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Loxy's Type R #4

Looks sweet as a nut!

And your good start with the mods. Are you going to get the floor bar?
 
Looks sweet as a nut!

And your good start with the mods. Are you going to get the floor bar?

I decided against it. It looked good, but I'm pretty sure that's about all it did. Plus it properly got in the way of people's feet if they were sat in the back.
 
It's still chucking it down outside so I've been for a pootle but I've not really been able to drive it properly so far with the soaking roads. I'm not 100% convinced yet with the 30mm Eibachs, but it's been a while and I think I've been used to that well damped Ford though. It's been tickety boo on the motorway and A roads, but I've found the knack of 10 mph over speed bumps again this evening.
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I did notice this. Nice touch the plaque being painted CW too.

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It's taken a few years but I really like the look of the FN2 now, it looks particularly good in CW. Best colour by far.

Shame we didn't know you were up north, could have arranged an escort for the start of your journey!
 
Looking great John :cool: I am partial to a CW FN, I think somehow, they just look better than the other colours. Not sure why though :lol:
 
As mentioned by Jim the FN2 took a while to grow on me.

But I do quite like them know especially in CW.

No doubt this one will be as good as your last one.
 
Nice car Loxy,looks lovely.
Did you not get on with the focus mate? Been thinking of looking at one but obviously very different to a Type R.

Oh and when you started this thread I thought it may of been an incoming FK2 :lol:
 
They always come back haha

Didn't fancy hanging out for the new Type R or will that be on the cars once they are a couple of years old?
 
Nice car Loxy,looks lovely.
Did you not get on with the focus mate? Been thinking of looking at one but obviously very different to a Type R.

Oh and when you started this thread I thought it may of been an incoming FK2 :lol:

Damn thing kept breaking. In the six months I had it went back to the dealers four times for warranty work, and to compound that the Ford dealers I've used have rated amongst the worst I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. One kerbing my previously mint alloys simply getting the thing into the workshop and another dealer deciding that a full laser alignment after a steering rack replacement simply wasn't on the cards. I got it back the first time with it pulling to the kerb side, then after returning with it because it wasn't right, it then came back to me toeing in 5mm on the front.

Just lost all faith in the car and the dealer network, despite being on first name terms with the service manager. :p

Shame, because it drove really well when it was working.

They always come back haha

Didn't fancy hanging out for the new Type R or will that be on the cars once they are a couple of years old?

No not the FK2, "Ring Destroyer," edition. I'm giving that one a few years to see how it gets on with the owners and then I'll have a look. I promised myself a while ago after buying a brand new car and losing £5k in six months, that I'd never drive a brand new car off the forecourt again.

I'm going to sit back and watch how this all pans out with the FK2.

I'll be sure in a few years that all and any issues are well documented or ironed out and I'll be keeping an eye on the residuals when the ex-demos hit the market. I might even wait until a few get handed back off the end of the PCP deals because there is bound to be a Mugen or similar run out special edition which will mean the "normal" GTs fall out of favour and they'll be ripe for a bargainous picking so to speak. Well compared to the £33k list price anyway.

The only fly in that ointment is the numbers they produce and actually sell. People went all trippy that they would never spend £38.5k on a Civic when the Type R Mugen (M20) came out, yet here we are three or four years later and Honda are sending the new car out of the factory at £33k. Granted the level of kit has come on leaps and bounds, but it's not that big of a leap in the cost of owning one.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather take my family away on a few nice holidays every year, do a few track days here and there and enjoy the car I have rather than spending it on something I know I'll get a better deal on down the road.
 
I got a tiny bit of spare time today. I managed to get the forum stickers on. These are what I bought for the FD2 but never got round to putting them on.

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I also got the smoked fog protectors on, but got interrupted for family business and by the time I got chance to take a pic it had gone dark, so pic in the morning of those.

Asimo seems happy with his new perch (this is the original one from my first FN2).

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Also had chance to fit the third Skunk2 gear knob I've owned. :lol:

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Just waiting on the postie for more bits to arrive now...
 
Very smart fella. Sounds like the garage bill is going to be a fair whack but at least it will be nice to know it's all sorted.
 
Side shot showing the ride height properly. I've not caught it on anything yet...

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Smoked fog protectors on. Usual defensive parking spot, I'm on the line honestly...

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