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So I was driving down the A14 when... The car started to feel odd and the battery warning light came on the dash. Assuming it was the French protesting as usual I carried on. Now some smoke appears behind me followed briefly by an engine light. Immediately I pull over lift up the hood and the...

So I was driving down the A14 when... The car started to feel odd and the battery warning light came on the dash. Assuming it was the French protesting as usual I carried on. Now some smoke appears behind me followed briefly by an engine light. Immediately I pull over lift up the hood and the...

Yeah I heard NS2R's are good. I will try and get a set for at least the fronts on my first trackday in the Clio. Sod paying R888 prices..

Dunno about NS2 I had some Nakangs that were dire dont think they were NS2. Worst tyres I ever had were kumho kh31's and my current Jinyu tyres.

I did Bedford on Conti Sport Contact 3's in my old Twingo RS and they were pretty awesome for a road tyre. Cheap as chips now too...

Me and the missus are considering moving up by my work in Norfolk/Suffolk purely so we can have a small taste of what you have. Appreciate it!

Around mid day.

MX5's make decent sleepers as hairdressers don't drive fast :D

lol by interesting you mean you will HATE IT! Good road cars are rarely good track cars and vice versa.

Never noticed a real peformance gain but there is a definate improvement in mpg.

I've only driven Canvey in recent years in a transit and it was a work vehicle so I didnt give a s**t lol The main roads round here aint too bad but the normal residential roads are a joke. The HGV's have made gouge marks with their weight and the route I take to my sons nursery is basically...

Probably still would!

Not bad...I think mine just needs new wheels and some lowering to look good.

Perhaps I should go around fixing all the s**t residential roads around my way and charge them an extra 60% plus VAT then lol

Sounds like Southend are being tight asses which is unusual. Shell should charge a flat rate countrywide oh and the government should charge 5% not 50 odd. Oh and I should own a Ferrari. So basically none of thats going to happen.

This makes me feel good lol I don't earn much more than that a year haha Good job with LOADS of time off but It certainly don't pay well!

I did. What i was trying to say is because 95 obviously looks cheaper i tend to go for that as you think you are saving money when you aren't really.

Just paid £1.08 for normal 95 shell. Feeling ripped off :D Its weird how my brain works. Some days I'll decide to get the higher octane fuel knowing it will help the engine and mpg and other days my brain just wants to pay the least amount possible even if I know long term im losing out.

Damn...think it was around 1.06 last time I filled round here and Southend tends to always have cheap prices im guessing because of its proximity to London and transport links etc

When I passed my test im sure it was around 87p a litre then quite rapidly within two months or so hit nearly £1.40. Then its been up and down by ten pence here and there.....so the current prices are amazing! I may actually go 100 miles with a tenner again

Glad im not the only one thats using 97 now the fuels gone down in price. Weird that the fuel cap says 98 recommended when all I can get is 97..

Ah. Fair enough if your going the whole hog then you may as well rip it all out. I look forward to the day the clio dies on me so I can put it on the drive and start tearing it to pieces :D

From experience I wouldnt bother with the small little things like brackets. One day you might want the car to go back to standard to make more money from it for a sale. I'd concentrate on the big heavy bits like the battery and that. My general rule is unless its really really not needed then...

Not sure. Just coming from a saxo and 106's there seems to be a lot of the stuff. That yellowey foam stuff is only behind the dash on a 106 for example. I can imagine a fully stripped 172 flys!

I was thinking of doing something similar to mine. Was thinking of doing graphite grey gordini stripes like on the RB Clio's (theirs is white though)

Blimey...i thought cups had LESS sound deadening...Looks like there is quite a lot!

Noise past 4k is awesome! Cheers bud im very happy with it. Becoming a bit of a rattle can guru :D

Sure thing. Let me know a price :D @petef75 im actually surprised at this site. Heard people slag it off but seem to all be good people.

My favourite mod so far has to be the ktec exhaust. Sounds awesome! Im 31 (holy s**t that just sank in) and its not too loud or chavvy sounding and it goes with my whole "when something fails, buy a better version" ethos.

Cheers bud. Yeah, im not trying to be unique or set new trends or anything. I just like things to be my way so I enjoy reading through other people's threads to get ideas on how they have improved their cars so I can take inspiration and get mine so its more to my liking. The dogbone mount, cup...