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I've been wanting to update this for a long time but really.. there isn't much to update, the car has just been plain working, which is the whole point of it, at the end of the day it was bought to be a daily driver and and after all the upgrades it drives beautifully and stops properly. We're...

Mmhh.. not sure [emoji848]

Best way I found to clean a nasty steering wheel is to just keep washing your hands and drive. After two or three months it pretty much cleans itself lol mine was gross !

Nice, that was just a hiccup. You learn something new every day !

Oh no.. is the belt tight? Did you do up the tensioner the right way ?

Does the light come on on the dashboard when you switch the cruise on ? If so, try playing around with the clutch (light taps), I found my clutch switch was playing up. Took it apart, cleaned it and it now works. Mine also came with the poverty spec spoiler, and wasn't even color coded !

Top stuff, what a transformation! I wish I could do the same, paintwork in mine is too far gone.

5pk1200 is the belt you want, or at least that's the one I needed. I could do with that tensioner !

You could do it with the driveshaft on the car but it's extremely messy and not a nice job at all. Take the chance to drain the gearbox and do it properly. I forgot about a deteriorated cv boot on my car, and almost ruined my Christmas trip and drained me of €500. Get it sorted asap is my advice !

I am yet to take off my egr after its been blanked for over a year and 15k miles. Will post an update when I do (it's only 3 bolts !!)

I've always wondered, when guys swap xenons on cars that didn't have them in the first place... how's the aim ? there's a level sensor on the rear axle of mine, like there is on every car equipped with hids. Would you be able to swap that over too I wonder ..?

Oh your situation is waay different. When I got Mine all it needed was an abs ring and a service, that was it. then i decided to make into more of a drivers car (£360 clio, go figure..) and spent the best part of £500 doing it. Add to that 4x oil services, cambelt, three sets of tires and...

I usually try to not even think about how much the car has costed me so far. It'll easily be around the £1500 mark I reckon, most of it was for parts I didn't even need ! oh well, still better than paying £1500 for an used car and then having to spend another 600 on it, from my point of view...

got springs if you need them :)

That spare wheel you got is an Equation style rim from Privilege trim clios, I've seen them on mk1 meganes as well. Tires leaking could be corrosion or tire residue on the beads, quite common on cheap cars. It's a visit to the tire garage im afraid, as you have to pop the beads, grind off...

doesn't look like the driver side fits all that well or is it just me ..?

I'll pm you Martin!

Not that I know of, but I'm relatively new as well, only had the car 18 months now. Im in Raynes Park, just south of wimbledon! Nice to see you ! Diego

mine is what you call a widetrack converted NON sport. Sport clios are considerably wider, in terms of track, than normal ones: they use longer front wishbones, different hubs to house bigger discs and calipers, and obviously different dampers. The front subframe is also different with an extra...

yup, definitely more than 44 there. Not the end of the world to change them. get the right ones on ebay, chances are your old one will brake while trying to remove them from the old discs, and as I said before new ones are inexpensive. heat the old ones and get busy with a chisel and hammer...

very nice car man, and sorry for covering it in soot !

When I bought the clio it had the abs light on, and the abs itself was overly active, interfering on pretty much every little movement of the middle pedal. it was a cracked sensor ring on a front driveshaft, they're inexpensive but you'll have an hard time trying to put one on without removing...

yo, is it someone on here ? Even let me pull away, what a gent ! a3 Southbound, we came off together at painshill.

I want those heatshields.

Yeah, it's on the list. Mine is sandwiched between the aircon condenser and the rad.. wish I had a dCi 100 too!!

Well done Austin. If this makes you feel better: I've always had puffs of bluey/white smoke on cold starts and rough idle for 2/3 secs. Changed the glow plugs (£24 eBay Bosch) and recently changed the glow plug relay (genuine £50). No difference [emoji23]

I should have got one of those, they're cheap enough. Although mine had lots of spring action and felt ok. Should be a one bolt job anyway.

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I reused my crank bolt last year, had no choice. Drove 10k miles with it and had no problems. Wouldn't advice to do it but proves that if you end up with the wrong one you CAN reuse the old one. I did replace mine in the end. Austin just get the right code for your kit on the gates catalogue...

Sorry, got too nerdy. M12, or 12mm, is the size of bolt I needed for my engine. This is the bolt that secures the crank pulley on the crank sprocket, and has to be changed together with the belt. The timing kits for the different versions of the k9k (the 1.5 dCi engine) have only little...