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Old 21st August 2010, 08:16 AM
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clearly missed the stingy part.........a grand on wheels on a 3 grand car.........erm. I like the 17" competitions, i do really! They are all the wheel an unaspiring poverty striken person needs. And i'm only in a 2.8, my fuel economy is lovely, nice high 20's average, middle 30's on a run.......see.......stingy


now......did someone mention a free drink
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Old 21st August 2010, 10:30 AM
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clearly missed the stingy part.........a grand on wheels on a 3 grand car.........erm. I like the 17" competitions, i do really! They are all the wheel an unaspiring poverty striken person needs. And i'm only in a 2.8, my fuel economy is lovely, nice high 20's average, middle 30's on a run.......see.......stingy


now......did someone mention a free drink
I cant afford to buy you one hahahaha
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Old 24th August 2010, 08:03 AM
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Default Back on the spacer issue...

anyone running spacers notice if the bodywork picks up more stone chips?

This does worry me somewhat.
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Old 24th August 2010, 08:25 AM
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whoa, whoa, whoa, never mind what spacers to use....i'm still reeling from the news that due to a lack of (and no intention to fit) 20" wheels i'm a no-one on the forum .....i like my nice normal 17"ers............

I'm too old (and stingy) to fit hooge wheels that will break my fragile skeleton

now, carry on with your spacer discussion.
Can we be nobodys together?


"anyone running spacers notice if the bodywork picks up more stone chips?

This does worry me somewhat."

Hmmm maybe look out on the lower bumper, what about people behind will it flick a lot of sh1t at them too?
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Old 31st August 2010, 03:30 PM
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These 20mm beauties came through the post today

I went with the H&R Trak+ hub centric spacers in the end. It will allow for the original wheel bolts to be used which is a bonus. The kit seems really high quality from first impressions and much better than others i've seen.

Just need to get my locking wheel nut adapter back from Ben and these should hopefully pop on nicely.

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I have a pair of H&R PCD changers at 25mm. Quality kit.
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Where's the best place to pick these up? Fancy a set all round if it's not too expensive..
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Richard!! I sent you a message on facebook for a guy that wanted to swap with a set of wheels from your D3!

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Must have managed to delete it when I had a clearout of the inbox.. can you resend?
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Old 31st August 2010, 08:28 PM
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Sorry Richard, I posted that from work whilst trying to do a hundred things at once and thought you wanted alloys not spacers, doh!
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