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If you get the skirts, and the side strips/ bumper strips colour coded, your car will be mint! Even with the standard front and rear bumpers on this makes it look like a sport :)
The tyres are the same size mate??
They probably look wider, as they're flat at the mo. When you fit and inflate them, they'll balloon up, and look same size as the ones fitted.
I had 205 40 17's on the same car, lowered 60mm, never rubbed.
Get a set of coilovers for your 172?
Will have the same planted feeling as you did in your slammed 1.4 then, but with a decent engine to pull you out of the corners.
Very difficult to compare a slammed car, to one on standard sus.
Once you get used to the car, you'll love it.
Takes a while to learn the handling, and how and when to apply the engine, and then when you do, will be fast as fudge cross country. At times my car still scares me.
If you ever go back, and drive your old car, it'll feel soooo slow, you'll...
I wouldnt stick something thats multifit (for many cars and brake shapes, so bound not to fit snugly) on top of my calipers, mm away from my wheels... Accident waiting to happen surely