Another superb device this week is the SmartDAB, which connects with your smartphone to give DAB radio in ANY car. The government hasn’t annoubced when they’ll be switching off the analoguie signal as yet but experts reckon it could be by the end of 2018.

Most new mainstream cars come with a DAB facility now but if yours doesn’t then this could be the answer. There’s a few products around that claim to give this facility but the one I tried required half the dashboard being removed and a degree in electronics!

However, the SmartDAB is plug and play is fitted in More >

Caterham Cars has announced a new addition to its range – the Seven 310 – and claims it represents the perfect balance of power and confidence-inspiring handling characteristics.

Harking back to the acclaimed Rover K-Series-powered Superlight R300 model, widely acknowledged to be the best-balanced Seven to date, the Seven 310 has emerged from engineering developments made by Caterham’s motorsport programme.

A necessary Sigma engine upgrade, allowing racers to move up to the Supersport category from Tracksport – which involved high-performance camshafts and revised mapping, generating as much as an extra 20bhp in the rev range – resulted in the surprise discovery.

While an More >

Quick-change wheel-nuts have always been a popular accessory in the US and Japan and they look far more attractive than standard nuts.

Now you can have the ‘DTM Motorsport/Drift Scene’ look of wheel-nuts on your car regardless of whether it is really equipped with them or not.

LugNuzzCovers from FOLIATEC®.com is the name of the colourful aluminium covers that replicate racing lug nuts and they can be supplied in the popular 17mm fitment in a choice of six different anodised colours.

They push-fit over the wheel-nuts or existing lug nuts of almost any car with no irritating conversion necessary and they are retained More >

Already one of the best handling road cars money can buy and a very kitcar donor, the cornering ability of first and second generation (NA/NB) Mazda MX-5s can now be sharpened yet further, thanks to SuperPro’s recently expanded range of roll-control products, namely the firm’s adjustable front and rear anti-roll bars. Now available for the MX-5, the heavy duty bars are 24mm in diameter for the front, up from the original Mazda 19 or 20mm and 16mm in diameter at the rear, up from the original 11 or 12mm. The front bars feature two pre-set adjustment points with three on More >

When replacing the starter on a Mini that was built before the change to pre-engaged starters in 1984/5 it’s vital to obtain the right parts.

The inertia starter needs to have the correct nine-tooth pinion and this is rarer than the ten-tooth type used on other British Leyland cars such as the Sprite, Spitfire and Mini Metro; these often get fitted to Minis as they’re cheaper, but doing so can ruin the ring gear or the bendix teeth.

It is also important to obtain the correct solenoid. Early Minis had the type with a push-button, which was useful for turning the engine More >