Recent content by Simon Cordrey

I can understand why people want to drop cars lower than 30mm as it looks fantastic but even on a Dynamique all you will do is get a much harsher ride, reduce wet handling, increase road noise and introduce a new symphony of rattles/creaks (or turn the volume up on old ones)

I would!! hahaha

I would!! hahaha

I am sure that Eibach Pro Kit springs are 20mm drop on a Standard MkI or II 172? I think its a 20mm drop + the already lowered height of the 172 anyway

Are Avo springs any good? Trying to get a 30-35mm drop on the best quality springs I can get but Eibach and Koni seem to only supply 20mm drop. Ive got a Mk1 172

I assume they will be the budget version - its a package deal thing

I expect so, would have to be epoxy resin or something though because if it runs down the shaft and sticks the lift up reverse bit youre buggered!!

I am pretty sure the picture is either the new megane or a blueprint type drawing of it - look at the ugly tail end. I saw one at Renault today - They look fine from the front but are grim from the rear. Its gonna be really difficult for anyone to mod them though, some have 17" inch wheels as...

Does anyone have this annoying problem? Basically my Mk1 172 has got a squeek somewhere in the frame of the front passenger seat that gets progressively noisier through a journey! Its definately mettalic and I have tried lubing up the runners a bit but it doesnt seem to be that. It tends to...

Can anyone help? I have ordered a SPARCO lift-up reverse gear nob and have only just found that getting the old one off my Mk1 172 is bloody difficult!! - Can anyone tell me how it is attached as it doesnt seem to unscrew or click on/off. Because its metal I doubt it can be cut off either. -...

I am pretty sure the picture is either the new megane or a blueprint type drawing of it - look at the ugly tail end. I saw one at Renault today - They look fine from the front but are grim from the rear. Its gonna be really difficult for anyone to mod them though, some have 17" inch wheels as...

Does anyone have this annoying problem? Basically my Mk1 172 has got a squeek somewhere in the frame of the front passenger seat that gets progressively noisier through a journey! Its definately mettalic and I have tried lubing up the runners a bit but it doesnt seem to be that. It tends to...

Hi anyone, After months of trouble selling my 1.2 16V Clio I have got my hands on the Mk1 172!! I am well chuffed. I bought it from my supervisor at work and its more or less immaculate save for some annoying rattles, a dodgy mid silencer and the occasional stonechip. I was quite worried...

Ive just bought a Mk1 172 and it appears the same problem is there in my car. i have no audible rattle in the cabin but indoor car parks etc show it up when youve got your windows down. I was told that its the baffle inside the mid silencer coming loose and ratting around inside the box. How...

Hi anyone, After months of trouble selling my 1.2 16V Clio I have got my hands on the Mk1 172!! I am well chuffed. I bought it from my supervisor at work and its more or less immaculate save for some annoying rattles, a dodgy mid silencer and the occasional stonechip. I was quite worried...