Recent content by Fonzey

Mystery solved, they arrived today and are indeed M14x1.5 Thanks all!

When I took the remnants of my old nut to my fixings shop this morning he measured it for me at 1.5. My caliper agrees with that too. I'm a little bit concerned that you also believe it to be 1.0 though, I wonder whats going on :/

Slept on it and put an order in for some new shocks from RPD. Lessons learned, buy cheap buy twice etc. I can only think that the Boge shocks I bought are for a non-RS model Clio as I found a post somewhere explaining that the non-RS models used thinner lower strut bolts. As for the M14/17mm...

As expected I needed to grind those slim nuts off, managed to salvage the spacers though so will grab some nuts tomorrow. Annoyingly the shocks I've got also appear to be wrong, bolthole spacing/position is correct but the holes are too small for the lower strut bolts! Not sure whether to drill...

Cheers chaps, I've got spring compressors lying around anyway so will use them if needed. I reckon with that advise in mind I'll just go ahead and strip the shocks off tomorrow with what I've got already. Do you know if the 17mm slimline bolt from the "old" setup is available as a replacement...

Sorry in advance because I know this gets discussed a lot. I have done some searches but struggling on the specifics. I'm wanting to change the front shocks on my 182, I've got all sorts of groaning and creaking up front and I'm slowly going through and sorting it all. Done BJs/TREs already, so...

We cleaned it and gave it a quick polish on Sunday. The bodywork isn't shocking (no big dents or cracks in plastic) but it's had a fair peppering from stonechips and a few scratches typical of a pushbike being leant against the car or scuffed past it... It's really not a show winner. I'm also...

Apologies for the triple post, struggling to find an "Edit post" button! I've just taken the inlet manifold off, and pulled out the spark plugs. First off, all of the spark plug holes had oily residue inside them, some worse than others - but the 3rd cylinder from the cambelt side also had...

Just been out to shuffle the cars around (We've got four of the b*****d things until my wife's Corsa goes back in October!) so that I can start fiddling with the Clio. I may have found a good place to start, with the engine running I brushed my hand over the top of the ignition leads and got a...

Yeah I've read/heard that before so that may be a job for today! I at least want to get under the car and figure out the exhaust situation, and whether or not retro-fitting the cat will be a pain in the ass. The tailpipes sit straight, so that's one thing...!

Yeah I intend to refit the cat next week to at least give me half a chance of troubleshooting the lambda codes.

Cheers, only the obligatory "petrol station on the way home from collection" one... Will get some decent ones at the weekend. Aesthetically I've seen worse, no real dings to the body - but a few scratches and the wheels could do with a refurb... but it'll be no show car in our ownership I'm afraid!

Hi All, I've got myself back into a 182 with a bit of a gamble/project car. It's a 2004 FF (as far as I can gather) with some turinis and a milltek exhaust system. Picked it up fairly cheap, test drive showed that it had EML (Expected, decat) and code reader checked out with just the pre/post...

Hi All, scooting around underneath a 182 that I just bought and I found this dangling down. It's not foglights, as I already found that loose connector and refitted it :P IMAG0260 by Kyle Townend, on Flickr Any ideas what this is? Ta

Day cost me £100 in fuel, included driving there and back ofc. Didn't do a huge amount of track mileage though, as the morning was wet with promise of drying up by lunch time - but the dry afternoon was littered with red flags and armco repairs :( I should probably mention that I was very...