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Can anyone link me to the guy or anyone who can make stickers?

Got a bit of a strange one with my screen washers, they are only working once every one and then and when not squirting I can hear the drivers side headlight motor run when the jets should be. I've stripped it all down, cleaned and trimmed the pump rubbers back but no change

I'm bored and no cash to pump into the flamer but I do have a 200 style rs boot badge, I'm torn as to whether to fit it in place of the standard badge or over the clio badge holes. Standard, 197 or 200 badge? What are peoples opinions?

A few weeks back I began treating all back plastics on my 172 but after they have cured the more heavily textured plastics like wing mirror edges and mounts have almost white/grey colouration in the textured dimples. Can I simply scrub clean dry and retreat of is a more radical approach required?

Short of vapour blasting or similar is there anything I can use to clean up the white corrosion on cast alloy parts? The parts I want to clean are too fiddly to rub down with fine wire wool or auto sol really, I wondered if vinegar or a similar acid would work.

Just a quick query, replaced my battery tray as it was cracked, is there meant to be anything like a rubber washer between the tray and the suspension turret? The hole in the tray for the bolt is pretty gappy and doesnt seem correct that it just mates up to the painted surface of the turret...

This is doing my head in now! Car is parked pointing up hill, after I quick lunchtime investigation it seems water IS getting in through the bulkhead somewhere. All 3 scuttle drains are clear and not losing coolant so in guessing it's getting in through a bulkhead grommet. Attached a pic of...

I've noticed my mpg has got pretty poor, around the low 30s and my temperature gauge sits a bar sometimes two below the halfway that 1*2s always sit at. Is this a fault thermostat, CTS or both/neither?

I'm in the middle of an underside restoration (car is still on the axle stands after all the wind!) Where I've had to get back to bare metal I've coated with 2x hydrate 80, 2x electrox and was going to finish this off with Dynax UB. Will this be sufficiently robust or should I be putting a stone...

Has anyone used Ren Breakers on Ebay? I'm tempted by a bonnet they are selling. Delivery of a bonnet seems risky but they are offering it

What's the flat connecting bar that connects the sliders on the rear calipers called (yoke?) and what is its purpose? Mine are pretty rusted, are they still a available?

Wheres the best place to get rear brake lines? The union on mine has seized to the pipe meaning I've had to rotate the caliper to get it off

I need to get a blowtorch to free up caliper bleed nipples, which gases get hotest or rather which would be best for this purpose? Any recommended torches

My 172 is now mechanically sound after nearly a year of sorting various issues, I have had to replace a few lacquer peeled trims but what's really letting it down now is the bonnet and front bumper. The bumper if just stone chipped where as the bonnet is both chipped and dented from being shut...

I'm gathering bits to overhaul my calipers but cant find a length for the bleed nipples, from searching on here I've confirmed what I thought from when I last did this that they are M7 x 1mm.

I've done a bit of reading up which suggests using a 182 offside handbrake cable as they are a fair bit cheaper, is this still recommended?

Is there a good reason for one of the four stub axle bolts on a 1*2 to be an M8 when the other four are M10s, theres room for it to be M10?

Well it's not a drip anymore! Topped up the box with rather more oil than I was hoping for only to be met by it lapping at my feet. It's too dark and cold for me to be bothered investigating further but it must be pretty bad. I thought it was coming from the selector bush but surely it cant...

I think ive got a battery drain problem, if left for a couple of weeks without being driven it will often struggle to start or worse. So with a few days off before Christmas I've tried to test it with a fully charged (new last year) battery and my multimeter inline between negative lead and...

I think I'm finally going to bite the bullet and get some spacers to throw my cup off set turinis out a bit. I think I've decided on 15mm hubcentric fronts and 10mm rear hub spacers for the rear but I cant decide whether to get them with a bit of camber to go with the 1.5° I'm going to put on...

How the hell do these little buggers come apart? Fiddled around for ages while trying to swap my seats over, any tips?

I'd like to lose the standard bus steering wheel for a 330mm, I quite like the RS sabelt or sparco but not sure the suede will stand up to my usage. Not keen on the idea of a polyurethane one really although the OMP GP looks ok, any other recommendations?

I just left my 172 idling on my drive to try and dry a fogged headlight out, all of a sudden the idle jumped to 3k rpm with an engine management light on. Any ideas what's caused this, I'll check for a leak on the inlet first though.

While tidying up my sills earlier this year I noticed a bit of corrosion around where the rear beam mounts to the body, is it anything to worry about or will a wire brush and some electrox sort it?

My 172 had the original head unit and speakers when I got it, sound was terrible so I replaced the split front speakers with Alpine SXE-1325S but the rears are now farting so need the same. I'd like to improve it a bit more, nothing silly and I'd like to keep the original head unit so what...

While servicing my car I double checked by Googling which way around the cabin filter goes but noticed all the photos are different to mine. The big plug is just lying loose rather than clipped into the heater blower where there is no clip to hold it, there also an open socket with corroded...

I'm biting the bullet but which one to go for - Carpro dlux or gtechniq c4? Will both be suitable for coating my refurbed headlights too?

This car! I must have the patience of a saint. Went to open the boot this morning and the alarm went off so I shut the boot but it wont latch, alarm still sounding and the battery is too flat to start the car so I tried disconnecting it. Eventually the alarm gave up (one of the longest 15-20...

I'm ticking off the list of things that need doing to my 172, next up is the non existent aircon. Theres no pressure in it and the radiator looks pretty past it, the fins fall away if you sneeze on them. Has anyone on here successfully resurrected their ac that could point me in the right...

I'm spraying my cup spoiler but I'm a bit worried that as I'm flatting the orange peel of a less than perfect coat of lacquer I might rub through. Can I give it another coat the flat back again or is that not advisable