Give a damn...Giveacar Cars, they're a bit like kids; great when they're doing what they should be doing but when they keep acting up and costing you a packet you want to give them away :) Luckily for me when I was a kid and...
24 top tips for winter driving I don't know about you but I'm hoping for another Winter like the last one! I love the snow and I like driving in it too. So in anticipation of another long spell of deep snow covered roads, icy corners...
Have a free guide to buying a used MX5 on me... My smurf coloured MX5 is up and running again and beginning to shape up nicely - finally :) There have been quite a few problems that could have been avoided if I'd had a bit more knowledge earlier on...
How to replace your soft top in two and a half hours... If it's the first time you've ever replaced the vinyl hood on your MX5, the bads news is you'll probaly need a weekend. On the other hand, if you've a bit of extra cash to hand you can call in The Soft...
How to improve an MX5 – wrap it in sunshine! When I suggested to a friend I was going to Union Jack Maurice, he said 'Why don't you wrap him?' I immediately thought how do you wrap a car? How many rolls of gift wrap would it take, can you get bows...
The O2 sensor, also known as a Lambda sensor, is a little gidget just under and behind the engine block sticking out the right hand side. Developed by the Bosch engineering group – they made my windscreen wipers you know! – it monitors the proportion of oxygen in the exhaust gases and sends a message [...]
As the onboard diagnostics for the Eunos is limited I bought a multimeter also known as a voltmeter to be able to test connections to various things. I’m all for a bit of guesswork, but aside from attaching myself to the battery and the suspect part, I thought a multimeter would be a far less [...]
There’s scant information around for the 1989 onwards Eunos as regards to tapping into the diagnostics system, so I thought I’d stick a post together on how use it. You won’t get as much information from it as you will from later cars with an ODBII connection but it can give you an idea of [...]
It could end here – it really could. This could be the shortest blog ever! I expected to get stuck, be bamboozled, baffled, confused, frustrated and annoyed. I usually am. I never expected to come to a bit of a dead end though. I thought I copped out ringing a mechanic and asking for advice [...]
Pretty much the same as it does in any other car! But, I find a simple title is always the best and I’m beginning to think that in all matters relating to cars these days, especially after the past couple of weeks. I’m steaming that my MX5 is still sat in the driveway and I [...]
While I’m waiting for my service kit to be delivered – as Royal Mail are taking their time – I thought it would be a good idea not only to know what the ‘gubbins’ under the bonnet looks like, what it is and how to replace it but what it actually does. If I was [...]
