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Welcome

This my home page - this version is relatively new and effectively exists to offer some money-saving services and serve up information on my project cars, together with the How To guides that I have written myself. Navigating the site is supposed to be easy, everything is accessible via the expanding menus on the left - just click the links.

Tech2 Service

If you have a modern Vauxhall that doesn't work properly and the problem is likely to be with the electronics, then I have the diagnostic equipment to help you fix it.  If you're near to Orpington in Kent, I might even be able to plug your car in and tell you what's wrong with it.

Tech1 Service

Catering for vehicles built between 1986 and 1997, this was the dealer diagnostic tool but with the majority of dealers no longer looking after cars in this age range, their Tech1 systems have mostly fallen into disrepair or been disposed of.  I still have one, fully operational and ready to use.

Fuel Computer Programming

Back in 2002 I worked out how to reprogramme the 80s/90s fuel computers to correctly work with different wheel sizes and make custom programmes to work with engine transplants. As far as I know that's a unique offering in the world and I'm still willing to programme these units for other people - click the link to find out more.
 

Other stuff

Broadly, the content is based on Vauxhall cars and diagnostics of Vauxhalls built between about 1986 and the mid 00s, although my own equipment runs up to about 2009/10. My previous site had fallen into a certain amount of disrepair and so the options were to either delete it or simply replace it with something fresher. All of the old content is actually still there and I will gradually migrate the content over to this format but leave the original material intact as links all over the web still refer to it.

Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to comment on any of my online content - just use the 'Contact Ian' tab at the top of the page to call up a form.

On the 'Ian's Cars' pages you can read about some of my projects, past and present. My main project is a Mk2 Astra GTE, which I converted to V6 power and mainly use on dry days. Getting older I now hanker after standard specification and plan to refit a standard 2.0 litre engine with the aim of converting to classic insurance. At the other end of the scale, I bought a 1947 Vauxhall 10 that lay unused in a barn since 1967 and needs pretty much everything overhauling before it will see a road again.

So I'm into my Vauxhalls, in fact pretty much anything with a Griffin on the front is my kind of project. I've owned a few over the last couple of decades, ranging from the humble Astra through Cavaliers, a Calibra, several Vectras and even a Carlton and Omega. My latest acquisition is a 1947 Vauxhall 10, which lay unused in a barn for over 40 years - it's remarkably complete and unmolested, except for the fact that everything that was painted black is now a rusty brown colour.