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I think that whenever I see it. Its nice, but needs to come up about 1 cm at the front and 1.5 cm at the back IMO. :p
 
Well, it came with the lowering springs on it, and I will keep the suspension on until it needs replaced. It rides well to be honest, so see no need to change it just now. Also haven't fowled it yet on speedhumps or the like, and there are some pretty savage ones around here.

But yeah, I am too old for properly slammed motors. In fact, I'm too old for lowering my motors myself. However, I can appreciate a car sitting nicely around a nice set of wheels. Although I'm not 100% these are any better than the original BBS.
 
Steedie said:
I know Fox is going to hate the filter but...after a nice Sunday morning doing the Winter protection

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Looks familiar :D

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Picked this up on Thursday - yes it's a Fertility Wagon, but I have to fit a wheelchair and (as of March) 3 kid's seats...

What's under the bonnet has put a smile on my face though - right up until I got pinged by the speed trap this afternoon!

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Dunno if the pictures are big enough really?

So what is under the bonnet? I like these.
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MORE SPEED said:
A rare one by the looks of it, 2.0 Ecoboost.
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Nailed it.

The last Galaxy was a diesel, but since 80% of my driving are short trips, I'd be parking at my destination before the car had even started to warm up.
Going for the petrol engine shouldn't be that much less economical for the kind of driving we do, with the benefit of a much quieter ride and grin-inducing acceleration.

Park Assist hasn't really been used (I'm used to the size and having to reverse onto my drive pretty sharpish, what with living on the corner of an infamous rat run), but the couple of times I've pushed the button, it's either been great, or parked like a geriatric.

SYNC3 is also pretty decent - I'm still working my way through the manual, but I'm liking the way it displays my Amazon Music stream...

(Apologies for the humongous pics - I'm waiting for my PSU to come back from Corsair, so I'm trying to do this from my phone. I shall remember to resize the photos before uploading to imgur)
 
Got rid of some arch gap and fitted numerous new suspension components. Cheap runaround...perhaps not any more, got receipts matching what I paid for it at the end of August :D Just a bit of bodywork tidying after winter. Then knowing me I'll sell it.

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Stormster said:
Got rid of some arch gap and fitted numerous new suspension components. Cheap runaround...perhaps not any more, got receipts matching what I paid for it at the end of August :D Just a bit of bodywork tidying after winter. Then knowing me I'll sell it.

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3 weeks it will be gone :)
 
Definitely looks better, need to do something with the paint before winter really sets in though. The MX5 looks in good order mate, nicely hid that one! :)
 
Thanks Stormster. :)

Earlier when the subject of sorting the chassis rails came up, I was wondering if coating them in ditrinol (like a better waxoyl) and coating the inside with cavity wax, would stop what is there from getting worse, because no air/moisture could get to the existing rot? Because I might do that if so... I suspect it won't stop it entirely but should slow it down considerably?

I don't want to spend loads on it only to sell it, but if I do only keep it short term I'd like to slow down the progression of what is there... If a few months down the line I decide to keep it long term, then I'll get it chopped out. :)

Also having not had a car which is known for rust issues before, I have no grasp of how quickly rust/rot gets worse! I figured that it has taken 18 years to get this bad so leaving it a few months probably wouldn't cause it to become noticeably worse?

I searched the web, mixed answers...
 
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