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Fitted a cheap split universal CV boot yesterday. I know its a temporary fix but it seems to be holding up pretty nicely so far. My old CV boot was split completely off in one of the creases and it had been like that for at least 1500 km, but to my surprise, the joint was still full of grease...

After troubleshooting (and fixing) a couple of other weird sounds coming from my Micra, I have now gotten a set of new ones that bother me. I can hear some sort of ringing/whistling sounds of different pitches and frequencies coming from somewhere. I have not found any pattern as to when the...

Dizzy refers to distributor, right? In that case, yes it's a dizzy engined Micra. Early stages of a maf-failing could also be a probable cause indeed.

Yesterday I was patching up a hole in the back of my sill so I jacked up the car in the back and got to work. Four hours later I was done so I put the car down and got behind the wheel, but the car refused to start. At first I thought the battery was flat but I realized that it was in fact...

I patched up a nasty rust hole in the back of my right sill. I did the quick and dirty version with some aluminium reinforcement and fibreglass filler. I know it's a ****ty way to fix it, especially since there was no way for me to actually remove all the rust, but if it holds up until spring I...

I had some nasty heat shield rattle from the heat shields on the exhaust pipes. For me the heat shields after the front cat were clamped in place by three clamps that were all rusted to bits. Replaced them with new hose clamps and now everything is nice and quiet. I also had to ride the car up...

Finally got myself some roof bars! Found a complete used thule kit cheap online, so now the Micra is ready for bikes, skis and surfboards. Also took care of some more nasty heat shield rattle. Thought it was the manifold or catalytic converter heat shields and although they were rusted and loose...

Hi! When I bought my K11 it came with a pair of roof bars the seller believed belonged to the Micra (the car belonged to his grandmothers so he hadn't driven it himself). I didn't look at them much until today when I tried to fit them but either I am a lot dumber than I think, or these are...

Finally got around to do an oil change and change the spark plugs. I live in the city with street parking so the fact that I can't just walk outside and do it in my own driveway made me postpone the oil change a bit. It's been 3000km since I bought the car so the oil change was long overdue...

So, I got my Micra a couple of weeks ago and got it through the EU-checkup (similar to a MOT) without any major hiccups but it has a couple of annoying noises that I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix. Noise number one: Some sort of rattling that seems to be coming from the right dash...

Yesterday I did the most important thing, buying the Micra itself. Got a nice red 1999 K11 1.0 pretty cheap. (Roughly £965, which is cheap here in Norway) 130000 km and grandmother driven since 2009. Looks to be in pretty good shape but had some nasty rattling from the heat shields on the front...