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Most places t averhauled ones, the surcharge is a deposit you pay which you get back when you return your old one, IIRC reno even do them on exchange wiht them being older casr now.
I would go for GSf personally
Are they kerbed badley at all?
Would get teh ballencing checked, and check the cv joints before messing wiht the wheels, can usually look at them and see if they are buckled.
If they are thought they SHOUDL have picked up on it when they fitted the tyres
Eagle F1's are very popular, less popular, but still popular are the PE2's, and i read a review recently that rated the new toyo proxes above the good year and michelin tyres, on black circlies iirc
Did it screetch on teh previous engine?
As i said check and if necessary chamge the PAS fluid, if that doesn't stop it you are looking at aohter PAS pumo i woudl ahve thought
Do it smokey;'s way if you want them for every day use, if its just for track use i really wouldn't bother, you go over a kerb sideways or inot a gravel trap and thats your godknowshowlong paint job ****ed
You want a primer as near to the colour of the top coat as you can, rather then effecting the colour it just makes it so you need less coats to get decent converage, imagine painting white paint over off white paint and then over black paint, obvously you will need less coats to blott out the...
Weight of mk1 clios with full interior is about 1 tonne 980kgs iirc, stripped can get it down to about 900kgs.
Before upgrading the brakes make sure you have a decent amount of fuild in therem, and that its fully bled, also chekc the pads and discs, if necessary change them, discs are about £15...
Get them to chekc the ballencingm, a weight coudl ahve fallen off etc.
Other thing is the CV joint on one of the driveshafts might have goen, but you generally find this vibratioin comes and goes
Everyone is goign to so much effort.
Damp cloth....wipe over
2 cans of black hammerite.....spray 4 wheels
Result:
As you can see i didn't even mask off the tyres
Done 3 track days now, and got a few chips, but thats only cus i chuck them about and chuck tools on them, and they live...
Basically vary the pressures by a few psi and see if the car handles/feels better, keep varying it and stop when you get to a good pressure, try not to go too far from the ones recommended in the book though
As long as the build quailty is up to it, iw as told my a compnay that make exhausts for competition use, that f you want max power basicay; go from a straight through system, wiht a back box only, type or make of back box makes no differnce, well possibly 0.1 bhp
No thye match paint to a code, not to a colour on a car ffs, this ins one of the thigns that annoys me, people bad mouthing other people when they are in the wrong.
On 99% of all casr the oval plate is under hte bonnet and contains the colour code.
If you want exact paint matching take it to a...