Recent content by mikeh

I have a Clio 200. I’m looking to get a little extra camber and castor It’s a late 2010 model, which I think has some struggles with camber adjustment via top mount owing to the smaller aperture? I was looking at powerflex adjustable camber and castor bushes. Does anyone have any experience...

I just did a write-up here of upgrading speakers and headunit to a Sony DSX-GS80. It's not cheap at around £190 but is an excellent stereo with plenty of power if you ever want to upgrade your speakers and will give you both USB/Lightning and Bluetooth options for playing music from your...

I'd love to reduce the general road/wind noise in my Clio to make it a bit more pleasant on motorway journeys - I've been spoilt with years of doing it in the likes of my M3, S4, Disco 4, C Class etc. With rear seats and parcel shelf fitted, I suspect the bulk of my noise comes from the front...

Yeah, it's a shame about the rear seats. I bet someone did it at some point thinking they were better. I shall be keeping an eye out for some cup items. Regarding stereo stuff - I like my music and do a lot of long journeys, I'm just trying to make it usable in case I need to use it for them...

I originally owned a 182FF back in 2011, I've always had a thing for Clios and naturally, a Trophy always topped the list. In the years since, I'd sort of moved on from the Clio in all sorts of fun and interesting cars from an R26, various M3s, S4, M2, K20 Elise, Exige - all sorts. I regularly...

So more drama today. The stalk adapter I bought doesn't work and apparently I need to buy a more expensive CANBUS one. http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/ctsrn005-2-can-bus-steering-control-adaptor#product_tabs_description_tabbed

I don't have any experience directly with the Clio, but I'm really interested to hear others. I have done it on an Elise, though. It might be different, as it had zero sound deadening already (Not sure what various clios have standard?) but the concept was getting the most improvement for the...

Thanks for letting me know, Car Audio Centre have a price match promise, so I'll get in touch with them.

Absolutely. It's not split per se as the filtering is done on the tweeter. The tweeter wire seems to come from the car side door plug. I didn't reuse the tweeter wire, though.

Yeah, I've cut into the OEM wiring close to the car side of the door plugs for the crossovers. In hindsight,I probably make it more complicated than I needed to doing it that way. If I did it again, I'd probably do it from behind the headunit with an ISO extension loom to avoid modifying the...

It's 4x45w RMS at 4 Ohm. I believe it achives 45w RMS at 2 Ohms for the direct driven sub by combining both rear channels. On the plus side, I got it fitted this afternoon along with finishing off the speakers etc. and it's a huge improvement even before I've messed with any settings or got...

Where did you see that the power rating is at 2 Ohms? The manual says 4x 100w at 2 ohm / 4 ohm. Which is confusing, but I think it means that you achieve 100w per channel either way because when you drive a sub directly (the only time you're running at 2ohm, which is configured via a menu) you...

I grabbed a few pics of the fitment for anyone interested. I'm quite happy that it was possible to fit is all discretely. New vs. Old - If this doesn't offer a decent improvement once driven properly, I don't know what will! by mikehhhhhhh, on Flickr Untitled by mikehhhhhhh, on Flickr...

That's good to hear. The DSX-GS180 should have plenty with nearly double the power then! I ended up ordering this for remote control, hopefully it does the trick - http://www.caraudiodirect.co.uk/ctsrn003-stalk-adapter-for-renault-clio-kangoo-megane-twin

What a drama that was. I couldn't find any solder anywhere to repair the multimeter. Made quick work of it once I got it going, though. I've been popping out to work on it in short bursts between meetings and I have one side done front and rear and I think those who suggested a new headunit was...