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As a few have already said, always liked this car. Good to see you signed up and keeping us posted

Firstly, before attempting to remove the nut, make sure the spring is compressed using the appropriate spring clamps (if you have the shock removed and just undo that nut, the top strut will try to take your face off!) If you don't have any means of compressing the spring, or you are undoing the nut...

robhornerhonda wrote: i did not know they done a vt auto

As far as I know, they didn't?!?

Got a link?

Why not just get your bonnet and bumper wrapped in some quality clear vinyl? Cheaper, does the same job, and if done properly you'd never know it's on there.

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Just waiting for the email to confirm my vote

I like tunnels, and bridges

louckie wrote: When I had my gl straight through exhaust .....

No air box

Manning tree to Hampshire 176 miles 20 pounds

That's about 54mpg (pricing fuel at 135p p/l ). It must be set up and running lovely

I presume that was mostly motorway miles?

If you have a friendly local garage/MOT station, or a mate in the trade, pop down and get an emissions test. Will take 2mins and can tell you a lot about how it's running (fueling wise). Make sure you don't have any exhaust blows, slightly binding brakes and also make sure you're tyre pressures are ...

If you want to work out how much fuel you are using or mpg, there is no bad way.

Granted, it's better to calculate over a large distance/full tank. But as long as you have a definite figure to work with, i.e 50 miles - £10 worth of juice, you can calculate precisely.

What returns are you seeing from £10 fuel then Jake and Louckie?

The carbed engines aren't massively economical. Surprisingly though, a few performance tweaks do actually offer an improvement.

As others have said though, your first port of call should be a good service.

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50miles from a tenner (costing fuel at 135p a litre) would mean you're seeing a return of approx. 31mpg. Which isn't too bad I'd say, though the main factor is the type of journey you are doing when calculating the cost of running or mpg. Short distance/town driving will see lower mpg than longer/ma...

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Flamin' Hot Monster Munch please Ed

Sticky calipers or pads can sometimes cause a slight binding when turning corners.