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Hi, you quoted me for a couple of parts earlier this week for my F07 GT, I will order them from you soon, so many thanks. I also need a small plastic silver bar which sits behind the window lifter switch on all the passenger doors. I know it just clips in so I’m hoping that it is actually available/possible to buy it on its own. I have attached some pictures of the part I’m after, with and without the cover piece, the OE part no. is 51427216775, cheers… Pete.

Hi, could you give me a price for the two following items; 51767199435 - front bonnet seal F07 GT and 51429156513 - front door lock button cover F07 GT Thanks. Pete.

I put a full set of the PZ4 Pirellis on in January last year, sticking with the runflats after a lot of deliberation. I have been very impressed with them from day one. In the dry they handle superb, the car feels absolutely planted in any corner at “all” speeds ! In the wet …. well I’ve never been stupid enough to try and test them beyond the value of writing off my car, a 250bhp F07 is very easy to get the rear end out if you want to !!! Under normal wet driving they still give me confidence all the time. They cost just over £800, which was a really good deal for 4 x 20” premium tyres. As you will know there is only a handful of tyres available in the right size for the GT but I am more than happy with them. My only negative is that I wish they had a bigger rim protector on them but 6k miles so far and very little wear.

The sunroof blind coming away is a very common issue …… without someone head butting it ! Before I bought my GT I did some research on them and found a company called Surrey Sunroofs, seemed to be decent guys and very recommended. They did them in a day for about £500, using OE cartridges but that was over 2 years ago and he had a waiting list of 2 weeks at the time. Due to the cost etc, providing the mechanism is still fully working, an alternative route many people have gone down is to simply cut off the blind material and get the glass tinted. Personally I leave my blind permanently open anyway as I like the extra light in the car. Mine does work ok , 🤞 , but if it comes away I’m not sure which option I’d take ??? Good luck , hope this helps.

My logic was that OE ones were too expensive and others too cheap so I went somewhere in between and also assumed that the Dunlop rubber would be decent quality, right or wrong , we’ll see ! If you can get a pair for that price then all the better. As for fitting them, anyone who can use a spanner without needing a manual should find it straightforward. Watch the YouTube videos, jack the car up safely, take your time, don’t over tighten the pipe unions and it should take you about 20 minutes or so. I don’t have software to deflate etc. so just drilled a 5mm hole in the bag to start and the car inflated by itself when done. Probably saved a lot of time anyway. One tip, which I know might be stating the obvious but , DO NOT stretch out your new air spring before fitting it, you will regret it ….. 🙄 ! Good luck and happy fitting

I had to replace one of my rears about 4 months ago and bought a Dunlop one from eBay. It seemed to be decent quality ( Genuine Dunlop ) , fitted no problem and cost me £108, which feels like good value. No issues so far, car rides good and saved me a good few quid, so I’m more than happy with that 😁

I would agree with you on this, however ……. I never got any message about changing the name ! Just randomly couldn’t access the forum earlier in the week and couldn’t figure out why? Like yourself I searched for any info or explanation on Google and got nowhere. I went back to the temporary Facebook page from earlier this year and then found a post pointing out the change. Obviously I’ve now changed over my settings, logged back in and am no longer getting splinters in my fingers from scratching my head, thankfully. I guess though I may not be the only one who this has happened to and hopefully everyone finds their way to the new site. Maybe somebody could put something out there to address this ?

Great to see the forum lives on. It must have been a nightmare to sort but we’ll done and thanks to all those involved. Good to be back as I’ve had to fix things on my own for ages now 😁 Here’s my chariot ;