[Dan1971]

Well .....

Went for a full set of budgets. A wheel/tyre package would've come with budgets anyway.

I spent about 30 mins looking through reviews of budget tyres and decided on "Wanli" after reading 8 (out of 8) positive reviews. All of them came from drivers of regular mainstream cars - Focus Astra etc but to be honest - all I do is punt up and down the motorway rather than use the great handling the car has on offer round the twisties. They are a top rated Chinese tyre apparently. (I'd never heard of them).

Bit more digging on the net and got a set of 4 fitted for ?199. (?120 discounted off). So - the wheel tyre change is out the window.

Rang the MOT tester and he told me that I had 24 hours : since my test was at 9am, I've got until 9am tomorrow. I'll be down there at 8.30 and by 9 I'll be at home with a coffee and a brand new certificate.

Puts my spend on the ZS at about ?550 on service items so far, and another ?100 for the injectors and decat which I had hoped to get fitted next month. Might have to wait now until father's day .... Hmph.