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I think my screen wash motor has gone, my garage only seem to be able to get a motor and bottle kit together at around £350 but I’ve seen screen wash motors on eBay for around a tenner, do any of the traders sell just the motor on here?

There was me thinking that was a lot, not to little! Bodywork isn’t cheap by the looks of it!

I’m in Cornwall

The guy at the garage said that its pointless doing a quick job as the rust will come back so he was planning on cutting out the rust and re-welding. Guarantee on all their work as well.

I have been quoted £865.20 for the following work. Front bumper respray Passenger side underskirt respray (i scraped it on a curb) Drivers side wheel arch rust(cutting out and re-welding)+respray. Does this sound like a good quote?

I had a good drive last night. The car is 100% back to normal. Unbelievable how much those tyres changed my car! I hope someone contemplating the same as me reads this first and saves themselves a few hundred quid! No onto all the other jobs that needs doing!

UPDATE. I had the car in last Friday and they couldn't see any problems with the suspension. I took the car back this morning and had Pilot sport 4's put on the back. I haven't had a proper drive yet but it already feels better than it did. I'm really surprised how much the mixing of tyres made to the feel of the car. Lesson learned!! I was thinking of keeping the Pzeros and put them back on with matching fronts when the Michelin's ware out. Sound like a plan? Thanks for all your advise, and sorry for doubting some of you to start with.

They are just checking it today. I have a few bit to do on the car so it’s just to get a quote on the whole thing so I’m not spending anything extra just yet!

I totally get what you’re saying. I’ll wait for the result of the suspension check and go from there.

The PZero is meant to be a premium tyre for sports cars. I’d expect it to be good, but it’s shite. Is that really my fault? If I went into the supermarket and bought a product that was of a poor quality I’d be refunded. How is this any different? I feel the tyre fitters should have advised me on this before fitting the tyres. Shouldn’t they know mixing brands is a bad idea?

Car booked in for Friday. I’ve decided if no problems are found with my suspension I’m going to push for a refund. If they don’t oblige I’m going to contact the citizens advice bureau and get their take on it. My last resort is to contact my credit card company and see if they will process a refund for me. I believe I have bought a product that is not fit for purpose and a refund is justified in this case. Let’s see eh?

I’ve got the car booked in to the garage on Monday to have a check of the suspension (amongst other things). It could be my shocks are warn and the new tyres have accentuated the problem. I drove over home yesterday, another way to describe the problem would be to say that it feels like it’s almost tram lining. Anyway, whatever it is I can feel something isn’t right. I’ve had the year for over 5 years so know what it should feel like.

Well, I’ll NEVER be making this mistake again. What was I thinking!!! 7 years I’ve been using mpss. Why did I do it!! :D

It’s a shame I can’t send them back!

I agree. They’re are going to do a me a good deal on the mps4’s now and I haven’t paid for the wheel alinement. I hope I can sell the tyres as I don’t want them kicking about forever more. I also have an mpss in my garage I need to sell. Im really shocked how @*!# my car is driving. It’s actually unsafe. LESSON LEARNED

I’ve popped them on the forum too if anyone runs the PZero.

Popped them on Facebook for now. Hopefully someone local will buy them. £165 for both sound okay?

Fronts are about 50% worn

They have offered to send the tyres back to Pirelli but said it’ll take months and they’ll only refund if there is a problem. I think they are good tyres and the guy said that it’s rare to have issues with mixing front and back brands. Maybe the zed is a bit more sensitive. I won’t get anything for my second hand tyres now.

I went with the Pzeros as the tyre place said they are a really good tyre fitted to a lot of high performance cars. They were £80 cheaper than the MPS4's and i though i'd give them a go. Dam! I dont want to put Pzeros on the front now and i dont want to waste £250 replacing the rears with mps4's. I guess ill have to replace the rears when the fronts are ready to be done with mps4's all round again!

My new ones are on the rear so it’ll be the front that’s need replacing if I do. Does anyone rate the pzeros? My option is go back to mps4 on the rear and lose £250. Or replace the nearly dead fronts with pzeros and hope it corrects.

Yeah I’ve got mpss on the front. Can it really make that much difference?

Last week i had new tyres on the rear. I normally get MPSS or MPS4. This time i went with the P Zero. The fronts are getting worn, but they have a bit of lift left! Since the tyre change my car has felt very unstable. Any driving over 50mph the car is feeling like its fishtailing. At motorway speeds it feels almost like its being caught in high winds. Cornering feel is also not great. I went back to the tyre shop and they checked the pressures, balancing and did a 4 wheel alignment. The rears were slightly out. Unfortunately the car is still feeling like crap. They said it could be due to have new on the rear and warn on the fronts. Potentially suspension problem? If so why has this happened when I've changed tyres? Any help would be great.

Hey, sorry guys i missed this.

Can I have the reflectors?