Ok, looks like that plastic shelf needs to come out.
Wirewheel - you said you had taken the shelf out a number of times. Was that to grease the suspension, or is there something else lurking under there that I should know about and be maintaining ?
It was originally to look at the battery setup and to check for splits on the hand brake cables and to just have a general look. Subsequent to doing the look and see I then just this autumn cabled up the CTEK charger with fuse to the battery.