AndrewB

Thanks Mankee, It turns out I got mine from Amazon in December 2013. I will find the box and check the warranty.

Funny you should mention that as I had the same thing happen to me on Friday. The CTEK has always been fine at changing settings, then on friday it just would not change. I disconnected the connection from the car and it changed ok. So I plugged it back in and it changed ok. I put it down to user error. Hopefully it's not on the way out as I've only had it 14 months.

I was out yesterday morning and it was a little bit wet and a little bit cold. I have read many times about how useless the ZV3's are in the wet but until yesterday I hadn't appreciated just how useless they were. So, having tried my best to avoid changing the tyres and throw away what appear to be good tyres with plenty of tread, I now accept I need to change them. Unfortunatly the obvious A021 route looks to be a non starter. So the question is what should I be looking for. I pretty much use the car on the road 100% of the time. I will try and do a track day here and there but don't have plans to do anymore than learn to drive the car. I have 14" wheels and would like to keep them as I visually like the wheel to tyre to car ratios. From reading all the other posts including this one then Uniroyal rain experts get a mention, I have also seen some Dunlop's and other tyres mentioned. I found on Demon Tweaks the following http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/performance/tyres-2/nankang-sportnex-ns-2r-tyre However it is described as 'extra load soft compound'. From what others have said, the weight of our cars is the issue as most tyres are designed for 1T to 1.5T cars and we are around 0.5T. So would an extra load tyre be a case of heading off in the wrong direction? i.e. it would be too stiff? Apologies to post on a subject which has been discussed so many times before. At the moment I am just thinking of putting the uniroyal rain experts on and seeing what happens. They can't be any worse than the ZV3's. Andrew

Grant, I put the bolts for the wheel arch the other way around so that the carpet in the boot would sit over the top of the bolt heads. I'm not sure if that is the right thing to do, just something I did by accident and when I came to put the carpet in I thought, oh yeah! Andrew

Silly question sorry but is the battery fully charged ?

Did I read something once about needing to have a certain amount of fuel in the tank? How much did you put in the tank?

Seeing your pictures and reading your blog take me back almost 12 months when my kit arrived on the 12.12.2013. I am sat here with a massive grin on my face just thinking about all the fun I had building the car and scratching my head. Just sorry that the weather doesn't look up to much tomorrow otherwise I would be out in it. I look forward to your posts and all the best with the build.

Hi Alan, I did edit the text of the gear box oil change rather than add a new post, perhaps I should ahve done that instead to make the results more obvious. Anyway, the change in oil made no difference at all to overun noise in 4th gear. Equally however I can't feel any difference in changing gear. I was worried that the gear changes would be stiffer but it is fine. All in all (IMHO), both oils function the same in the type 9 gearbox.

Not sure where the body text is when starting a blog post but this seems ok - http://caterhamsevenbuild.blogspot.co.uk/

My build blog can be found here. All comments welcome. I hope it is useful for someone just as other blogs were useful when I was building mine. http://caterhamsevenbuild.blogspot.co.uk