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Hello! On Friday whilst driving home, my exhaust fell down so it's resting on what looks like a rollbar. It looks like the bracket at the engine end of the cat has rusted through. Can you get this part on it's own, or is it part of the cat or perhaps the front pipe? Photo 1: Rubber...

Okay, where do I find them that cheap?

Cheers! My local Nissan dealer want over £30 for the hose! After my last experience at one I don't know if it's worth risking one from a scrapyard or not.

Can the brake hose be changed from the wheel arch, or does it go back inside the engine bay?

Well, fun in the pouring rain yesterday! Jacked it up, span both wheels and the OSF didn't spin freely, and stopped quickly. Took the wheel off, then caliper, pinched the pads onto the disc and released them. Span the hub and it felt like their was still some rubbing. Took out the pins, they...

If it's the brake hose, how do I test for that? I bought a hose clamp and put that on a inch or 2 above where the hose bolts to the caliper, when I changed the caliper. If the hose was partially collapsed could that have made it worse? 6.5x55 - you're right there. Luckily I found a 6-sided...

Nice one one polly, I will give all that a go tomorrow. The pulling to the left when braking, and OSF wheel getting very hot seems intermittant now, since putting the replacement on and going to the garage. I still have my old caliper, is it worth me trying to clean and refurbish it? Is there...

I ended up taking it to a garage yesterday afternoon, for a free brake check. They said the caliper looked okay but the pads had at some point stuck to the disc and worn the pads down. It cost £160 for new front discs and pads, and to clean up both calipers. Driving this morning though and I...

Well I changed it over last night. It wasn't as easy as I'd hoped as the caliper bolts were pretty rusty and one almost rounded off when I was trying to get it off. When I was done, I took it for a 10 minute drive and all seemed okay. Until this morning when driving to work, ARGHHH, I smelt hot...

Are the slider guide pins part of the caliper, or will I be using my existing pins with the new caliper?

Picked up a caliper lunchtime for £25. They checked it hadn't seized, so weather permitting I might give it a go at fitting it tonight.

Brill, thanks a lot Polly!

I strongly suspect that I have a sticking OSF brake caliper. I first noticed something wrong last week, when I noticed a kind of burning rubber smell after a long run. The front tyres needed replacing, as well as the tracking, so had them done Saturday however am still getting the smell. I...

Just got 355 miles when the fuel light came on and beeped. That's 50.4 MPG. Well happy with that. :grinning:

I'll take some. It's probably a custom job, I'm sure last time I drove past, it had tape round the edges!

There is an L reg (I think) K11 near me which is a convertible. Never seen one anywhere else.

I reckon my linkages are seizing up, which is why my stick doesn't auto-centre despite me fixing the spring. Did it take him long to strip and grease it? I was told on here you have to grind off part of the fixing to remove the linkage.

I put 15W/30 in my K11, is that not ideal?

Does anyone have pics of the end result? I don't think I've seen a Micra with the strips removed.

I replaced the return spring on mine, and it made ZERO difference! It's not too bad to do, I had the car up on ramps as was servicing it. Removed the heatshield from the (2nd?) cat, and found the old spring snapped off at one end and hanging. I'd bought a new off ebay (although it's been...