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My own fault mate, live and learn I guess and I'm grateful it was noticed before I tear around Aintree next Saturday on them. I will have to bin the tyres as I couldn't even give them away.

I could live with 5 years as the 'recommended' is 6 years but 17 years is madness. Anyway as expected the seller has just come back and said 'sold as seen' in the listings as the manufacturing dates where on view to see the age of the tyres before purchase.

Just tired to have a pair of Kumho V70a track tyres fitted to my track wheels and the tyre centre said we cant fit them as one is 15 & the other 17 years old which is fair enough, and I thanked them for looking at the manufacturers date as I stupidly didn't as one had never been used the other...

So you can adjust the height via the shock?

Double the price mate at £90. Also threw the parts cannon at it before that, track rods, tie rods, new pads, numerous alignments etc. I read so many forums saying "you can't warp modern discs" and I'd never had an issue with the HC's on the Clio so fully ruled it out, even the DTI test came...

Just to update my comments above I actually had warped discs on my ST, I thought they couldn't be as they were new but it seems a doing of my own by getting them hot and leaving my foot on the brake whilst stationary warped the shite out of them.

If you're local to St Helens I've got a DTI gauge you can lend.

I personally would walk away, there's plenty that come up on here enthusiast owned with lower miles and no issues to sort. If you do want it though offer £800 and see what they say...

I've recently had this mate and it was warped discs (1 month old Brembo HC discs on my Mondeo ST), but it could be something as simple as pad deposits on the discs or it could also be a worn bush(s) or ball joint(s) on the front somewhere but these normally come with other symptoms such as...

Go with standard size mate, I'm a 34-36" waist and the XL are a tad to big for me, not uncomfortable but just slightly to wide. You'll rattle around in a XL. For reference my mate who's near 20st and 40" waist fits in my XL, just...

So if you shim them to make them lower, then I presume they cant be corner weighted at the rear?

Well that's what I thought until I read @3d3dman thread, but just looking at a picture on KAM its seems they do have collars for height, and the damping is done via turning the knobs at the top of the strut?

I'm a tad put off by the BCs now, with the rear set up where you need to use spacers to alter the rear ride height, I thought at least they'd have collars to adjust them. Or am I misinformed?

Yeah might give it a miss, it would only be a gap car whilst we got on the housing ladder and the more I read it seems they can become expensive to maintain and at that price it's obvious it'll be needing plenty of maintenance.

She hates the look of them in the metal mate, she said they're a slab sided abomination. I said that's rich coming from a feckin BMW i3 driver!

True, you mean when the windows don't work nor anything else electrical, lol. Also been looking at the Fiat Bravo 1.4 T-Jet sport, thay look a real decent car for the money. You ever had one in your place Dan...

Should be able to get it for £2k. Just seems to cheap looking around, maybe cause its been mauled with...

I know yeah, brilliant!

I looked at these last year and they retailed around £4k with similar mileage, might go give it a look after work.

Missus needs a run about and this is within budget and close, seems cheap for what it is though...

Looking good mate, mines nearly sorted for Oulton, just need to soften all my tyres and have them fitted.

@3d3dman any pictures of the rear springs in situ?

Get a set of camber bolts for the front and have it set with as much negative camber as possible, you'll get around - 2.5 max. Leave the rear camber if fairly even and what's the rear toe? Neutral is predictable.. Front pads get something track spec, Ferodo, Carbone Lorraine, Mintex etc. Rears...

Just run 33/31 mate and if they feel a bit greesy lower them. I don't think they have the strong carcus of a r888 or similar that run 30s.

So you squash the springs with spacers to lower the ride height?

Near £50 less than the CL5+ & DS2500, I'll see how they hold up on track first before I give my full verdict, got high hopes for them though.

Just thought I'd give a quick update on these pads, only used them on the road so far but cold bite is very good, as is progression and fade resistance, Ive given them a real good test around country lanes and A roads trying to imitate track braking scenarios and they where spot on, bite just as...

Mine are bent flat, just use the chassis rail.

I use the MSV rear cage that was used in all the MSV Clio's. Very similar to the K-tec one. Great bit of kit, and can be fitted in less than 30 minutes. A warning though if you have a bucket seat on a custom sub-frame, due the cage bolting into the front seatbelt mount the sub-frame may need to...

Torque from 1rpm, is it electric?