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Fair enough if it's alarming, but from the automotive engineering point of view... * Combustion occurs at around 700 degrees * Peak exhaust gas temperatures in certain situations can get well over 1000 degrees (when all the nasty emissions stuff like NOx starts forming) * The catalyst can...

I'm surprised you're saying skip the tweeters after your spending spree lol! Also the standard tweeters don't have a crossover, just a high pass filter which all of the after market components tend to have as an absolute minimum. Hope you're still enjoying your new toys & are playing around with...

http://auto-paint.co.uk offer a mail order service and do IXELL colours. They're very popular on here for matching Renault's anthracite colour used on selected Renaultsport wheels. I don't know if a 40/50 year old paint code will cause a sourcing/lack-of-knowledge problem vs a 10 year old...

Must be exciting to start from scratch with a big pile of well-matched stuff turning up on your doorstep! Some good info in the thread for people thinking of a discreet upgrade too :) I think the SWE1200 is a bit of a break through tbh. AFAIK it's the smallest 8" underseat sub - the rest are...

http://www.diamondmotors.net/pricing/timing-belt-replacement/ One of the few traders on here to list prices on the website. Not suggesting you go to Nottingham if you're in Cornwall, but gives you an idea. Would be surprised if it's not competitive.

I'd skip the KTP445 at first (really simple to add in later, unlike a conventional amp) & focus on getting the sub set up well to match the speakers. You might be more than happy without & save yourself £100. Sure a KTP will help to get more out of the speakers, but you've got to draw a line...

A 10 deg spread on the worst tyre is absolutely fine on this sort of car. However a 3 deg spread sounds quite suspect & casts doubt on the 10 deg. Infra Red gauges are great for things like brake discs or radiators where you want surface temperatures, but very inaccurate for tyres where you...

"How high are you?" ...perhaps. Though I'm not sure 182matt twigged that you were referring to ride height?

Fair point, I can't argue that "braking" doesn't appear once in your post. I just read "front scraping" and assumed pitch. Compression is a remarkably uncommon subject tbh as you tend to assume the car you buy has a spring stiffness sufficient to hold it off the ground! If you could search...

I think 1812lsd was trying to get you thinking whether it has the correct springs & dampers. Something has to be majorly wrong for a standard road car to scrape the nose under braking. You may wish to verify this (clean masking tape on the underside of the bumper is good for this) and...

Three things stop the runners sliding smoothly: 1) touching something. 2) being anything but perfectly parallel (manufacturing tolerances of seat, the order in which you tighten the bolts up, manufacturing tolerance of the lever) - it's really not a very robust design and a lot of...

As I eluded to at the end, with those speakers and that car there is no "splitter box" (or "crossover" to use it's more common name). The "full range" signal (I.e every frequency) leaves the head unit through LF, RF, LR and RR channels. Somewhere under the dash the LF and RF split into door &...

Quick to assume that the tyre people are useless and that the car is perfect :p Balljoints, steering rack bushes, wishbone bushes, rod ends, topmounts, buckled wheels etc can all make the tracking look perfect on gauges, then as soon as you drive (or even take it off the gauges and put it back...

Stalk controls require a little box of electronic magic (Clio Mk2 specific, also depends on the original factory stereo fitted) & a patch cable (they all look the same, but you need the Sony one). I'm assuming your headunit supports stalk controls (99.99% it will, but I don't care enough to...

Auto Paint St Helens get recommended time and time again on here for anthracite. Haven't used them for a difficult colour (body colours have sparkly bits in them on the 182s, besides RB) though. The original paint code is stamped on the back of Renault Wheels. Dan is correct though. Ixel...

Renault Spares Centre (RSC) Europe They've been great for me. They're in Doncaster IIRC and used to be a trader on here. Not to sound too negative, but everything that's bad about Renparts is outstanding at RSC: * Answer the phone first time * Seem to have lots of staff who aren't all...

A more noticeable way to spend the extra £400 might be checking the tracking, doing the track rod ends if applicable, new brake fluid, new tyres etc. Or indeed just 2500 miles of petrol :)

Hate to break it to you, but you're talking £1500 and that's ONLY for the bare essentials. Cams are best part of £400-£700 depending on spec & mapping is the best part of £200-£300. If it really needs a "major service" too (I don't know what your idea is of this) then cams on top then that...

3 oil changes in 9 years screams dephaser pulley. Hope it was changed with the belts or the belt receipt is pretty much void given you'll end up doing it all again within 12 months. Surely you know deep down the lack of history screams "avoid."

LOL, the cheek! I can't believe some of the stuff I've read here either... :rolleyes: Air will leak. Which is why everything that relies on air has a compressor. Compressors don't have to be noisy either. See Chip's point r.e. tuning, it would remove one of the single biggest limitations...

OEM is brembo not Pagid. Loads of threads & reports of non-Brembo rear bearings falling apart. Get the brembos, not pagids unless there's a very good reason (e.g. it's a race car and you change bearings every 2 events anyway)

Oh I agree. A 182 at 19 is far from a problem & I would definitely do it again because insurance was cheap thanks to everything being in my favour. I suppose what I'm getting at is it takes a long time for it to reduce further because it can't really get any lower.

Oh no I'm not knocking you for doing something different at all! I just think slammed & gold wheels on a black car are the number 1 & 2 mods for the typical "car cruise" type 1.2 Clio.

Is there though? (I don't know either, I just play devils advocate in all the really vaguely worded threads.) I'm out on the basis some things are best kept simple. Buy some new coilovers and hope that one of the hundreds of differences between the new & existing (not just the damper units...

Well, yes... unless you're after a Trophy then surely your choice is: market value (3k) 182 vs market value 197 (5k). If you want less rattles and don't mind it feeling less raw go for a 197. If you fancy 2k in the bank/for fun and don't mind rattles and a bit less refinement then go for...

Mine used to do it a lot with no obvious problem (unlike the time when it went off due to a dodgy bonnet switch or proximity sensors falling off etc.). Grew out of it as per Adalis'.

1 other person in the entire world having the same problem as you is not conclusive proof LOL. In the same way as plenty of happy ktec customers (I gather they all exist on this Renault UK club thing) doesn't prove that you're not having issues. But that's irrelevant because I still kind of...

To cut a long post short: my money is on failed/failing dampers producing only a fraction of the damping force that they were designed to.

I think you've been quoted in Euros? :rasp: But seriously the cambelt is a MUST. Just because it should have been done by now doesn't mean it has. It's also very tempting to say you're more likely to get a strong engine if you buy one that hasn't been done, then get it done properly by a...

Is it for the Evora or are we supposed to guess what type of Clio you have? :rasp: