duncs_c7

Thanks for that bluenose!

Naturally I agree! I'm quite surprised I haven't even had a sniff of interest to be honest, seems like people are keen on the brighter colours... but at this price you could afford a couple of re-sprays before you've spent what you would on a dealer car. Alas, it will probably end up at a dealer now and someone will have to pay £25k+.

Price now reduced to £22k as I need to sell soon, I think it's comfortably the cheapest R400K around now, and it's a great car. Please pass on the details to anyone you know who might be interested.

Link to pistonheads advert: https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/caterham/all-models/low-mileage-2004-r400-k-series/9558944

Still for sale.

Reluctantly selling my R400 K-series due to imminent house move, 17k miles on the clock. Looking for £23,000 The car has just had a full service and MOT, so is in in fine fettle for a summer of fun! It's a 2004 factory build in black with gold noseband and gold Caterham 8 spoke wheels (sorry, I don't know how to put up photos but can e-mail them on request!) with the following: Roller barrel throttle bodies Full wet weather gear FIA roll bar LSD 6 speed gearbox Dry sump Just Add Lightness LED rear lights Removable 260mm momo steering wheel Tillet seats (drivers side adjustable) Areo filler Lowered head lamps with black 5 3/4 " lights Updated lenses and Philips bulbs 12v socket under the dash FIA battery cut off switch Wide track Heater Carpeted interior and boot Repack-able exhaust ACE shift lights Aero filler cap in black Carbon fibre dashboard Carbon stone guards Carbon cycle wings Carbon areo whiskers Carbon fibre number plate light Laptimer with remote trigger switch Private R400 plate Black pack screen and lights Black gear knob 13" Superlight 8-spoke wheels powder coated gold by Lepsons of Kent (recently done / immaculate) 4 point Caterham harnesses Avon ZZS with less than 1k miles on 2 keys and immobiliser fobs Good condition, a few paint chips here and there as to be expected. Folder full of receipts and service history. Sevens & Classics and James Whiting since I've had it, and Sevens & Classics with the previous owner too. Any questions, please ask. E-mail me at duncinnes@yahoo.co.uk Now sold.

Thanks for the advice guys. I run Comma Motorsport oil, for no other reason than that is what the previous owner used and he seemed to know what he was talking about!

I am not using the dipstick that comes with it, that's next to useless. I drop an alu rod in to dip it. I've never tried to dip it, clean it, and re-dip. I'm not actually sure how long you have to dip it before it subsides, 30 seconds or so?

Look like this (sorry, dont know how to put up photos): http://i.imgur.com/koc3OwN.jpg

Looks like air to me. Well checking the dry sump is immediately after switching off the engine from warm. I was kind of hoping it was just the pressurised system whipping it up a bit!

Anyone else find there's small air bubbles on the dipstick when they dip their oil?

Think it's the standard procedure: jack up front, open rad bleed plug, open heater, top up from reservoir, then I did a bit of gentle hose squeezing to clear any bubbles. Appears to have worked at least. That's the plan, for a while take it for some short to medium distance drives and keep monitoring everything.

I'm not sure what else I can do, I also don't want to replace a head gasket that's perfectly fine. If it is the early stages of HGF then no doubt the issues I've been having will return. However, given that it started just after having the hoses replaced and appears to be fine after bleeding is surely evidence that there's a good chance this was the issue?

Well I did in fact manage to bleed the coolant system, it really wasn't as difficult as I was expecting. Weirdly, it seems to have fixed everything. Plan now is to fit new leads anyway, and then just keep any eye on things for a while. Might send it to someone for a once over as well.

Is it possible that the coolant system wasn't bled properly when the hoses were replaced at the last service? Either way, having looked up the procedure I'm guessing it's not something I could take on! Might be time to ship it to someone with some skills!