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If their worth a fair bit swap them, sell them on, buy some more standards and pocket the change?
Although I don't know how expensive the standard ones are.
The last time a renault dealer went near my car (when I first bought it) whatever idiot mechanic carried out the service over tightened the oil filter (genuine renault part) and burst the rubber seal, leaving the oil filter hand tight and leaving the car with quite a bad oil leak.
That'll be...
Cups also have no traction control and no abs, whereas a normal 172 does.
Apart from that the differences are it has no leather, and no xenons, if that bothers you.
tbh I wouldn't bother getting it resprayed, you'll either be paying a bomb for a good job or you'll end up with something that looks like you've attacked it with rattle cans.
Just get the damage sorted properly, don't go to any smart repair/stone chip place as their pish, I know from the...
Those comparison websites are utter pish, you'd be a lot cheaper going straight to the company and trying say elephant or adrian flux. I got quoted 6k from one of them to insure my mum's mk3 1.4:S
Tidy first car, not far off mine :)
Well this explains why the forum performance has been pish tonight, everybodys all crammed into viewing one thread.
Don't like the girl, love the car, tbh.
The other places who quoted you may be cheaper but may not be very good.
We had a civic in not so long ago that had been fully re-sprayed elsewhere for £700, and there was not one reflection/ area of shine to be seen in the paintwork whatsoever. Was like someone had been at it with rattle...
Not long tbh only about a month at the most, once my standard shocks die I'll get apex ones. There are a couple of other people on here who ran 60s on standard shocks for a year solid and never had any problems iirc.
I do have pics, although they are pish camera phone ones.
I certainly didn't notice it sitting any higher off the ground, it didn't sit like a rollerskate if that's what you're worried about. Couple of pics anyway :