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Haven’t updated this in quite some time! In truth I haven’t really driven the car since the last update, between rubbish weather at winter and now COVID-19 the car had been SORN for a couple of months.
I did take it to @RubberLover place (Ivan Kerr) just before Christmas for a wheel alignment / cracking set up and really guys down there. Very informative whilst carrying out the alignment - top service!
It was the SORN immediately after the wheel alignment and taxed again in March. In the meantime I had been longing after a new set of wheels. The 19 inch Speedlines are a lovely OEM wheel but I wanted something with a better offset to fill out the arches - they also had to be 18 inch. Having had OZ Ultraleggera and Alleggerita on my Clio I was close to buying a set of the latter but couldn’t warm to them on a Megane. I did also like the Evo Corse Sanremo so I ended up buying them at the beginning of January - special order so they took around 4 weeks to arrive from Italy. I went for ET47. Standard wheels are ET65 so the Sanremo fill the arches much better!
Fitted the tyres from the 18 inch Tibor wheels which where fitted to the car from factory and have since removed the stickers. I coated the wheels with Gyeon Rim having used Gtechniq C5 on the last 3 sets of wheels...
I had noticed that some careless **** had lightly marked the driver rear quarter. Thankfully the car was booked to have a top up of Exo applied by @big_pete so the guys at PMG kindly removed any trace of the mark and due to COVID they delivered the car back. Top service once again!
A couple of days later I decided it was time to remove the Speedlines and fit the new wheels. Whilst removed I quickly cleaned the wheel arches (and decided that I would freshen up the brake disc bells...at a later date).
Out with the old (but recently fitted PS4S which have now covered a grand total of around 40 miles!)
On with the new and tyres dressed with Fireball Tyre Wax
Drove a couple of hundred yards away from the house to take a few photos
I did take it to @RubberLover place (Ivan Kerr) just before Christmas for a wheel alignment / cracking set up and really guys down there. Very informative whilst carrying out the alignment - top service!
It was the SORN immediately after the wheel alignment and taxed again in March. In the meantime I had been longing after a new set of wheels. The 19 inch Speedlines are a lovely OEM wheel but I wanted something with a better offset to fill out the arches - they also had to be 18 inch. Having had OZ Ultraleggera and Alleggerita on my Clio I was close to buying a set of the latter but couldn’t warm to them on a Megane. I did also like the Evo Corse Sanremo so I ended up buying them at the beginning of January - special order so they took around 4 weeks to arrive from Italy. I went for ET47. Standard wheels are ET65 so the Sanremo fill the arches much better!
Fitted the tyres from the 18 inch Tibor wheels which where fitted to the car from factory and have since removed the stickers. I coated the wheels with Gyeon Rim having used Gtechniq C5 on the last 3 sets of wheels...
I had noticed that some careless **** had lightly marked the driver rear quarter. Thankfully the car was booked to have a top up of Exo applied by @big_pete so the guys at PMG kindly removed any trace of the mark and due to COVID they delivered the car back. Top service once again!
A couple of days later I decided it was time to remove the Speedlines and fit the new wheels. Whilst removed I quickly cleaned the wheel arches (and decided that I would freshen up the brake disc bells...at a later date).
Out with the old (but recently fitted PS4S which have now covered a grand total of around 40 miles!)
On with the new and tyres dressed with Fireball Tyre Wax
Drove a couple of hundred yards away from the house to take a few photos