Recent content by GregMcN

I bought mine from Well Lane Turbo centre at Batley Yorkshire. They tend to specialise in Subarus but do import some Clios at similar prices to Motorpoint etc. You are also much more likely to get a fair trade in deal if you need to. I was very pleased with them, they also paid for an alarm and...

Just got my 3 year warranty through from Renault - though took several weeks. My service book just had a stamp inside the front cover from the supplying dealer and a sticker with the chassis no. on the back cover, I photocopied both and sent in. Also had the same problem with passenger seat...

I wish id never started this! For the record I have nothing to do with LAD just passing on information I thought this was what the forum was for. The only reason I looked up the K-tec and Hill prices was because you were all telling me what a prat I was for spending £1200. I am new to the...

If you know what you are doing I m sure things cn be cheaper but K-tec want £2300 for throttle bodies and Hill Power £1700 for a ported head?

Tried the cooper S , Leon Cupr R and CTR before I bought my 172. Mini handles well, slow if not modified, interior poor in places (plasticy instruments and stalks), whiney engine, heavy on fuel, good resale but expensive to buy if you want a reasonable spec. losy prt exchange offered and long...

Fair comment, I just relied on reputation ( magazine reviews over many years) and demonstrator test drive. The conversion is essentially just cylinder head work, the cams are not changed all I did not know was whether the cam timing was changed or not? As for the price I chose to spend some of...

Ben Not meant to be an add - and I did not post anything for a week as I was not that familiar with the clio before i had it converted so quite difficult to judge performance accurately but in gear times I have measured (crudely) showed 3rd gear times for 10mph increments consistently at...

Had my car back a week following engine conversion at LAD. Must say i am really pleased with it. Took some in gear times just with a stopwatch on the speedo and seems to be a fair bit quicker than a standard cup and the engine is likely to be still quite tight with only 1200 miles on it...

Thanks for clarifying the gear change indicator - I was looking at the rev counter rather than the speedo! Tried waving my arms around in the car etc. but looks as if there is no alarm - any recommendations as the Renault one seems expensive at £301.

Have just purchased new clio 172 as import and a couple of things have me puzzled - gear change indicator and alarm as neither get a mention in the handbook but thought were part of spec. Where is the gear change indicator? Do you have to do anything to get it to work? How do you tell if the car...