We'll meet up at Warwick Services (southbound M40) from 7.30am for a 7.45am departure. That should get us to Silverstone around 8.45am

Paul

Enjoyed today, watched some classic car racing, some drag racing and rally stages, good company, lovely cars and good banter, hope you got home eventually Derek and Paul

Derek looked quite the driver's mate up in that cab!

Should be a cheap fix Derek and I'm kicking myself I didn't look under car to spot that disintegrated perch. Lindsay's sharp eyes again!

In my defence m'lud I've never heard of one of these perches cracking right through like that. Must have been a helluva pothole?

The new perch will cost about a tenner, and it shouldn't take more than an hour to fit (remove strut, remove shock nut, lift off spring with remains of old perch, drop new perch on, recompress spring, reassemble strut).

Lindsay had excellent idea of checking perch on other side for corrosion but would be double the time to change that as well. Also you may have just been unlucky hitting such a deep pothole and the perch may not have been abnormally corroded. They are quite thick and usually just have surface rust where they contact spring coil.