Monday morning, 5:15am. Drop the window down to wipe the condensation off so I can see to reverse down the drive, bang, crunch scrape.
Window clip has snapped and the passenger door glass is now sitting at a jaunty angle. Great start.
Driving along, about 15 miles in and I'm gradually having to apply left hand lock to keep the car straight, at first assume a bush has worked loose and it's messing with the geometry. Push on and it's getting worse and worse, hit a cats eye and it feels worryingly solid. That'll be a flat tyre then
Weigh up whether I stop and change it in the dark or push on and deal with it later. As it happened it stood up to it pretty well and was able to keep between 30 and 40, just being very cautious when turning left.
Get to work and it's flat as a pancake.
I've only ever had two proper punctures in the 20odd years and hundreds of thousands of miles I've driven, both have been on the same piece of road, and both on this same set of wheels. Two different cars, two different size and brands of tyre. Most odd.
Anyway, impact gun in the boot, space saver underneath, spare boshed on in about two minutes during my lunch break
I think it's getting its own back because i was too lazy to drop the spare and give it a wash when doing all the other work under it.
Wheels now swapped back to the sunflowers.
How does it drive?
Superbly. I'm over the moon with it, it all just feels so much more direct now the torque isn't wasted twisting the beam around its bushes, and throwing it around it feels so much more gentle and progressive. Much more like the e30, letting you know exactly how much grip it has making catching it very easy and natural. The rear wheels now being closer to straight instead of toe in seems to have shifted the pivot point back in the car.
Can't say I've noticed any increase in noise or harshness, but might just be because the exhaust now drowns it out
