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what i bought it in april it had 14700 miles on it. now it has 16200 and i have loved every minute. it was mint except the altinator belt which was a b*stard to change. had it serviced and it runs sweat except on tick over. how rough is everyone elses. mine sounds as if it blows from the...
own both a dci and 172 now. the dci is easily half the cost to run including insurance fuel and bills i reckon. but the 172 is twice as fast, twice as fun.
as for the 1.4 16v, great engine and considered it myself 2 years ago but the economy of the dci won me over. save you a lot of money...
I just dont like the front of my mrk 1. I like my dci mrk 2 better. Before i thought renault had forgotten about the rear of the mrk 1 but people think it is just a normal clio and try to blow you away...... oh and fail lol
i was also looking at evos or importing a jap car but it would be much older, more expensive to fix cos it is beyond my capabilites and at 23 myself more to insure.
it comes down to cost, age, mileage and condition. I think people on here argue over niggling points which are irelavant. They are after all-- all clios
I test drove a mark 1, mark 2, a cup and a 182 cup. On normal test drives I could not tell the difference in perfomance. In the end it came down to cash. do i buy a cup/ 172 mkII for 9k, a new 182 for 13k or a MkI for a bit less than a cup/mkII 172.
Eventually I bought a low mileage MkI with...