davestevenson

Thanks. I'll give it a go. I'm just hoping it's not that I managed to cross thread it and have a damaged thread in there. But I guess if I squeeze it tight again then I can always drill the head off to get it out if that is the case.

Hi All. I've just switched from the Caterham road harnesses to proper 4 point ones, so seats out. Murphy's law being what it is, on putting the last allen headed bolt securing the seat to the runner back in, it starts spinning - NOOOO! Double whammy of it being the one right in the middle of the runner, so very little access to do anything. So I've pulled the seat back out and managed to release it again, but what's the perceived wisdom on how to re-fix or replace the rivnut? At present I haven't even managed to confirm whether the thread inside is still good or not :-/ I do have a bag of the rubber rivnuts, but I suspect they're going to expand too much and foul the runner movement. Thanks.

Thanks folks. My current harnesses are pull down to tighten and you end up with the buckle nearly under the seat squab :-/ Pull up should at least solve that problem.

Thanks John. Caterham do list the black version with both LH and RH variants, but not the blue ones (two guesses what colour my car is!). In typical Caterham fashion both the black ones are out of stock too. If they will fully undo to remount then that is great. Although doesn't it need a change to the buckle to retain the opposite waist strap, otherwise the release levers will be pointing in the opposite directions? The pictures of the black version don't help as they are identical! It looks like the 6 point release lever points sideways, which would be one (expensive) option. I guess the simplest thing is to drop Caterham a line and ask the question. I know from old threads that Titon were very accomodating in changing sides and pull up/down to tighten, but that's not much use now they don't make them :-(

I'll add that I'm not racing (although keep intending to do a track day and never doing it), so FIA approval isn't a requirement.

I currently have the Caterham "push button" 4 point harnesses - probably the 2007 equiavalent of https://caterhamparts.co.uk/seatbelts-harnesses/1388-seatbelt-4-point-harness-black.html They sit very wide on my wife and kids' shoulders, so I'm looking to swap out for the racing twist release 4 point harness in the hope that having the shoulder straps come to the middle rather than 6" apart will bring it in slightly on the shoulders too. I had previously been looking at the Titon harnesses, but they no longer make them. Caterham do https://caterhamparts.co.uk/seatbelts-harnesses/1193-seatbelt-4-point-quick-release-blue.html, but only appear to have the buckle strap one way round. So who should one go to to get a left and right handed pair of 4 point harnesses (preferably in blue)? And what is the current recommendation between pulling up vs pulling down to adjust? It's with cloth seats if it makes a difference.

My 2007 had the same small beeper taped into the loom up by the steering column. Drove me potty! I replaced it with an Audicator (http://audicator.com/product.html) so that the beep is disabled whilst you have your foot on the brake, and then waits 10 flashes before nagging you. There's a member's discount with them too.

If it is an MOT failure then I need to have a word with my test station. MOT passed in July. Noticed a couple of weeks ago that I had no reversing light and found the econoplug disconnected up beside the fuel tank. I suspect I disconnected it when fixing the reversing light after it had got hit by something falling in the garage a couple of years ago and not reconnected it! It probably passed 3 MOTs in that state

Yup, I had that a couple of years back with the original Banner battery (2007 1.6l EU3 K-series, same as yours). Immobiliser would disengage as normal via the fob. Hit the starter button and the engine would turn over happily, but the voltage drop was such that the immobilser would come back on solid red and stop the fuel pump. New battery time. (A PowerVamp 25 and battery conditioner have held off the issue since).

In one of our office visitor spaces! Curious now as to whether one of the other employees here enjoys low flying, or was it a visitor

11:20 Black/dark blue. (Sorry I held you up - a load of glass in the boot!)

Another for Audicator. I had the standard buzzer fitted when I bought the car but got annoyed at it when sitting indicating at a junction. Audicator is silenced whenever you have the brake pedal depressed, and also delays for N flashes after the brakes released.

I had a similar conversation with the tester when I took my 1.6 k-series to the local place back in August. He was going to totally skip the emissions test as if it "failed" they reckoned they wouldn't find a match in the database for the car, so it'd be classified as a pass anyway As HeMan suggests, it sounds like there are different limits for different cars based on what they're registered as - I guess it makes sense when the VED is based on emissions that exceeding those limits makes the reduction in VED a nonsense if it doesn't remain within those limits. Makes no difference for us where it is the 1.4l that determines how much they sting us for.

Count me in for 3 too.

I guess you're all probably right. It's just so tempting to try to encourage her to be a petrolhead early I already have permission to build a new Seven when she's old enough to help 😬 (even if that is 15 years away ), so need to make sure she's interested.