Arms themselves are composite but the ends are steel. I've removed a rear axle which involved taking them off, or at least that's what I thought. The was no way I could undo the bolts securing the front or the arms to the car. I even tried putting my trolley jack under the end of a breaker bar and jacking up on it. All that did was lift the whole car! If the car was on a lift so a really big breaker bar could be used, I suspect they could be undone but not with the car on the ground. I ended up disconnecting the axle from the trailing arms and leaving them attached to the car.

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Potential inconvenience with the filler fitted so close to the towball if you do a lot of towing though?

Bearing in mind that I probably fill up just as often with a trailer on as not, nope, never had a problem with any filler, Dvissier, Gasguard, various continental Italian cup fillers (there's 2 or 3 different ones) and Acme. As long as the trailer is straight or off to the right, access is simple.

They don't last long enough to get them nicked, we all sit them on the back bumper while filling and forget to put them back on.

OK unless you have the factory fit towbar like this

The ones I've got are All Ride although I'm pretty sure a couple I bought previously were in the same packaging and they fitted fine.

Both my remaining two have a round filler in the space where the second trailer socket would be if they had twin electrics. I've bought caps from eBay in the past and got decent ones, it just depends on which ones you get. Unfortunately price doesn't show good ones from crap.

Just deleted your post that you asked to be deleted only to find the main screen showed no posts in Oily Bits. So I'm posting here to let you know I've done it and remove the No Posts message......

I think we've all got a tub of antique red rubber grease somewhere. I've often wondered if you can still buy it, my tub must be at least 40 years old.

Quite what you are going to do with the remaining 995ml is anyone's guess. I've found that there is usually enough dribbling out of the pipe when it's disconnected to use for the seals.

Or is your birthday the 8th of April?

You must be another of us old 'uns. That's almost exactly the same as I pay for a Yamaha FZS600 Fazer. The cheapest I ever got was £79 a year with Saga but they stopped doing bike insurance.

My filler is in the spare tow plug hole in the back bumper too, apart from not having a hole in the bodywork, it means you can fill from either side. Useful when doing the sort of runs I do. Got back home on Sunday after a 3,700 mile round trip. Towing a trailer with an Audi A2 on it which was delivered to Latvia, spent a few days there, then loaded up with assorted bits destined for the UK and Holland, drove to Hamburg to pick up a drum kit and keyboard (fortunately in flight cases), then on to The Hague to drop some of the stuff off then back home. My tank only takes 65 litres to fill it and I'd rather top up early than let it run out and have to run on petrol so I filled it up 12 times each way.......

and you've found a use for old toroidal gas tanks.......

Your problem here is going to be that with a few exceptions the bulk of the members are in the UK. So apart from it having the steering wheel on the wrong side, postage will be a little on the excessive side. However, having seen your cars, if you reckon it is in 8/10 condition, it'll be in 12/10 to everyone else.

S'funny, I've got a pair of those too, one on the car and one spare, crap aren't they. I pulled the spring out and chopped a bit off the end which helped but it still sits lopsided unless I give it a really good shove on. Tinley Tech is your best bet for decent quality ones.

12V on pin 7 should pull in the compressor clutch as it goes to the clutch coil. However, it does go via the trinary switch and when I first got my car I had the same problem you had. That turned out to be a bad connection on the switch, unplugged it and gave it a squirt of contact cleaner and it has worked ever since.

If 102/202 is showing signs of going green, chop it out and solder the wires directly. It's fiddly but well worth doing (same goes for 104/204 on the other side).

My other half is with Direct Line as they came out cheaper than any of the others on the comparison sites. She recently changed her car from a 2004 Mercedes C180k Coupe, 1.8 litre supercharged 4 pot with a whole 143 bhp, to a 2007 Mercedes SLK280, 3.0 litre V6 with 231 bhp. I was expecting her to fall off her chair when she rang Direct Line to change the car but we were both pretty surprised. All they wanted was an extra £30 a year. Makes no sense at all.

and it's got LPG too..... Looks to be at home alongside an L322 and a Roller.

A small amount of play in the steering is unlikely to be the splines, more likely the rubber joint in the lower column (between the two splined bits). Slop in the steering box is easy enough to sort, just give the adjuster a slight tweak. Mark the position with paint first as it will almost certainly move when you slacken off the lock nut (17mm and will probably need a couple of extensions and a universal joint on the socket to get on it, there's no way you'll be able to get enough grunt on it with a ring spanner). Shimmying when braking is usually worn discs.

Is it showing all 4 lights on the height display? That signifies a fault condition. On the Nano, go to Faults, read the faults, clear the faults and then exit out of it. You should get 3 beeps from the dash and the 35 mph message then it will clear and all burst into life.

If the vaporiser is leaking gas into the coolant passage, you'll get pressurisation in the cooling system. To the point where you will probably conclude that you've got a blown head gasket or slipped liner. If it doesn't have pressure in it after it has been run and then allowed to cool down again, then it isn't that. I'd say water pump. Any coolant split on it will evaporate off almost instantly so if there is a puddle laying on it, it's pissing out. My SE did just the same as you describe, river running away from underneath and that was because the Britpart water pump the previous owner had fitted just before I got it had done nearly 2,000 miles and was completely shot. Take the serpentine belt off and try wobbling the fan, I'll put money on slack in the pump bearings