J.R.

Nothing to do with being a driving god, simply calling people out that make authorative sounding but wholly incorrect statements. I suggest next time that you might encourage people to consider your percieved benefits of a more expensive installation rather than telling them what they (don't) have to do. Your arguments are not likely to be persuasive to the OP given his requirements and expressed desire.

Hard to tell from a photo but it looks nothing like my Pacific Blue vehicle colour. I would prefer that colour.

Unless you show your location in your profile we will never know.

Nothing to do with whatever toys you want on your vehicle, the comment which you consider to be strange was to dispel the untruth which you confidently asserted. There is no requirement in law that a towbar has to be coded to a vehicles canbus, which is a nonsense notion anyway. Now were there to be a law that to tow a trailer you need to pass a test including reversing without relying on whatever "must have" electronic device is flavour of the day then I would be all for it, I would also extend it to a revised driving test to ensure that existing licensed drivers remain capable of keeping their eyes on the road, to maintain a safe distance from the vehicle in front, to remain within their lane, to be aware of road signs and the speed limit in force and to be able to modulate the throttle to maintain a constant speed, all things that are being lost with the increased reliance on vehicle electronics.

Rubbish. It may have been your choice, it may have been desirable in your circumstances but that does not oblige the rest of the population to do the same.

Non respect of the highway code is not an actionable offence, it would have to be due care & attention or dangreous driving and with sufficient proof. If you are not taking due care & attention the safest place for all concerned is for you to be right on the bumper of the car in front.

For that price I bought a new OE (but no doubt parallel market) battery box & cover from Ali-Express, they are fully backward compatible. I had gone from the 027 battery to the bigger 060 and the felt cover looked like Norman Wisdoms suit! The 060 fits within the standard plastic battery box & cover but not the felt one. The engine bay definitely looks better with either cover fitted.

He needs a booster seat or to be sitting on his dads lap! If you look carefully his eyes are only just above the top of the steering wheel but barely so, no more than one inch, no way will he be able to see the extremities of the bonnet & wings let alone an animal or child ahead in the middle distance. Whenever you see see footage of Richard Hammond in a supercar its the same thing. Probably just as well that they have to have the seat all the way forward, that will gain them 20m of close forward vision which might save a childs life.

I remember in the pre internet days when you could point someone in the right direction and they would find their way.

Its mine and I will wash it as fast as I like!

You have reminded me to pull off the venturi, cut the lug off and reverse it. I now have an USB endoscope so will try to thread it down the intake tract to see what the ports & back of the valves look like. Your one was really oily & cruddy, mine was at 79K miles & had a lot less soot & barely any oil holding it together, it pretty much brushed off. I wonder what the throttle valve etc would have looked like on a car with the same mileage without the emissions fix? I bet your fuel economy will improve as well, mine has gone from 45mpg to 52mpg and was a lot less clogged than yours, I could feel the difference as soon as I drove it, much better low speed flexibility.

Have they actually stopped or were you dissuaded by the sign that they had (no choice but to) put up? One look at the chart covering the whole back wall at my local TPS leaves you in no doubt that it is a sales target driven organisation and so must be all the other branches, they want every bit of business that they can get as long as it does not waste their time & take them away from taking phone orders from their customer base. They prefer customers that know what exactly they want & prefer to deal over the phone, at the trade counter its usually taxi drivers, same rules apply, they are not keen on the needy.

I bet those would be significantly cheaper from TPS.

I could never pay that sort of money for wiper blades, I have always used cheap as chips refills from Maccess, they are no longer trading but I had a big stock. My last 2 vehicles had Bosch Aérotwins and theres no doubt that they are very good, but bloody pricey! Standard refills wont fit them but I found an Ebay seller that has the correct profile and sells 2 lengths of 650mm for £5 so I bought 3 sets, have yet to try them as the originals are still working well. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bosch-Aerotwin-Wiper-Refill-650mm-1-Pair/233287195473?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 The Bosch Eco wipers are an overpriced badged rip off made of Chinesium and you should not pay any more for them than from Lidl when they have them, they are good value and work well.

Everyone is missing the elephant in the room, its not the ragged seal that is causing the brake to drag, the caliper piston is siezed with road dirt ingress and rust, the caliper must be stripped and refurbed. Do not just fit a dust seal and hope for the best, you are risking not just yourself and any passengers but other road users, pedestrians etc. Imbalanced rear brakes will at best cause the vehicle to not brake in a straight line, at worse to lose control. Those seals are a pig to fit even after refurbing a caliper, I did find a way to make it a little easier but it was still a fight, I cant recall how now. New calipers from China are so cheap now that its barely worth the cost of seal kits to refurb, I gave up after several attempts because the self adjust mechanism was constantly giving grief and bought new Chinesium calipers. Maxspeedingrods is a competitive seller for calipers, turbos, aircon pumps etc as well as forged steel conrods.

I'm so glad you posted that, I like Wheeler Dealers but have become less and less a fan of Mike Brewer as time has gone on, seeing him being more of his-self and not playing to the camera he appears to be a really decent chap (albeit with some dodgy syrups ) so my view has changed. All he needs to do now is stop sitting on/leaning against cherished car bonnets & wings & dropping bonnets with a slam to close them!!!

I tried a couple of the Youtube videos but once again lost the will to live, I should have followed my instinct and shut it down as soon as I was greeted by "HI GUYS!............" both of them were 18 minutes plus to impart a fraction of the information that the promotional videos do in less than 2 minutes.

Have you used the stuff and did it work? Have you tried it on scratches? My car is a solid colour blue with lacqueur coat like anything else these days, I did all the scratches & dings in my old school way with flatting as much out as I could, touch up, more flatting then the clear coat then flatting through all the grades, compounding, polishing etc, I'm well versed in it but in many places I need a lot more work to bring back the original surface finish. That is to say that I may have well repaired the scratches & chips but have made the paintwork look worse over a greater area, I can get it 100% but it needs a lot more work that I dont have the enthusiasm for & I almost regret tackling some of the defects. That video made me feel I have wasted a lot of time to save very little money. Or is it like most promotional videos not a true representation?

That bearing could easily be reassembled using the press judiciously, after all that is the way that it was put together. You wont be able to "dimple" a through hardened bearing race but you could certainly destroy the bearing or cause its premature failure.

Its been at least 15 years, maybe 20 since I have bought a new battery where the cells could be refilled, they have all had the top part of the case with the breather galleries bonded on during manufacture. If only I were able to top up batteries during service, I have wrecked a few casings trying to do so. No argument against checking the state of charge before fitting to the vehicle & charging before cranking if it is low.

I used a Lithuanian Ebay seller in the London area, cost about £60 to cut the key and clone the immobiliser chip. It was an interesting area to say the least, a multi-tenanted terraced house with lots of seperate doorbells, guy came to the door & took my key & dissapeared inside to do the business, after I while I began to wonder what I would do if he didn't come back with the only key to start the vehicle I was relieved when he came out with the electronic box of tricks after having cut the blade, relieved that my key still started the vehicle & even more relieved when after doing his stuff with the box of tricks the new one did as well. Money well spent.

Once you have driven with a reversing camera you will no longer desire brighter reversing lights, you would be happy without any at all. I find the standard wattage more than sufficient to show up obstacles in the the rear view or door mirrors, if you are trying to see further up the drive/path to align the vehicle then a brighter light would be desirable but there is a very good reason that the illumination is limited by road traffic law, a reversing camera is far better for the long view even without reversing lights.

All my recent vehicles have come pre-dinged for my convenience, a bit like the pre-rotted fruit & veg that I buy Every ding on the Yeti could be repaired by PDR but collectively the cost would be eye watering and then I would get stressed by the next one that comes my way from other parkers.

In your photograph you the adaptor you are using is pressing the inner out of the bearing. Should you not have been pressing on the hub? Its been several years since I did one but I'm sure that I pressed the ABS ring onto the hub.

That looks like a paint adhesion problem and might be the start of many more such occurences. If it were me, before spending a lot of money on repairs only to find similar eruptions occuring I would touch it in and wait and see what else develops, hopefully nothing but if they do then you are not going to appreciate the value of moey spent repairing one that would no longer be seen amongst the others. Have repairs been carried out before on that area?