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Thanks Andy, I appreciate you saying that!

Price now reduced to £30,950 and open to offers!

*Bump* with info on the car included so no need to link through the PH. Caterham Supersport R (2015) – Just serviced and ready for track day season! Opportunity to acquire a one owner from new, low mileage Caterham Supersport R. The Supersport R offers the perfect balance of road and track ability, with over 300bhp per tonne. This example was purchased new from Caterham South and has been driven sparingly for the past 3 years (5,600 miles total) and cared for in underground, covered parking or specialist storage for its entire life. This Supersport R comes with a full service history, its first two services carried out by Caterham South as per the manufacturers guidance, whilst the last two services have been carried out by Caterham experts DPR Motorsport, who have spent significant hours setting the car up for fast road and track driving, including a full flat floor set-up. ENGINE & TRANSMISSION 2.0ltr Duratec 180 bhp 5 Speed gearbox Limited slip differential Lightened flywheel INTERIOR SPECIFICATION Tillet racing seats 4 point race harnesses Quick release MOMO steering wheel Lowered floors Heater Carbon leather tunnel Push button start Heated windscreen Single shift light EXTERIOR SPECIFICATION Special Order Grigio Telesto paint (Lamborghini grey) with Orange twin stripes Black pack Aero black filler cap Battery cut-off master switch Full screen and weather equipment Track day roll-bar WHEELS & TYRES 13" Superlight alloy wheels (wider at rear) Avon ZZS tyres (fitted 500 miles ago) 175/55 R13 Front 205/55 R13 Rear SUSPENSION & BRAKES Track suspension De dion rear

Hello all My beloved Supersport R is for sale - link to the advert is here. https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/caterham/all-models/caterham-supersport-r--finished-in-grigio-telesto-1-owner-from-new-and-just-serviced/8516848 If you are interested drop me a line - will make someone very happy this year! James

Hello everyone I am upgrading to an FIA roll over bar for my 2015 S3 Supersport R so I can do LoT events and club events. The current roll-bar is as good as new (3,000 miles on the car, and of course, I've never...er...rolled over!) and I have no need and no space to keep it! My chassis is an S3 metric chassis. Caterham Cars South will be removing the bar this week and will be storing the bar in their Crawley show room for pick up. £100 ono (these are £144 new from Caterham) Contact me if you are interested. James

Thanks for the comments on remapping...the lumpy idle is now a constant problem for the first 10 miles of any journey. I dread traffic! Sometimes switching off and restarting solves it...sometimes not. Adds pressure of making sure battery is charged too! Will look into Steve...thank you

Well team after all the help I felt I owed you an update - I've officially lost my v wings on the oil and have got into a good routine of adding 5w 50 after each track day (seems to lose about half the length of the dipstick measuring area per track day). - I had the pedal positions adjusted for heal and toe by one of the mechanics from cater ham south...they are now perfectly placed its almost hard not to mash them all at once...practice needed but much better. Now when the brake pedal starts to bite I am in line with the top of the throttle and can just slide over for a blip...but as I say, practice needed! - speaking of bite...the brakes were bled by caterham and OMG what a difference it made. Really firm now and shows it was needed. - they replaced the mirror of course...still on (I tried my own fix but it didn't last long) - and while I was there I couldn't help but get a battery master switch...j didn't know about these but it saves the rigmarole of taking the battery out to charge it every time I want to drive and seems to make sure the charge is held better when the batterY is off silverstone on Monday!

Thought you guys were owed an update. Great blat this morning - headed out on A113 towards Chipping Ongar and then B184 north. Some great driving roads in Essex...who knew! Added 300ml of oil last night but mid-run I check the oil and found that the reading will still only really at midpoint on dipstick, so added another 200mls at a quiet petrol station (dont like attention!), still reading was mid-point at best, so added a final further 200mls and then had a nice healthy max reading which was still there when I got home. Had some nice fun experimenting with little half slides on quiet junctions and roundabouts in1st gear - so epic. Brakes definitely need a look - i really can't "brush" them entering fast unsighted corners without putting in about 2-2.5 inches of travel which seems too much, btu will see Caterham to get it looked at. And the mirror is still on!

Thanks for the help guys - managed to get the mirror back on today. Brake cleaner proved (more than) effective at getting the old adhesive off, and then I used an autobar mirror pad a parts store near me. Will see if it's still there in the morning. Going to top up oil as well - I've got some Miller oils 5-50 ready to go and should be all set for early start tomorrow! Oh and battery currently having some r and r with a ctek charger! Just need to sort braking pedal position and squidgy feel. Caterham cars here I come - need to go anyway as they forgot to stamp my service book on first service!

I had the car serviced about 200 miles ago and changed the filter then - but have since done a track day at Brands and ragged the life out of her. Suspect Oil was added at the service (it was the new car ~1000 mile service)

Guys thanks for your help so far - I have some Miller Oils 5W-50 ready to go. And again, forgive this being a very numpty-like question - can I top-up the existing oil I have (its the same brand and weight), and if so how do I know what is too much / not enough? Thanks guys.

Hey Damo - very interesting post. CC did say the same thing you did about speed control on ECU - apparently it has two operating modes and if it gets confused between modes it can cause the humping. You are so right about over-compensating - I do often try and hold the revs up to compensate and then it definitely dies! I too invested in a CTEK and now if I know I plan to go out the next day I try the starter the night before and if no good I just take out the battery and run the CTEK overnight. Live and learn. Also guys - what is the caterham recommended oil for the SuperSport R, i.e. Duratec 2.0? Cheers!

Evening all - love this forum! The car is bone stock, so to answer questions - SM25T: I am based in London Bridge (SE1) and the oil set up is bog standard. Dip stick, Oil filler cap. - KRL - interesting stuff - I definitely have master cylinder. Am going to swing by caterham and see what they think - tempted to give one of their boys a spin in it and see what they think as they drive so many - Jonathan - its going great! Battery wise, when the car was brand new i suffered with a flat battery after driving for a while <20mph with lights and windscreen wipers on in traffic. Parked to pick a mate up, went to restart, and car died! Had to jump it. Has been better since to be honest. Am going to top up the oil and sort the mirror this weekend, then a trip down to caterham for Hunting/Humping and braking questions. Thanks guys! James

Guys - thanks so much for the help. Lots for me to be getting on with. What a helpful community! Regarding the question about oil system, I don't know what I have. Er, what are the options

Hey all Have had my 2015 Supersport R (2.0 Duratec) for about 3 months now – 2 trackdays done already though – and was looking for some advice on some reasonably silly things. Oil: I recently had the car do its first service – all good – then did 2 x trackdays. I didn’t check the oil post service, but since the second trackday I’d say the oil level is just above the highest part of the “tip” of the dipstick. It doesn’t go very far into the flat part of the dip stick. Am I right to assume there is no harm adding more oil, and if so how much do I add? I know this is such a lame question, but my previous car was a Boxster S and I never had to add oil other than regular services! Lumpy / Odd idling ("Humping?"): Recently I’ve encountered an issue of the car having a lumpy idle from cold, where the revs rise and fall when waiting at traffic lights and then sometimes fall so far as to actually die. Then, when I restart the car (whilst praying the battery is up to it) the engine software seems to “re-set” and it idles smoothly. Really odd, and annoying as the battery has been known to let me down before I’m out of central London and charging the thing up Pedal positions: I had the guys at Caterham adjust the position of the brake and clutch to give me more legroom (am 6ft 1) but now they rest just past the throttle and way past when depressed meaning heal and toe (which I do very badly) is impossible. Probably needs someone to look at the set-up, but is the throttle moveable as well, or do I need to move the other pedals back to where they were, nearer to me? Brake feel: I’ve always associated Caterhams with having great brake feel, but honestly I feel that the pedal is quite spongy for the first inch+. I’d prefer a much harder pedal on initial stabbing – is this just me, do the brakes need more bedding in, or do they perhaps need bleeding? I feel I have to push a good way down before they really bite. Rear-view mirror – fallen off already! Oh and finally, has anyone else found their rear-view mirror shakes itself to freedom? Mine came free and I wonder what adhesive people would recommend for me to return it to its natural place. It came off on the home straight of Brands when I had a race-spec R300 behind me….deeply uncomfortable! Any help appreciated James