From: Douglas Payne on
Tim S Kemp wrote:
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> "Douglas Payne" <douggie(a)cheerful.com> wrote in message
> news:803uqtFdnhU1(a)mid.individual.net...
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>> �30 later I had me a slightly scruffy wheel.
>> I've decided to have them all powder coated in "Shining Silver" at a
>> local place for �40 a wheel.
>>
>> Then I ordered 2 new tyres to replace the baldy ones on the front for
>> �100 a go.
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> You've spent 390 quid on not replacing the wheels on your car?
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> A set of four prorace 1 or prorace 2, nice and light, 15", with tyres
> would have been about 500 quid, not much more than adding two more tyres
> to the above, 16" about 70 quid more...

....because I only need 2 new tyres and I don't want new wheels.

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Douglas