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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...