The results were simply astounding because, within just 3 minutes of leaving the house, Kevin’s iPhone had located the car. 10 minutes later the phone actually ‘pinged’ with a text message saying “Figaro this item was seen near the cinema” just before the car was parked in the ASDA car park. So the key question I suspect most owners want to be answered is could an AirTag help track down a stolen Figaro. I’d give that a qualified ‘yes’. But let’s be clear about the Air Tag’s limitations. This is not a great device for live tracking. Don’t think that if you see your car being stolen off the drive, you’ll be able to see a little dot moving across Apple Maps, plotting the car’s ‘live journey’. It’s not a GPS tracker and the updates provided from an Air Tag are sporadic.

The iPhone displayed the location of Belle as Sue drove towards High Wycombe. The updates came through every few minutes.

Although spark plugs may seem like a minor thing, you screw them in, you screw them out. The Figaro does have some quirks and over the years we have come up with a few tricks for making the job easier. Being such a hot-running, turbocharged engine, we recommend that you should change the spark plugs a maximum of 12 months or 12,000 miles apart, whichever comes sooner. It’s often the case that owners of classic cars think that due to the little amount of use the car gets, it doesn’t need to be serviced - I think if anything it’s more important. In order to do this job, the first thing you will need is the correct parts and tools.

The plugs we use in the workshop are NGK, the part number is BCPR6ES-11.

As well as these sockets you will need an adjustable joint for an extension bar, four plugs and some HT pliers to safely remove the leads.

The first step is to remove the old spark plugs; part of the reason to change the plugs annually is to avoid them getting seized into the engine. If yours are not too old they should come out easily.

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11 Figs attended on the 3rd January 2022. Follow them as they drive a lap around the 3.6-mile world-famous circuit which included 440 laser beams, 400,000 festive lights, and a hidden Santa within each part of the world.

The cars were kept at a strict 5mph speed limit along the asphalt – the same graced by the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel who each changed the face of racing.

Making our way around, members were met with scenes from around the globe – a huge lit-up pyramid signifies Egypt, overhead lanterns for Asia, and icebergs and polar bears to let us know when we were in the Arctic. In-between the continents and when approaching the iconic home straight, huge lights and lasers swept across the track.