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in just under 2000 miles give or take but granted all these bits weren't "needed"
Belts and water pump change - 450 quid or near there
Eibach springs - £150 ish
Exhaust - £320
Splitter - £15
Misc bits (exhaust hangers and adapters for stereo) - ~ £50
Stereo - £120
Oil, filter, gearbox oil...
I'm surprised some garages actually attempt this work. I rang a my dads mate to get a quote on doing my belts when I first had the 182 and he said simply wouldnt touch it due to the tools/procedure needed. Took it to a specialist in the end.
Its unlikely to break when it isn't running as the belt would have to be seriously deteriorated to just snap under tension when stationary? If that did happen then you should be OK as the bottom end wont have been rotating and pistons wont have smashed valves but as I say highly unlikely. Also...
I had a similar problem with a 106 as the caliper was getting fluid but it wouldnt come out the bleed nipple. You couldnt push the caliper piston back in, even with a huge G-clamp which incidentally got bent. Slackened the bleed nipple and still no joy. So took the nipple fully out and with a...
People love buying these rubbish things. Same as those "sports chip" resistors which fool the ecu into thinking the car is cold and thus running on choke and thus giving "POWAH". In reality I mean bore wash...
I'm running the scorpion system that isnt the RS192 (its the one with one silencer). Cant fault it and it isn't excessively noisy when you are taking it easy which I happen to like.
My bad it was Titanium then. Hadn't had my coffee this morning. Seems that this website isn't very popular with 1*2 owners, I see loads of these cars driving around all the time but their drivers are never on here.