Issac I would let you loose on my wheels any day :D I think my list is partly due to that its got 81k and virtualy all the parts are original. Most people would have not touched any of the above, but as soon as a side wall starts to crack I replace it, the springs can only be due to the the fact I drive purely in the city over some of the worst roads. Where I live has lots of very very busy narrow edwardian streets so you can imagine the quality of the road services. If that was 700 motorway miles I doubt I would have had to do have of that. Got 500 miles next week so if it goes without incident I probably have a good car :) Just trying to find the money for those springs now. I doubt the quality of the £200 garage would have been that good, if they were decent springs he would have made a point of it. The springs I got for my rears are very decent Swedish ones and they are one of Saab's biggest supliers, they were £25 each and they are not some cheap chineese clones. The guarentee to exceed the quality of OEM springs.