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by **Paul A** on Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:29 pm

Hi,
Anyone know exactly where the temp sensor (the one that gives the outside temp on the multi - display) is located on a Frontera "B"?
Bu***red if I can find it!

:shock:

by **Red Oktober** on Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:32 pm

is it not down in front of the radiator

by **Paul A** on Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:45 pm

Nope... doesn't appear to be....

by **Drift** on Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:47 pm

From menory it should be near the bumper bottom of grill

by **BUMPTJ** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:13 am

a lot of cars have them built into one of the wing mirrors. we sell loads that are like that. Drift the sensor in the grille on ours is the ambient air temp sensor for the cold start system

by **Drift** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:20 am

Yer I know about that one Tim :wink:

Im positive Ive seen a pic of a temp sensor near the bumper on a B :wink:

by **nitromotor** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:42 am

It should be behind the grill in front of rad

by **marlbororman** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:16 am

yer it is between the radiator and the grill, i know coz i got my radiator out at the minute, engine out tomorrow :cry:

by **Drift** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:16 am

Ian

what now mate

by **marlbororman** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:20 am

bent rod i think, stripping this weekend :lol:

by **Drift** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:25 am

Ian you are one unlucky fella, it started so well :shock:

I think its about time you bought a toy to play with :wink:

Then again you got your bike

by **marlbororman** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:30 am

if its not a viable repair gunna join the dark side with my fronty and do the first 2.8tdi rs b series

by **Drift** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:40 am

Wow now that will be a first

This Im gonna follow

by **marlbororman** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 1:49 am

Drift wrote:Wow now that will be a first

This Im gonna follow

well hopefully it wont come to that, but it would be my first option i think. but it would be a big headache i think, but very do-able :wink:

by **Red Oktober** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 9:50 am

now that would be a very interesting conversion

by **Paul A** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 11:12 am

Found it.....

It is between grille and radiator.

Tell me.... is there a way of releasing the 2 grille clips in the engine compartment without resorting to removing the battery and the air box!!!
Bl**dy Vauxhall couldn't design a shopping trolley!
:evil:

by **Paul A** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:12 pm

Fixed!...... now have temp display!
Funny how much you use this and not notice until it's not there anymore!
Got the new sensor from this guy on Ebay.
He has some good Fronty parts and the prices are really cheap.

eBay Link

Edit (Trugga): Link text reduced to preserve forum layout

by **Trugga** on Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:16 pm

Well done Paul.

Did you work out how to remove the B's grill ? (I'm only familiar with the A)

Lawrence

by **Paul A** on Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:53 am

Hi,
Eventually! There are two spring clips in the engine bay.
Just tight enough to NOT be able to release with your fingers, and just so inaccessible that you can't get pliers on them!
They are square in section, fortunately I had some bits of square section brass tubing laying around in the shed.
One of them was just the right size to push over the clip and compress it enough.
There's probably a special Vauxhall tool to do the job at several billion pounds ......... :roll:

Stupid thing is, if you need to replace a front indicator bulb (reasonably common occurance I would think) ...... Yes....... you have to ........ Remove the Grille! :roll:

by **nitromotor** on Mon Feb 25, 2008 12:38 am

Thanks for posting back to let us know how you got on.

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