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That neatly demonstrates the diiference between a camera and the human eye in the way that each perceives the brightness. As others have said the light output appears to be broadly what would be expected although the lights seem to be aimed a bit too low. At the end of the day it's up to you as...

You can cobble together the kit needed from 4 lengths of plastic tubing, 4 equal sized transparent bottles and a piece of wood with suitable sized holes to act as a holder for the bottles. Alternatively you can buy the proper kit quite cheaply. With your leak-off kit (home made or bought) you...

Glad to see you've done a leak off test - it can be very revealing, as you've found out. With those sort of figures you've definitely got a problem with two injectors. With those replaced please do the test again to make sure the leak-offs are more or less equal. There should always be some...

Good point about the quality of the kit. As to the colour temperature thing it all depends on your eyesight, particularly your colour vision. I'm blue/green colourblind and 6000 or 8000 would be useless to me. I even find 4300 not ideal!

My point re making sure the test leads are connected correctly were really about the connections at the multimeter end. Because the meter is used most of the time for voltage or resistance readings it's easy to just plug the leads in as normal without thinking - a lesson I learnt from bitter...

If it was my car I'd chuck a new battery on it because the old one is probably at the end of its life. I'd still do the drain test though (it's only a 5 minute job) to make sure there wasn't else that was going to cause a problem even with a new battery fitted.

And that's why the old French idea of having yellow lights wasn't daft after all!

Rather than my trying to explain it here's a link to a good article - http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/repair/how-to-stop-car-battery-drains . A few things to be careful of - firstly do the test between the negative terminal and the battery earth lead (that's much safer than doing it...

As the boot light was on all night the reading you got is unreliable, so you'll need to do it again. To really get to the bottom of this you also need to the battery drain test which Jon mentions - this is to make sure you haven't got some piece of equipment which is failing to go to sleep and...

Adam is right to bring up the colour temperature issue. Vision is a very complex thing. If you have two sources putting out the same amount of light but at different wavelengths one source will appear brighter than the other. Colour temperature is a simple way of measuring these differences in...

No, you can get it out without dismantling anything else.

The nozzle can be removed from outside the car using a screwdriver as a lever and a bit of rag to protect the paintwork. Changed mine in about 5 minutes so it can't be hard! Alan

Used to be the case that DC ballasts were better but these days the modern AC digital ballasts are preferable. This topic came up about a month ago so if you do a search you'll probably find more than you ever wanted to know. Alan

Very little to add to the questions Jon has asked. A number of ideas come to mind but it will depend on the answers to those questions. Alan

Obviously the fliter cannot remove everything but the manufacturers of the pump and injectors will have specified the maximum partlicle size these components can tolerate without damage. The car manufacturer will then have specified a filter which is capable of achieving this. One thing which...

I had exactly these symptoms on a Celica I once owned. It would come and go but over a few weeks it got progressively worse until one day I started the car and the engine vibrated very badly, sufficient to make it completely undriveable. Turned out to be a badly worn clutch friction plate which...

Well done Saj. Hopefully the photographic evidence will persuade people that the car manufacturers really do mean it when they say that the filter needs to be changed as a service item. (even if they do put it in a stupid place!) Alan

I'm glad to hear it's finally fixed. Don't think I'd let this bunch near my car though!! Faddy, you may be jumping to a conclusion re the pump. My reading of this saga is that the car probably did have a worn pump - remember that that the car did behave OK for a short period after the pump was...

An interesting divergence of opinion! For what it's worth my understanding is that good quality AC ballasts are the ones to go for. The advantages are twofold - the ballasts last longer because they run cooler and also the bulbs last longer because the continual reversal of current reduces the...

I'd agree. If you are in any doubt and think it might be oil then next time it happens chuck some water on the patch. If it is oil you'll get colourful shiny patterns! Alan