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My search for a mint Williams ended today in north London! The deposit has been paid and Williams No.123 will be coming back to Wales with me on Friday. Ive looked at about 15 cars: the overpriced, the rusty and the downright dodgy! The car has 54k on the clock and the current owner only...

Im getting a bit depressed after what seems like an aeon searching for a decent Williams :( What makes it worse is that Im out of the house from 7am to 8pm during weekdays and I live in Wales - theres not a single Williams for sale here! Would the good folk who own a Williams post a photo or...

Ive been Valver-less for three days now and Im missing it very badly! Ive got about £7k sat in the bank at the moment and am itching for a new car (my Volvo S40 is not exactly providing the same thrills as the Valver did). The original idea was to get a mint Williams - but just you try...

Just watched as my Valver disappeared into the distance in the hands of its new owner - bjfosteruk. God it looked and sounded good. Damn. Never mind, that feeling pales into insignificance compared to the stress of today. The idea was to meet at 5pm after work, but then the starter motor...

When my engine is hot, the pressure needle sits at about 0.25Bar these days. It used to sit at about 0.75Bar on warm idle. The engine was rebuilt at 72,000 miles after a cambelt snapping and is on 104,000 now. Would I be right in thinking that the oil seals would have been replaced at...

Ive recently started doing a 50-mile daily A/B-road commute plus business mileage in my Valver, which already has 104,000 miles on the clock. For the last month, Ive been doing about 500 miles a week (2000 a month!). After so much previous experience and having heard so many nightmare stories...

When do people think that Cup prices will subside towards the £8k mark? Ive seen one at £9,500 now (with 4k on the clock), so was wondering if there would be any about by, say, January when my insurance is up for renewal.

Just taken my Valver for some gentle exercise. Warmed up as normal and let the temperature rise over about ten miles to normal. No thrashing or anything. Later as I was going out of a roundabout at low revs I notice a cloud of black smoke coming from my tailpipe - quite a lot in fact. I...

Well, my mind is in full swing thinking about possiblities and cunning ways to get my grubby paws on a Fiat Coupe 20V Turbo and it looks like Ill be going over to the dark side in January, when my insurance runs out. Question is: how much should I expect for my Valver? Just want some...

The Valver seems a bit unfortunate sometimes in that if you say "I have a Clio sixteen-valve", most people say "so what?" in the same way as if youd said it had injection. For those whod never seen a Valver, it would be easy to think you were talking about a very average car, such is the extent...

Just returned from three weeks away. I was thinking of selling up before I left and was going to mull it over the holiday - and that I did! Well, maybe I will get a Fiat Coupe/something else some day, but for the time being the Valver is staying. Probably the biggest thing that made me...

Just been off the phone to the people who were supposedly supplying me with a Williams F7R 2.0 bottom end. Theyve cocked up and have lost the unit they were going to supply me with. Pretty cheeky really as they debited my card last Thursday. Moreover, I had booked my car into the garage...

Well, what a coincidence that I was talking only last night about this with Scotty16v. Got a buzz this morning from a breakers who had a 2.0 F7R bottom end from a Williams with 42k on the clock. The guy claimed it had been sat on the shelf for months! The car is going in next Wednesday to...

My Valver seems to have a bit of trouble accelerating through the revs at the minute. Its an occasional problem and doesnt seem to effect acceleration that much, but I still dont like it. It seems to take longer than usual to get from 2-4000rpm, then is OK. What should I check? I think I...

My passenger electic window will always go down, but will only come up about one time in 50! Pretty annoying as you can imagine! Its not the switches as both work/dont work at the same time. Ive taken the door card off and had a gander at the motor and regulator (which seem to be one...

Ive just finished uni, so Ive now moved back to my parents home and I often park my car on the road during the daytime to free up some garage space. Recently, Ive also been spending a lot of time mending/cleaning some cars to sell, which are kept on the street - so I get to see who looks at my...

Southend Cliosport meets always attract people from miles around, but the pilgrimage for some is longer than most... For Smoothed Clio and I, it all starts at 11.37am when Pete roars up to my house in Wales in his Naples Red Valver. Tanks are topped up, oil warmed, legs stretched - and the...

Ive always been pretty keen on keeping my cars clean, and none more so than my pearlescent black 16v. Ive been reading some of the stuff on here recently about polishing/waxing and have visited http://www.autopia.orgwww.autopia.org for some very sound advice. Its pretty clear that my...

Ive got a blown bulb in my dash (for dipped beam) and just want to get the clocks out of the dash. I have no troble until it comes to trying to pull the cables out of the back of the speedo/rev counter unit. Theres no room to slide my hand behind the unit and it wont just pull off! Help...

I was driving around this evening around Cardiff - man, I saw at least ten different CTRs. Theyre multiplying! Anyway, a red one had been following me for a while and overtook me at mega speed just before rolling up to some red lights with a new-shape Fiesta. The Fiesta went for it on...

When I come to a halt, or when I turn about halfway through the steering lock (either direction), I get a single "clunk". Ive had it at a Renault specialist recently, and they didnt notice anything. Just wondering what would cause this. It sounds as if something is hitting something else...

Just been out and had one of these on my tail, a white H-reg one with a middle age man driving. I let it overtake to see what it was: an Alfa 33 "16v". At the next roundabout we left onto the dual carriageway side-by-side, and I instantly blasted past - although I did have the

I was following a grey P-reg Fiat Coupe along a dual carriageway just now, both of us in a very orderly fashion. I was wondering if it was a NA 2.0 16v/20v or a turbo 16v/20v...until he booted it out of a roundabout, leaving a Porsche Boxster in its wake. I followed suit at a respectable...

BenR and I were just ripping up and down some dual carriageway comparing our tuned 16vs "in the name of science" when a Clio got in front of us. I thought my prayers had been answered in the form of a 172 to race...but lo and behold it was a black 1.2 bum basic model with "Sport" under the...

I was gently blasting down a Westcountry A-road the other day when it opened up for a short bit of overtaking opportunity. Amongst the cars I overtook was a Citoen Xsara coupe, which refused to believe that a Clio could have passed it and proceeded to stick to my rear bumper after the straight...

In Bristol - flat red on an N-reg. Heard a turbo whistling in the distance and a dump valve behind me and expected a Cosworth or something. But it was the BB Tuning converted Valver thats rocking around Bristol at the moment!! Wow!! It was the one I saw at Renatec (local Renault specialist)...

Does anyone have any impartial experience of these cars?? Just been out on a good dual carriageway in Bristol and came up against all three. The TT had the twin tailpipes and correct badges, and we were absolutely neck and neck from about 20mph to *20mph (on empty long straights). At about...

Took to the road in this afternoons sunshine! Not many decent roads in Bristol, but there is a 10-mile long quiet dual carriageway with loads of rounabouts for the driviers entertainment. First up was an red F-plate 911. No idea of the spec - just saw him in the rear mirror. I blasted...

Met with the master of all things mechanical this evening to see his new "runaround" tuned 16v. For a car with almost identical mods to mine it sounded very different. You forget just how fast these babies are until you sit in the passenger seat! He had some interesting things to say about...

My META M99/36T system has given up the ghost. I dont know exactly why, but just want to throw a few questions: 1. How can I tell if its because the fobs need re-coding? 2. Would a system like this use the original Renault alarm infa-red sensor? If so, how can I tell if its broken? Im...