Papering over the cracks

Peter Rosenthal does a budget repair on a Ford Ka’s dented plastic bumper.

Earlier in the year, we made a list of the things that make our 1998 ’van a little harder to live with than it needs to be. Many have been sorted already – the plumbing is more reliable and there have

Here we are first night in our new Rapido. I saw our little piece in the latest MMM magazine (January, page 11) and I have done so many upgrades in the handling and rattle dept since. We still got the

If your car’s windscreen suffers from surface chips, bulls-eyes, spider webs, star breaks, half-moons, edge cracks – and even a floater(!), then you need to get it fixed fast. But repair rather than replace and save pounds advises Alan Anderson .

PRETTY PENNY, OUR well-used 1998 Bailey Delamere was always planned to be predominantly an off-grid caravan. We like going to low-tech sites and music festivals and have concentrated a lot of our upgr

As regular readers will know, I’m all for DIY in general but there is a caveat: make sure you know what you’re doing first. I recently had a 25-year-old coachbuilt in for MoT repairs; both front outri