Recent content by Tom5

Nice car :) Your friend takes some fantastic photos! ;):cool:

Heading CCW on the M25 last night I was passed by a convoy including a Trophy, a Black 182, a Blue 182 Cup, a Blue 182 plus a silver Mini Cooper. All of which looked like they spent time on track. I was in the bird-s**t covered Black 172 crawling around in the slow lane. Were you guys on the...

Oh and one quick question regarding ride heights. Is there a 'rule of thumb' or a guide as such to the front to rear height difference? I know the car as standard had slight rake to the front wheels so i'm assuming this is essential to retaining the weight balance and thus the handling...

@NorthloopCup Thanks for clearing that up. I did get a photo of the damper top but by the time I got it out of the car it was getting dark and raining quite heavily. You can see the metal part just above the blue dust cover. The lower rubber mount slides down over the shaft which then goes up...

Apologies if this has been covered. I've seen dribs and drabs of information on various threads, mostly owners ones. Today i've been fitting my used set of B14 Bilstein Coilovers to my Clio 172 Ph2 with standard suspension and have a couple of questions regarding the installation. TLDR? See the...

Bought on the 19th of October it was a two owner car which had spent its life locally in Redhill/Crawley. Reasonable amount of history and below average miles. The only photo I have of it in its 'collected' state is this. It needed tidying up so the first step was to hit the headlights with...

I was there in my iceberg 172. Who owned the 182 parked on the grass at the back? I've never seen that colour in the flesh before!