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16's do look best in my opinion, although going to 15's gives you a chance to fit higher profile tyres, either semi slicks (unlikely on a daily), or if they are normal tyres, it reduces the road noise to some extent.

Looks really nice, just put the same wheel on mine yesterday. One thing though, you might want to look for some black hex head countersunk bolts, as they would look better than the silver phillips head bolts holding your wheel on at the moment in my opinion.

In terms of side mounts, unless you are going FIA for some competition reason, I would go for cheap ebay ones, or second hand ones if you can get your hands on them. It's not like anything can go wrong with them, and they are a solid bit of steel... IMO the branded ones are overpriced. As far as...

You could try removing the bottom damper bolts and wiggling the damper to see if that is the problem. If they are seized/sticky it should creak or not move when you do this. Fortunately, PMS do sell the replacement bearings.

I got a set of second hand NS2R's in 180 compound and I love them for fast road, although you do have to work if it's cold or wet to keep the heat in them.

I found the solid top mounts make hitting bumps a lot louder. It's still worth having them on there in my opinion, but essentially you replace a piece of rubber which isolated the road noise with a spherical bearing that doesn't...

I found my current set on ebay slightly used for 140 quid. 195/50 r15, with about 6.8-7 mm of tread. I really like them for road rallying, but keeping the temperature in them on dirty and often wet roads is a bit of a challenge, so next time I would be tempted to go for 120 compound.

I recommend ferodo DS 2500 pads for heavy road use, or Mintex 1144's as a budget alternative. You could get the front calipers from a 172 and put them on, but I wouldn't recommend it, as I honestly don't think you'll be putting enough heat in DS2500's on road use in a 1.2 to need the upgrade...

Welcome to CS I'm sure you know, but there are two rails running across the width of the car, under the front seats. If you cut these out, to enable the side mounts to rest on the floor, you can get the seat as low as possible. If you are mounting the side mounts to the floor however, I would...

pro race 1.2's will probably be easier to sell at some point, and if they are lighter, it makes sense to choose them, but I do prefer the look of pro race 3's.

Aha possibly! Well yeah, probably was more like 10 mins, but if you weren't proficient with working on cars it could be up to 30... any more and you would definitely be sleeping!

I've got the ktec race mount, and it is pretty noisy, a lot of vibration at certain rpms. If you don't mind noise, however, it is perfect. Also, you can fit a mount yourself, it takes about 30 mins, and is literally 2 bolts. Be sure to get it the correct way up.

I really rate NS-2R's, they just seem to keep on gripping, and a fair bit cheaper than R888's. More than plenty for road rallies XD

I had a misfire around 2800rpm on mine, and I changed the coil and no fix, checked the plugs and they looked fine, tested all the injectors, then bit the bullet and bought a set of magnecor leads from here, and that was what fixed it.

*left hand lane *not lane hogging *etc

I was being followed up the M40 by a white BMW with fogs and high beams on the entire time (and i was in the slow lane before anyone asks), so I slowed down to force him past, then chased him down with my 100W rally bulbs and Xenon Auxiliary rally lights on for a bit... RIP retinas.

Wheel bearings? Might be the grinding noise when turning left. I had a hub nut come undone on a rally and that caused a monumental banging under cornering. Ball joints and control rod ball joints are ok I presume?

No worries, that usually is the problem, glad it's fixed, misfires are no fun at all.

Kwik fit do do some good deals sometimes, although i dont like them either. Some report less tramlining with the 195, and a more responsive drive, but I've not tried 205's on 16 inch rims yet, only on 15's, where I preferred them to 195's on 16's. PS3's are very good though.

Yeah, make sure the plugs are correct. Mine did the same thing, misfired around 2600 under load then stopped. It got worse though, so when it was fixed it was such a relief.

Yeah, with a LSD, on mostly tarmac, there's no real reason 4WD would be overly helpful, especially in the summer stages... Although the mk2 escorts will still be brilliant as always...

Check the plugs if you haven't done so already. Other areas worth a look are the injectors, ECP has them for £40, If you know its not the plugs, just buy one, and swap it round until the misfire goes away. Also, the coil and leads could be shafted if they weren't good quality ones (not accusing...

Really interested to finish the prep work for my car to enter this, good to see a few clios already there! How do they tend to do at the BHS?

Me too!

Worth being careful on ebay, I hear the "mintex" ones are fakes, although it shows you mintex branded packaging in the photo, you actually get unbranded ones. Wouldn't risk it. Sounds almost certainly like your bearings are fooked. You may not feel a wobble when you jack the car as the caliper...

Love the car! What are your thoughts on the 172 cup badge on the bootlid? I'm unsure as to whether to do it on mine or not... Where did you get your shocks from? I need some and I want to use standard cup shocks. Have you considered going to solid top mounts?

For my clio rally car I'm going to do plastic rear windows but leave the fronts glass, it's just a nightmare having plastic on the front, cause if you make the whole window slide up and down it gets scratched, and a slider isn't big enough to hand a timesheet out of, so your codriver has to open...

Only issue for me is that you can spit/throw things in there, but it's not really an issue depending on where you have to leave the car...

Would sound like a sensor, or potentially the oil pressure regulator. Have you tried OBD 2 readout?

How!? I've never managed to cause carnage with mine, and have been known to do incredibly irresponsible things with it...