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how well can ur missus drive mate? coz in all honesty u really have to rev them to get ther best out of them,i find changing early in the rev range makes mine as flat as a pancake lol
iv just put some quantum synta gold 5w 40 fully synth in mine,runs lovely on it and doesnt use a drop even on 102 k :)
i chose this oil coz i get it free from work lol
il beat that,in my 172 i found:
the entire underside of the rear seat full with small tones and gravel! (i wondered what that rattling noise was lol)
£4.27p in change in the ashtray
£3 under the passenger seat
£2 under the drivers side rear mat
can of deodorent
a pair of devil horns in the...
could be either the rear shoes need some adjustment/replacing or the wheel cylinders are leaking,the shoes can stick on slightly too,so id get the wheels and drum faces off,give everything a good clean and adjust the drums and go from there
i did that most weeks with my mini's lol
my gf/s corsa had so much mayo on the filler cap i thought it must have been head gasket but after an oil change and i long drive it cleared. that was 4k ago
if ur only doing short journeys then id say condensation
also is it all the time or only from cold?
here's my 10 pence worth
i am thinking the same thing,i want to move out and im trying to save and weigh up if i can afford to keep the 172 but the more i look at it the more i realise how cheap the 172 is to run,its costing me 38 pounds a month to insure and thats about to go down (25 7yrs no...