Recent content by captainpie

Cheers guys, did have the membership here but let it lapse during one of those lovely trouble free periods!! :rasp:

bent pistons . . . apparently :/ *sorry, meant as reply to matt@codered* maybe he meant something esle?

That's kind of what I thought . . Problem is, i'm not sure the best place to sell parts, or what specific parts are worth anything :o! I assume the best place for selling is here on the forums or ebay / gumtree? I'll also need to pay for it to be towed back to my place! That said peoples...

Hi Clio forums people! My 172 has been told to go to the scrapheap in the sky by a local mechanic, he said I can pay him the £150 for collecting it and having a look / diagnosing, or he can scrap it for me to recoup his costs. I am wondering whether it's worth paying the money and scrapping it...

Cheers for the opinions chaps, probably will replace with the standard one :) especially if the revs drop quickly after gear change . . nothing I hate worse when being "enthusiastic"

Hi all! I'm going to be replacing the clutch in my 172 soon, and thought about potentially changing the flywheel . . From what I've read, the standard OE clutch replacement should be fine (and cheap :p ) but I can't find any info on whether its worth uprating the flywheel? Any advice from...

resolved by using my mates old clio head unit . . . I think the old one is gone the way of the dodo

I've tried 9958 :/ stupid radio!! I was going to get a newer headunit at some point, but didn't want to have to replace the disc changer . . christmas humbug

yep :p pic of the label, let just to check i am though!

disconnected my battery over the weekend and when I reconnected I got the radio asking for the code. Fine, jump on the website and do the code finder on here to get the code, put in the details, get the code, enter the code . . . beep . . . asking for code still! I tried a couple of ways of...

Hey all! The last couple of days on my way to work I have had bloody rubbish stop start traffic making a 20 min journey a 50 min journey! during the stop start traffic sometimes the engine stalls, I am pretty sure it isn't my fault that it is stalling :p but when it does, the engine won't turn...

ok odd thing, changed the sparks and found plug 1 was totally covered in black on the contact which would indicate I think that this is the misfiring plug; and it was misfiring more! To the point where you could hear it misfiring while sitting idle :s put the old sparks back in (cleaned all the...

haha yeah thats good advice, avoiding making more ball ache!

cool, time to go shopping! i'll pick up a spark plug tester and ignition tester as well

cool will grab this and cv gaiter then, I'm not sure whether to get the cheapy sparks from ecp compared to some ngk which are listed as £15 per plug :nono: might as well order 4 from ebay for £30! May get some disposable ones though temporarily.