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ai agreed would be nice little touch, but as a general rule completely unnecessary, the stock stuff will outlast the car most of the time provided its not abused with air ratchets etc
I've done 75k in my 182 with no spare including trips away a lot.... maybe I've been lucky. can guarantee next trip away its going to pop a tyre now though! lol!
real world you'll notice the lack of creature comforts.....flol!
I borrows a mates cup few years back, driving involvement I didn't notice much difference between it and my 182 FF (cup packs on it) on normal back road jaunts.
I get where you are coming from with the more special thing though...
as above, 182, full fat if you can, get most of the toys then (ABS, TC, Cruise, Climate, auto wipers and lights etc etc). I slapped a parrot in mine to for the handsfree, and they chuck about okay
not a mk1 admittedly, but decent enough for a giggle
Sportsters, as you say trendlines have period appropriate going for then but that's it. 800 back on them if they're mint and you'll cover pms and brembo
I use Michelin ps3 currently for my road car, work great in wet and dry. some seem to not get on with them but I find them perhaps slightly better in the dry than the rainsport 3's I ran previously but slightly worse in the wet
my track car I use full slicks for dry weather and the michelin ps3...
its borderline imo, love my 182 on my 15" Williams wheels, but I just think they are slightly too small for it. the cost isn't so much an issue really for me as as mentioned I just trade in used stuff and look out for a bargain. although 15" stuff is more freely available and I do stick to that...
yeah I love mine on the stock wheels, 16" suit the phase 2 1*2's much more imo. Look a tad under-wheeled on 15's no matter how low you go
plus the wheels themselves can be had cheap with tyres on, so just sell old set on and buy another used set with better tyres each time when they crop up, lol!