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Quote: “ Recently bought a k11 5 door and I'm very excited about it as it is my first car” The 5 door is the most useful & adaptable version. As you state that it is your first vehicle then perhaps it may be more proactive & productive to use it for what it was designed built for. That is to...

Tubeless tyre puncture repair kit with plugs & insertion tools for £10 enabled me to repair all my 3 tyre punctures in the last decade. POWERMAG HEAVY DUTY MOTORCYCLE CAR VAN TUBELESS TYRE PUNCTURE REPAIR KITS TIRE TOOLS EMERGENCY : Amazon.co.uk: Automotive Simple & quick with no need to...

ULEZ Fill Your Boots Scrappage Grant £2000 For All, Just Announced Today £2000 to scrap your old ULEZ non-compliant banger to get a newer vehicle! Yes please , I will have some of that. :) Quote: “Eligibility for a scrappage scheme has been extended to more people ahead of the expansion...

Mine is a 1998 1300 cc lightweight basic micra, now on 66K, & it is plenty quick enough for me to keep up with the traffic & enjoy cutting up freaking out shocking those cheeky enough to try & overtake me in traffic queues. Happy Days. :cool:

Why aye, man! Short cut way to go. I will try it if I ever get lumbered with CV boot renewal again. I had to lump hammer hit my cv hard repeatedly to get it to separate from the drive shaft & much dismantling to create space required to swing my hammer with much cussing & bruised hands. Not...

Sounds & looks easy in one sentence without indication of the bear traps & pitfalls for the average home DIY repairer. To release the drive shaft from the spider hub, from memory a 28mm or 30mm socket is reqd. My local garages would do a CV boot renewal for £120 including VAT, & next time I...

Not a job for a novice & a hard challenge for a determined competent DIY repairer at home without access to a lift ramp that I learned when doing two CV boots on my 25 year old K11. Gadgets are of little useful impact, just a set of combination spanners, full socket set up to 22mm together with...

Inspect the plasticised rubber windscreen seal all around & reseal as required. The plastic trim underneath the wipers/below the windscreen (outside) has windscreen positioning support clips that hold it down sometimes when the clips/pins break they stop sealing properly and water gets in and...

The following thread more or less sums up the ULEZ compliance questions & issues with old micra vehicles & the possible methods of getting them upgraded approved TFL ULEZ compliant. London Ultra Low Emissions Zone ULEZ | Page 2 | Micra Sports Club It’s a good read pages 1 & 2 together with the...

K11Replacement? Recently was considering what comes next after my 25 year old K11 as a simple cheap as chips reliable runabout & had a look at the Fiesta UK owners club for inspiration? Login Required | Fiesta Club of Great Britain (proboards.com) Found Fiesta Club a lot less inviting than...

May K11 owners & KSG”s live long & prosper doing our own thing. As reasonably competent DIY motorist & repairer I only do what I consider to be the right work, that is the absolute minimum to keep my 25 year old K11 running & passing MOTs @ minimal overall costs. I have learned a great deal...

Incredible persistence attention to detail. You say “it aint a show car”? Well I can see from skimming through your blog that it appears to be your life’s work? How many man hours have you put into KSG over the last ten years logged in your maintenance work log sheet records? :confused:

I have sold all mine & my families old bangers, (eight), for cash in my local area during the last (15) years on Gumtree Cars Free Adds. Write a good upbeat sales positive add with all the good bits & six good positive photos & every time the jobs a goodun , sold & gone in days with no snags...

First with erratic idle air issues perhaps it may be cost & time efficient to carefully search for vacuum air leaks in air hoses paying particular attention to the servo hose & crankcase ventilation valve operation/hoses together with exhaust leaks. Where air leaks suspected quickly test by...

Using garages/mechanics to investigate hypothetical faults & its remedy costs need to be equally established & compared with a 23 year old vehicle of little replacement economic value? Perhaps it may be worthwhile to control costs by getting firm fixed price quotes for any & all proposed...

The best option may be to call a couple of local scrap yards to quote the scrap car price value minus its pick up collection costs?

£600 plus VAT repair costs render it beyond economic repair & is therefore scrap & parts. Perhaps it would be more cost efficient to buy something newer?

New Micra Buyer Ripped Off £6000 for Returning Unsuitable car After Two Days by Nissan Dealer. Did it really cost me £6,000 to own a Nissan Micra for only two days? (telegraph.co.uk) Enjoy the scam :eek:

When the next elections occur just remember who introduced & sponsored the ULEZ & his party & vote accordingly! :)

Yes. No problem but it will flag a check engine light. Unplugged MAF & ran our K11, year 2K coil pack for 18 months with no problems & black electrical tape over the check engine light. Eventually I fitted a replacement aftermarket MAF from the local market motor factors trade suppliers for...