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It totally depends on your outlook, and your commute. 50 miles of A and B roads working flexitime, the clio will be enjoyable. 50 miles round the M25 and youll wish you'd bought an automatic waftmobile.

at 8x15 and ET0 they'll be sticking 2 inches out past the car ?

No, it looks awful because the wheels dont actually fit within the bounds of the arches and the tyres dont fit safely on the wheels either. Moreover, the handling will be affected by the change in offset, but moreso by the shape of the tyre Well you can, it's a physical quantity and within...

If you want to lower it and put some rims on then 40mm drop onto 7x15 or 7x16 rims in the region of ET40 with 195/50 15 or 195/45 16 will work fine on a sport, on a base model you may need to check clearance on the rear. If you want to "stance" it, which is something different entirely, then...

Nice job of preserving a good example for the future. You got incredibly lucky on those sills!

Nor was I... Point is 195/50 15 fits with a 40mm drop and leaves the car looking good. You wont get wheels and tyres much smaller overall, so going lower starts to require narrower tyres stretched on and excessive camber and body mods to get them inside the rear arch lip, which leaves the tyres...

So you want a car with syling features which make it unsafe to drive, and thus unable to pass inspection in your country, but also want it to pass inspection? The example you posted has clearly had the arch lips flared heavily to accomodate even the undersized tyres on relatively small rims and...

Oh absolutely, I'm not complaining, they still have an exhaust, engine ancillaries, mapping, suspension setup, interior trimming, paint etc to cover on top of anything else they find along the way to make.

I loved the clearance for the mug handles, very tongue in cheek! Still plenty to do, especially when they keep finding jobs like the centre console to sink a week into.

Very cool now it's been dropped!

Which meant I wouldn't throw them away, I'd keep them for posterity, but they're still nasty dealer plates ?

I'd do plain new plates, a decent exhaust and drop it as low is is practicable and then enjoy it!

if I recall, theyre a little short on the hardware front. Even megasquirt upgraded fairly swiftly from similar first gen stuff because it didnt work well.

My wife has one and it's a decent phone, but their customer service isnt great

So what's decent in the phone market for ~£200? The Moto G6 is a little long in the tooth now but no sign of a replacement? Has anyone actually tried the P20 lite and Honor 8x?

Very cool indeed, proper sleeper. Got to love the standard of the pressings for the front turrets though ?

I like these. Correct transmission, incorrect number of doors. Needs a new engine.

So how much 'better' is the M140i than the M135? I assume the newer engine gets over all the N55 issues? I assume the M240i is identical apart from body style?

Not seen that colour before, that's epic!

As a 2006 E90 owner, I don't want/need 12 year out of date non-google based nav, my phone does that job perfectly. I have climate control and dont really see what I-drive would add to it, service timings and oil level are all in a menu off the service button on the indicator stalk, although I...

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I'm not suggesting 100% accuracy, but at least test cars that are in the same class.

How on earth do you wind up with a test featuring a 15 year old appreciating classic which is worth waaay more than it's real world capability, and two more modern, generic used hatches? A £5000 hot hatch bargain is a megane turbo or a clio 200 or a focus ST, not a 182 selling for twice as much...

Excellent job all round! Be sure to stick up a thread for the M3 too

I'd go for more like 2 degrees personally unless you're doing a lot of dual carriageway/motorway miles.

@Simon998 I also had a tuner list headunit and I replaced it with a Pioneer mechless headunit MVH-390BT which does proper Bluetooth audio streaming and handsfree. https://www.halfords.com/technology/car-audio/car-stereos/pioneer-mvh-390bt-bluetooth-car-stereo None of the options I could find...

What series does the owner race in?

Ever since i bought my first set of bosch aerotwins I've stuck by them. On my last car, I managed 80k miles on a set and they just work.

Yes but only the same as the 182 as they standardised the wishbnes to the cup pattern I believe, and besides, its not going to make much difference to the track rod length at all as the wheel is moved forward in the arch