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Registered: 20th Apr 04
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19th Jun 14 at 19:54

Simple to do, guys? Looked about on Google an YT and doesn't seem too hard?

Any tips?

Cheers

johnny86

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19th Jun 14 at 19:55

It's easy mate.

Gary

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19th Jun 14 at 20:14

Just a simple swap like for like.

_Allan_

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19th Jun 14 at 21:10

quote:
Originally posted by p
Any tips?

Switch off the power

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19th Jun 14 at 21:22

quote:
Originally posted by _Allan_

quote:
Originally posted by p
Any tips?

Switch off the power

Yeah won't be forgetting that one...

corsa-torque

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19th Jun 14 at 21:34

Easy enough job, power off is the biggest tip, other than that just check your wires as some houses use the old black/red system, others use the new blue/brown colours.

Marc

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20th Jun 14 at 08:16

And some people use the wrong coloured wires all together

corsa-torque

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20th Jun 14 at 08:47

Well yeah there's that too.. But I only see it once in a blue moon really... All black seems common, although I've seen all orange wires???

Gary

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20th Jun 14 at 11:07

Rough bastards

VegasPhil

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20th Jun 14 at 23:08

Can't go wrong.

Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold

Marc

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21st Jun 14 at 11:27

quote:
Originally posted by corsa-torque
Well yeah there's that too.. But I only see it once in a blue moon really...

Thats what someone did in my house!

Dom

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21st Jun 14 at 18:33

quote:
Originally posted by Marc
And some people use the wrong coloured wires all together

Parents house is full of it as well as general dodgy wiring, like lighting spurs off ring mains, sockets off the lighting rings or un-fused spurs off un-fused spurs

P - I'd recommend checking the depths of the back boxes against the new sockets and wiring; had issues in the past where the new socket (flat variant) was deeper at the back than the previous which resulted in bugger all room and thus peeing around chiselling out brickwork to put in a deeper box.
But otherwise it's fairly straight forward, just makes notes and/or take pictures of the current wiring before you start