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I bought my little micra about a year ago with close to 160k on the clock. Since I bought it, the engine has been making a dreadful noise and it has been drinking coolant. No problem I thought, just ignore the noise and fill it up with coolant whenever it runs out (I'm talking like a litre of...

Hi, I've got another problem again. My Micra keeps stalling just after starting when I declutch and come to a stop, or just free wheel. It only does this for about the first minute after starting up and fortunately enough my road is private so theres not much traffic. If the engines warmed...

I've got a 5 litre can of petrol in my car in case I run out and am attempting to find out whether my cars fuel warning light works. The bulb is fine (I checked last time I had the gauges out) but its never come on. The gauge was almost on empty when I drove home from college this afternoon...

My car very nearly overheated today and when I stopped, the expansion tank looked like it was boiling and had overflowed. I've read about bleeding the coolant system to remove airlocks, but don't know how this is done. Please tell me, I've got another 60 mile commute in the old girl tomorrow...

My Micra passed its MOT, quite a bit of work getting it through but its done now. Technically quite a bargain: Car £130 Welding £80 Parts from Scrapyard £50 CV joint £25 Waterpump £18 So about £300 for a Micra which I now know will be reliable having done all the work bar the welding...

I've been browsing eBay looking at engines to get some sort of idea how much its going to cost me when my 156,000 mile 1.0L engine blows :down: I've noticed all the later engines have coilpacks rather than HT leads. How hard is it to fit one of these engines to an early car? I can't really...

Having accidently bought the wrong CV joint for my Pre facelift, I've put it up for sale on eBay. Buy it now for £24 delivered, or anyone in the Reading area can buy it for £20 if they come collect it, or I can meet you part way if thats easier. Here it is, happy bidding...

I'm guessing that this is one of the most frequently asked questions on here, purely because you can't search for 'hub' or 'nut' using the search function above which seems silly. Words such as 'and' or 'the' I can understand but not hub or nut on a car forum. Anyways, I managed to find a...

I've just had my water pump off, cleaned it up put it on with lots of liquid gasket, assuming it was leaking around the seal between the pump and the block. However, having put it back in, I filled it back up with coolant and now that its clean I can see its not leaking around the gasket, its...

Its come down to the last 3 jobs on my £130 Micra to get it though its MOT, I've fixed everything else. The last three jobs are all things I'm not looking forward to: Change a CV joint Replace the waterpump gasket Repair the reversing light sender in the gearbox They are all nasty...

First of all, hello to you all, I'm normally found on the SXOC but have recently purchased a Micra K11 1.0L as a run about (my 200sx only does 20mpg and can't get over the speedbumps at college). The Micra I bought is a 1.0 Mauritius with 150,000 miles on the clock! I paid £130 for it. Its...