Well having no Mirage now I'm going to do one as I feel I have little to offer and cannot really offer mechanical advice simply because my tools don't work these days.
I have to be quite frank in that I'm certainly not sorry to to have sold the Mirage, as stated previously I had a Mitsubishi Colt 1.3 Cleartec which was streets ahead of the Mirage. I busted my ***** trying desperately hard to gel with the car but just couldn't deal with the crashing over road imperfections.
So, thank you all, it's been a bit of fun.
I have changed my email address, got pi$$ed off with gmail and have moved to Thornbury on the Leeds/Bradford border.
Adieu