We hit the mountain road today. So it wasn't exactly warp speed 9, thanks to some slow nissan pickup in front of me for most of the way *fume*, but we got some decent Gs nearer the top.
The repair nearly, nearly made it right up to the top... there was one last problem to overcome for the hairpin turns.
Some blue tack later (except in the US of A they only seem to have some strange not so nice to use white colored putty thingiebob) and that last 0.1% of the problem should be sorted.
I think we're at improvement #10 (or so) at the present... till the next mountain roadtrip.
Anyone out there need their PDO carfm modded to stop falling over? :D
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I've been looking around online, and noticed a lot of people are having similar problems with instability in the carfm 4... even with it stock out of the box. Two thoughts :
a lot of the products being sold online are fake. If there isn't a PDO printed on it, or if the rubber "flower" flange near the base isn't grey - it's fake. If it can't rotate 90 degrees - it's a fake. Then there's every reason to expect it to be unstable.
But if it's an original, that's a whole different kettle of fish - that means the stock unit itself is defective. And J, who has another unit for her own car says it's been acting up too of late. Perhaps as the grey rubbery thing ages it stops working so well.
Well... for a small fee (negotiable) I reckon I could solve the problem. Even without the blu-tack the last repair will hold up well on singapore roads without hairpin bends.
:D
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