Recent content by eng622

Thanks Ben. I must admit the clutch was a bit fierce on take up when I first drove the car. It seems to be much better now plus I am getting used to the car in general. I'm hoping the life of the clutch has not been shortened by the binding brake experience. You will need to give me a clue to...

I thought it was a burning brake smell because the hand brake had seized on in the cold spell. But as you say it is coming from the clutch end. So I'm wondering if the clutch slipped when moving the car with the seized handbrake(this was before I bought it). The smell won't go away but has not...

When I bought the car I thought the NS front brake was binding as there was a burning smell on that side. However that proved incorrect. If I start the engine after a minute or so of idling there is a smell a bit more acyrid than you get from brake material which is most noticeable from under...

The handbook states 10W/40, 15W/40, 15W/50 depending on the lowest ambient temp. but 15W goes well below even our low temps of recent. So what do you use?

I've just bought some used 17's x7inch wheels ET38 with 205/40 tyres but have yet to collect/fit them, but from what I read they will fit. There is an ET calculator I found and with the standard 16 wheels ET is 55 which works out to ET42 with a 7 inch wheel. So ET38 will mean they will sit a...

Hello, I just purchased a micra C+C and understand from Frank you have a K12 info website, so can you direct me to it. thanks

thanks for the pointer, do you know any other good sources of info for the K12?

Had my Micra delivered today but one of the 16 inch wheels was damaged and the others have some small marks so thinking of buying 17's. Read the posts and links on here so I'm looking for 7inch rim, 4x100, 60.1 bore and offset around 35 (55 on 16's and calculated from link on previous post)...

It looks as if the car has seized brake(s). It was ok when test driven but that was before the worst of the cold spell plus it has not been serviced for 17K miles (on 28K). But I have yet to get it home as there is a burning brake lining smell after only a few yards of travel. Going to have it...

It looks as if the car has seized brake(s). It was ok when test driven but that was before the worst of the cold spell plus it has not been serviced for 17K miles (on 28K). But I have yet to get it home as there is a burning brake lining smell after only a few yards of travel. I'm thinking of...