest of wires that's been tucked up by the fusebox. The birds nest has a mini jack, inline fuse holders and cut wires sticking out...what the hell is it?! I'll get photos up in a sec...just uploading them... Dan

That sounds like a good way to drive!

P.s. That photo was in 4th. I've got my MoT in a couple of weeks but it shouldn't be a problem. Dan

Right...haven't managed to do the service yet but my mate from Honda just text saying the parts are there. My exhaust was sounding horrible on Wed night, rattling like a mofo. Just blasted up to Bristol and when I got on the open road...erm...closed track...I was stuck behind another car so sat at 6k for about 30 secs before overtaking. As I put my foot down it got to about 7k and then something shot through the exhaust, felt like a cork had popped out the tailpipe. The revs climbed a lot faster and more freely...and when I looked in my mirror there was a massive cloud of smoke covering the cars behind! I think the cat was collapsed and was restricting flow...and an Italian tune up caused it to sh!t it's guts out! I also topped the oil up and it now does this quite easily: It's not in great health but it's better than it was.

Haha...I'm an Android fan...those overpriced Apple products suck! Hehe! Anyway...oil level was low so I topped it up and just blasted to redline in 3rd. The weather isn't great so don't fancy a top speed check! I'll report back!

Ooh ok...cheers! Just showed it to another Honda loving mate and he had a similar problem on his EP3 when the oil was low. Gonna check now!