Terence

I've been using one of these for about a year now. An excellent piece of kit, which has recovered "dead" batteries as well as starting anything so far that I have used it on. It's expensive, but well worth it in my opinion: https://no.co/gb70 https://www.amazon.co.uk/NOCO-GB70-UltraSafe-Lithium-Starter/dp/B016UG6PWE?th=1

If you use your phone as a sat nav you might consider the sat nav/dash cam combo from Garmin instead:- https://www.halfords.com/technology/sat-nav/car-sat-nav/garmin-driveassist-51lmt-d-with-full-europe-maps-5-sat-nav This has the normal suction cap attachment for mounting on the screen. I use it in my tin top but only as a sat nav on my aeroscreen.

I don't know about "the best" as I have only used the one, but the Storm Car Cover I have is excellent. I can fully recommend it. I purchased the Voyager as it is both waterproof and breathable. It is designed for the Seven, fits very well, and certainly protected mine last winter when I was having building work done at home. If you page down on their blog page you will see my green with yellow stripe car shown both half-undressed and fully covered! https://www.stormcarcovers.co.uk/blogs/news HTH

You can have the Curly Wurly- I'll go with the beer!

"Only dead fish go with the flow!" Those, and the young who go down river into the wider world, to learn, grow, and return to breed and pass on their knowledge.

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Brilliant, Anthony, that's exactly what I need(ed). I shall now get to work. Many thanks for your prompt and comprehensive help..

I haver added some routes in Devon this morning. There is one figure eight loop, and a number of short(er) feeder routes from from major towns/highways to various points where the loop may be joined. Is there any way of showing two or more routes in the same area at once? If there is I couldn't find it in the MyRoute support pages. Thanks to anyone who can help me, and to Marcus and the team for providing this great improvement to the site.

I agree - as I normally aeroscreen I go prepared, but I had to get the various bits and pieces (half doors, aeroscreen etc.) home with me I didn't have the option. Aeroscreen's on now though, so I'm happy! Terence

That was me, Chris, I had just collected the car from Yorkshire, and had to fit a Seven hood (in pouring rain) for the first time ever! It would have been better to have read the instructions first... Terence

Hi, Gordon, Mk I worked well today, so I will proceed to Mk II this week, and post details. Terence

Running an aeroscreen 7, and needing my satnav tomorrow I have just fabricated a bracket and plate which attaches below the dash on the passenger side. Basically it is an aluminium upper clamping piece and lower plate, curved to match the profile of the dash cross bar with a thin rubber coat where it clamps to the rail. There are two holes in the flange which carry 6 mm bolts through the bottom plate to wing nuts which clamp both parts together, for easy attachment and removal. The plate is angled to hang vertically, and the Garmin sucker attachment mounts onto that. This is a quick and dirty fix for tomorrow, and Mk 11 will be profiled to the size and shape of the Garmin mounting. The green background is to match the car - Mk 11 will be matt black!

Thanks, Jonathan. I shall read these now (and use that search in future!) I'll hope to have an answer wrapped up before too long! Terence

With the generous offer announced by Geoff Brown (https://www.lotus7.club/news/flame-barrier-high-temperature-exhaust-wrap-20) I searched on-line and on this site for information on the benefits or otherwise of exhaust wrapping. The internet seems ambivalent about these, and my search on the Club site gave me the following: Enter search term: Exhaust wrap Did you mean: Exhaust crap I don't know if that was an AI answer to my query, but I understand from my limited knowledge and research that there are benefits in using such tapes. What are your opinions, views, experiences? TIA Terence

Hi, This one looks good:- https://www.sevensandclassics.com/showroom/caterham-21/ Very tempting...

Hi, Clive, I would recommend Fluke multimeters. I have always followed my Father's advice and bought the best tool that I could afford when I wanted it, and this was the best at the time. It is protected against connecting the wrong way, or with the wrong range set, and just works. I have had mine for more than thirty years, and used it for electronics, domestic and commercial installations, as well as automotive use, and it has proved accurate and reliable. One of the reasons I bought it was that it claimed to be droppable from a supply pole without damage, and mine has certainly had it's share of knocks. The basic Fluke 101 is just over £50, and if the spec is what you need I would strongly recommend it based on my own experience. HTH Terence

Thank you both. If this was a common fault/feature of the engine, I felt sure that there would be a good deal more support for the Autocar view, and a great deal more pithy comments on Blatchat! Thank you again for your reassurance.

I am thinking of buying an early 2000's R type with a K-series engine. I came across this comment in a review in Autocar (https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/caterham/seven/first-drives/caterham-r400-2.0) in which it states:- "The old 1.8-litre K-series might have revved highly and produced plenty of power, but it needed a £3000 rebuild every 5000 miles.". I have never heard anything about them needing regular rebuilding like this, so can anyone give me further information about why this should have been said? Thank you for any help you can give me.

Thanks, Dave, at least I look more or less in control!

Dave, Can you send me detail 7 photographs? Thank you

Hi, A10Rox (I suspect that's not your real name!) I am interested in getting a higher performance Seven, and would be grateful if you would send me the specs and so on. Does it differ, if at all from the description in "The Magnificent Seven"? As you have been the only owner can you also tell me a little about how it has been used, and perhaps provide some photographs? Thank you for ypour help. Yours aye, Terence

I'll certainly add my thanks due to James and Simon, and the two Daves (Rothwell and Clark) for an excellent day. In between the excitements of the track the ESV canopy's shade and refreshments were very welcome! After my novices' day at Rockhampton earlier this year Phil Brough's further instruction gave me very good pointers, and a good sense of progression in my driving and handling. I also had the welcome bonus of some passenger laps courtesy of Mike Scott in his 620 and I got a much better understanding of just what these cars will do at a speed I haven't yet approached! I came away very pleased with my day.

If the full report is to be published to members then It should be restricted to Club members only, and should be be clearly copyrighted to the Club. If there is a particular issue that a member has has in the absence of such publication I am sure that James will give a full and comprehensive answer. The Club has paid for this research in more ways than one, and I do not consider it should be freely given away.

Wot, no wiring diagrams? Shurely shome mishtake? Terence

The last blat of the year, and I was ready for it even if the weather wasn’t. I had my foul weather kit on, I’d checked the fluid levels and topped up the oil. I donned waterproof gloves, furry "keep my ears warm" hat, wiped the aeroscreen clear and started up. Putting on my harness caused the rain god to laugh and then cry very heavily over the village and on me specifically. Muttering "If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined" I set off in the rain and under the disapproving eye of my daughter. Quote "You're not invincible, you know" - as if I didn't. It wasn't too bad until approaching Whiddon Down when a combination of a passing truck and a simultaneous switch into storm mode "Hail" saw me loose my hat and a good deal of my remaining goodwill to all men. I stopped at Whiddon Down bus stop to unpack and don my helmet. The hail promptly filled the car and covered me in ice. I may have given the driver and the passengers in the bus that stopped opposite me something to talk about that evening, but somehow that was no consolation. I pressed on, conscious that the road and weather conditions were playing merry harry with my route timings, as indeed the melting hail soaking into my clothing did to my sense of comfort and well-being. I have a native son's love of the red soil of Devon - but not when it is mixed copiously with water and spread in random puddles and minor floods on Devon's narrow high hedged lanes. Splashing the sides and wings of the Seven, yes: covering my right arm and body, check, but pink water running down my visor? This is not what I understand about seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses! As I approached our meeting place I began - fool that I am - to cheer up at the thought I had nearly made it, and would soon join others with the same kind of approach to "enjoyment", and a chance to escape the storm showers for a while. First, Hubris, then Nemesis follows. It caught up with me at a junction. The Seven just stopped. Zero, nil, zilch, nowt, null, nothing. The engine turned over like a jet turbine winding up, but again nothing. A kind chap on a Kawasaki stopped and helped me to push the car to a safe off-road location, before apologising that he could not help me further, other than pointing out where I might get a hot drink in my time of need. I tried, unsuccessfully, the various things that sprang to mind before giving up and calling the RAC. They were very busy, but responded, I thought, very quickly, and the helpful engineer who turned up apologised for not being more familiar with the Seven, before telling me how impressed he had been when being shown around the CC plant when a much younger man. He diagnosed a fuel pump failure, and arranged for recovery back to my local garage. This turned up about two hours after I first started thinking about hypothermia, and my shivering fits started crowding together for company. The recovery vehicle driver was first class. He greeted me by saying that I looked frozen, and that when he had been told it was a Caterham Seven he was rescuing had put his vehicle heater on full. Out of the rain and the wind I was luxuriating in the cab when my 'phone rang,and my local garage chap told me he was away for the weekend! I just hoped that one of the workshops in the small industrial estate was open, and was fortunate to have a neighbouring garage take it under cover. The recovery driver offered to drive me home, but he was well into overtime, with a long way to go home, so I walked to the Wolborough Inn, had Tim pour me a pint, and 'phoned for a taxi. My luck of the day continued. "Twenty minutes" said the taxi firm. "Great!" I thought, settling into a local paper and my pint at the same time "I can make a pint last twenty minutes if I have to". Ten minutes later my 'phone bleeped to announce my taxi was at the door. I grabbed my helmet bag, outer-layer fleece, water-proof jacket and game bag, downed my pint, and jumped into the taxi. Home at last, undressed and with a hot bath running, my home ‘phone rang – I had left my mobile ‘phone in the pub...