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I’ve just bought an Aygo as a family “2nd car” and I have to say that I absolutely love it. 55mpg without even trying, £20 road tax, and it only cost £100 to add it to my existing insurance policy.

Boot is small though, and even if you fold the rear seats forward to get extra space, the rear hatch isn’t huge, so getting big stuff in and out will be fun.

Regardless, as a cheap set of backup wheels I’m really impressed.

I paid £1250 for a 79,000 mile 2010 5-door, that needed a bit of cosmetic tlc. A good clean, some new mats, swap the factory stereo for one with Bluetooth connectivity, added a decent phone mount, some cheap Halfords wheel trims, and replaced the broken mirror. I’m about £1600 all in and over the moon with it.

In the UK the centre one is called a plumb-bob. Used to give a vertical line.

What’s your method for injecting the epoxy?

Bergerac’s* one was burgundy.




*80s fictional tv detective.

I was going to ask the very same thing. The asymmetry is the kind of thing that makes my teeth itch... 

You mean you’ve been working to this standard whilst half blind? I take my hat off to you. 👍

That works better. 

Sounds like sticky wheel cylinders Darren.

Yes, I had heard about the army not changing the studs.

I used a VW Beetle relay on my rewire, because that was the only other vehicle in my experience that used that type of dipswitch. Back in the late 90s Trabant parts were harder to source in the UK than they are now. My only “reliable” source at that time was a fantastically eccentric chap called Graham Goodall, and it would involve lengthy phone calls, the posting of cheques and a fairly long wait.