Tyres - I'm starting to suspect the suspension on my car is shot, despite only having 60,000 miles on the clock - that might explain the skittish handling as well. I'm not bothered about the shot suspension anyway.
I agree - it seems to be a bit of a daft place to place a horn. My old Nova had a horn in a similar place, but it was of a different type, more like a "plate"-y type - like
this one so wouldn't have been hurt by mud/water ingress. However, that horn has been sitting there under the Astra for 8 years, and still working fine, so Vauxhall can't be doing it wrong... My old Civic had two similar horns in an similar place. The horns is used for the car alarm as well, so it was pretty loud, but they weren't affected by mud ingress, so ... *shrugs*.
I once saw a YouTube video of someone fitting a diesel locomotive air horn under his car and tooting it next to people. Bit juvenile and nasty, but would be nice to have to scare some BMW/Mercedes drivers who tailgate me
But anyway. Back to the belly pans. Only the ECO4 has the belly pans. This makes me annoyed - Vauxhall and other companies could have fitted belly pans on *all* their cars and gain a few MPG for not a lot of money and save a *lot* of fuel in general, if you add them all up.
I'll take more pics once the car's in the air, but that won't be another year, probably, if I'm lucky.