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Hi I am after a roll bar for a metric car please for a holiday to Ireland. My car came with a cage, I have an imperial bar that I can modify but would prefer a metric one that fits properly if anyone has a spare. I am located in the Yorkshire dales . Richard

Oh ok, i tried for the boot but perhaps from your reply i need to pull the cover open more fully. Thanks anyway.

Hi i was going to work the other day for night shift and wanted to go 'doors off' that afternoon but have them with me for 'doors on' for the return in the morning but i couldn't work out how to carry them. I had a passenger as i lift share, i have a full cage at the moment with plans to remove. I tried to get one to go behind the driving seat but not enough room. Any ideas please?

Thanks Chris, the very wording of " current thinking" does justify my dilemma. I will have a look at that tomorrow. Got to go to work now. Thanks very much for your reply Rich

Hi Jonathan, I have bought a built car and the bracket is fine, i can set the gap ok. My wiring fused together, i have a new sensor and wire. When i received the car the connector was located vertically inside of the wheel arch [not in the wheel arch]. But to allow for enough slack i see that in some peoples build photos they have fitted it horizontally to one of the steel bars/tubes nearby. Before replacing it as it was, i thought i would ask opinions. Iif its one of those things that one just decides for oneself then that is fine i just thought i would ask for opinions firstly.

Hi all, Has anyone any experience of where to or where NOT to locate the connector for the speedo sensor? I see on some photos that some are located horiontally and others vertically. My sensor is located at the rear right hand side. Thanks Rich

Great discussion all, i picked up an old roll bar yeaterday but won't have time for a couple of weeks to have a go at swopping it for the cage. I will aim to inform how it went and indeed if it does not fit [or does of course].

Thanks all, It looks like i can get hold of an imperial age roll bar and from the measurements it could fit my metric car. So i am going to try it and see, sell the cage and then buy an FIA if and when. The bar that i am being given is quite old, i'm not sure whether the newer ones are any more reasurring. If newer ones are different or indeed metric necessary then i shall be looking to get buy one from someone in the north. Thanks for all the opinions and entertaining difference of opinion. Its why i was only asking for the benefits and not a 'for and against' discussion. Rich

Cheers Ged, i can't imagine many, i thought about access behind the seats for storage when touring but i havn't the experience and assume really that i should replace the cage with a track bar and not bother with an ordinary roll bar.

Hi all, has anyone thought about the advantages of the ordinary [non track] Roll Bar? I have bought a car with a cage that i don't want to keep and so its either a track bar or the normal roll bar. Are there any actual advantages to the normal roll bar or are they fitted just so folk can then upgrade to track bars? Rich

Hi Pendennis, i have just bought a car which came with one Willans harness but i forgot to take it with the car as i paid for a matching set of other harnesses. Thus it is at a garage in the south. Can you message me if you are interested and i will make contact to get it to you. Regards Richard

Hi Clive, i am collecting a car on Monday with one of these but i have had leather seats fitted so i was thinking of modifying the tonneau however seeing your add i could sell you it and buy a proper one to fit mine. I will be travelling between Windsor and Settle on Monday pm / Tuesday daytime. If you live en route i could pop in. Rich

I used to hit mine with a hammer [it wasn't a Seven but it was a car] Rich

Hi all , I have just bought but not yet collected a car with a cage and would like to swop it for a track /FIA bar. Also happy to sell the cage and buy bar a bar. I plan to collect the car in the south and drive it to N Yorks so if you have the time and tolls we could swop them over en route. Richard

"How's things my end?" Asks Ian from PTsports cars -- thought i would post my reply.. Oh you know , you have probably heard it so many times before. Another evening spent on you tube watching others in their Caterhams. Just the sound is energising. I'm so looking forward to my drive home from yours [[Windsor to Settle, N Yorks ] via everywhere. Its going to be B road tastic and weather allowing i will stay at someone's house to max the enjoyment. Its just going to be so good. Its like taking a bite from the apple for me as when i was 17 i was in the library reading Which mags on mpg for my first car. Thereafter it was always a Major factor. If we are going to Scotland, Cornwall or France climbing then its 60mph tops on the motorways to save fuel and money . Thus this is such a break from normality, its letting the dog off the lead, letting someone else's off the lead, its buying a wig, changing my name. Its future Caterham ownership and lifestyle. Cool bring it on. R

Got some seats on the way thanks all. Rich

Hi could i have the headlights please? where are you based for collection please. Richard

Hi Paul, I am pretty interested in your seats. Where are you based please?

Hi all, I have just bought a car with a tillet but i would like a pair of leather seats. Anyone got a pair for sale please? Rich

Well its not really close but i will be driving to PTsportscars in a few weeks. If its really valuable and worth it to you i can drive 2 hours off route and bring it to Windsor when i come if its your best offer. Rich

Hi Roger, I am thinking of getting mine[to be] re-covered. Just an idea, in case you don't a second hand one. Thanks for your help earlier. Rich

Well after 2 big drives to get to PTsportscars, i have bought a car and am really happy and excited about it although, it would be great to sleep well again. This is not out of worry or nerves, its out of proper excitement. I mean that real childish excitment. I didn't know it was possible to still feel like that. I have been amazed by the help from members. A couple of phone calls of over an hour with owners, who previously i had not heard of never mind met. I then traveled from Settle in the Dales to Winsor via Doncaster area to meet a member and look at his car. Overnighting near to Oxford with friends i arrived at PT the next day to drive a Sigma. Turning left out of their entrance, i drove 20m to the traffic lights and said to Ian "crikey its good being in a seven" or words to that effect. I think that the Sigma is much quieter than the K 1600 SS that i have been used to. It didn't stir the emotions as the K does but i reckon it could be better to live with. Anyway by the end of the drive i was quite un-moved by the car. It was ok, it was nice being in the fresh air but it didn't emote me in the same way so i left it. I then went to see another generous member over in Essex. I arrived after tea time and in the dark to look at his Sigma. What a difference a coat of paint makes! He generously took me out in a K1.6 SS and once again that familiar feeling returned. The "i want one of these" feelings. Returning home to Low Flying, You Tube and dreams i struggled with the concerns of whether i , and my neighbours, can cope with such a noisy machine on a day to day basis. I also genuinely want to use it with the other half.I then saw that there was a VCT at PT that i hadn't looked at. Could i really cope with another drive down there. Another member called endorsing Ian and i booked to go and see it but having run for 2 hours on the fells i was tired and cancelled. Realising my error i travelled down the following day which was the day before yesterday. To be honest i liked it even whilst it was just ticking over, an ex race car with a bashed front nose, no lights, no screen. I can't describe why it felt right, it was like buying a house and not just in money, i just knew it was right for me. But for those iin the same dilemma i will say that the engine sounds different and the car drives differently to that of the Sigma. I bought it. So to my mate Roger Callister, you were right as he told me just to drive a few and buy the one i like. True enough that is what it came down to. I met Rog in the 90's and would read Low Flying when he lived near to Swindon. I then drove his x flow when he lived in northern italy and spent some hours with the club mag again. Everytime i would feel the same and desperately wanted a Seven. But without a garage or to be honest any money i just was not prepared to go into debt for the 'want'. So now i have an endowment that will finish this spring that is funding this car [not immediatley Ian, i do have some money]. It was hard paying £47 a month in the early years and my budget was tight even to the extent of no pubs for a couple of months. I was saying this to the salesman at Oakmere and afterwards realised that to some it sounds ridculous as they may spend that amount on Sky or a phone. Well in my time we were told we could buy a house with it. Which was wrong by the way which is why the savings are now there for a car. Many thanks to all so far. Now my own chapter can start - well it can when the car is ready. See you out there. - Rich - fully endorsing Ian

Fantastically simple and clear explanation, many thanks.

Hi all, before buying a car I am trying to understand which engine it is to have. When I read the information on Sigma it sounds like it is really one of the above in the title. Wikiwatsit lists the history but I don't know which Zetec the sigmas are, can anyone help please? thanks Richard

In my continuing search for a car i have returned to the original idea and now commitment of a Caterham, for reasons earlier defined. Despite the modern day version of making a decision [hours on the interenet] the best advice was from my mate Rog on the Isle of Mann, to 'drive some and buy the one you like' . Now that is not so easy in the Yorkshire Dales in January although i appreciate that it is much harder for many others. So as the 'in laws' live near to Northwich i went to Oakmere. I actually went to look at an SV but i couldn't reach the pedals. The sales assistant didn't tell me or didn't know that it's possible to move the pedals. Anyway as a result i ended up going out for about 20 minutes in their 160. It was damp and i had only driven a Crossflow many years ago and remember being a bit scared of it on the right hand side on the road in northern Italy. So after a lap of the car park to find the pedals and controls i pulled out onto the road rather vigorously and the back end did a little dance rather like that of the bumblebee. I was impressed that the engine was not screaming away, i loved that you could use the right foot without any dramas and i did not feel small nor vulnerable. Instead it felt like bloomin good fun, if only there were fewer cars on the road then this would be the car for me. However as it is i often 'need' to overtake well i would in one of these and thus i would like more power. Before buying i would also have to drive it with a passenger and a bag of stuff in the boot to simulate real life for me. So lately i have been trying to pick an engine.