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Some neat photos to start with. A friend took a snap of me when I arrived at his place. Showing off my cool foggies. So then! Here we are again... The task was to replace what was left of the exhaust system with my spares. The old manifold was quite buggered. One of the nuts somehow managed to...

I was given the autopsy of my old gearbox last night..: Sent from my F8331 using Micra Sports Club mobile app

I had 20 minutes after getting home to do something before heading off again, so I swapped the SMD T3 for a classic incandescent T3. Again it looks much brighter than it is in the photo. It's barely noticeable, and I knew I'd leave them switched on. Much better, this is how the switch looks...

Foglights arrived. As I saw in the photo, they weren't very clear. The discolouration was actually a weird swirl of dirt on the inside of the glass. They came with bulbs! Which is good, because I wouldn't want to use the crappy one from my original set. Later, I found some time while waiting...

So then! It turns out the engine management light was for a different reason. I can never get the fault code when it's showing, the app always says "no codes stored on ECU0". But it seems that I can get it to show pending (unverified) faults sometimes. So after resetting the warning, I left it...

Today I decided to have a go at replacing my keyfob. I was considering swapping out the rubber buttons, but there's no need. It's actually really easy to reprogram the fobs. I'll write up how to do it at the end of this post. Seems that every battery in the old fobs I have were all flat. While I...

Just had a weird thing happen. I put the key in the ignition barrel, popped the bonnet to fiddle with some stuff, closed it and went back to the door only to find that the car had locked itself! I've seen some unusual locking behaviour lately, usually when reconnecting the battery, so it's very...

It may be worth storing a gearbox and being prepared for in case it happens! They're cheap! Make sure you've got enough oil in there too.

So, in the last week my gearbox was sounding seriously rough. It was whining in all gears, as much as it sounded pretty cool, it was also making a few other noises which didn't sound good. There was a undescribably rough sound when decellerating, and the gearbox itself was whirring when it was...

I got some ATF for the power steering, and some gearbox oil. Power steering feels much lighter now, and consistent. Sound has gone. I topped up the gearbox (not sure how much is in there now), doesn't seem much different but may be slightly quieter. Seems like the gearbox may need replacing. Not...

Update 2: The gearbox certainly sounds rough at high speed. I'll try adding some more oil, but I may well need to look for a new one. Luckily a facelift 1.0 gearbox is pretty cheap and quite easily found. One thing I kept forgetting to add: I removed a plug from the gearbox which is rumoured to...

Update: Shafts are tightened down. I checked the fluid level for the power steering. It's way below minimum. So I'll buy some Gear oil and some ATF some time soon. Maybe we just hadn't burped out all of the air in the PAS when we filled it last.

So, back at my home, after a few nights over at Eddies. My brake disks are now looking like coral reefs, but they'll be fine once the wheels are on. I really really need to replace the pads on the right anyway (but the piston gets jammed). Out comes the gearbox. This time on the creeper...

My AC backlight has gone faulty! Now I have to remake this backlight. Action photo of me hauling ass into uni, you can see the nose raised under acceleration. This was, however, the last action shot for a while! Something went terribly wrong. After some somewhat excited driving, suddenly I...

Been so busy with life. At the end of next week I'll be finishing off the engine swap. It's managed to go to London and back twice though. Then, once it's working fully, I'll clean it, and fix a whole heap of tiny broken things everywhere. For now, my rear wiper blade detached, I couldn't find...

Did a speed test. At displayed 70, we were going at 73 GPS actual. That means that with these wheels and tyres, my speedometer reads +4.29%. Compared to the SRi wheels with the thin summer tyres (which was about -13%), that's quite a change to get used to. I noticed that the snow tyres aren't on...

Did someone say "flexing parking while at work"? I've been leaving oil everywhere at work. So that's something else that needs checking ASAP. The Cabrio had a flat battery. Jumping it off of a spare one I have got it going again. I almost got it dry on the inside this time. I also noticed...

Time to get the GTi wheels on! Loaded up once again. I would have put these wheels on if I had my tools, I left everything at the engine swap location. Even my jackstands! There they go... I forgot how these looked on the car. Quite smart actually. At first I wanted the snow tyres on the back...

No more dampness for me! Not that it's been a problem, but now it shouldn't be anyway. The air has been crazily humid lately so these could help. My third tyre arrived. It's pretty weird. It's an all-season tyre, the compound certainly feels like it, but the tread is interesting. Of course...

Ah yes I know the bit you mean. On the plastic. I'll give that a check next time I'm in there. Sent from my F8331 using Micra Sports Club mobile app