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Bloody great wheel weight on that front there. I get proper p1ssed off with garages that do that. Have some pride in your work god dam it.

Did you get more than you paid, fees and everything?

I do love the looks of these. Theres something TVR about them. I really need to get round to trying one. I reackon its the only car I'd consider swapping the lotus for.

Chapter 3: I love this car So, currently ive done over 600 miles since the EML last came on, and have had no problems at all. Having spoken to Stratton, they think it may have been it was run on crap fuel, plus having only done small journeys for so long. Then me putting proper fuel and driving...

Chapter 2: The car With it being mid March, and only wanting to tax the car for 6 months each year, i wanted to wait till April to get it taxed. Having it sitting in my garage for 2 weeks not being able to drive it was pain staking. But i did get a chance to have a closer look at the car and...

Having got my car a couple of months ago, i feel its time i started a little thread. I'll try keep it brief, but i know i like to rabbit on :rolleyes: Chapter 1. Finding the car. This is a car id been saving for for over 7 years. Every month id been putting some aside into the lotus fund, with...

Sold the car today in anticipation of a new arrival. Someone asked last week on the mx5 FB page if anyone had one for sale. I mentioned I was looking to sell mine in the next month or so and about 20 people contacted me asking for details for when I wish to sell. So sorted it out yesterday...

I find most black friday deals all bollox. However i have just got 4 Yokohama blue earths for £63 each, and i know they haven't been less than £72 over the last 2 months anywhere. So happy with that. Mot in December on the daily and running on 2mm tread front and 4 mm back i guess its time to...

this one Des I fell in love with the s660 there. Did you import it yourself? I keep looking at a gorgeous blue one on a certain import site for about £13000, but i hear the import and on the road cost is so much more than they quote. Plus i don't have that kind of money anyway.

Out with the old, and in with the new. The first wheel boss I got didn't fit right. So contacted the dealer and he said its definitely the right one and my car must have been altered. I called bull cr4p. So ordered one from bofi racing, mx5 specialist, and it now all fits a treat...

Hello You sure the wheels arnt factory black? My old milano red had black wheels from factory and yes they bubble up really badly.

It doesn't sound too much like your problem. Id be taking back to the garage you brought from and telling them to service it as expected.

My Swift sport has had zero issues over the last couple years. Though not sure it's a hot hatch, maybe more a luke warm..... Warm.......tepid...... OK, just above freezing hatch. But she's still great fun to drive.

Tippex, even lighter.

I saw your car at JAE, and both my brother and I commented that never in a million years would we have put those wheels on that car, but it actually really works. Great vision by you, it looked really smart.

An actual image of Hazz arriving at JAE with his Mini...

Hazz, I can give you a base closer to the show ground. I'm still 45 mins away, but if you need a stop or place enroute then my house is available.

Finally managed to get the "Enuos" out last weekend. Got insurance sorted £109 without cage, £146 with, for the year. Classic car policy, 1500 limited miles. I'm happy with that, but surprised the cage added such a large percentage to the price. So fully legal, I head out. And immediately...

Finished filling, spraying, sanding, spraying, sanding, spraying etc of the front holes today. Been at it for the last two weekends. And for my first attempt at any kind of body work and a budget build im rather happy with it. Mx5parts supplied a can of body match paint for £12, £6 for bumper...

:lol::lol: they mainly ran around the garden and sprayed me with the hose. No using cloths on the car for them.

I wasn't keen on getting a black car when I bought this, but 4 door Swifts are thin on the ground, so choice was limited. I also very (very very very very) rarely clean my cars, let alone polish them. But as we're on an economy month this month I have to find cheap things to do with the kids...

It's far from perfect. Photos can make most cars look good. Admittedly there isn't much rust visible and it seems pretty solid. But the bodywork does have a fair few dinks and scratches. Particularly the boot lid, which looks awful close up with some big nasty scratches in it. There's a...

Got my roll bar fitted today. Having bought it direct from Gcfabrication as they are not far from me, he didn't have any stickers or fitting instructions available there and then but said he'd get some sent out to me asap. Well that was four weeks ago, and having phoned and emailing him weekly...

Was about to say what the heck's with the weave in that thing . If being off centre will drive you nuts then that should drive you insane

It's the not wanting to take off the front bumper that's the thing. So hoping to fill from the front. Been told about a fibreglass bridging compound that should work. Gonna look in to that a bit more. I've not seen your thread before. Looks like I got myself some bedtime reading

That's not a bad idea on some of them I wonder how it'd look like that. Might have to make some black stickers to see how it'd look.

What products do people use to fill in badge holes on a plastic bumper? I can't remove the bumper so can't get to the rear of the holes. What's the best process to filling them??

You got any pictures of your old MXs guys??

It's from a place called GC Fabrication. They're Ipswich based, so only 30 mins away. They do some really good stuff, it's the same design as a TR Lane bar. I've also got some clear side lenses on order.

Got my wheels on last weekend, and today I fitted my newly painted rear panel. I absolutely love the look from the back. But still need to sort out the fog light I've had a few issues with the wheels. I bought them and the tyres separately, then took them to my local garage and asked him to...

This must be adding up to a hefty bill coming from Grinspeed??

I've changed the wheel choice now. I ordered these on Monday. I liked the sparco, but just decided these ones suit it a bit better. And yeah they are in black.

They'll need spacers. Offset is 35, same as factory. 20mm is flush with bodywork. So 15-20mm spacers will be just right.

A little update. Fitted the new lower grille after removing the chicken wire:rolleyes: It looks great, why the original person didn't spend £30 on a proper grille is beyond me. Then fitted the offset number plate bracket and import plate. The original mount was all busted and tapped together...

Polo Harlequin. My mate raced one a few years back, when I took a fiesta. A mad bloke gave him a right mouth fall in a service station that we stopped at on the way home for smashing up such an "important motoring history" car. We just laughed. The car was ****, nothing behind the bumpers, it...

Small update: Debadged her today and gave it a good outside clean, polish and wax. It's come up looking really good. The photo doesn't give the shine enough justice. The front numberplate mount was damaged, so I've removed that and have a side plate mount on order. Also the lower front grille...

Great looking cars, what it like on eating tyres?

Sort of what I'm thinking. But for putting £200 into the wheels, I think in a couple years time they'll fetch that if I sell them on. So that's not really wasted money on them. And year spacers are a good shout. What coilovers are you recommending? Seems to be around £350 for a decent set. Not...

I got the car in the garage today. It's been full of crap since the building works finished so have spent the last two days clearing it out. So at least she's dry and warm now. Took off the rear wheels to give them a real good clean to see how they'd come up. And I'm not pleased to say, the...

Well had a chance for a poke around this morning for an hour or so. I love it, I can't believe these have never crossed my radar before. The drive is so much fun. Not been far as it's not taxed or insured so private road only;) It's quite tail happy which I like, and that's not down to the...

Yeah that's the one. I guess I yearn for underground still. This one is crap. It's always so dark, and the cars handle like turd. Not to mention the god awful acting.

It does need a name, but how would you pronounce that? En-u-os?

£750 + £120 for delivery on this. Early Christmas present for me.

Mod, please correct the title to spell Eunos right. Thank you

So this just happened :smt047 Knew I couldn't turn it down. It's dark out so can't see much, so far looks solid and the very short run I've had in it she pulls very well in all gears. More to follow once I've had a good poke around in the light. Inspiration via having a play around...

Could it be reprogrammed so that once the key is out of range, or in this case the signal is lost, then the car would cut out? I've heard people say it can be done on my swift. That needs a key nearby to open door and start it, but if the key then goes out of range it just keeps running, but...

Sorry about that Hazz, I was so silly drunk last night (fking rugby) the photo was all in jest. It's looking fantastic. You'll have to get a video of you driving it. I bet it's mental.

Is that tar? Could it have been collected from the roads being so hot this summer?

suspension turret

Yeah see what you mean. To get that made would cost £££. Especially with hardening etc

Can you not get the pinion made locally. Any engineering shop could do it in less than an hour.

Heater matrix??

I'd say small air leak. Sounds like the brakes are bleeding.

You going to the mini fest at Snetterton on Sunday 13th?

The same happened to my FN2 black wheels after only 1 year. Honda wernt interested. The reason I liked Honda was their customer service, I feel they're starting to go the way of other marquees and lose that personal touch.

Rarity does not equal desirability.

Needs a red badge. That adds 3.276 BHP

My wife's insurance with Admiral went from £215 last year to £386 this year. Gone with Halifax for £180 for the year. When I phoned Admiral to tell them not to renew, she asked if they could requote me, as she could see even without looking we'd get £50 off as we were loyal customers. I told...

You could just be thankful it gave you a chuckle......now if only you could show your thanks for that??????

Why not book with an advanced driver and get them to show you. There are some really good ones about, ex stunt drivers etc. It's the best way to get the best from your car.

I personally would be looking at the immobiliser? They can play silly buggers with a car when it gets a bit cold. Also battery in the key is worth changing.

Just received my order for my badgeless grill for the Swift. Not sure if to paint or not? The part the numberplate sits on and the fog light surround on a standard swift grill are a gold/bronze/silver colour, which is just about noticeable on a black swift, and I like the subtle difference, so...

That's a bugger Shawn. When my xtrail went pop all I could think about was "well that's £7000 down the drain" I ended up cutting my losses and running. I think if you do get another engine will the car still feel the same to you?? Good find on the mx5, let's see some pictures. I'm desperately...

Harnesses without a rollbar is extremely dangerous. If you roll the car and have a harness fitted then your body don't move, resulting in a squashed head. Where as having a roll bar will prevent the roof coming in, or in the case of a normal seatbelt, youd slide down the seat in the event of a...

Realised I never updated this thread. Well I have a new car to replace the god awful Skoda. The garage was good to his word and did a straight swap for any car I wanted in the correct price range. So after doing some research for cars that are small, four door and a hoot to drive on b and c...

Got a call from Skoda yesterday saying they need the Rapid back as someone was interested in buying it. Which I know must be a lie. As I've had it for 6 weeks they have no way of knowing it's mileage, so how can they sell it without knowing that. I think they were just aware it was a brand new...

That's awesome. My brother had a mini with a Vauxhall Calibra engine mounted in place of the rear seats. I think it was also rear wheel drive. That was stupid rapid.

Went and saw him today, he was really good and totally got where I'm coming from saying I don't wish to get involved myself with Skoda. He was going on about how Skoda were saying the hole on the block couldn't be determined if it's a casting, machining or blown in the block and then trying...

Cheers mwng, that's actually really useful. Going by that I Am intitled to my money back on two counts. It taking to long to fix and it having a 2nd fault, (it pulls massively to the left even though I paid to get the tracking looked at after my first week of ownership). I think I'm going to...

I've asked for photos but got no reply. I bought the car out right, only drove it for two weeks and now haven't had it for over a month. I notified them it was fooked after just one weeks ownership, that must stand for something. If goods are faulty you can return them for refund surly.

Got this email today from my garage. I'm not sure how to go from here, I've told him several times have no intention of taking the car back. But how can I reply to this email letting him know that I'm not going to take it back. All advice and help welcome on how I handle this. Do I threaten...

Update: I'm STILL In the courtesy car. It's now week five I think. Skoda and my garage are still arguing over who pays for the new engine. I've told my garage several times I'm not having it back and all I get atm is "let's wait till it's back" he's insisting it's a new bottom end not a new...

I do like this one. £7400, 60k miles. Seems good to me.

It's not off topic Chris as it's the other car Im considering. Ha ha. Spooky.

Now that I didn't know. Very interesting. Does it share the vectra engine too then??

i think what ive decided to do is keep the courtesy car till Skoda ask for it back, then go to the place i bought it from and get my money back. I'm just not feeling happy with the Fabia, I'd never have bought it with a new engine as if it was advertised with that I'd have not even bothered with...

Skoda themselves provided me with the car, hence my garage saying don't talk to them. I don't want to be a pawn in their game.

Here's my update. I bought the car from a non-Skoda garage, 2011, 21000 miles, full Skoda history, after first 400 miles I'd burnt .8 litres of oil. Took it back, they sent to Skoda for oil consumption test. Skoda confirmed it was bad so they booked it in for new injectors, and new breathers...

Two reasons, having had my FN2, an EP3 never really appealed to me. But more importantly my wife insisted the car had four doors for if she needs to use the car for whatever reason. And what she says goes........

So many Of them are re mapped, but with how squishy the engine is im worried about doing it. Because I've read all the horror story's in the interweb I've kind of scared myself out of just enjoying the car a bit. Once I've put a few thousand miles on the car without any problems then I suspect...

Well the KA was only a stop gap that cost me £400, I used it faultlessly for about 3 months and have sold it for £400. So alls good there. Wanting to get back into a hot hatch after loving and missing my FN2 so much, I started to look around what would fit my budget. And settled on a Skoda...

You an imposter at a Ford meet?? Sierra behind, Fiesta next to you, Anglia back left. I do like your subaru. I think they look better than the old saloon versions. But still the running costs would scare me off ever owning one.

But am I not right in saying if it has got eibach springs then that would only drop it by 5mm. It drops a standard civic by 30mm.

I never told mine, I can't see how they'd ever really know. Unless they called for the car to have a seriously detailed check to be done. Which is very very rare for insurance company's to do as it costs a lot to do it.

Don't do much for me, cause it's an Audi and all, but don't take that in anyway other than im a grumpy git and seriously stuck in my ways. As long as you like it, then fuk the likes of me:) Can you get the side bits sprayed the same colour?? One thing i will say, when i was working at Caterham...

Welcome Fast road set up, the place to start with the FN2. Makes a world of diffrence. Regarding photos, you need to use a photo hosting site. I use photobucket, it's easy.

Theres one big big con..........its the blue badge on the front and the unreliability and poor workmanship that goes with it.

Ive heard, although it could just be a rumour im starting, but its the red badges on the front grill that they cant get.

i actually thought you were taking the p1ss and just being sarcastic. Its not for me im afraid. But the orange i actually think looks great (minus the red bits) Its the colour the R is calling out for. Be bold i say on a car like that, its not a Mercedes, it doesnt have to be grey, silver...

Carbon footprint ha ha ha ha

Don't get why anyone would have a decent performance car then put budget tyres on. The tyres are all the contact you have between your ass and the road, why go skanky?

Out of interest, you say its a group probably brute forcing with the five most popular password. What are the five most popular? Surly out of all the passwords people can have (the worlds your oyster, as there are billions and billions of word combinations available) why does someone go obvious?

It does look very good in shines black. You'll have to keep it properly polished. Also, try get that red of the wheels, it looks tacky on any colour, but seriously so on a black car. Other than that, youre lucky lucky people.

Selling my 2010 model cheaper than that...

Not hating on the driver, more the car. I think in its recent guise its lost its audience some what. Would I have one? Hell yeah Are their other cars I'd have first if I had £33k? Hell yeah. Its trying to hard imo

Saw a white one in Tesco car park in Ely yesterday. Bloke just sitting in it revving it. In his 40's I reckon. Just didn't quite suit him. I'm the first to say drive what you like and fuk the haters. But it was kind of like seeing an old guy borrowing his sons car, as opposed to son borrowing...

Can you haggle on a new car price?? Always wounded that.

I guess they'd argue that the premium is for the fact you could drive it away there and then, no waiting list.

After 7000 miles, someone obviously decided it wasn't for them http://www.gumtree.com/p/honda/honda-civic-2.0-i-vtec-type-r-gt-petrol-manual-2015-15/1128728151