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Once you have an iPod media player, you'll never look back. Add a parrot handsfree kit, and you're laughing. Music, sat-nav, phone calls, voice dialling all coming through the speakers as required. Brilliant.
I need to get a proper drive. Bear in mind I'm an optician driving a ph1 (so the image of the car is not priority lol), I do 20k+ miles a year (in a ph1, with a yoz race exhaust and coilovers and squeaky brakes!!), all I want is a great driving car that costs beans to run. Refinement etc means...
Because in CSland, having finance means you can't afford it. Rofl.
I'm going to have to book a 200test drive me thinks. Ugly as a smashed arsehole, but I'm starting to want one. I think.
Trophy/182cup is pretty much same spec as a ph1, bar the seats. No xenons, manual ac. Agree on the ph1 interior being s**t. But then I spend my evenings with the wife, not lounging in the car at McD's ;).
Standard, yes. But he's not talking standard. I'm sure a 172 on decent (and I mean decent ;)) coilovers would be more fun than a standrd cup. With the added benefit of a few comforts. Or if weights an issue, get a ph1. Similar weight to a cup, but you get to keep ac. Mines 999kg with reclining...
Why skimp a few pennies on brakes?? That's all you're going to save. Maybe better off spending money on consumables than spunking it up the wall on t**t strips etc ???
The only reason to go for a 182, is racing blue. All the best colours are ph2 172, mondial, Monaco, and flame. And the exhaust is cheaper when it falls off.
I get the feeling mine were a friday afternoon job re. rates and springs, because most people seem to get on with them. It's no exagerration to say mine were hideous, although coming from shagged standard shocks with apex springs, I didn't notice until it was too late.
Good lad! AST I'm assuming?
IMO, leave the power until you've exhausted the suspension and getting the most out of it. When you have such a boost in power, it's easy to get complacent because of the extra speed.