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They're no BMWs that's for sure. But compared to my 172 Cup, my 200 is like a Maybach.

I think the monitor is a good call. Gimmicky though it may be, it is functional, unlike a lot of the (far more expensive) options that CS deems essential!

Why all the talk about auxiliary belts? OP was asking about cambelt change intervals wasn't he? Re the cambelt, as already said 5 years is max. Any more and you're running a material risk of failure. There's been two on here fail in as many weeks recently IIRC. Your choice, but I know what I'd do.

Why doesn't it use the standard cat like just about every single other aftermarket exhaust?

Was such a shame you had that incident. Got to say, I was amazed to see you just push the door closed again, check it wouldn't fly open and send her out again. Kudos! Great performance considering you didn't have the 37 man support team Messers Payne and Hunter had LOL

Mines colour coded and it works. Yours? I'm not so sure. Who cares anyway, just get in it and drive it, lots.

I was passed by a matt black wrapped Passat tonight on the way back from Brands. There are not enough words available for me to use to describe how sh*t it looked. If you did your Clio, I'm sure a few teens might think wow for 10 seconds, but most will look at it and think WTF/plum.

Fantastic day, fantastic result, really enjoyed being there to see it today. Now sat at home shivering covered in blankets and running a temp of 99.5...that explains the aches, pains, and general lethargy I felt toward the end of the day LOL

Of the 300 or so miles I do each week, 250 of them are spent on minor A and B country roads, no traffic, no junctions, no traffic lights, so I just plod along at 50-60 mph barely ever having to touch the brakes. So no motorways, and no urban crawl. Doing my first long ish run tomorrow, up to...

Vacuumed the interior. Checked tyre pressures. Checked if my car has a toolkit/jack or not. It does.

First owners of my car suffered depreciation at a rate of 49 pence per mile compared to 10 pence per mile for me, yet it was still almost as good as a brand new car and came with 6 months remaining manufacturers warranty. I did buy my 172 Cup brand new though. Now, having spent hours basically...

Bargain I think. £10k, 18k miles, 2.5 years old. Most were £11-12k at the time I bought.

I expect you'll all get bored of this long before I do, but I intend to keep this going for as long as I own my 200 (likely to be at least 5 years). I'll update it periodically, and it will hopefully be a useful guide for anyone pondering 'can I afford one?'. Car : Clio Renaultsport 200...

LOL

As a unit it's significantly more highly strung too, 100 bhp/litre vs 75 bhp/litre (Z4). Also throw in the seemingly much larger frontal area, much bigger hole needs to be punched in the air so at motorway cruising speeds economy is woeful.

I'm unique then, loved the 200 from they day it first appeared.

1. When was the stamp (mileage/date)? Not sure what the intervals are...2ys/12k I think? 2. Not difficult to achieve that sort of MPG. Reset it drive a few miles, then leave it idling while shuffling it about the forecourt a few times would easily give a low figure. Don't pay any attention to...

OP wants to ultimately have/own/run a 182. OP spends £x on modifying his 1.2 (which looks pretty good already), and subsequently loses money on resale. Or, OP holds onto that money, and puts it toward insuring a real actual RS 182 far earlier than he would be able to if he instead spunked all...

Possibly a placebo, but I swear mine is sharper/raspier now at 26k than it was at 18k when I got it. Yours is tight, get it loosened!

That'll do nicely.

23mpg? I hope you're feeding it Super?

FLOL Doesn't look like it has any brakes at all in one or two of those pictures.

Good write up, nice face.

Got to say, that angle, in that colour... It looks as mean as f*ck. Nice one Christopher, glad it's finally arrived.

Come on Chris, pics!

Paperwork w***ers.

f**k yeah! Get in.

Re: Which model Clio do you prefere and why? Agreed. Has to be the 200, because it isn't 1990 any more.

Wheels seem excessive, but think about what these have to do that mere mortal wheels don't? I read something once about the tyre valves, how normal valves would open due to the centrifugal force on the valve mechanism at 250mph letting your tyres down, so they had to engineer valves that could...

Does that also apply to GW 197/200s with black speedlines as well? I never tire of looking at these, the engineering, to fit so much into such a small package is epic.