Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Three weeks later my wheels are still sitting in the back of my car waiting for ,what I presume are mythical, tyres to arrive.

• Ordered Yokohama Advan Fleva V701 205/55r15 from usual tyre guy... one week later his supplier comes back to say they're unavailable.
  
• Immediately see that they are available online from Demontweeks and place an order... one week later no shipping notice and no tyres, contact DT to be told they're waiting for confirmation from Yokohama UK.
  
• Three phonecalls to DT later and still no update I call Yokohama UK to be told by a very helpful chap that they only have one tyre unstuck and at the moment absolute best case would be 6-8 week delivery from Japan.
  
• Call DT to inform them of this fact and I'm assured that they tyres will be with them next day... 40mins later receive email to inform me that I was in fact correct and would I like some other tyres... no thanks.
  
• Local tyre guy back on the job and after extensive research gave him a shortlist of three potential tyres I'd be happy with (Toyo Proxes TR1 225/50r15 / Nankang Noble Sport NS20 205/55r15 / Goodyear EfficientGrip Performance 205/55r15)... all going well I'll have a set of Nankangs fitted later this week.
  
  

I appreciate we're in Covid-19 times but DT were bloody unimpressive from a communication point of view...

Also 205/55r15 -225/50r15 is a terribly tricky size to find a good tyre in :(

Any tyre recommendations for next time around? Hopefully Yokohama or Toyo will be available by then but I'm thinking I might shop well in advance in case I end up with this messing again.

Have also ordered the following bits:

• Alcantara OEM steering wheel replacement.
  
• Threaded gear knob adaptor
  
• Fugen (wish.com's finest fake Mugen) gearknob which will do fine until I swap to a Cravenspeed short shifter and get a 917 style wooden knob at some stage.
  
• Stubbier antenna
  
• Yellow tint film for foglights
  
• Gtechniq glass treatment kit
  
• Gtechniq black plastic trim treatment kit (will replace rear right hand wheel arch trim before treatment as some scum has scraped it...)
  
  

I've also been future planning for performance upgrades and I'm conscious that R53s tend to run really hot so I've ordered a set of replica Mugen Civic Tyre R bonnet vents to vent the bonnet. I'm not absolutely certain I'll go with them until I offer them up for a look but I wanted something a bit different to the Focus RS ones everyone seems to be using and I didn't really want to spend the money on a set of RSI C6 ones when the Tyre R ones were a quarter of the price.

Exterior wise there will be a bigger intercooler intake scoop and a (relatively) tasteful wing and splitter planned too. I probably won't fit any of them until I've acquired all of them and sorted the coilers too for risk of veering into bad Max Power territory...

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