Was down the tyneside coast this morning (not far from your house rob:chat)
and the weather was crazy lovely bright sunshine one minute then chucking it down the next , all the while blowing a bleeding gale.
Anyhoo i decided it was a good a time as any to get some last pics in before i put my winter wheels on.
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And my new desktop background,
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Looking good there fella. I know that area quite well. It\'s always fun to rumble along at night when all the corsa/saxo boys are drooling over their french skips, just to see their little hairless faces look round in confusion as the havent a clue as to what i\'m driving. Then they try and chase you, oh how i laugh!
Blimey your colour white is superb !!!!!
9.5\'s front and back - good work! :Thumbsup!
Your parking rubbish to bud, 2nd pic down is nearly as bad as wor lass\'s efforts
awsome pics mate... talking of weather... anyone driving on sunday evening see the thunder storm?? OMG was in a rental car, wipers on full doing 30mph & couldn\'t see the road!!
Jono
looks good but in the first pic id get rid of that massive white aerial
Pffft - that\'s no ariel - thats a high-speed stabilising fin... :D
cool rims!!!!
yeah looks nice fella. but i would say that looks pretty much the same as mine :D white the best colour imo.
Quote from: Bobbit;553228Your parking rubbish to bud, 2nd pic down is nearly as bad as wor lass\'s efforts
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You should see my XXL arial/Highspeed Fin when its foggy, It got a superbright flashy light too, I wanted to paint it red/white.:Laugh:Laugh
That is St Mary\'s/Whitley Bay isn\'t it?
Sniff... you\'re making me homesick. When I was growing up, we used to spend most weekends at the beach (irrespective of the weather :) )
I\'m tempted to take the Rex "for a spin to the coast"... six hours later :3gears-rh
DrDan.
Yup that looks like St Marys lighthouse adhered to the rear of the \'7!!!
Chris
i dont think i have seen many pics of your car neil, looks very clean.
Quote from: Bobbit;553225I know that area quite well. It\'s always fun to rumble along at night when all the corsa/saxo boys are drooling over their french skips, just to see their little hairless faces look round in confusion as the havent a clue as to what i\'m driving. Then they try and chase you, oh how i laugh!
haha spot on, very true!
yeah its defo St Marys lighthouse, just down the road from me too!
love the car mate spesh with the new clear lights and the wheels set it off very well!
Looking good! I always wanted a white fd, ill just have to make do with black :)
Sits very nicely that !! :god
looks awesome mate, like the 2nd to last me :Thumbs-up
Good offset wheels for the win!!
Saying that though have always wanted to live on the coast but when the bad weather comes it hits the coastal towns worse !!!
Good thing with Derby is its quite high up at the foot of the pennines so dont get too much flooding issues, apart from the south link up to the A38 / A50 / M1 motorways :mmmm
I\'ve always ALWAYS wanted to live on the coast!
Devon / Cornwall is my preferance!
awesome looking car im really starting to like white ones now, and the rims look awesome :Thumbsup!
Nice car, sits really well on the wheels and the alloys are very tasty!
Dont mean to hijack the thread but Grant mentioned youre on 9.5 all round. Got me thinking. Is it possible to go 9.5 wide at the front too? Ive currently got some mania vortex 18s that are 8 all round and dont look right to me. Ive got the option of going to 19s for 8.5 front and 9.5 rear. Should I go 9.5 all round or is this crazy, especially on 19s?
I dont really want to go bigger as they rubbish to drive its the only options on this style of wheel(which i love).
Quote from: gsb876;553458Saying that though have always wanted to live on the coast but when the bad weather comes it hits the coastal towns worse !!!
Good thing with Derby is its quite high up at the foot of the pennines so dont get too much flooding issues, apart from the south link up to the A38 / A50 / M1 motorways :mmmm
That\'s very reassuring! I live about 300 yards from the sea, and our house is at just about the lowest point in Worthing! :eek:
Excellent photos, there, chap, very, very white car! You must be a valeters\' best friend :Giggle
Quote from: VishalStar;553542Nice car, sits really well on the wheels and the alloys are very tasty!
Dont mean to hijack the thread but Grant mentioned youre on 9.5 all round. Got me thinking. Is it possible to go 9.5 wide at the front too? Ive currently got some mania vortex 18s that are 8 all round and dont look right to me. Ive got the option of going to 19s for 8.5 front and 9.5 rear. Should I go 9.5 all round or is this crazy, especially on 19s?
I dont really want to go bigger as they rubbish to drive its the only options on this style of wheel(which i love).
You might struggle at the front, as I\'m also on the mania vortex 18" - and when i tried to go to a slightly wider tyre (235/40/18 iirc) I couldn\'t turn lock-to-lock - the wheels were clipping inside the arch or something (I was turnin the wheel while the tyre shop was checking fitting), so ended up staying with a stretched 225 :/
That said, it was a cheep tyre rpelacement place on the motorway, and I have no idea if the offsets etc for my wheels are correct - with the right offsets it *might* be doable...
be interested to hear if anyone has done it... (cos maybe I could get a better fitting tyre - i don\'t like the stretched look meself)
Quote from: VishalStar;553542Nice car, sits really well on the wheels and the alloys are very tasty!
Dont mean to hijack the thread but Grant mentioned youre on 9.5 all round. Got me thinking. Is it possible to go 9.5 wide at the front too? Ive currently got some mania vortex 18s that are 8 all round and dont look right to me. Ive got the option of going to 19s for 8.5 front and 9.5 rear. Should I go 9.5 all round or is this crazy, especially on 19s?
I dont really want to go bigger as they rubbish to drive its the only options on this style of wheel(which i love).
mate i would not go for 19\'s,.. 18\'s is pushing it and 19\'s are over kill! Neil’s wheels are only 17" x 9.5 front and rear with +35ET (i think)
and i am running 17"x9.5 front and rear with +12ET and don’t rub! but i have had my inner arch protectors pushed back
Cheers for the comment guys,
Yeah as Steven (envyD) said my wheels are only 17" x 9.5 with a 30 offset, although they dont rub. but with 18/19" wheels im sure it will rub a fair bit.
Nice pics Neil, love the second last one.
Quote from: Nik da Greek;553601That\'s very reassuring! I live about 300 yards from the sea, and our house is at just about the lowest point in Worthing! :eek:
Excellent photos, there, chap, very, very white car! You must be a valeters\' best friend :Giggle
But on the plus side theres some nice roads next to the coast down near Worthing as i came that way many years ago through the tunnel and all !!!!
In the Escort Cosworth :god
EnvyD and Neil, thanks for the advice. You guys are right in saying 19s would kill the car.
Guess I need to find a style of wheel I like that comes with 9-9.5 at the front in 18, as well as do some serious arch rolling!
Cheers