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There certainly isn't, Nutjob, there most certainly isn't... ;) :rolleyes:

:ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :rolleyes: Thanks for that sage advice... You remind me of the lad at school when we were all just passing our driving tests. He managed to crash his dad's car into the school wall one day, and then, instead of dying of shame, went strutting around...

It's DOT 4 brake fluid made by a company called ATE. It's up to you how much of the rest of the manufacturer's hype you want to fall for! If you still have the handbook for the car, it's likely to have recommended lubricants and fluids in it - "Castrol", "Total", "Girling", etc). Might also...

Are you as meticulous about changing your brake fluid as you are about changing your engine oil?

When I was little and my gran had really bad rheumatism, I offered to make her a Lego walking stick. In retrospect, I'm quite glad she politely declined...

Yes, always a problem. I have an ancient (really!) twin axle dropside trailer with 2 tonne suspension units and tyres on it, but if I filled it with wet sand, level with the top of the sides, I could get it to weigh 6 tonnes! On the other hand, filling it with firewood to the same level, it's...

I think all the plastic ones break, sooner or later. Might be a pig in a poke?

The IVA requirement is an interesting one. It is absolutely correct that if you want to build a new trailer today, you need to get an IVA test done on it before you can legally put it on the road. The requirements aren't difficult. The Inspection manual is available here...

I don't know for certain, but my daughter had a Punto once, and it looks remarkably similar. I bought the complete assembly as a replacement made by Wahler for about £30 (which was a few years ago now), when the plastic spout on hers snapped. It came with a brass spout instead of the plastic...

Does it have a rear load sensing valve in the braking system? (Or a pressure-limiting / reducing valve)? Which way is the braking system split on that car?

Of course... :rolleyes: The hose might have been in perfect condition, but you were talking about a caliper and hose connector, which, by the time you finished butchering them and took the photo in post#57, clearly weren't...:ROFLMAO:

So... let me get this right then... You stripped that, by trying to spin the caliper on with your frail and delicate hand? No. You cross-threaded it by hand, and then you were mechanically inept enough to keep heaving on the spanner until you'd completely mullered the thread all the way up...

Indeed, but Nutjob didn't deliberately order that. He just ended up receiving it, completely by chance, and was trying to claim some kind of superpower for ordering parts... ;)

That is quite impressively ham-fisted... :rolleyes:

Congratulations on your buying skills. It takes real talent to order a crappy no-name caliper and open the box to find a recon one in there! :rolleyes: (Assuming that's what it is, or course...). Slightly more curious as to how anyone can be ham-fisted enough to "break" a brake caliper?:unsure:

:ROFLMAO: Maybe you just don't understand sarcasm?:rolleyes: My car is very rare - a couple of dozen examples still on the road in the UK, according to the DVLA's website. When the old one started leaking, I wasn't exactly spoiled for a choice of suppliers of replacements. So "any port in a...

Congratulations! :rolleyes: Mine wasn't... Surprised it would fit a BMW if it was?

Yes, it does change slightly. Also it changes as the tyres wear. Growth at speed is pretty minimal for a road tyre.

But what were you checking the mileage against?

Yes... but are they telling the truth...? ;)