Decent garage around Teesside/ Guisborough

Davedave91 said:

Recently bought a 197 and need a few issues sorting.. can anyone recommend a decent garage around Teesside/Guisborough? Would ideally like to take the car to somewhere that know their stuff with Clios. Cheers!

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Mr Underhill said:

In terms of Renault focussed garages - There’s Andy Harland in Darlington. I’ve never used him, but he was a former master technician at the garage I work for.

There’s one in Middlesbrough but I personally wouldn’t use again for various reasons.

Mickleton Garage is over Barney - a fair old trip - but great for engine rebuilds. They took forever to diagnose and eventually sort my 182 engine, but the workmanship was top notch.

@Brigsy Do you know of any others?

What do you need sorting?

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Davedave91 said:

The steering is really vague, there’s no knocks or clicks but it wanders around the road quite badly. Even on a gentle corner the traction control light flickers and it doesn’t even feel like the steering is connected to the car 😂

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Mr Underhill said:

Sounds like it just needs a good geo setup. What tyres are you using?

I bought a 182 and it had AD08Rs - semi slick budget trackday tyre - and the tramlining was outstanding. It used to try and throw me into a hedge and that was on the A66. I took it into a Bodyshop and they set the geo and then ran Pilot Sport 3s and it was perfect.

Old cars I’m afraid. Unless they’ve had a million pounds spent on them, it’s a lottery.

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Davedave91 said:

and Saferich on the front- never heard of them.

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Davedave91 said:

Update.. it had new track rod ends fitted by the previous owner and there’s supposed to be a sleeve that fits on the end into the hub, these were missing so they were just rattling around 🫣 cheap fix!

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Mr Underhill said:

Result! Who did you take it too in the end?

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