You may or may not know that I’m struggling with my Mini at the moment. I took the spark plugs out one at a time this afternoon. Number one was nice and clean (ish!) normal looking. Two, three and four were sooty and black.

One – four (left to right):

I jumped in the car to go to see a friend and pick up a compression tester. When we found his house (I forgot how to get there…) the car was making some really horrible clunking noises. We eventually got home and I popped the bonnet to see if I could see anything obvious. Watch the video to see what I saw:

I’m am 105% certain that this isn’t good…