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Yeah that's what I was expecting. I was surprised that they'd blasted them, hence looking for a new supplier for the next batch.

Hi, Can anyone recommend somewhere to re-plate/passivate a bunch of bolts and brackets/fittings? (Yellow zinc). Either local to me in Surrey/London (or Southampton where I work) or somewhere which will operate by post. I used a local place last time and whilst they looked great when they came back... There are a couple of problems with them. First off they blasted everything first making the threads "gritty" and the finish on the brackets "dull" rather than "shiny" and secondly after about 6 moths some of the plating is coming off in places so they can't done a very thorough job. All recommendations welcome. Cheers Mark

Ah sorry can't help then. No slight on your abilities - just that I bought a pack of 10 of the white male/female connectors recently to make an extension lead for my (old fashioned) CTEK charger and so I have a load of spares :) P.S. <groan>current</groan>

Hi Jonathan Which proprietary connectors are you needing? They changed at some point. These? http://motorcycle.com.vsassets.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/022514-CTEK-battery-charger-4-connectors-518x389.jpg or these? If it's the latter than I have some male and female and the correct crimp tool. Happy to make you up a lead FOC if I can do it from my bitsa box. Cheers Mark

41mm socket also available in Coulsdon, Surrey.

Great detective work Dr S and JV, you've got it! My top fuse is actually 7.5A but it's definitely the immobiliser, so I'll put that down to an anomaly. So to put this to bed, on my car (a 2010 R400 with push button dash) the fuse identifications are as in Dr Slotter's diagram. I've created an ident sheet and stuck it to the car. If anyone wants a copy of the diagram you can get it here -> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13589857/Caterham%20R400%20Fuse%20Layout.graffle.pdf You want to print it so that the diagram on the first page is 194mm high. Thanks all of you for your help and ideas. Hopefully this will help someone in the future. Cheers Mark

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For sale, a pair of fixed seat rails/runners as shown here - http://www.caterhamparts.co.uk/product.php?id_product=245 Price : £25 for the pair including postage to UK address. (These are £20.80 each at Caterham.)

Thanks, that owners manual is different from the one they gave me with the car (!) However it still doesn't match. The number of fuses is correct (18) but the identifications don't match still. I know for fact that the power socket on my car is at position R (My keyless immobiliser has it's own inline fuse). And the ratings of the others are nothing like mine. The mystery conitnues!

Interesting stuff. My car was new in February 2010 in kit form and I built it myself. So they must have changed around 2009/2010. I will try to get an answer from Caterham and post back here if I can find anything out Cheers Mark

Do you have a dash like this? (like mine) : http://uk.caterhamcars.com/sites/default/files/styles/main/public/preowned/3_3.jpg?itok=vLtt8QDk If so then I believe that the switches control an "instrument control module" which determines which button is being pressed and what function to perform. I'd love to find a proper wiring diagram for this module but I've never been able to find anything. On "old" style dashes like this : http://www.mycaterham.com/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_175409/0037.jpg ... the hazard light switch was notorious for dodgy connections and consequent bad behaviour.

Just bumping this in the hope that someone has any experience in improving the responsiveness of the system. Cheers Mark

Thanks Ian, much appreciated. I don't think it's a match but are you happy for me to post the image here in case it helps others in the future? Cheers Mark EDIT : This is Ian's Fusebox

Counting up from the bottom, the 10th one (Red 10 amps) is the 12v accessory/cigarette ligther socket. Will pull a few more and see what they do.

So once I read the topic it's no longer considered "new and updated"? I see, it's a user context sensitive list - what a peculiar (and computationally expensive) implementation choice, but given the general departure from de-facto forum software conventions I guess I'm not surprised :) Cheers for the response anyway, at least I understand it now. Cheers Mark