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Never guess it'd done all of those miles, paintwork looks fantastic!

Boom The little Clio has cost me a fair few hours of pain and misery over Christmas, but I believe I've saved at least £200 doing it myself, so happy days. Now it's got a full MOT the price has trebled I'm afraid, yours now for £150

So the Cup failed the re-test:disappointed: Apparently the n/s caliper is now showing almost no effort whatsoever, still causing an imbalance. One thing I didn't check was the rear compensator, will have a look tomorrow to see if that can solve the situation, maybe there is no fluid getting to...

Thanks man. That's good news, now there hub & bearing are on and torqued up there shouldn't be any issues, hopefully, but good to know for the future :) Typical eh! Getting there slowly

I built my old 106 Gti track as a complete novice car using nothing but a Haynes manual and the internet. As long as you do your homework, be thorough and aren’t afraid to ask questions you’ll be fine mate. (Then again, 106s are held together by about 3 bolts and some pritt-stick, so a bit...

Also, just cause I haven't got anything else on with the damn car... one of my front headlight bulbs has gone now. Wtf is going on! Read they're a bit of a pain to swap without taking front bumper off (which I can't be arsed with) so really looking forward to that.

Yes I've heard that, my point was I've also gone OEM upfront as well - would have upgraded but funds just won't allow it. They should do a pretty decent job anyway being brembo! I did consider this, I really hope not. Anyway, the disc is on, it's done now. Hopefully won't cause me any...

Few things to update on this one! So firstly, the Clio got annihilated on its MOT on Thursday :pensive: Thankfully, a fair few of the failures can be fixed a new set of discs and pads all round. But due to funds it's going to take a while, and with MOT garages closing up for holidays, it likely...

Was it a case of a new compensator? Or would a bit of wd40 and elbow grease sort it? Haven't had a chance to look at mine yet

Lol, no it wasn't creepy, doesn't bother me at all haha - I was just surprised how quickly the fail sheet was uploaded to the gov website

Will do guys!

Nice homework btw, checking the MOT history. In my defence, I asked them to stick the plate on before the test (as I didn't have any tape) - for some reason they decided to completely ignore that and just add it to the failure list - just from that you can tell the MOT tester had it in for me...

Fair point. Hoping that when I come to changing pads tomorrow, I'll push the pistons back into the calliper and will hopefully free them up a bit? Meaning the offside shouldn't bind and therefore balance out both sides? Am I on the right tracks here?

Legend, thanks so much

Took my Cup in for it's dreaded MOT today, and surprise surprise, it failed- on quite a few things. I know this one has been mentioned a few times across this forum *Brakes imbalanced across rear axle* It's also failed on worn rear discs, so I'm obviously going to get these changed along with...

I noticed that, giving me anxiety thinking about it lol

Dark red? A bit 'out there' but worth a shout.

Decent question, thought that as I wrote it haha. But in seriousness, I do believe it made a big difference when trying to start the car especially in colder weather. It was a project car and only got started every now and again, but only took about 0.299792458 seconds for it to fire up, even in...

Okay dokey, thanks guys. may as well upgrade to an odyseyy race battery, had one on my 106 GTi and loved it.

Hi there, On 4 random occasions now, my 172 has refused to start. Turn the key and just a click and nothing, engine won't even turn over. Strange because the lights and wipers still worked absolutely fine Try a few times, maybe leave it a few mins, pump the throttle peddle (don't know if that...

That looks the absolute nuts mate, lovely car. +1 on the spoiler as well! Get it done.

Slight improvement overall then 😌

Obligatory snow pictures from this morning!

you've certainly got your money's worth out of Ford anyway. That's a great positive :smile:

My bad. Meant the 599 GTO. :up: My 5th favourite supercar and I can't even get the name right lmao

Nope, above the Clio would be a supercharged 106 S2 Rallye :wink:

I honestly adore these cars. Saw one at Goodwood a few years back, in the same paint style but in Red... a sort of carbon weave paint job. In the flesh it was absolutely stunning. My top 5 Supercars... 1. Lambo Murci SV 2. Zonda LH760 (Lewis Hamilton's to be precise) 3. Mclaren P1 4. Noble...

Haha, you get used to the rattling

I've got about 6 down my engine bay if you wanna take a look? Along with 4 13mm spanners, 1 hammer and a spare wheel Bloody nightmare fishing dropped parts outta there

Yeah I understand Mick, no prob :up::up: