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Haha 3 out of 4 tyres agree that they are s*** and need replacing. Set of four and an alignment tomorrow then Otherwise passed! Go the Legacy.

Took it in to fail it's WoF. 99% chance of new tyres today.

Take photos, lots of photos of your dash and pillar trim prior, just to be safe.

It’s a big heavy car for a 1.5L with the drain of AWD. You lose power to the AWD system so economy isn’t a big point for either engine.

No idea how reliable either of the later NA options are but i’d say go for the 2.0 if they're similarly specced engines besides capacity, especially if with the auto. Underpowered engines mated with auto’s end up using just as much, if not more fuel as they're always being pushed that much harder to get up to speed.

When I did it, I actually just used the cheapo yellow of that came with my SCA polisher for the polishing steps . When I redo it I’ll use the eBay polishing pads of varying strength for different steps. For wax steps I used cheap SCA black pad. I’m a noob too and followed same online tutorials, found the megiuars vids to be quite helpful though it helps I guess that I’ve done it all by hand in the past on previous cars (multi day process by hand!) Done some write up in my thread of my experiences if interested but as a one line summary : the Meguiars stuff with the super cheap stuff is very easy to use, doesn’t break the bank and gives great results if you put in the time to do it right Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk