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Evening all.
Figured I'd chuck a few photos up after a detailing session the other day, and don't have a project thread (as nowt has happened for a couple years, really!) so had to make a new thread.
Was my birthday last week (thanks for the thread, you cnuts!) which marked the 5th anniversary of me driving this thing on the road, and although she's a bit rougher round the edges than she was back then, she's still alive and well.
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A bit of beading:
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The old girl's new home:
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Apologies for the crap quality, the camera on my new phone is a bit pants.
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Happy birthday for last week! :p lovely car bud, always wanted mi16 alloys on mine
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Well I've never seen alloys rust before... 
Seriously though, not my choice in alloys but its not my car lol, and the rest still looks surprisingly good after 5 years! 
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(21-08-2014, 05:38 AM)Jimmy306uk Wrote: Happy birthday for last week! :p lovely car bud, always wanted mi16 alloys on mine
Haha, cheers dude! And yeah, I love them 
(21-08-2014, 08:14 AM)Toms306 Wrote: Well I've never seen alloys rust before...
Seriously though, not my choice in alloys but its not my car lol, and the rest still looks surprisingly good after 5 years!
Haha, the colour is temporary, I just needed a cheap solution, and this respray cost less than a tenner and is incredibly hard wearing. I start a new job on the 1st of september though, so sandblasting and powder coating will be on the cards, there's a place in Brum that does it for £20 a corner.
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Sweet ride. Black masks and roof! Good combo
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Cheers dude! Still pretty unique, not seen many other 306s with black roofs, which is nice.
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Love the car Kezzie it looks fantastic the black and red combination works awesomely well.
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Cheers dude! It's filthy again after ragging it around Snowdonia for a weekend though!
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(28-08-2014, 04:48 PM)Kezzieboy Wrote: Cheers dude! It's filthy again after ragging it around Snowdonia for a weekend though!
Sorry to bring old thread up but how the hell do you manage 73MPG? I can just squeeze 60 out of mine.
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Constant speed, slip steaming and a bit of mathematical error.
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Looks very nice personally prefer it on the c5 steelies but still looks great
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It's never been on C5 steelies 
And the 73 MPG was calculated properly, only error would've been the usual minor inconsistencies in filling up (I always fill to 2 clicks) and speedo/odo error. I followed a tanker most of the way from Brum to Cornwall at ~60mph (on the satnav). Even with 5% error that's still only just shy of 70MPG 
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Haha, you know I'm only winding you up. I have no interest in 'on a run' mpg myself, do roughly the same mixed driving so I'm more bothered by averages.
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My driving is utterly inconsistent, I did it out of sheer curiosity, I hadn't planned on brimming again when I got home, but after 200 miles, the needle had barely moved, so I calculated.
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The door interior, is that standard matierial? Mines flagging and I'm not sure if I could get all the glue off scrub it down and spray it.
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i quite like it on the xsi wheels
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(17-02-2015, 11:53 AM)af1 Wrote: i quite like it on the xsi wheels
XSi? They're 405 Mi16 wheels aren't they?
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(17-02-2015, 12:00 PM)powerandtorque Wrote: (17-02-2015, 11:53 AM)af1 Wrote: i quite like it on the xsi wheels
XSi? They're 405 Mi16 wheels aren't they? yes they are 405 wheels. I think they did a 14" version for the 106 iirc though
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Yeah, 405 Mi16s, the 106 wheels are somewhat similar, but not really, and they're 14s as matt says.
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Lol what steering wheel do you have? Looks massive lol
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(20-02-2015, 09:29 AM)Matt Wrote: Lol what steering wheel do you have? Looks massive lol
It does look very bus like 
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It's the same size as stock, if not smaller, actually, and a nicer shape/feel. It's a ZX 16v one.
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