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No mate. The only garages available were from the council and in proper rough parts of town. It's just one of those things. If I wasn't selling the house then we wouldn't be having this discussion. But I am and I won't be able to afford a bigger house AND a garage. So because my wife is Keith...

Not one person offered to store it for me. I had plenty of 'internet interest' but nobody pm'd me. What people say and actually do are two very different things Dave you know that! Anyway, storing it 3 hours away from my house is pointless. What if it gets damaged? Or I want to use it on a...

I don't need the money, I need the garage back! If I needed the money then I'd be glad to get rid of it.

£1850.

Sold. :(:(:(:( The guy who won it only lives 5 miles away up the road and I guess that means i'll still get to see it. Hopefully. Genuinely feel gutted. :dapprove:

And twice the money.

I find that the best way to care for your steering wheel is to make love to it. Sing it songs, rub you freshly shaven scrotum all over the bobbly Alcantara. Show it that you want it, make it feel speshul.

I wish I lived closer to you lot. :(

I think they're great cars for the money. Thumbs up from a fellow ginger!

Fred (iirc) always said the box fouls massively on the chassis leg, meaning lots of fabrication? Flan cut a load about when he fitted 20VT running gear didn't he? I can't remember the title of his thread though.

Et is the offset. Centre bore and offset are two different things mate.

Chip and leslie had some on a mk1 and a black 172. Good looking wheels tbh. Vauxhall Cesaros?

Oh nice. Glad it's all ok. I'm hoping to go to Silverstone so may see you there. Be good to put a face to the name. :)

How's your car Dave? Got the JMS kit fitted yet?

Oh.

So so awesome.

This. It defies belief when people are too tight to pay a specialist or a dealer to look at it but are more than willing to buy a million pounds worth of parts for it and spend every weekend messing about.

Even if rain does get in, it won't be enough to cause any issues. Unlike the R19's that used to leak all over the spark plugs! Lol

You say you can't afford £200 for a set of alloys.... So you've spent £100 so far. (£50 wheels, ££50 tyres?) Plus the cost of filler (I advise not to use filler but that's a different thread!) sand paper, wet and dry, primer, colour, laquer and whatever polishing products you use. As you've...

My mate (Matt, bloke with glasses and about 8 teeth in his entire head) and his kids saw you at the weekend. Said they spoke to you too and you were a very nice man! They also said your daughter is a good driver and the car sounded better than anything there!

If I had the money, I'd buy that. That's a safer investment than anything I can think of! What a car!

Teeth are overrated anyway.

I've done countless shocks and springs on 172/182's and can confirm, 100%, you don't need compressors .

195-55-15 tyres will look like balloons. You need 195-50-15.

In all my years on this forum, all the 172/182's I've had, I've only ever known one 172 blow a head gasket and that was after the guy drove it down the motorway with a cracked radiator. Very uncommon.

Just buy a 172 in the same colour as your 1.2. Swap the number plates and vin number over and bob's your monk house.

No. But you will need ECU/UCH as a matching pair so they can talk to each other and work. You can buy them on here for under £200. But you'll need a complete loom too. Good luck fitting one of those!!

It was easier to type that than to explain about swapping blades! lol

It will cost you more in parts than it would to buy a 172. If you're determined to do it, buy a complete car (one that's been rear ended maybe?) and you'll need to swap over the following... Engine, gearbox (and obviously clutch) , driveshafts, shocks and springs, subframe, wishbones, discs...

Depends what shocks and what setting they're on, plus the spring rates etc. Not as simple as measuring arch gap unfortunately.