How long to fit coolant alarm?
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How long to fit coolant alarm?
Hiya. At last our Bongo is on the horizon, we pick it up on Saturday. It is a new import. How long do you reckon it should take a garage to fit a coolant alarm and imobiliser? We only have a few days before we want to drive south in it. Cheers
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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
For the LCA, do it yourself, very simple and the instructions are spot-on............takes about 1 hour comfortably
, don't know about the immobilizer though

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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
Coolant alarm is under an hour if you have a moderate level of ability, I would have thought that most immobilisers would be installable within an hour.
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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
whereabouts are you and if you pass this way I will do it for you (the LCA only)
Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
Afraid I don't have a smidgen of ability. But thanks a garage should be able to do it quickly then.
Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
Hayden, what a kind offer, but I'm in Edinburgh.
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You are "heading south"
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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
cat 1 alarm and immobilizer should take no more than 3 hours to fit
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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
Took me a couple of hours to fit my coolant alarm, I must be rubbish 

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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
Couple of hours?csmcqueen wrote:Took me a couple of hours to fit my coolant alarm, I must be rubbish


But then again, I'm probably at the same level of competence as Annandale



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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
The major part of that was deciding where to put the led, didnt want to put it in a switch so came up with thiswiddowson2008 wrote:Couple of hours?csmcqueen wrote:Took me a couple of hours to fit my coolant alarm, I must be rubbish(bloody showoff)
Took me all day.
But then again, I'm probably at the same level of competence as Annandale![]()
and even then it took 2 phone calls to Haydn to get it right
http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 44&t=41697

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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
depends on the make of them both....some are easier than others....Annandale wrote: How long do you reckon it should take a garage to fit a coolant alarm and imobiliser?

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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
took me two days,
got rained of half way through, two days later connected the power leads, spent the next hour trying to figure out why the low water alarm was going off, until i saw this black wire hanging next to the footrest,

got rained of half way through, two days later connected the power leads, spent the next hour trying to figure out why the low water alarm was going off, until i saw this black wire hanging next to the footrest,



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Re: How long to fit coolant alarm?
Had a mobile fitter round to do mine, and like you say, it took around 3.5 hours.You've Been Bongod wrote:cat 1 alarm and immobilizer should take no more than 3 hours to fit