I have similar issue and have also replaced the lower o ring seals and checked the top seals and it still happens - car does not burn oil or lose oil but it does collect around the plug bases. Not found a cure but just take out each plug and get rid of the oil and run on every so often. Seems to wor...

Our two early 90 216 GSi with SOHC honda are both the same - really hard sometimes to get the cap off and always have been - owned the one for nearly 20 years and sometimes takes two hands to remove the cap. Think it is why the car talks to you when parked up as the pressure is released but it has n...

I have made a tool which has pins which locate into the crank pulley and has a long bar about 12" long which catches on the front subframe cross member. This locks the crank pulley and allows me to undo the crank pulley through the front wing access hole with a normal wrench. Only ever had the ...

Had to replace the OSR lower wishbone after a MOT man complained about it being worn - it had only done 265K miles! Replacement was straightforward and replaced the tie rod as well since it came with the unit - a secondhand one from a 85K (ex Pauls silver car) I used the bushes on the tie rods from ...

I bought several sets of these as stock recently after taking out some Iridium plugs which I did not like the look of in a replacement engine
Cheap as chips these and NGK which I have never had issue with
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/385538731060 Try pinging an off in for all three sets left. I did.

sounds to me like someone might have been naughty and removed the thermostat completely perhaps to disguise overheating issue. Had similar symptoms on astra estate

You can solve this with the o rings below the aluminium cover which does come off relatively easily but is a pain and needs a bit of bravery. However equally so you will find that if its a small leak then a regular clean will solve the issue too. It will repeat but rinse and repeat. I used to just t...

My MOT tester will fail LED headlight bulbs on sight especially on the R8s - I can get away with them on the pre war 6v stuff and even the pre 1930 stuff but H4 particularly are too modern to change over even if the H4 is designed specifically as LED bulb My MOT station will not tolerate and so will...

I have always found that some products leak over you later on but I use cavity wax to spray inside all chassis box sections and doors bottoms sills etc. So much cleaner and so often I have found that cars come to me with this from new have super protection. Plus is does not leak over you garage floo...

Not silly or obsessive but perfectly normal The new digits look totally wrong on our cars and any others of the period TBH. I used a firm in Ireland but they were only doing the right size digits - the previous firm I used no longer did them but they did digital scans of the original and were brilli...