Recent content by bowen86

OK the knock, I think(?) I've found it. It sounds just like this. It feels like it's something hitting the car. It knocks when gentle braking to come to a stop and never on hard braking. I'm asking could this be it? As I have no other ideas and my theory, or process of eliminating things...

I have the exact same problem. Op - did you find out what the issue was?

A tale of highs and lows. The high. It past it's MOT. Then the lows, of which there are a couple. Starting with the small issue: Literally on the way home from the MOT the washer jets stopped working, no noise from the pump, nadda. Got home and checked the fuses. All good. Wiggled the...

An update. The correct radiator arrived, with a day to spare as I have the Cup booked in for an MOT. Correct rad with mounting points for the fan. Went in like a glove Bleed the coolant until the fan kicked in. Took it for a little spin (Private road as I have no MOT, officer) and it's...

Still magnificent choice of colour contrast between the olive and silver. On the fence about the wings, I think it could be pulled off quite well. C'mon man, where's the splitter?!

Probably doable without the heatsheild in place, I'd have thought.

I'm going to say standard. Only reason there's a specific rad is because of the mounting brackets for the AC condenser. The inlet and outlet of the radiators are in the same location. So the same. I think.

The new (and hopefully correct) one I've bought is from Ebay. Seller has it listed as a 172 Cup and specifically says it's for non ac models and a 172 Cup only. So they seem to know what they have listed. I asked them to send pictures of the mounting for the fan and the top mounting brackets...

Made an amazing mistake yesterday. In an effort to bring this up to scratch I thought I'd replace some of the cooling system, namely the radiator, thermostat and thermostat gasket. All was going really well. The coolant that came out was OK. But the radiator was a bit crusty around the...

Figured it out. Brute force. Now smuthered in Deox Gel.

How do you get the rubbers out? I though there would be a slot to slide them in, but unless it's rust fooling me there doesn't seem to be? Or brute force oust them out?

Fair play, 12 years on and here we are. Just changing the radiator on my 172 Cup and wondered if brackets were available to buy as mine are a bit grubby. Turns out you can't buy them new anymore. And for completeness and hopefully helpful to someone in the future These are the non aircon...

Hunting rattles and I'm snooping around the boot area. The boot latch. Is it adjustable, I seem to recall reading that they could be adjusted but I can't see how? @Brigsy I think it's your thread I read where you adjusted the boot latch?

That's not the worst case scenario, thankfully. Wonder if it was not torqued correctly.

Now every Clio I've owned has had floppy inner TRE's and the the outer TRE's aren't usually far behind. Neither aren expensive so I did my research and bought some fresh ones. The ones on there weren't that bad to be honest and at one point I did consider sending the back, getting a refund and...