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AntB
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| DeadEye wrote: | | That mk2 16v is stunning. I'd love another one of those. Pressure washers should be white though. |
They are Black/grey , as they should be afaik !!
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DeadEye
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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| AntB wrote: | | DeadEye wrote: | | That mk2 16v is stunning. I'd love another one of those. Pressure washers should be white though. |
They are Black/grey , as they should be afaik !! |
Nope, white.
They come grey when you buy new ones.
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AntB
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Not according to Heritage Centre chaps I know !!
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DeadEye
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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Well, they're wrong.
Unless my dads brand new 8v, my 7 year old 8v, both my 16v and my mates 16v had them painted by accident 
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AntB
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We may actually both be right, Heritage centre chap has done some digging and says that early cars were colour coded and the later ones were grey, although technically the heritage centre car is a late example which makes me right  , seriously tho I think it's a no win argument for both of us so shal we agree to disagree and call it quits ??
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DeadEye
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| AntB wrote: | We may actually both be right, Heritage centre chap has done some digging and says that early cars were colour coded and the later ones were grey, although technically the heritage centre car is a late example which makes me right , seriously tho I think it's a no win argument for both of us so shal we agree to disagree and call it quits ??
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Nope, they are supposed to be colour coded.
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DeadEye
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Seriously though, I can only comment on the white ones as that's all I've had but my dad had a silver one before his white one. All the white ones had white washers but when I had my 8v stolen and recovered, I had to replace one of the washers and it came in that un-painted grey.
I'm sure that they were so easy to knock off while parking which is why there are so many with grey ones.
It would be impossible I suppose that it was only white ones that were colour coded.
If nothing else, white washers look much better.
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AntB
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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So you put 4 bits of evidence up , 3 are Red cars and the other is a White one from 87 ?? 
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not arguing that colour coded ones look better BTW. The coloured ones were availiable from Vauxhall, they had different part numbers, knowing vaux tho they probably dropped them as a cost cutting excercise
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DeadEye
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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| AntB wrote: | | So you put 4 bits of evidence up , 3 are Red cars and the other is a White one from 87 ?? |
They were the only original poster pics I could find 
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AntB
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Shall we call a truce 
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| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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Ok, but you owe me a spin in your Astra.
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