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Does the front passenger seat of a 5 door tilt all the way forward? To help with fitting my bicycle in, you see. Ta in advance.

I had my K11 on a motorway trip a while ago , kept it at about 65 mph, I hope I didn't annoy too many other drivers. I did get 56 miles per gallon, though.

I think the early 1 litre K12 (like mine) is geared a bit lower, so higher revs at motorway speed.

I can just imagine bike, rack and the hatch itself left lying in the road behind me. The bike weighs 50 lbs or so.

So, I can carry my bike with the rear seats folded, but it sticks out the back. The hatch stays open about a foot, tied down with a bungee around the wiper post and bike handlebar. I think (hope) that with the front windows open a few inches I'm safe from exhaust fumes coming in. Any thoughts...

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My '03 with 120,000 miles has "TMC WP 95000" written on the engine cover with Tippex, what can it mean? I'm kinda hoping...

Thanks for the reply. Mine's one of the first, so it could be the chain, but I hear no undue noise at a cold start, and no check engine light. I might have to pay someone to look at the chain, but I'm not sure the car warrants the cost of replacement. It's a fun drive, though.

Thanks for the reply, my car is a 1.0 Litre petrol. Here in Ireland petrol is still 5% Ethanol (Hmmm, the same as good beer). There is talk of moving to 10% soon. I will try an additive or better fuel. Anyone else?

Hi, my '03 K12 starts and runs beautifully, except sometimes: Starts fine, but cuts out after a few hundred yards, will re-start fine after a few mins. Recently, if turned off refuses to start for a while. Thinking dirt in pump, tank was 1/4 full, so put more in started then. No check engine...

R.I.P. Kylie, my own K11 died of corrosion just last year. (I now have a K12, which I'm quite fond of.... )

It's looking fab, it will give you something to look forward to during your breaks! You might get a bike to zoom around on in Oxford, and best of luck in your studies. ?

Finally got around to masking and applying clear coat to the areas I had previously primed and base coated. I bought the car back in December with large areas of paint flaking off, and getting steadily worse. It's a 2003 in Cornflower Blue, I saw a same year and colour K12 with similar paint...

Thanks for that, appreciate it. Ok, I opened the arm rest, held in with clips only, detached the switch module and gave the switches themselves a good spray of cleaner. sprayed the connector pins too, though they seemed clean. I reassembled everything and (phew) the winders worked. I hope the...

Hi, my driver's side window sometimes refuses to go down, when it works it seems normal enough. There is no sound at all when it refuses to go, so likely not the mechanism itself. How would I get at the switch to apply some cleaner, or any other ideas? (I'd hate it to get stuck down!) Oh, and I...