What have you done to your car today?

Must be wrong, if you have a cat and silencer then I don't see how it's possible to be that loud. My nissan was 109 or 110 with a full straight pipe turbo-back on it and let me tell you it was incredibly loud, you couldn't hear yourself think.
 
A wee bit of green, will be on the car in a couple of weeks:

Before and after shot:

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Absolutely love the results and colour, proper camera does a better job but in the flesh they look 10x better, can't wait to get them on, will look ace behind the wheels. :)
 
Same thing happened to me a couple of years ago - it is indeed soul destroying but not much you can do

There's always something with a new car, just sometimes it's a bit more extreme!
 
Dis86 said:
Put a complaint in to the dealer about some (well, lack of) work on the gfs Mini. Let's see how this plays out...
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Well...would you believe it. Part of the complaint was about the service department never calling back aaaaaaaaaaand they haven't called back.
 
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Dis86 said:
You and anyone else in it ok bud?
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Yes , and its not much damage really, only slight rear bumper damage. Could have been a lot worse I suppose. Just really not what you want driving home after collecting a car!

Sorry, might have made it sound worse than it is, but I was still pretty upset :(
 
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Mart2912 said:
To be fair, any damage no matter how minor on a new car is gutting. Hope you get everything sorted as it was.
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When I fist picked up my current car there was a hidden pot hole on the exit of the industrial estate, I hit it and scuffed the underside of the bumper. Could have cried.
 
When I picked up my new car the first road I drove on had just been 'resurfaced' and had all the gravel out, I drove at 5mph down that road and annoyed everyone. not nearly as bad as you lot though :(
 
About 2-3 weeks after I swapped my old, somewhat rusting Mazda3 for an immaculate 18 month old Leon FR, someone in a car park (either outside my flat or at work) decided my front passenger side bumper/wing would look better with some of their car's white paint transferred to it.

Many a swear word was said that day.
 
Stormster said:
It's done and back. I paid £320 for whole front end blended into doors and A-Pillars and he did my mirror caps also.

Can't see a colour difference and the finish is good, so pretty happy with that! I wasn't expecting a lot but wanted to tidy the car up but he's done a great job for the money. Send me a message via trust for the Companies name/contact info, a place in Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent :)

EDIT. Not had time to take pics and it's dirty now, but a couple out of the paint shop. No stand out differences I can see :)
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Looks in better nick than mine!

I've not followed why you're back in an Astra though....

I test drove a 1.8 but it didn't hit the spot for me.
 
Had a bit of a play with an E93 M3 earlier on my way home from picking the Mazda up from my parents. Surprising to both of us he couldn't close the gap at all.
 
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