I started my car up the other day and the TPMS warning light stayed on, going in to the menu showed that the front left tyre was showing 8 psi. I checked the pressure with a gauge and it was at 32 - which is bang on. The problem persisted over several starts / stops of the engine so I took it to my local tyre place.

I thought this one was worth a quick few lines as it had me perplexed for a while and is perhaps a useful lesson that sometimes things that seem difficult are quite simply explained and fixed.

Just a short one this - the steering wheel was in quite bad shape, it looked like Abu Hamza or Captain Hook had been driving it and Stevie Wonder had attempted to repair it. I thought it would be an easy repair but I couldn't find anybody that could supply the correct colour leather dye. It turns out it's a modified acrylic paint so in theory it's a fairly simple job to get a paint that is fairly close and then mix in some art paint to change the colour slightly. The stuff I ordered was called cream, I got it from a company called Scratchdoctor. Sadly it was a mile out so I ordered some different stuff from another outfit called Car Shine system - such a catchy name. Anyway, they had a colour called Buttermilk that looked n screen like it would be virtually identical so I ordered it. I had to buy a big bottle because they didn't have any small ones but I thought 17 quid would be a small price to pay to get things looking right again.

Progress has been made but a couple of issues are still challenging me - the speedo and the key situation being two of them, a knocking exhaust being the third. Mike, the previous owner had told me he backed in to something or someone - can't remember which. The result was the same either way, the driver's side exhaust got bent, it looked quite obvious from the rear of the car. I had adjusted it and it looked better but now it knocks when driving over bumpy ground so it needs a different fix. I'm hoping I can do it without having to purchase exhaust parts with their associated Bentley tax. I have an idea of what to do but it's still 30 degrees outside and I find that very draining these days. I might wait until late this evening when the heat has gone off a bit.

That is the question that many people have asked me over the last couple of weeks, to be fair I am still wondering it myself. Those of you that know me best will know I was actually lusting over an earlier Turbo R, a car that I have admired since the mid 1980's, I have covered the story before so won't repeat it here but it's been a long burning itch that I have only recently felt in a position to scratch.