Excellent stuff, thanks Guy, just what I was after... and sounds like there's not really much bad news.
Reading your website frontpage, can a squeeze a quick follow-on about K12s without going too off topic? After your note about doing jobs yourself - Just changed a front nearside parking light bulb in our 1996-vintage Mazda Bonga: 4 minutes and 75p; same thing last year in S's same-year Vaux Corsa - 30 minutes and lots of hastle. Please tell me the Micra is more like the Mazda than the Vaux for, say, that job - is it, in your experience?
Cheers, M.
postscript: Car we're bidding on has two new rubber rings on the back, so sorted that for now. Ta