Hi - wonder if anyone can help my 18year old son just bought an old nova as his first car as he wanted something cheap to insure etc... but now isurance comany is asking if the alloy wheels are original spec... otherwise its a mod and they won't insure. Last seller say they were on car when he bought it 2 years ago... car is a Jan 1993 nova 1.2 "merit plus"... alloys have vauxhall logo on them...

Guys Hope you can point me in the right direction. I'm looking for a club / group that does car mods in the Ipswich or Suffolk Area. I'm planning a mini motorshow thing for June time, and we'd quite like to get some guys along to show off their motors.

Decided to do the plugs etc this bright and shiney day. Did the plugs on the first easy to get at bank no worries. Fired it up, ran great. Undid the AFM, lifted it carefully out the way, and swapped the second set. Decided to do all the leads while the AFM and the LPG coolant pipes are pulled away. Puts it back together, won't even fire. Puts the old King lead back in, still nothing.

Finally got the 75 back today. Have to say that 'JonCedric' has done a fantastic job - all the rot in the panels has been cut out and replaced by solid metal and very neatly done with minimal filler. He even managed to get the grey plastics sprayed up in something not too far removed from the original colour. If anyone needs bodywork or structural stuff doing, I wouldn't hesitate

Seems that Derv and SteveH are showing off their back catalogue of wheels, so I thought I'd start a competition to find out who has owned the worst/best nail. I'll start: 1. 1978 Chev Impala station wagon in white (first car I owned) 350 (5.7l) V8, rear wheel drive, front disc brakes, one (!) studded tyre (back left), Buick rear door in unsettling brown, Chev Caprice front grill

Well, I have a thing for special effects lighting, and today I started modding my car with some LED's. I robbed the 12V power source from the cigarette lighter (I'll never smoke) to power quite a few LED's all throughout the car - in the vents, floors, grill, etc. While I was doing the final touches (ie, soldering the toggle switch connections) I had accidentally left the battery connected after...

Mr Bollox on retro-rides is having 75 clutch trouble. Can you offer any suggestions. -- Carl Robson Audio stream: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com:8000/samtest Homepage: http://www.bouncing-czechs.com

Just a warning if anyone is thinking of buying a K&N Air filter from UK company Kinnor Services or their filterpower.co.uk website. I ordered a K&N filter from them at beginning of March, the price was higher than I saw at other sites, but i had used this company a few years ago with no problems, so I paid the extra expecting them to be reliable. The air filter arrived a few days later and did...

http://shorterlink.co.uk/12290 Talbot Samba cabrio - 11 mths MOT, history, last owner a few years, 97k miles. 1.4 engine - same as in 205. Overpriced, probably, but the Rover's dying FAST. David

Have all the owners stopped mumbling **** about every turbo 900 being a future classic and asking £500 for ****ters yet?

Ok i have a slight problem, thought i might throw it at you guys first..... The 1.8t is now reaching intersteller miles and I just had the cambelt / waterpump / aux belts done, I also had the rocker cover gasket replaced as I had a slight oil leak, but I now have another problem. I am thinking head gasket, but what do you think... Still got a leak from the engine (hard to see where its...

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No wonder the Top Gear guys got such a poor reception from those Alabama gas station people. I post a message about Richard Petty being dead on a NASCAR forum, and get this response: http://www.motorsportforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=232128#post232128 -- Abo BATracer: Browser Based Racing Simulation: http://batracer.com/-1FrontPage.htm?6q0

I took my Peugeot 206 (180 GTi) in to have a slow puncture sorted. That done, the man in the tyre shop gets out the airline and asks me what pressure am I putting in them. I told him that I was using the recommended pressure of 2.4 bar/35 PSI. He told me that was too much. All that would do would wear the centre of the tyres out. He said that 30 PSI should be the max. Now I'm not sure if to...

****, I'd forgotten this time on a saturday morning exists!! Well I'm, off to Brand in a bit for some Elise racing amonst other things. Plus we get preferential treatment because we'll be in a VX220. Sweet! Will post piccies up from my new cam when I get home if anyone is interested? :) Have a good one

Greetings once again from the lovely San Fernando Valley, Below is the new SFVISBF video for your enjoyment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a71AwX4xNks If you have not seen any of these movies, please take the time to check them out; it will be well worth your while. Paul de Valera

Surely back then people said typeface rather than font?

Does anyone on here have much experience of fiddling with tyres? My (new to me) car has budget 205 45 R16 tyres on it. Higher performance 195 45 R16s are cheaper from the likes of mytyres and blackcircles than 205s. Forgive my naivety, but will the skinnier tyres fit the wheels I have and is it a good idea? -- Douglas

Has anyone noticed the lack of obvious bargains on ebay recently ? I used to have a bid on unusual items (usually car related) and get 'em for silly-cheap prices more often than not, now everything I'm interested in seems to go for top prices. So why is it when I come to sell anything, I don't get these silly prices ? Or if I do it's for a cheap item :) There's still some bargains to be had,...