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Well, my Micra's been deemed too rusty to be roadworthy by Mr. MOT and it doesn't really make economic sense to do the work required. However, Sally the Micra will live on... as a farm car! The question is, what suitable wheels and tyres could I use to minimise chewing up the grass when the...

Hello, Following on from my borked gearbox thread, I'm looking for a gearbox for a 1.0l 5-speed 1998 K11B (with the coil still in the distributor). Looking for something with some life still in it, hopefully based in Kent - I'm usually shuttling between Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Ashford...

Hello, apologies for the thread duplication - I realised that perhaps this was a better place for this thread than general discussion! Diving home from work on Thursday, I smoothly double-de-clutched into third to overtake a slow-moving truck on a country lane when I heard a sudden, brief...

Hello! Diving home from work tonight, I smoothly double-de-clutched into third to overtake a slow-moving truck on a country lane when I heard a sudden, brief hiss... Thought nothing of it until a mile further down the road when I noticed I was leaving a trail of thin, white smoke behind me...

Well my trusty little K11 of ten years service has failed an MOT on a rusty front cross member and I've just had to SORN it while I look at repairing it myself. But I don't really know how. I know I can buy both lower cross members and full radiator support panels. However, I don't know one...

Went to change coolant today, but found the bottom radiator hose clip rusted solid. The Haynes manual hints at the possibility of draining the coolant out of the engine block directly, but doesn't say where... There's a sort of flap retained with a phillips screw at the bottom of the...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum, but I've owned my plucky little K11 for six years! Unfortunately, after serving my family for nearly eight years, its stopped working. The dizzy failed and has been replaced with a new part from autojapspares.co.uk but the car is still very much down on...