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You might expect a rusty exhaust on a low mileage van, especially if it's only been doing mainly short journeys. It'll rust from the inside. Not too bad to replace.

It's an offside door window weather stripping.

Brilliant, love it.

Having said all that, mine is the Mark 1 facelift which only goes up to 2002, your 2003 model that I've just noticed might be different, although they're probably pretty much the same under the shape change. This is the shape I'm referring to!

I had the opening window tailgate which was dented so I got one from a breaker. I didn't even know the window on the old one opened until I got the replacement! When I swapped it all over I found that the wiper on the fixed window was unswitched and permanently on so I've just disconnected it...

Yeah, Burnerman is correct on the location. Word of advice, make sure the replacement gate is the same as regards the window ie, is it an opening window or a fixed one. If you put a different one on, and they will fit, the wiper won't work. I did that last year on one of these and although the...

On the plus side, there are no tank straps, just 4 bolts which have had a liberal spraying of penetrating fluid. Incidentally, I'm using Tech 7 GT7 penetrating fluid at the moment. No reason really, I just bought a can of it as the only available one. Are any substantially better than most?

Pfft, that was a waste of time. There's no way that plugs coming off without dropping the tank. For one thing there's no clearance between tank and body, and for the other the hole is too small anyway to be able to get at the spring retaining clip to pop it off. I honestly can't see why Ford...

Well my curiosity is certainly aroused, although I wouldn't want to risk sparks in a nearly empty tank! I'm happy enough to drop the tank though and pop a new unit in. Anyone got any thoughts on this brand on ebay? It's the cheapest I can find, bearing in mind I just want to move the car on.

I'm hoping to be lucky on that one, it's a mint little car, 59k mainly dry miles, garaged all it's life and left in a garage from 2006 to 2014, and then left on a drive since with hardly any miles put on it. I'd be surprised if it's rusty under there but i haven't looked yet.

Yeah that's what i thought, thanks John. I'll try that tomorrow.

Thanks for you input chaps, I've been and had another quick look today to try a fuel pump relay that I borrowed off another vehicle. However, I have ascertained that it is consistently blowing the 10A fuse ie F35 in the auxiliary fusebox in the engine bay. From what I can gather this is a common...

I've got a Fiesta that won't start which is annoying as someone was coming to buy it and it's always run fine before although it has been standing doing nothing on a relative's drive for a while. It's a '96 SI petrol, 1.25 zetec engine. I tried starting it in the dark last night and while a...

The K4M's dipstick is at the front of the engine beneath the inlet manifold. About 100mm to the right and about the same below the oil filter. I think the K4J is the same. You've probably found it by now though.

Oh well, thanks anyway, but I've sorted it now. It transpired I do have a hybrid so had to cut the bridging wire W18. Anyone interested might want to have a little look here.

I'm planning on putting a new DHW heat exchanger on my boiler tomorrow to replace the leaking original. Looks straightforward enough, but apparently if it is a hybrid model I need to cut a connection on the pcb. What is the difference, and is there a quick way to identify whether I have a hybrid...

I'm pretty sure the paint is just standard masonry paint, perhaps two or three layers thick. It's worth noting that the grooved texture is not a characteristic of the paint, but of the 4mmish decorative coating on top of the render. I reckon it's Alpine Finish as I've said, which is laid on...

I don't think it is plastic paint. Like I say, the other walls seem fine. I'll probably just paint them.

Actually, I suspect that I've got an alpine finish cement based thing rather than Tyrolean, such as this one on Weber's site. (Page 19 Decorative Finishes)

Ah yes, I see what you mean! A good downpour overnight has revealed quite a few bubbles, there's clearly a route behind a lot of this Tyrolean. So much for a quick fungicide and paint job! It's only on one wall though, which happens to be the most exposed. I can see I'm going to have to get it...