Yep I now have sent them an email to see how quick they can get me in some how its not worth the hassel just to say I fitted it my self,… I made a little pile of money form the garage sale of MX5 parts and RX8 parts which has paid for MOT, car Insurance ,car Tax, leaves me around a 1k left and I have another sale Next week end so going to get it done…love the wheel photo of John Aston’s post…think of going for that…
The replacement wheel may be slightly off centre, due to different spline alignment, so factor in tracking to get the marker exactly at 12 o’clock .
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Ironically my OE wheel was slightly off centre and Mazda York wouldn’t condescend to fix it . So when Royal fitted the new wheel they remedied that too. The old one was a ■■■■■■■ to remove and took our friend at Royal’s full muscle to remove - he said it wasn’t unusual for wheels not to give up without a struggle …
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Give up without a struggle, 
I was at it yesterday for around 2.5 hours giving it gentle persuasion with a rubber mallet towards the end it would not budge a millimetre… so I put everything back … I would thought with this warmer wether it might have come apart anyway I think now I will let Royal fit the wheel 
as I think I could cause more damage than good…
My NC’s SW came off eventually, rocking it side to side at the quarter to three position with you hands. Leave the loosened nut on the centre spline a few turns but I guess you would know that👍
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yep tried that thanks…! even used some easing oil/gas no luck as l have already said going to let royal deal with it now and get on with my rear diffuser build …!
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Odd how stuff varies car to car. On my Mk 2 TT the wheel comes off easy-peasy but the windscreen wipers are a nightmare.
On the MX it may be the opposite. I don’t know from experience the wheel but was greatly relieved how easy it is to remove the wiper stalks.
Just and observation like😉
I bought a wheel puller kit to get mine off.
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But for me another tool like that I would now only use that the once then have to sell it on so I decided not to… As I am trying to have a more stream lined garage I been selling stuff off for the last month or two… now have a little pile to get this done 
Good News Royal Can fit me in very soon so I am now booked in middle march to get this fitted so thank you all for bringing this topic/thread up 
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