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My £8 blower motor resistor finally arrived. Took 5 minutes to fit and now I have adjustable fan speed! The knock off is larger than the original but seems to work perfectly.

Yeah I was doing indicated 65 GPS 60 most of the way. I've noticed since lubricating the throttle cable that it's not dropped below 40MPG even when the whole tank is used purely for city driving. Pretty impressed and this is about what I was expecting. I'd imagine this is just down to having...

Thanks for the help! I'll give soldering another shot when I have access to an iron and if that doesn't work I'll just get a new card. It's getting a bit annoying having to turn the heater up full blast every few minutes now the temperature is falling.

I got 43MPG on a trip to Edinburgh yesterday sitting at 65mph. That's more like it! I think I just need to get used to driving the CVT. Very easy to just put your foot down pulling away which is killing my economy. The auto is surprisingly nice on the motorway. It's no Mercedes but the...

I tried this yesterday. Filed off the chunk of solder and added a new one. No luck though. I've only ever soldered one thing though so could be my error.

I'll have a look into the CVT service schedule. I know hardly anything about them. Fuel economy isn't what I was expecting. I'm averaging 37MPG over three tanks of fairly careful mixed town and motorway driving. I guess it's not too bad considering the low running costs, just a far cry from the...

After the spring cradle decided to snap clean off my Honda Jazz axle writing it off, for the third time in my life I picked up a Micra. Always loved how Micra's are the standard car when people are low on cash and need something they can rely on. Last time I bought a K11 I looked at four before...

My blower only works on full power. Anybody know if the ones for a fiver on eBay do the job or is it worth the £35 for the genuine part?

I fixed this today! It was the throttle cable at fault. Took the air box off and removed the cable from the throttle body and the pedal felt normal. I read that WD-40 can attract dirt so instead I removed the cable from the clips on the rocker cover and wrapped some tape around the edge of the...

If you don't find any issues, try rubbing shaving gel on the windows. For real. Has to be gel not foam but as somebody who delivers hot food for a living I can say it works well.

I fitted the radio out of my old car into the Micra which was a huge faff. Picked up a wiring harness, turns out Sony HU's use s proprietary connection so I bought a universal Sony adapter to plug into the Nissan one I bought. That got it working so I fitted it and nothing. Tried the factory one...

Thanks I'll give that a go. Anybody with the CVT who can tell me what is normal? Definitely feels very different to my previous 2000 manual. It's barely even am issue, I just want the most relaxing automatic experience haha.

I'm back on here after a number of years, just picked up A COMPLETELY rust free 2002 Micra S 1.0 Auto. It's perfect apart from the throttle pedal. It's really stiff which makes it hard to control and tires your leg out after a few hours on the road. Think of driving a sports car with a fairly...

Even my 2.5 litre Subaru Outback is only £1700, seems ridiculous. I've also noticed tiny changes effect it big time. Add parents as named drivers. The difference between my mum being a teacher in private education saved £200 over public education for example. Can't imagine paying much over a...

Where the heck do you live??? Mine was £700, no black box although that would make it £100 cheaper, 20 years old with no NCB. Forget mods though. Not until you've got at least a years no claims bonus behind you (unless you risk it and don't declare / only upgrade to standard parts from higher...

There's a long bolt at the front that tightens the belt, I had to remove it completely and undo both alternator bolts to get the belt loose enough to get off, I think some older models have a tensioner pulley though so have a look and make sure yours doesn't. It's the other belt that's a nightmare!

Thanks for the replies! Ended up just getting a new set of tyres on the steelies as I couldn't find anything and the tyres were definitely illegal. Turned out they are the 14" ones, not the 13" so I thought it was worth just keeping them and making them nice.

So I've just diagnosed a bad speed wobble to be a belt in my rear left tyre letting go, leading to a scary bulge on the tread itself. I'm reluctant to get new tyres as the steels are horrible and pretty rusty, so I'm looking in my area for a set of cheap alloys with decent tyres. I don't know...

Thought it was 25 years old for classic policies?

Aaaand we passed :D