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You won't find any either, they're no longer available.

Ask them, we don't know, this isn't an online shop, it's a self-help forum.

I'll give you a clue, it's the dealer.

One of them is lying.

It's antisocial but not unsafe, your call.

No, it won't seal it.

Based upon contradiction and argument, please don't feel you need to bother unless you're just padding your post count in which case go right ahead and facepalm. ...oh wait

"You may find that using the car's jack, you are lifting where you want to put the axle stands...or maybe not." Definitely not.

Apart from the harm that results from snapping rusty fasteners and writhing around under the car trying to get it fixed. Been there, done that, total waste of time, I even cut the old filter open and found nothing worth worrying about inside. The juice simply isn't worth the squeeze, just like changing your gearbox oil isn't. Why do you bother with this endless theory crafting and contradicting lived experience? You're wasting someone else's time and money by recommending a pointless course of action.

Nasty, don't forget the axle stands, no way I'd lie right under a car held up by that thing alone!

Seriously, just leave it alone, it doesn't need doing now and it never will. Changing the fuel filter on a petrol car is a form of self-harming related to OCD and possibly ASD.

I have gun gum somewhere in one of the sheds, it works fine, or it did when I last used it.

Your budget is too small for a useful jack but you can buy a pair of axle stands instead and use the tyre jack.

Absolutely certain, UK petrol is very clean compared to many other markets where these cars are sold. As a filter clogs it gets MORE efficient, it's only when it gets too dirty that you experience a loss in fuel pressure. Are you experiencing a loss in fuel pressure?

A universal sensor will work just fine but won't have the correct connector fitted. Most eBay junk is universal.

It's the post cat probe so cheap will be just fine, however be prepared for the code to be wiring related rather than the probe itself.

You don't need to change the fuel filter on a petrol engine. You can simply abandon mission and carry on driving.

I was young, it was the 80's, a very careless decade indeed.

You can still clear codes, doing this will reset the ECU even though there are no codes to clear.

I have them on my 2.0 Elegance, they drive me nuts.

Frankly you can't hope to work on modern tackle without some form of basic code reader to clear faults with and reset the ECU. I am told that the ECU does not require a permanent live any more so disco'ing the battery may not work like it used to.

You need to reset the fuel trim after a fix, this means clearing the dynamic map so the ECU can learn the new fuel/air ratio.

You're all a bunch of hysterical gurls, you don't know what true lift-off oversteer is until you've driven a 205 GTI in anger and experienced the trouser-filling terror that comes from trying to get it back in line while watching the scenery coming toward you through the side window! Yes I broadsided a 205 and got it back pointing the right way.

Avoid lift-off oversteer by NOT lifting off, get braking done, turn in once settled, corner on a neutral throttle, nail it as you exit. Just because driving is easy there's no need to take it easy!

It may be possible to simply cut the split section off then heat the pipe and push it back on to the barb for a permanent fix, I did this on my old 1.4 and it's still OK.