Oh, good pun!
The Croydon College website is crap but afaict they don't have anything suitable. Though I can probably get my dad & brother to help me with getting started over the holidays anyway.
Top tip: oil goes in the car, not on it!
You're welcome.
> are you sure this is something you want to get into?
If I didn't rely on my car, it'd be a curiosity, and lower priority than a bunch of other stuff I want to learn, but since I expect it to work when I need it, not understanding isn't really acceptable for me.
> what do you mean by your spark plugs being faulty?
Just a theory so far, someone mentioned it a while back of being a possible cause of sometimes taking a few tries to start, and since the battery has been replaced it has twice failed until I left it 5-10mins with the heating on. It might also be cold/damp, but one of those times was about 90 minutes after having been driven, and I read something suggesting that in those conditions it can cause an issue with the sparkplugs being confused about temperatures or something (I'm not describing that very well, and I didn't bookmark the page. :()
I've also recently been getting judderyness when driving, which I've also seen suggested as a spark plug issue, though that's got a variety of other possible causes too.
And that's the thing, I'd like to be able to accurately diagnose an issue - I don't need to be able to fix everything, so long as I can at least have an idea about it.
> are you sure this is something you want to get into?
If I didn't rely on my car, it'd be a curiosity, and lower priority than a bunch of other stuff I want to learn, but since I expect it to work when I need it, not understanding isn't really acceptable for me.
If you rely on your car and you're not naturally mechanically inclined, all the more reason to get someone who knows what they're doing to look at it.