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My 2002 Spyder was £415 last time.

I agree, practically, but weren’t they a legal requirement for Xenons? I’ve had to replace both of mine. You can carefully pull the jet out if you do it slowly and they have already fallen off.

Today I fixed a misfire on my Spyder by changing a coil pack, which I’m quite proud of. Three days ago one cylinder cut out, horrible noise from the engine and the car filled with the smell of rotten eggs. I was close to home so stopped quickly enough. A bit of searching of the forum, a scan...

That looks like a Gransport Spyder to me, with a GT (manual) gearbox. Both of those would put the price up surely. Can’t see how it is a 2002 model though.

I sympathise, it must have been frustrating, especially as the rider was hostile to you. The police will only get involved if the law is being broken or there is a public safety issue. Do you think either of these applied in this case? Cycling Mikey films people who are clearly breaking the...

TBH I wasn’t trying to start a competition between CC and manual (stick) shift. Both are plenty fast enough for the road. I used to enjoy double declutching my TVR Griff, I had the pedals set up just right. On a track manual stick shifts hit a limit which is why F1 changes were invented…for F1 I...

I hope you are having some success. Here are the relevant pages from the manual. You can tell from the oily thumbprints that I have used these pages more than once…

I just don’t get the negative sentiment about the F1/CC change. Maybe my car is weird. I don’t ever have a jerky change unless I try really hard to provoke it (like change 1st to 2nd at 2000 rpm while trying to accelerate). Sorry to go off topic but to me it seems one of the high points of the...

Have a search through the forum for this, plenty of us have had these problems. The manual process is a lot more simple than it seems, once you have done it. The plate to tap is behind the other seat to the screw that releases the pressure if I remember rightly. There is a similar little round...

That’s a fair concern, but worth remembering that Jaguar are not doing this in their own. Their parent company JLR made £2.2bn in profit last year on sales of 431,000 vehicles/revenue of £29bn. They have almost no debt and free cash flow of £2.3bn. They can easily afford a relaunch of Jaguar...

I am looking forward to seeing the actual 4 door version when it’s released. I quite like the concept, except the ‘grill’ - so many electric cars have these fake grills, why not just drop them completely? I watched Harry’s video, informative I thought. One thing that struck me as I watched was...

Yes, I wasn’t sure which straps I was supposed to be looking at in the eBay instructions [emoji15]. Thankfully the product has some less ambiguous written instructions.

I’d bet at least a tank of fuel that it is the straps. When they are worn the second cross bar in the roof gets stuck at the point you have photographed. If yiou stop the roof on the way down just before that point, you can push rhe bar towards the back of the car by hand and then it will go...

I really enjoyed this video. Number27 did a good one a few days before as well.

Thanks for the shoutout [emoji106]. Some of us are proud to be freaks with our funny hairstyles and hats, and still enjoy driving Maseratis and being on this forum. That is actual DEI.

You missed mine - 2 wonderful cities, about as different as you can get in Italy. Try the catacombs in Naples then walk down through Forcella, get a coffee and listen to some of the local young people talk about how they are moving on from the mafia past. Visit the Capello San Severo for the...

What do you like doing? Florence for culture, art. Naples for gritty beauty, faded glory, the sea, the Capello San Severo. Rome for all the capital city stuff and crowds. Venice is extraordinary if you stay in the city and avoid the day-trippers. Lecce for stunning ruined baroque and the...

The Germans might know what they are doing. Many years ago a friend of mine lived in a small village in Germany. A new neighbour insisted on washing his car on his drive every weekend. In the way of small villages, he was eventually reported to the local authorities which led to a police...

I remember you have some nice watches. No doubt the value doesn’t matter that much as you aren’t planning to sell them (like me). All I meant about Rolex is that prices are either flat or falling over the last year or so. So anyone buying one today in the hope of making a killing in the next...

Sorry I think it looks horrible. I much preferred this that I saw picking up my car from McGraths a few weeks ago.