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I have an Optimate trickle charger. Over periods of time I know I won't be using it much, like Xmas, I stick it on the car. I've owned the car 2 years today and no battery problems. Mine is a 60mAh that was on it when I bought it.

Mine has that unit + Nav. Which is getting a little outdated now. We've just been to Stirling for a week and a few times it got itself a bit flustered. At one point going over the Queensferry bridge it completely lost the plot. I'm not sure if I want to spunk the cash on an update or try and find something that will do everything the current unit does. I couldn't care less about applecar play or streaming so I suppose that narrows it down somewhat.

Sad news. Condolences to his family and friends. I went through this shit and did the self harming thing when I was a lot younger. I'd have been the first in the queue for a chat to help him through it.

I've just had mine in for a kick over and MOT The noise I was getting WAS a droplink. Despite numerous yanks and tugs and checks by me. Driver's side, bottom fixing was just loose enough that it could move. It's been tightened up and now = silence. Well as near to silence as an 86 can be.

I have a noise too from somewhere. It's going in for a service next week, I've asked him to have a good prod around see what he can find. It's annoying as I can go over speed bumps, through ruts and pot holes and nothing. Washboard surfaces though and slower speed manoeuvring and there's a noise.

Or get an early car and pay cash.

Mine has cost bugger all so far in two years. 4 tyres brakes all round, an oil and filter every year and I had the diff and gearbox oil done. Averages around 34/35mpg. Now ask how much I DIDN'T need to spend on it...

I always get a Toyota filter fitted when mine is serviced.

I'm assuming they re gas on the recall, given my understanding is they take the engine out. Can you not just say it's shit out since then?

Tried Toyota or Subaru?

Welcome 😁

My tip when you've got money wasting away and looking lonely in your bank account. Drive to the opposite side of the country, and buy the first one you see. Worked out perfectly for me.

You need to clean your fob 😁

I use Sainsbury's 97 most of the time, sometimes VPower. Not so much Tesco 99, I've heard it's just boggo petrol with a load of bioethanol in it to bump up the RON.

Yes, a few times.

Welcome. Mine is silver too, I'm from a few miles down the road in Grimsby.

If its anything like Peugeots with JBL, you swap the stereo and it stops working.

Can you get in to them at all? Maybe rig up something on a vacuum cleaner and try fish it out?

Wasn't keen on the intro music, but you immediately redeemed yourself with the "ey up"

I had it on axle stands to do that. When I fitted the new ones I dropped it on its wheels. I got them as tight as factory spec then gave them a couple of days then put it back up in the air and fully tightened them up with extra leverage as I was getting the odd clinking noise.

Mine is lowered "around" 30mm on Flex Z coilovers, I have no knocking or rattling but do every now and again get and kind of rubbery sounding creak at the front. I am expecting noise obviously and have triple checked things and everything seems ok. When I fitted them I wrote down every torque spec I could fine to have to hand. The only nuts I couldn't torque as my wrench doesn't go that high is the two 19mm nuts on the front. I just reefed on those with my driver with a couple of foot of tube added.

Absolutely sure everything is tight? It could be something else moving.

Mine were £80 from Japspeed.An added expense, but as I had to cut the original links off I had to have some. I subsequently learned apparently people fit Corsa D ones.

I put adjustable links on mine.

Cough people will think you're a twat cough.