I just don't learn, it's my Legacy

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CarlosV8 said:

Amazing what a difference the right set of wheels can make. Looks great!

seiben said:

Ooooooh yes.

Thanks both. I'm pretty happy with the look, took me ages to finally go for it.

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redandwhite said:

Nice, i very nearly bought one of these (Boxer Diesel though) before the XC70

Think you dodged a bullet there, heard nothing good about the diesel engine.

Fatball said:

What’s the performance of these like once up to 300bhp? Is the auto box a limiting factor?

I believe a simple remap should get close to 300 without any adverse effects. I've not seen anything bad about the gearbox tbh.

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One of the new wheels are missing a centre cap, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to grab a new set. Can't be tricky can it?

Apparently I was wrong.

I grabbed these from eBay



They arrived today and I went out to pop them on, except they don't fit. FFS. They don't seem to click home, and when lining them up against an original it's easy to see why.



I did however seem to get the right diameter (56mm) which I guess is a bonus. M600 is stamped on the back of the originals.

A virtual pint to anyone who can find me some which actually fit!

Edited by S100HP on Friday 26th June 19:27

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Might as well use it for estate duties

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Thanks for the offer RDB but they're different to mine. I might have a temporary bodge arriving today, some generic caps and then some stickers which might fit. We will see.

Also, thanks for the info orangecurry. I did initially regret my decision to move to 18s as the ride was significantly worse....I then twigged the tyres were at 44psi rather than 33psi!

In other news, these arrived today



Working a couple of nights now tho, so cannot fit until next week. Damn it.

Edited by S100HP on Saturday 4th July 01:20

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mercedeslimos said:

What's in the box (Looks like from Mtec brakes - great value) is better than what's outside the box.

Your postcode.

Thirty seconds of google tells me where this car is, outside your house. Get that pic down!

Noted

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New discs fitted.



So had to go and make sure they were working

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PrinceRupert said:

I read this thread and was reminded of your previous thread, and not going to lie, read this whole thread waiting on the horror story. Very happy to see there isn't one

Not yet thankfully!

Added an accessory this afternoon

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MDMA . said:

Looks good. Are you going to colour code the front spats? Will look a lot better, IMO.

Yes, that's the plan at some point.

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Unfortunately one of the tyres on the new alloys was misshapen meaning I got a vibration at motorway speeds. It was really ruining my enjoyment of the car so today had a couple of new rainsport 5 fitted to the rear. The two newer (2018) rainsport 3 were then rebalanced and fitted back on the front. Thankfully the imbalance has now gone. An expensive day out.



In other news it looks like the ATF fluid was changed in 2017, so should be good for a while.

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I decided to let the Legacy go this week and it went off to it's new home last night, to the same guy I got the wheels from earlier in the year.

Am currently questioning my decision making as it was a lovely example but I couldn't bring myself to put money into it, servicing fixing the radio etc and when the offer came up to sell (what is a notoriously difficult car to sell) I took it. It also drank fuel at an alarming rate to the point I was taking the wife's car to work on nights.

I think I just prefer bangernomics. I don't like having so much money tied up in a car it seems but feeling pretty sad about my decision this morning.