BigCol

You’re going to hate this… you need to get a bit biblical with the side skin and push it to give you access/clearance to the head of the bolt/nut. Don’t worry - it’s less industrial (mostly!) hereafter…

Me too… to a pre-booked IVA test only (and if it fails, direct to a place of repair/correction).

Banner —> Odyssey was (sort of) like-for-like but latter had a better reputation for longevity and being AGM, could be mounted on its side and I think was a tad lighter. Odyssey —> LiFePO4, yes - weight-saving though neither of the previous batteries had lasted a particularly long time (four and five years respectively from memory) so wasn’t motivated to go back to either.

I replaced my Banner with a PC680 before going LiFePO4…

Minty is more helpful than he is rapid… it’ll be worth the wait. Ironically, he’s slow because he’s busy as he’s so good!

yup; on the right hand side, there is a choice of two wing stays: race/lower, part number: 76102 or standard/higher: 76104. (based on emails with Caterham when I replaced a damaged wing stay with the wrong one! 🤦🏻‍♂️)

or in my case, the testers themselves; one of my IVA failure points was due to a mis-interpretation of the regs by the tester! To be fair, he accepted my subsequent email with *my* interpretation!

I suspect I used a unit similar to this (can’t see far enough back in my eBay purchase history to confirm). Two wires simply piggy-back onto the gauge with the other two are for the LED which I mounted in line-of-sight on the dashboard. There is a simple potentiometer that adjusts when the LED lights.

As above… have modded my gauge with extra resistors to aid accuracy and when my third party low-level light comes on, I can put about 32 litres in. So once lit, I have ~4 litres/30 miles before I get to the unusable bit (~36l of the 41l tank)

I think Soft Bits are that busy that they make stuff to order and so don’t have stock as such…

I have spare key, a spare immobiliser fob and a spare cut-off all secreted (in different places!) about my 7 in case any go AWOL.

and increasing ground clearance!

Daft questions are the ones you don’t ask!

Advice is to squeeze… I didn’t - just put it on the end of the selector and offered them up into place as a sub-assembly and then did up the three bolts. Think they’re all made by Steve. 🤔

Excellent - many thanks. My issue was that I look at BlatChat as an app, rather than in a browser, and couldn’t work out how to do what has been suggested from there!