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It's completely irrelevant what you, I or Noel Edmonds would do. Doesn't change the morality or legality. Turn it on it's head: you buy a duff car from an independent dealer for £5k and I tell you not to resent the dealership because "most people would do the same." Doesn't work does it...

The problem was never the clutch mechanism or the engine - it's brilliant that someone didn't let a disability get in the way and went to a lot of effort to be able to enjoy owning something he was passionate about in the most sought after colour/spec/combination etc. What was never OK was...

Last few posts have been getting at this point, it definitely works the other way around too. People who say they "drive a BMW/Audi A3/Golf" with a smug look usually turns out to be a tiny engine "SE" spec from 1999. That or it's a rented '15 plate base model.

That gear stick is horrific! Those 15"s I bought from you at the start of the year have been perfect :) Would've said hello if I knew you were at CSS.

Fair enough. There are specific "grades" of powder for use with plastics and without an oven, but if they didn't use it to begin with you'd just have the opposite colour mismatch!

Why can't you just ask the place that powder coated the wheels what "colour code" it is? Or even pay them to do the caps the same? Sure it'll turn out minutely different, powder coating metal vs plastic, but it's better than just guessing random colours.

I work with supposedly "car people" and time has shown it's not worth bothering with. If anyone asks "just a Clio."

Forgot BCs didn't adjust height via a spring collar, sorry. Doesn't yet rule out bump stop packers or the wrong bump stops, but I'd still be looking at simple things first. For rubbing body work, you can put a strip of duct tape in strategic locations (underside of splitter or edge of wing) and...

The idea of packers is to make the bump stops come into play at smaller suspension travels, effectively increasing the spring rate. Makes the whole system stiffer but results in less predictable handling. Relatively common trick played in race series that demand control suspension... Worth...

1) Check nothing's broken (any play in PMS bearings is an obvious one) 2) Raise ride height (lower ride height = less suspension travel = less chance for the spring & damper to do their job before you hit the bump stops - at which point the effective spring rate rockets) With R888 vs PS3 you...

Plastidip? It's like vinyl in that it's easy to peel off (probably easier than vinyl tbh).

Interesting thread & no doubt there will be a range of responses. It's very easy to be scared into letting things snowball. OK if you have a trailer, less OK if you have to lug all this crap out of the boot and put it somewhere. Take the driveshaft example. It's useless unless you also take a...

Bear in mind it's 95% about how much care the technician takes and 5% about how fancy the equipment is, so definitely worth getting local recommendations.

"media"

Here comes the classic response... 1) Get an SSD for the OS & programs, stick media on the HDD. For day to day responsiveness, an SSD is probably now the best bang for buck. Removing a ~15ms "seek time" for every single individual system file that your OS ever requests. 2) What CPU/MB/RAM...

Loads on ebay with next day postage options http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=clio+toy+eye&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xclio+tow+eye.TRS0&_nkw=clio+tow+eye&_sacat=0 Offer £5 to any breakers yard / local garage tbh as they'll probably have something lying...

EFA. Regardless of how hideous I may think it is, I agree regarding enthusiasm.

Just seen your other thread whilst you were posting that ^^^ Checked it doesn't have aftermarket springs? Eibach sportlines (?) are supposed to be OEM ride height but offer a firmer ride. Or maybe it's just firmer than you'd anticipated?

I thinks the positives are somewhat outweighed by the negatives on this particular car. Feels much faster (already significantly fast in a straight line & better than most around a corner thanks to the Direzzas). Free (you're not exactly in the "buys non-gen rear discs to save £8" category)...

This. For the standard wheels Renault had to pay for R&D, simulation, physical testing, production tooling/fixtures and then hardly made any at all (in the scheme of things, a few thousand 172s x 5 wheels vs tens of thousands of sets of 15" dynamique wheels etc). With the Speedlines, they...

Probably just Renault. Though they have a non-sad interest in the answer. Also, let's not forget the 172 cup was really cheap. Seats from the mass produced Dynamique, off-the-shelf wheels, no expensive low-volume xenons etc

The avatar had me wondering... I bet not spending approx. £5479412235 a month on finance is helping the house purchase ;)

Thing is, insurance may view it as a £1200 car which with brand new parts & extortionate approved-repair-centre costs you could easily approach that figure once you account for a new wheel, bumper, fixing dent in rear quarter panel and paint. If the rear beam is bent (quite common depending on...

Can't help but echo everyone's comments, the range of activities was great (karting, track, bbq, tent, music etc) & the camping/evening turnout eclipsed other CS Saturdays so a big thanks to the admin team (great value too @ £20 for 3 days). Gutted I didn't turn up in a Clio, but huge thanks to...

That would explain his fashion sense... like, that really clears things up after RDR camping :L

Put the iPod on airplane mode and it'll have a standby time of weeks no doubt. Alternatively leave wifi on, park close enough to your house and sync it wirelessly. Plug it in and forget. Literally never has to leave the car again.

Anyone suggesting semi-slick track day tyres for his missus to potter around and drive into car park bollards etc needs to go and hang out in the "track day tyres" thread and leave the "normal" people alone :tongueclosed: You can get Michelin Pilot Sports in 15" for £50 ffs. Given much worse...

This stuff needs to be on AZ lyrics... "come by the selecta injecta ...SELECTA! ...err come on think of something else err what else... chief in the place, off your face errm... errm... kick the little face... in the face... in the place cos they're not ace!"

Dave LM, interesting point. Did you get a chance to stick a multimeter on when the battery was in the boot? Let me proceed my comments by saying I totally agree with you that "feel" is not to be underrated (a driver who knows their car = a driver that can safely push the limits of said car)...

A Porsche 911's suspension kinematics (angles of wishbones etc), geometry & spring/damper/ARB rates are all chosen very specifically to make the best use of a rear biased weight distribution. Because tyres offer ***diminishing returns*** in terms of "grip" as you increase "weight" acting on the...