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That looks great!! How are you finding it compared to the Ed30 & S3 out of interest?

Overfilled the R56 with oil ... although their customer service, i.e. rebuilding the top end for free afterwards, was good :up: I'll see what the issue is over the weekend, then we can ponder fixing solutions.

Who do you suggest, no one else has the software to map blooming R53's!!

I didn't see how it went on track, so i cant judge its grip levels, but id say he's probably mental 😂 My Jag loving friend seems to think its something like this: http://beacham.co.nz/beacham-mk2/ Whats with the S4 in your profile pic btw @TheEvilGiraffe

Yeah, was all on track, couple of what looked like D-Type style thingies as well. The Mk2 had a supercharged V8 out of XKR in it. And T1R's 😂

Cheers! Although if you like Clio's, but wish they went a bit quicker, you'll like R53's :up: Ha ha, I think it was probably more luck than skill ... Sold the BVH when i bought the R56 unfortunately, a rebuilt standard head is only about £300 delivered though, so not a massive investment. lol...

So Monday saw the R53's first trackday since Feb 16, bit random, but as Sarah's dad has an XKR, it was at Goodwood, with the Jag E-Type owners club. Which naturally, as you can imagine, saw an excellent selection of machinery! The XKR, a last of the line Dynamique with a fresh set of PS4S'...

I had similar problems when changing mine, although that was very much caused by user error ... http://www.cliosport.net/threads/r32.650221/page-16#post-9506182 Looks similar height wise to mine at the front, although yours is a little lower at the rear.

Yes & no. To Cat D a £2k Clio doesnt take much (50% is £1k), so i agree wholeheartedly, i've had a few Cat C/D's. On a Cayman R, that will always have been worth £40k+, you're looking at least £20k of damage, which well, is a bit more than a wing. Unless you see pictures of it damaged/stripped...

Cat D Cayman R. No thanks.

It was. I quite fancy a set of those VW Motorsport wheels for mine. I like the R27 as well, maybe expensive, no idea, £10k for a well-built clio with 300bhp seems ok though. You could spend that on a clioturbo and have a car that only worked 1 day a month quite easily.

To be perfectly honest, its not the car you buy, its the deal you get on it. Purchase any of the cars mentioned from a dealer and you WILL lose out, on their margin, above private/trade, instantly. If you want to minimise depreciation, simply buy well, privately. Pretty much all cars <less...

Does roughly 19-22 around town (my commute is 8 miles of traffic/20/30 zones), then 28-33 on runs to Donington Park/Cornwall. About what i expected really, you cant expect a 2.5 turbo to give decent mpg around town when its cold 😂 Personally, id buy an 8V S3 over an 8P RS3 though, bar...

Ha ha!! Would be great to see you at Le Mans again, with luck the Corbeaus will have turned up by June 2018 as well :tonguewink:

Funny thing is, its currently got the narrower rears on the front, & the (bald) wider fronts on the rear, and it still grips like a madman! When i fit the set of PS4S on it next month, you'd have to be driving like an utter tool to get it to understeer on the road id imagine. On track yeah...

I have always loved this car :hearteyes: Bar the spacers, which i still hate. HTH

I think i've got some at Sarah's parents house, but as ill have to do the RS3 & the TT, ill probably take you up on that :up: Apparently there is a TSB (Technical Service Bulletin) to replace the front top mounts/rear dampers, but we'll see what Walton Audi say when it goes in for Spark...

Its not horrific (although i'm not a "detailer"), id say its no worse than any other car i've bought 2nd hand. Black does show everything under the lights in the Shell garage, so ideally it does need a permanent coat of dust 😂 Wouldn't have thought so. The Stage 1 map seems to give...

Swirly before they cleaned it, probably no worse after 😂 2 years of Audi service washes & the local (northern) Eastern Europeans for the previous owner and it needs some love! Probably a combination, but it is proper filthy, dogs, going shooting & not being protected from new means...

Had a little trip to the Eastern Europeans the other day, so thought id post some pictures. If the wheels look wider at the bank than at the front, they are, & they need to be fitted on the front, i just haven't got around to it yet 😂 The front seats also need a deep clean...

You can buy cheaper fJCW's, but if you want to fit Recaros, Ohlins R&T coilovers & Quaife diff/Helix Organic clutch/SMF to your R56, that's 5 grand straight away. So if you consider that, plus the other modifications/preventative maintenance that id done over the past 10 months, it was actually...

So the R56 went a couple of weeks ago now. It sold for £9850, but i got to keep my Turinis/A048's for the R53 and all the standard fJCW parts (circa £400 worth). So overall, with some canny purchasing, despite the variety of modifications/work done to the car, i only lost £1,567 on the overall...

When you live in the north and your brand new detached 5 bed house cost £145k, £40k a year salary makes you the richest man in the town 😂 Waitey has now taken over from me in the "buy cheap car, then spend £££'s fixing it, could have probably just bought a non-f*cked one for less" role.

Looks lovely! Great model Merc that, excellent build quality & still look fresh now. An AMG would be nice, but im assuming you dont want to be on first name terms with the dude at Shell.

Thanks! Yes, it had been off the road since last May, so when i took a deposit on the R56, i knew that this needed to get back on the road asap! Ive got 1 x Corbeau Clubsport & 1 x Corbeau Sprint, not intentional to get different ones, but just what popped up on MT at the time :laughing...

I'll just leave this here :blush::cool::hearteyes:

That surprises me a lot, i was under the impression that the e90 series used the ZF box. @Rich-D might know - he's had one iirc.

Ha. I paused it at that point 😂 43p a mile is very good overall i think!

@gex23 i was going to say it'll be the interior fuse that had blown. Also, you can split off the light surrounds to plastidip, although Cotswold will do the front/rear blackline trim for £235 posted. Here you go: http://www.minitorque.com/forum/f921/black-line-rear-lights-40%25-off-149185/

Ha ha!! Judging by how immaculate the rest of the car looks, i thought it might do 😂 I woudn't worry too much about the warranty, nowt will fail on it suspension wise and thats the only part of the warranty that'll be invalidated.