My Uno huit Deux arctic new wheels and springs :)

[The Russian.]

Well after taking delivery of my springs last week and buying a new set of cup alloys finished in a darker anthracite, me and Gray decided to take a couple of hours out of this day and tried to crack on with it.

8.30am cuppa and bacon Sandwich

8.45am "these b*****d top mounts aren't budging"

8.55am "let's do the back springs first"

9.20am taken orange zenders off and put new wheels on the back.

9.35am Taken orange senders of the front and fitted cup alloys.

10.00am a drive to find a garage open to crack open mounts, to come home disappointed.

(please note not exact time scale as we do chatter )

Wheels before with gap

New wheels

As the car sits now, need to do the front in the week ad get some spacer

I will take better photos at a better location with a better camera later on.

Looks so much better IMO

Hope you like

 

[Knuckles]

Isn't UNO Spanish and huit/deux French?

Car looks nice though. Those wheels look mint!

 

[The Russian.]

Yeah sorry about that it's un, I've jut got Spanish In my head

Cheers chap. I'm back in love with it.

 

[Knuckles]

It was really annoying me trying to read that lol I was thinking 'UNO-1... Huix-8... 1.8 hilux?!' then I clicked

 

[RDH]

New wheels look more or less the same as my old ones! Will look mint when you get the front springs on!

 

[MatthewR]

Looking good, youll have to keep me updated on how BW works on the wheels, I'm planning on using it on my wheels when I get them.

 

[baize]

love it

 

[The Russian.]

Cheers for your comments guys.

 

[Gandi69]

Going to get an air gun on the top mount nuts? Also the wheels look 1000% better

 

[The Russian.]

Yeah hopefully il crack them open tonight and get on with it.

Not quite the 2118's I want but a lot better than before.

 

[VIICarCare]

Ooooh shiny wheels!! Lovely!

 

[Weo]

Looks awesome, wheels look almost gloss black in bottom picture

Suits it :-D

 

[Gray]

I missed this thread, car looks 100x better now it's lowered and has the new wheels

 

[The Russian.]

Cheers mate, sounds loads better to, got the k&n filter for v6box of Scott!!

 

[The Russian.]

A couple of more recent ones

 

[Impey]

Looks nice fella what springs did you opt for

 

[The Russian.]

Pretty sure there GMAX mate, really good to be honest handles loads better.

 

[Impey]

Cant be any worse than the apex ive got on. Wgats it lower ut by mate

 

[The Russian.]

About 40mm chap, could do with it a tad lower tbf

 

[not normal dan]

Looks alot better, the darker wheels give it a nice contrast. Engine cover looks good too

 

[Impey]

it looks higher than what my 172 sits on apex

 

[Impey]

oh whats the ride like as well sorry

 

[The Russian.]

It handles a lot better but likes to bounce over bumps

 

[Gray]

The Gmax springs are nowhere near as crashy the Apex items.

For lowering springs they don't feel 'as bad' as others I've fitted / tried.

 

[Impey]

would you recomend as i wanta get rid of the apex as there so crashy but dont wanta spend a lot??

 

[The Russian.]

Yeah I don't find them that bad in honesty, I need both side track rod ends replacing so that prob doesn't help