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I've got them on the 172 now and I had them on my old 1.6 too, they didn't wear any quicker than I expected and certainly weren't disc eaters. Nice fast road pad imo.
I would be too in my experience, i'd check it over well. Theres a fair chance somethings bent, then again the tyre may have taken the brunt of the impact.
I changed mine and it stopped it getting sticky when it got hot after driving it for a while. They did change the design of it which imo makes it slightly lighter but its not the world of different. Its a mega laugh of a job tbh especially for something so simple, leave a good few hours because...
They wear out easily enough, new one is about £30 or so and well worth doing if its gone slack.
Fitting a 172 mount to the 1.2 is a good mod aswell as its stiffer(ish) that the standard one.
F1s are brilliant in the wet imo, the contisports the 172 is on at the moment are bloody lethal! Can't wait to wear them out and get some eagles fitted.
I'm very conservative in the wet these days, got taught a lesson the hard way on that one. Soon sinks in!
It'd probably end up quicker to drop a new lump in it. Its just cost really, i'd have no doubt its repairable but its just if you can do it yourself or not.
If you can DIY and can live without the car for a few days i'd be tempted to get the engine out as it'll be far less fiddly with it out.
If these are HID xenon bulbs and your putting them into the normal halogen clusters you'll be blinding everyone coming the other way. I've seen it done before and the scattle is terrible as the reflectors are not designed to be used with HID bulbs and the wavelength of light they produce.