Three mainly 'covid' years seem to have passed quickly - kind to cars as fewer miles than usual. Just passed first MoT (no advisories) after a trouble-free 16,800 miles, apart from a duff irremovable wheel locking bolt covered in another thread. No sign of any superficial rust anywhere on a recent underbody inspection when I swapped the wheels front to back for even tyre wear. 6mm and 7mm remain on its Goodyear Vector4seasons.

It's 6,800 miles since I changed the oil and filter on this carefully run-in potent little engine, draining it thoroughly and putting in exactly 3.5 litres of Castrol Magnatec stopstart 0-30 which exactly hit the max mark. Level is now 10mm below the mark. There's a surprisingly large distance of 40mm between the max and min dipstick marks. I suppose tiny 3cylinder engines have deep oversquare sumps. Assuming both volumetric symmetry and one litre between max and min marks, it has used 250mls oil, equating to somewhere between 25 - 30,000 miles per litre, allowing for observer error. That seems healthy to me for a >100hp/litre engine using 'thin' oil.

Trip computer 1 (long term - mostly SWMBO's local shopping and social trips) reads 6214 miles - 42.7 mpg - 32 avr mph. Trip 2 (including longer runs with mostly me driving) 557 miles - 48.6 mpg - 40 avr mph. Up to around 500 miles it was reading 50.3 mpg, but latterly more local short trips. Both trips now reset to zero. Fuel usually supermarket E10, but latterly Shell E10 as local Shell station now consistently cheaper than supermarkets, which nowadays seem to cartel rather than compete.

Overall, v satisfied.....but still in its infancy. Hopefully a trouble-free adolescent report will follow in due course.