Chris H72
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Invest in a hat and you can enjoy top down motoring year round.
I bought my mr2 roadster in December and drove top down with heater on from day one. Just make sure you warm the car up before dropping the roof and it will be fine.
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Anyone tried lift in reverse?
This guy...
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If you go on black circles website you can get their quality/value tyres in 205/45/17 for around £50 but it doesn't mention a brand, they will be a budget tyre. For £70ish you can get kumhos and falkens which are a good choice. They also offer the option of payment over 12 months which might put better tyres within your reach.
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Britax evolva 123 has been recommended before.
Have you not used anything up to now?
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Or tyreleader.co.uk
Seems to depend what you are looking for in terms of size and brand. Also if you buy online make sure you have somewhere local that will fit them for a fair price or you could wipe out any savings.
Black circles are very good and there is no hassle. I had problems with one of their fitting centres a couple of years back when my alloy was damaged but they paid for the wheel to be refurbed after a couple of emails. I found their customer services great to deal with.
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A lot of garages are Getting wise to tyre sites like camskill and tyreleader where you can make big savings. They have increased their fitting prices if they offer it at all which is annoying. Small independents who will fit them for cash in hand are best.
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Looks good but it doesn't mention the DOT code. In the info provided it says available from July 2013 so the tyres may be a couple of years old. When I looked on tyreleader they have the kumhos listed at £61 but also at £55 for DOT 2012. Black circles are £73 fitted at a local centre.
I'm shopping for tyres at the moment and have kumhos all round on the car. They are good value and have lasted well, also I've been very happy with the level of grip in both wet and dry. They are a bit noisy though.
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Budget tyres certainly are popular amongst the genral public who presumably only care about cost. I always look closely at tyres when I see high performance cars out and about and more often than not they are shod with budget rubber.
The other day I went to look at a civic type r out of interest. Nice car on a 57 plate in immaculate black with low miles and full Honda history. It was wearing a full set of 'evergreen' tyres. No doubt named because you will end up in a tree!
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I would say its probably facelift with a pre facelift bumper. Mine is November 2002 and is facelift.
At 140k miles it's no doubt going to be quite cheap. Oil burner or not it's made it this far!
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I don't think it's cheating.
But....I want a red nose on my car about as much as Skiny wants a cat on his!
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They sell them at your local Toyota dealership.
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I do think it's admirable that you would want to sort this problem for him but at the end of the day the guy bought a 2nd hand engine on eBay. To the best of your knowledge it was fine when it was in your car. You don't know anything about the person who installed the engine in his car, absolutely anything could have gone wrong.
I would email him with suggestions given above but at the end of the day it's really not your problem.
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Not sure I understand this.
When you call a car a 'shed' doesn't that mean that it's rubbish?
Or does pistonheads have another meaning for it?
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I was thinking the same thing. As a fun weekend car it's worth keeping unless of course you really need the money or space on your drive. The thing that would force me to sell mine is a need for more practicality and the miles I do.
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If you've changed tyres since the mot I wouldn't worry about it. Best not re-fit those old ones when winter is done though.
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Do you mean the rear tyres are worn unevenly?
It's very common for them to wear more on the inner edge sometimes causing them to make a noise similar to knackered wheel bearings. One solution is to rotate them regularly with the fronts.
What tyres do you have?
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£20 a tyre for fitting is a rip off. Last time I ordered a set of 4 online they cost me £10 each to fit at a local tyre shop. It's more hassle doing it that way though. I wonder if garages are wising up to people buying tyres cheap online and maybe starting to charge more for fitting?
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Out of interest what made you go for the avons at £90 when the rainsports are only £62?
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I've just come back from a weeks holiday where we hired a brand new fiesta. I was looking forward to it because the motoring press are always on about how great the fiesta is to drive. Now it seems that great to drive means easy to drive. You sit high with a great view and all the controls are so heavily assisted that it's like driving a feather. I think it was a 1.2 and there was a time in the late 90's where the 1.2 fiesta had loads of zip but it's now totally inadequate in the new car. Anyone who thinks a gen7 is gutless should drive one of these!
Most new cars are great for people who just want a car and don't really care about driving. They don't require you to do anything at all. When we got back I even enjoyed the drive back from the airport in my gf's Hyundai i10 which has more feel to it and more go with the same 82bhp power output. Imagine how much I'm looking forward to my celica fix this morning!
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Action shot? Tree? ......
Obviously not my celica!
So is this thread now just about posting pics or is someone going to set a new challenge?
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National Park, trees and off road, no gravel and no tarmac. Even threw in a bit of rain.
Looks like it was stolen by Glaswegian joy riders. Lucky you found it before they torched it!
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My other half names cars using their reg.
The celica ends in FBJ so she calls it Faberge like the posh, expensive eggs!
Unfortunately the MR2 starts with PN05.....!
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I love the fact that people will wonder what the hell you've got under there!
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I don't even know if there's a night club in tamworth. And if there is I'm pretty sure nobody would queue to get in.
Choosing the best tyres for the typical British winter.
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I would choose goodyears.
Just put a set of eagle F1's on my Honda and they feel excellent. The roads were soaking wet the last couple of days with all the storms but I never once felt any loss of grip, so much better than the budgets that were on it before. The temperature has not dropped lower than about 10 degrees yet so I'll have to wait and see what they are like when it's cold, although I work mostly from home so rarely need to venture out in snow.