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Unless you have the 1.4 8V or the 2.0 8V then yes, you have a lean burn engine that runs higher temperatures and meets stricter emissions standards.

Lean burn is nowhere near stoichemetric ratio, and you need EGR and direct injection to get really seriously lean.

Air/fuel ratio is irrelevant, it's the design of the combustion chamber, inlet valve area and the compression ratio which dominate combustion efficiency.

You have a lean burn engine designed to run hot, not an eighty year-old relic of the former soviet bloc.

I have a set of 14's near Brighton you can have.

It's a very old engine design, it won't necessarily want to run at 90 degrees like modern engines. Is there anything wrong with the car or are worrying about nothing?

The sensor is inaccurate, not the thermostat.

You can't get "anal eyes" in RHD any more dude, polishing gets rid of the fogging temporarily but they'll be fogged again by next autumn.

This loop has been travelled before, it is possible to get the reflector recoated, however in practice it is quicker and easier to just buy new headlamp units. Projectors are crap anyway, just fit a pair of halogens instead.

The car is too old now for another production run, best bet is to try and find them secondhand or in breakers since most modified motors end up broken for spares largely due to their owners driving ambitions exceeding their actual ability.

There aren't any RHD headlights left, they never make many because the global market is so small.

This is going to get messy, first things first the OP needs to fix the coolant leak. He can eliminate the coolant tank sensor by simply shorting the plug using a scrap of wire.

The mechanic may not have put enough oil in it, you REALLY need to check.

I'd check the level if I were you, low level will lock the gearbox out.

It's bonded on, no attachments, you can't get it off but you can buy a new spoiler and bond it onto yours.

Dude's 2m tall remember, he doesn't fit in the front, let alone the back.

Frayed wire in the rubber boot.

So that's what the duct tape is for...

I mean mechanophilia, are those rolled up spare tartan trousers I can see there next to the serial killers overnight bag?

Output from the alternator with voltage read across the battery terminals should be 14.4V with engine running. Nothing else is acceptable.

Unfortunately Kharl has an SDI if memory serves, this means lots of torque at low RPM which is why SDI's eat gearboxes and CV joints compared to the puny petrols owned by the usual awkward squad contrarians. You have to compare apples with apples chaps.

You gonna put ya junk in her trunk...

Could you not wait until Christmas to surprise her...

Christ, that's like fitting secondhand brake pads!

That crack is filler on the roof and it needs fixing before water gets under it. I agree that the B pillar also looks to be misaligned, the gloss finish on the door pillar is just a sticker. Clearly the car has been bought as spares or repair and then repaired as cheaply as possible, my guess is they didn't bother to motoline the bodyshell or panel beat the roof properly and just slapped a load of pug over it.