Ive never known an injector go on these personally,dead easy to check though as you can see them dribble when running a 1300 also substitutes an 1100 one, i used to mess with these trying to get these mk3"s through the cat tests after trying everything else known to man and beast (thankfully they are nearly all dead know ,no offence OP )

Good point about the air leak. When this exact symptom occured 3 months ago he fixed it by replacing a split emissions hose somewhere under the manifold. He claims that's still intact. Might try another garage...

"compared to other sites .. this place is a haven of politeness, knowledge and courtesy"

I quite agree! I even suspect that Mapmaker started this thread to take a bit of the heat off Fairylights (who was probably getting more advice than she really needed) and thus allowed a more open-ended debate on the same subject.

Some of us have thicker skins than others, of course, but I think the judicious use of smileys makes a big difference. This always seems a pretty civilised place to me...

>On Saharan dirt roads..
>so sudden manoeuvres become much more risky... :o)

Sudden manoeuvres are indeed very risky on corrugated dirt roads, it usually results in the tyre sidewalls digging into the ruts and flipping you over. The most common causes where I lived in Namibia were swerving to avoid wildlife and front tyre blowouts which are much more common and spectacular on dirt roads.

>thought of all those people and their luggage and the plywood scattered down 300 yards of red earth

I still read the online version of The Namibian fairly regularly and it's always the same story -
"Overloaded Hi-Ace overturns leaving 8 dead and 14 injured - Transport Minister promises clampdown on unroadworthy taxis". I think Alastair Campbell must be doing lecture tours over there.

On a brighter note (and thank-you for reminding me): I used to love driving on corrugated dirt roads especially in the crossply-shod company RWD pickups. As you say, the technique is to keep enough speed to skim across the crests or you'll turn your insides to jelly. Going into corners you have to turn in gently and early then let it drift before straightening out and hitting the gas. Brilliant fun.

Kevin...

PS. My wife once grabbed an old Chrysler Valiant (it was the only auto available) from the car pool to deliver some haggis to the Country Club for that night's Burns Night celebrations. The road down to the club was badly corrugated and she didn't want to damage the poor haggis so she drove very slowly.
When she got back to the car it wouldn't start so she asked one of the managers to take a look before she called for another car. He popped the hood and pulled a few wires before declaring that he couldn't see anything wrong.

"Should the battery really be there, she asked?" pointing to an empty tray and the battery hanging from one of it's cables.

I was amused to see the very latest but borrowed Tom Tom Europe showing us resolutely ploughing across the middle of a fairly wide French river rather than on the nice bridge that appeared to be more than a year or so old. The satnav showed a longer diversion along the riverbank which I ignored -- as I did the flight of steps in Aix-les-Bains that were wide enough for our 4x4 but it was going up rather than down.