Sounds great, Martin! When I fitted the seats, I definitely thought those bolts seemed to hang rather low.. I wonder about turning the bolts upside down, or even just Dremel the ends off to save half an inch!

My car is awaiting PBC at Caterham, and still no news of an IVA date...

Ned

Yes driven it in the very wet, no problem as long as you are not too heavy with the go pedal. The roof held up really well but I had some water ingress in through the doors by the window seal that dripped onto the armrest. I will put some glue/sealant on the window seal. Strangely only happened on one side . The car had been great and so far behaved faultlessly but we have another 4 days and about 500 miles to go so won't want to tempt fate 

Martin

PS sorry to hear about your IVA Ned, I know what you are going through!

Hi Simon i have the part numbers written down at home and can get them at the weekend

martin 

Hi guys

I've had a reply from Caterham midlands the oil filter is a FRAM PH 4997 from a local motor factors or should be the same as on a suzuki cappuccino model

The oil should be shell helix professional 5w-30

I hope this helps, I'll be changing mine over the next few days as its due its first service.

Mike

Thanks Mike - I was wondering how we find out part numbers as the Owners Hhandbook is particularly poor in this area.

Update on my brakes - applying copper slip to either side of the anti squeal shim on the front discs seems to have worked. And I 'wire wooled' the rear brake pads to rough up the top surface where they had yet to wear - this also seems to have worked. 

Yes, coppa slip is an old trick from my motorbike days...

PeterM

Crikey you've got a handbook! lucky man, I having been emailing caterham midlands on this and at the moment awaiting a reply as all I have basically are 2 sets of keys and a build manual, no handbook or service book(I'm wondering if any one gets these). which leaves me not knowing what to service or when.

What I have been doing is contacting caterham midlands and asking them for the part numbers. I must say they have been very helpfull with all my questions so far.

I'll be changing the oil and filter at the weekend and I'm hopeing that it will resolve the low oil pressure reading.

Mike 

Hi boys now back after a 1300 mile trip from France the car behaved faultlessly. The oil filter part numbers I have are for Suzuki 16510 81404 and for the replacement that I got from caterham Crawley is Bosch P2058 but they gave me the wrong one to start with so I hope that is correct. I'm using the naff caterham handbook that I downloaded from their web site, its not great so I'm trying to record things as I go.

 regards

martin

MartinB2

Thanks for the tip I have just downloaded and printed off the manual, Why oh why didnt caterham tell me where it was?

Looking at it surely it should have delivered stamped up after the post build check? 

Looks like you had a great trip in france

Mike

I got my service record stamped by Caterham when they did the PBC but you need to remember to get it done. Also the manual is generic across all models but you need to follow the service intervals which is shown for a 160

martin

Thankyou Martin for the advise I'm booked in to go up to caterham midlands next thursday to get some parts changed so i'll double check service (stamps) etc with them when I see them.

Mike

I can support that from some "on the ground" readings, after 60 mins on the motorway we'd had enough!   50mph is a very reasonable touring speed not too loud but decent enough speed anything else requires headphones or slight deafness to make to acceptable

regards

Martin

Noise - now there's a problem I didn't imagine. Looks like ear defenders for a longer trip because a steady 50 would be really boring! 

Mod 1 - I have fitted a high level brake light and have experienced immediately that cars stay further behind than without one. Bought it on eBay, about £4, came all the way from Hong Kong! Removed the bracket, used two sticky-on tie wrap holders and made up my own loom extension. My car is going well, about 750 on the clock. Although I have a squeaky top bush on the steering when just moving the steering wheel - anyone else experiencing the same? Mind you, at normal speeds can't hear it anyway.

I would definitely have been up for it.

But sadly my IVA retest is on Friday, so the car is not yet on the road.

The first IVA test failed on two things:

- fuse blown on windscreen wipers. This is something I'd asked Caterham to fix, as it had already happened to me

- L-R brake balance on the front was 'unacceptable'. Nobody seemed to know what this meant, but hopefully CC have gone over it again and fixed it ready for Friday

So fingers crossed....! And have a great run out without me!

Ned

HI All, thanks for the reminder, even though it is was on our calendar, family committments have got in the way, so I can't make it, apologies.  I will be at the Hartley Wintney classic car meet on the Sunday, it is a kit/replica day

http://www.whitelionantiques.co.uk/classic-car-meetings/

Regards

Martin

We should definitely fix something up. I feel kinship with you guys!

Can you all cross fingers, pray and whatever else will definitely help for Friday, and my IVA retest?

Ta!

Ned

Everything is crossed, I know what you are going through!

Regards

Martin