British gas advice

Steve890 · Post by **Steve890** » Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:54 pm

After some advice from anyone with an ex BG van. I've finally got a day off and doing some bits on the van. I've taken the bulkhead out and there's a speaker attached. I've traced it back to under the cubby hole in front of gear leaver and it's connected to what appears to be a hands free unit.

Does the Bluetooth system work? I have no options on my radio to connect or anything and I can't find it from my phone. There's also 2 wires nearby that have been cut but I can't find the other end.

I'm not fussed if it doesn't work as I'll be fitting a head unit with Bluetooth anyway.

Any advice welcome.

Steve890 · Post by **Steve890** » Wed Sep 02, 2020 2:58 pm

Further digging show the cut wires come from the hands free module so I'm happy it will never work again. Now I just need to un install it.

the swan fiend · Post by **the swan fiend** » Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:28 pm

You’ll probably find lots of cut wires when you start digging some more mate, I did in mine.
The roof ariels, laptop charging port, and a few other bits that I’ve forgotten about I’m sure.

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Steve890 · Post by **Steve890** » Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:30 pm

Yeah, I think I was being lazy and asking on here instead of just finding out for myself!

Anyway.. 3 hours later and I've got as much of the redundant cut stuff out that I can find.

For my first day doing bits to the van, have to say.. It seems a breeze to work on. Everything is simple, no hidden screws or tricky clips, it just makes sense!

Also.. Anyone got any recommendations for what to bung the aerial holes with? Left them in with cut wires for now till I find something.

P11ORJ · Post by **P11ORJ** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:27 pm

I had some rubber grommets that i fitted (donut type) then used a stainless dome head bolt and flange nut to squish the rubber, has kept the water out for over a year now mate

Daved-and-Confused · Post by **Daved-and-Confused** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:37 am

Another piece of advice I’d like to offer is that the mileage on some vans may not be indicative of the engine running.
I have a 61 plate van that I bought at 29000 miles. Within a couple of months I had a leaking water pump. Now this may have just been a water pump issue in general but it may have been influenced by the amount of running the engine had done not recorded ie idling.
Some engines may have done significantly more running than their mileage would suggest due to the fact that gas engineers spend a good portion of their time sitting in their vans with the engine idling.
I think this issue will have been resolved by the fitment of a night heater in their vans reducing idling time (potentially.)
I ended up changing the water pump and fitting a new timing belt kit so I knew what condition everything was in.
I would suggest that you or your usual garage have a check of your timing belt and pump so you don’t get caught out assuming all is good based on mileage.

the swan fiend · Post by **the swan fiend** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:39 am

Definitely worth changing the timing belt on an ex gas van as BG don’t bother doing them. A bloke who used to be a fleet mechanic for them told me that.

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