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Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land

Redex added to the fuel tank in the correct concentration will not cause a problem. The original suggestion in this thread was to administer it directly into the throttle body, which is not a good idea on a car with an Oxygen Sensor and a Cat.

Redex is a very good upper cylinder lubricant, but even their injection additive is not a particularly good injector cleaner. The best products, IMHO, are from Forté (only available from the trade ie. a specialist engine tuner/diagnostician or a garage) or VW's own-brand additive available from any VAG dealer. Best available (injector cleaner) on the high street is probably Wynns or STP.

Regards, Adam

I entirely agree with you about Sykes-Pickavant being top end and Sealey the bottom. Look in "Car Mechanics" and you'll see Sealey stuff is a bit cheap and cheerful, shall we say?

I still can't see why you need a tension tool, though.

Setting things by eye and by feel is the way I've always done them and not come unstuck, yet.

I can see a tool, with an objective rather than subjective setting, being OK for someone unskilled. Just set it to this number. In practice I think you get much better settings with experience and "feel".

Send me your £200 and I'll come and set your tension, once or twice a year!

You can make a few quid - I bought one for £495 sold it three years later for £1275 ( so it probably went for £1500 ).

The big boys are likely to have most of the initials and traditional car models like 911, 355 and all that. So the next best thing for smaller players who just want to have a bit of fun with the market is to try second guess the success of future car models that are due. Then hope the model hangs around. For example; when Merc came up with the SLK/CLK those letters were available at a modest price direct from DVLA.

Merc is perfect for pp sales. So provided the models were up to scratch it was obvious that SLK/CLK plates would increase in value rapidly. If it wa on an M plate so much the better.

From this summer, I would think anyone who has a number that contains RX 8 in some legible form would be looking at the same thing. These Mazdas are likely to go well I would think.

Very grateful adam, thanks a lot. Have printed off your response. Today the engine behaved perfectly well. On monday when this happened the car was in a stop/start queue for over an hour. Typically of course, our local Fiat dealer closed down last month! Thanks again.