Recent content by burnout

OK, replying to my own question... They unscrew, anticlockwise as normal. Only they don't unscrew when cathodic corrosion of the battery's post terminal has left you with a bright blue mess. Boiling water, poured over the crystallised verdigris stuff, shifted the worst of it. Then the...

Clocking is a lot harder to do, nowadays, because the MOT records mileage, and you're also invited to state the mileage of the vehicle when buying a tax disc. These two 'paper trails' mean that a person who tampers with a vehicle's odometer has very limited scope for reducing the recorded...

I've just been confronted by a battery terminal that looks like a small green plastic 'hat' with a serrated brim and a pair of projections like a wingnut. I've never seen one like this before. The text on it seems to just identify it as patented. It's on a Xsara Picasso, 2000 vintage. The...