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Very cool cars! The old Saxos still look great today.

Yes you do :D It's just an all round excellent game. Some people might not like the story driven point and click type games and may find it a bit 'girly'. But it's one of my all time favourites, I just found the hand drawn art style, music, story line and general feel of the game amazing. Plus...

Beautiful looking Clio, excellent work.

Life is strange

Well if the invoice reads as correct, 32 KYB which is probably the RH3032 KYB springs. That's £40 worth of springs charged at almost £250, I still say ripped off.

Ouch! I changed the front springs on my mk2 1.2 a few months ago think it was about £30-40 for two and a few hours of my time. Hell i think i changed the front struts, springs, wishbones, ball joints, arb bushings, gearbox mount, track rod ends, top mounts, refurbed calipers, slider pins, brake...

Yeah best get it done. Everything cost me about £100 (belt kit, tensioner, water pump, aux belt, coolant), easy to do took about 3 or 4 hours. Probably about £200 - 250 or so if a garage does it.

11 years like mine :D But yeah probably the usual 4-5 years or 72,000 miles which ever comes first.

Not sure about dimension changes in the 8v to 16v components but I did all that work a few weeks ago on my 1.2 16v clio and it was pretty easy. All the work took me 3-4 days to do mine but that was mostly with pissing about spray painting stuff, plus it all depends on how stubborn some of the...

Bent pad/caliper carrier was the issue with it... what a b*****d lol

Oh well that's me officially out of ideas, two different calipers, two different sets of slider pins, two different hoses. Still has trouble budging when you apply pressure on brakes and then take your foot off :( Guess i will have to throw in the towel and take it to a garage... I just can't...

Yeah hopefully man! Part comes tomorrow so fingers crossed this is the issue. Week and a half ordering/waiting on parts to fix this, everything else was done in 3 days at a leisurely pace with painting stuff. Hopefully this thread will help someone if they ever run into the same issue haha...

Ok well i'm sure it's not the caliper now, as i've tried two different calipers, two different sets of slider pins, so now i've ordered a new hose. Surely it has to be the hose :( The other side works completely fine with fitting the same duplicate parts as the other side.

It's more fun to try new things and learn :) The amount of times crap has gone wrong for me when working on cars (bolts snapping, bits not fitting) makes me think "ugh wish I never bothered now", but after a while you just laugh about it and think "glad I done it myself"!

Should be able to weld a piece of sheet metal to fix it. Shouldn't laugh but this comes to mind when I first read this.

Hi again, I've been thinking it over the past day and I just remember something stupid i did that might have caused the issue of the caliper sticking to the disc even after pedal pressure has been released. Basically when i bled the brakes i still had the caliper swinging up on the slider pin...

i've been attacking it with the dremel ;)

thanks for the suggestions I will try these things, thought i'd do the other side to see if the same thing happens and typical one of the little screws holding the disc to the hub has rounded and i can't get it off lol arrrghhh! anyway thanks i'm sure i'll be back at some point :)

Well I just filed down the old pads and dropped them in pretty easy, no joy. Here are some pictures hopefully someone can point out something that i've just completely overlooked...

Thanks for the ideas guys, so far the slider pins are moving freely in the carrier tried my old ones and the brand new ones, i've bled about 500ml through till there was no air. Caliper piston moves both in and out easily. Pads are moving some what easy in the carrier i think i'll file down the...

It feels like there is a build up of pressure but when you release the pedal it doesn't relieve the pressure.

Just bog standard pads, I don't think it's the pads i've had the new ones and the old ones one that slid in easy. When you pump the pedal you can't move the disc, even when you start the car up the disc is solid and wont move.

Hey, I decided to overhaul my suspension and brakes so i bought all new suspension parts and also braking i bought new calipers, slider pins, discs and pads. Now i've finished everything on the O/S and bled the brakes had a little shot on my drive way stops fine, then took it up the road and...

Custom K-Tec catback exhaust, drop it 30-40mm on springs or nice set of coilovers, spacers, 172 fuel injectors, remap, decent panel filter. That's what I plan to do if I ever get a Twingo GT 1.2 TCE.

Millers EP GL5 75w80 is what i put in my 1.2 a while back, seems decent nothing has blown up ;)

Been running new fluid through my system today for my front caliper change. I've got the eezibleed pressure kit which is pretty good, works well.

Ah right cool, thanks for quick reply!

Quick question on the n/s driveshaft. I changed both a while back and drained the gearbox oil and refilled it. Anyway I'm planning on doing a full front suspension and brake upgrade and was wanting to take the hub off for painting and sand down and de-rust paint the drive shaft. If I pull out...

When I did mine a year ago I just got the Gates PowerGrip kit with waterpump included. Still seems to be going strong no issues so far, even though it has only done about 3000 miles.

Cool little car! I know what you mean about getting attached, i've had my little 1.2 for 10 years now, don't think i'll ever get rid of it. I prefer working on it and buying things for it than I do my megane.