Given the size and stature of the car on the road, you do feel a little vulnerable at times, and visibility to other road users is more important than in a saloon. Much as it would look great, I don’t think I would even buy a Caterham in black for this simple reason.  I had been thinking about a high level brake light to assist this for a while but hadn’t really seen a solution that I particularly liked. Read More »

This was also fitted by Millwood originally, who just ran a pair of wires direct from the battery across the top end of the engine bay, through the steering column grommet, and back across to the tunnel inside the passenger compartment, simply wired straight to the socket with an inline fuse. This works fine, but not having the actual socket mounted to anything solid meant that the more it got used (sat-nav mainly), the more strain there was on the crimped terminals, and one eventually failed. Cue the project to do it better. Read More »

Replacing these turned into a rather more significant job than I had planned, although it was forced by me almost losing a cycle wing late at night on the M5! Read More »

One of the areas which virtually any sevener will both talk about and differ on is the thorny subject of tyres, and some might say that if you can’t tell your ZV-3s from your CR500s, or your 021s from your 048s …. Read More »

A free winter check-up in December 09 back at the factory revealed that I had a failing weld on part of the silencer which would need looking at anyway, so a bit of research on recommended alternatives was required, whether just a silencer or a whole system. Read More »