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Enjoy your drive up north, Chris! It'll be totally worth it, you're so right, Chris' seats will give the interior that special touch that has been/will be bestowed on the rest of the car.
You'll struggle to stick with PS3s - they've been superseded by the PS4, which I understand they don't make in 205/45/16.
I was running AD08Rs, although I don't have enough wet road experience to share a valid opinion on their performance, but as a dry it's very good indeed. Try it, you might...
It's just a number, so who cares if it's 154, 174 or 204, it's how it drives that's most important, and now you have a benchmark so at least if you do make future upgrades or you just want to check that everything is still in the same ballpark then you know what your baseline was.
If you're...
Always a compromise. Do you want a fantastic wet tyre that is a reasonable choice as a daily, or a cracking daily that isn't all that bad in the wet? Or do you want that excels in neither discipline but is better than average at both? What's the priority?
Cheers Rob, nice of you to say. I'm looking forward to catching up and seeing (/experiencing) yours sometime in the coming months.
I wasn't sure about the subframes, whether they represent good value for money, and to be fair I have only driven 50 miles on them so no verdict as yet but I have...
Here's a few iPhone snaps I took after a quick wheel swap earlier. Not had time to clean or dress the tyres, and I need to swap a couple as they're the wrong rotation, but you get the idea.
Not sure how long I'll keep them on for - Cup-offset and 25mm spacers is too much, plus Hankook V12s are...
July 2016 - 60,500
Big thanks to Mike Woodford for giving the Trophy its biggest service in my ownership - belts, dephaser, injectors, plugs, oil etc etc etc.
The car now also has new Brembo Max 280mm discs fitted along with Brembo callipers, which have been machined down to fit under 15s...
My first came in 1998 courtesy of Barclaycard - it was a monstrosity but it got me mobile a month before I went to uni. So many others had exactly the same phone...
Then I had a T28s with a plasticky flip thing. Tiny phone, loved it:
I left my Samsung A300 in a cab and never saw that...