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I had a lot of issues with CC at the PBC & they seemed to think it was open cheque book time... Fortunately I had a lot of correspondence with Derek during the build & whose help was invaluable & also took lots of photo's. I had the first section of the pictorial guide which had a lot of mistakes within it (but gave you a false sense of security). Main issues I had were with wiring & cooling pipe distribution which the 'manual' contained wafer thin guidance... I made a fuss & they reduced my bill by 50% (but that was still a significant sum) spoilt the CC experience for me a bit as I went from super helpful Derek to what appeared to be the CC 'final hurdle' profit making department.... But loving my car & it has behaved impeccably, 2 years now!

Rain stopped for a bit & went for a quick blast up Kop Hill, fortunately got stuck behind an old lady lol.

This worked for me, very happy with the mirrors & I can now see behind me.... https://www.lotus7.club/blogs/spa-mirrors

http://spa-uk.co.uk/Products/ViewProds/66 went for the formula mirrors, a bit pricey but they seem well made & do the job!

Got the mounts from 'Eccles' on this site, they are fantastic & fitted perfectly. The mirrors are a transformation as well! I can now see whats beside me which is a massive improvement on the standard ones. I went for convex glass which gives a much wider view as well. A bit of a palver to get them set up on your own without an assistant as you can imagine but got them sorted in the end.

Enjoy! I sold the purchase to the missis based on the 'good re sale value' lol, but so far she's had more opportunities to drive it than I have & loves it, so I think its safe in the garage for a while! (hers got booted out onto a side road...).

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Well took a measure to it & looks like panic over... as suggested by Elie Boone i measured the distance between the Centre & the nut & they are both the same. Visually it looks different so I did it a couple of times (just because it still didn't look the same lol) with the same result! very bizarre & makes a bit of a mockery of the 8 turns on the thread guidance if the threads don't match on both sides.... Caterham must have disconnected & wound them inout as I cant see any other way they could have done it. Wasn't mentioned when it went for its post build check up.... I do recall it hardly managed it up the ramp when they picked it up for its PBC & had no sense of direction... I assumed it was just the tracking... must have been everything....

yes I set it to 8 threads & it came back looking like this (which I hadn't clocked until they mentioned the tracking was out when they did the 1000 mile bolt check. I'll take a measure from the centre of the rod to the locknut. I've no idea what the camber actually is as it was done by Caterham South behind closed doors. & sorry I meant wishbone ball joint, a picture paints a thousand words as Telly Savalas would say. I've also dropped Derek an e-mail to see what he thinks..

I used temporary bolts on the top too, managed to get the diff in on my own using an engine hoist. A lot less dangerous than balancing on a jack! https://www.lotus7.club/blogs/diff-almost

adding two photos was a challenge... heres the other one...

thanks, strange its different on the blogg page.

photos attached on my blogg https://www.lotus7.club/blogs/track-rod-ends

Track rod ends Had my 1000 mile bolt check completed & everything was fine apart from the tracking which they adjusted & there was a noticeable improvement (ive only done 400 miles in it lol the project manager had completed the other 600...). Had a quick look at the front suspension when I got back & one trakrod end has a lot of thread showing & the other one has none? Can this be right? I would have thought they would be identical? I know they started off as identical when I put it together as I had to take the suspension apart to do this... https://www.lotus7.club/blogs/return-front-suspension

Had my 1000 mile bolt check completed & everything was fine apart from the tracking which they adjusted & there was a noticeable improvement (ive only done 400 miles in it lol the project manager had completed the other 600...). Had a quick look at the front suspension when I got back & one trakrod end has a lot of thread showing & the other one has none? Can this be right? I would have thought they would be identical? I know they started off as identical when I put it together as I had to take the suspension apart to do this... https://www.lotus7.club/blogs/return-front-suspension I'm not sure how to add a photo to this query so I'll put two up on my blogg /sites/default/files/images/users/39634/xlarge_2017-09-16%2008.51.01.jpg