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And the bonnet vents leaking water on to the plugs, and the alternators frying, and the sunroof's leaking....
they were a properly shoddy car.
But f**k me were/are they cool!!
I'd have another tomorrow!
I had a white ph2 chamade, a blue 3 door ph2, and when I met my Mrs she had a blue Ph1 5 door.
I think we covered all R19 bases??
They all broke down though. Lots.
Track rod ends
Ball joints
Bottom arms (wish bones)
Steering rack....
It could be anything. I'd personally take it to another garage. One that can actually be bothered to diagnose a fault properly.
If you do a google search there are dimensions online, then just pass them to your local sticker maker.
They are in here too but it would have been about 12 years ago so it's a big search to do.
Exhaust is awesome!!
I work for mini and we were invited to a track day in 15 of our cars.
One of them had this exhaust and they switched it to closed and confiscated the remote as it wouldn't pass sound tests with it open! Lol
The pops and crackles are immense.
Great work mate.
Depends entirely on budget.
My friend has just had AST's fitted and set up by the man Curtis, and it's unbelievable.
But if you don't want to spend £2k+ then something like Bilsteins are a fair compromise but are a little soft if you're an out and out track man.
Avoid any of the crap like...
I must say, with that RNA day and the overtaking 'rules' it strangely seemed to work??
We had a mare in the wet too. He ended up on max soft on the rear and down to about 25psi just to try and get some grip. It's a properly greasy circuit in the wet.
Was it an RNA day?
Me and Sam went to one and there was all sorts of £million£ stuff. A special mclaren, a 918, championship winning GT3 RS....
and the allow overtaking without consent. Anywhere.
So basically, if you have a fast car you can just go round and round pushing people out the way! Lol
Grey Clip just pulls out.
Powder coating it will increase your intake temperatures so if you're chasing power/performance at any point it will have a negative effect.
I love them on paper but a good mate had one, we even did a track day or two in it, and it's very soulless.
I'd class it as a fast commuting car. Which I expect what you're using it for is perfect!
Get some leather guard on those seats ASAP. They will be the colour of your suit within a week...
£1200 will buy you a half tidy 182.
If you 'convert' a 1.4 it will be worthless when you come to move it on.
Coming from a man that has been wasting money on cars for 20+ years, don't do it.