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Your prob best off getting your you insurance company to replace it, most will only charge £50 (I think in most cases the same applies as if they were replacing a windscreen)
As for the people pushing the car by the rear screen, they are clearly idiots.
Your best bet is to go to a few of your local meets so you can get to know people there, then go to FCS with them, that way you won't feel alone.
People will probably go & look round the cars together, so if you go with people you know you'll be sorted.
Just talk to the others when you meet them...
Tbh i'd have still had one done as an hpi tells you if it still has outstanding finance on it too, plus if it's stolen etc.
Also cat c is quite bad - you sure you want it ??
I hate saying this as it sounds like a cop out, try a search as it's been covered loads of times before.
I just use a garmin i3 as it's cheap, does the job & way better than the navman unit we had which cost three times as much !
It maybe that the alarm isn't actually turned on, you may only have the immobiliser on mate.
- Matbrown & a few of the other mk1 boys will know for def (it's a while since I had mine mate, so my memorys gone a bit rusty)
The rear wiper sholud be a smooth curve, without being able to see the actual metal of it at the end.
There should be some pics of the rears of some pahase 2's in the gallery, so you can see what i'm on about.
I think that the reason that it's got so bad lately is beacuse they keep advertising it in tv, all of fthe dodgy scum bags are on there now:dapprove: - not to mention flaming Nigerian scam artists (we all know the ones I mention):mad:
I don't like it, the wheels look all kerbed up (yes I know they are after market, fox ? alloys) the back looks horrible, plus the new shape is out too.
Plenty better out there for the money tbh.
I think (from memory) its under the flap by the bulk head under the bonnet on the passenger side.
I think the drivers side has the jack & the passenger side has the alarm siren & washer bottle.
I may be wrong though, as it ages since I had one mate.
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with regard to the brakes, I had a Fiat coupe 20vt plus:) - which had Brembo's on it - as per the 197, tbh the Brembo's fitted to the 197 look a lot narrower than those on my ex coupe (the focus RS seemed to run the seme calipers as the coupe)
I do know about clearance issues though, as...
Pull out the bit where the heater controls are & check the bulbs.
From memory there are two screws above where the radio is, they need to be un done & you go from there.
I'd never expect any one to do it on a test drive tbh, i'd never do it either. Still each to their own.
How would you know how fast it was any way ?? Did you drive others beforehand ?
get some pics up of it in the media section.
I'd be livid too if i'd just bought a car & the accelerator cable snapped.
I'd also be wary as to how i'd had been driven too ...
"Just before being pulled over he had put it in 2nd gear and said something along the lines of "I'll show you what the...