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I admire your devotion to the cause but, with nearly fifty years of engineering behind me, my motto has always been KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. A few months ago, I read a car article about whether peak car had occurred at the end of the 1990s...

Kermitt_RR. Thanks for the E10 advice. That'll save me £6 - £10 every time I fill my tank. Just to be clear, I'm not saying I know more than any other member but, I feel like a battered wife, just waiting for my next beating. By exchanging bags...

I forgot to add that a lead acid battery is also limited by a finite number of charge/discharge cycles, typically 3500 if depth of discharge is below 20% and higher depth of discharge shortens battery life. It's electrical capacity decreases with...

Just for reference, a 12V x 90Ah lead acid battery should be charged at 14V4 and a manufacturer will typically advise ten hours, known as the '10Hr rate' for a full charge. Therefore, a 90Ah battery should be charged with 9A for ten hours...

I have a spare battery with a pin hole near one of the terminals. When left outside its OK, but if charged, this terminal acquires a fur coat of powdery oxide. Leaking battery acid is always the cause. Acid should cover the internal plates but...

OK Gents. My Maxiscan MS509 OBDII scanner read quite a lot, but also couldn't read some of the embedded stuff so, a mixed bag of useful and useless information. My dash just reads EAS failure with the yellow car and up arrow light to highlight it...

That's interesting and worth trying. I've got a Maxiscan MS509 OBDII scanner so, I'll try that to see what error codes it reads and if any can be deleted. My P38 used to slowly lose height over a weekend but, since the last pair of bags were...

Only when it lashes down and only when parked on a camber slope. When parked on level ground, it does not leak so, I ensure it's always parked on level ground when available. Fuel consumption alone is a reason to describe the car as money pit. I...

Thanks for replying. I'll investigate the Schrader valve advice but, don't hold your breath. From my perspective, my EAS experience has made me very nervous about taking the car anywhere further than a few miles from home. In which case, what's...

I'm new to this forum but, I've read loads of past discussion about air to spring conversion for a P38. At the risk of attracting the wrath of purists, I have suffered five EAS failures in only three years and 10K road miles. I'm not an...