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Cheers for the link, will get a set ordered (y)

Anyone know of how/where to get a set of these rubber stopper things for the fuel filler cap. The guy who had them on Instagram seems to have disappeared.

This is the trick. Once you spend every other week fixing stuff, nothing has time to corrode as it’s always being taken apart My front end comes off in about 10 minutes these days. I’m not sure if I’m proud of that or not.

Put mine into storage for a few months earlier in the year, and it’ll be going away end of October until the spring. I got it serviced, pumped the tires up, left in gear with the handbrake off, battery conditioner hooked up and put a couple of moisture bags in the car. I started it up and took...

Still not sorted the carbon canister. Hope to get it done before it goes back into storage, but I’ve been just enjoying driving it at the moment. The SGS boot struts came and have finally sorted the issue with Ariel clearance. No dodgy noise either @MRBILLYUK , so maybe you just had a bad set...

Thanks mate (y) I think I ordered a load of stuff from RPD at the time, and it was just easier to get one I knew fit, rather than having to mess around with eBay parts. it’s not a bad job though. It’s a bit of a wiggle to put everything back in but apart from that, it’s fairly straight...

For what’s it’s worth, I replaced everything when I did this. As @Louis said, you’ll be hard pushed to replace the rad without destroying a couple of the caged nuts on the condenser. If you shop around, you ac get a rad, condenser and the cylinder thing that sits next to it cheap enough. I’d...

Another small update. A parcel from RPD dropped through the door this morning. old vs new. I cannot believe how manky these get. I feel like it’s going to be a yearly consumable. @Hamish Laurie dumped his 182 at mine last night as his wheel bearing was fucked. Started swapping his rear discs...

That’s odd, maybe they sent the wrong ones when I bought them a while back. Bugger! Haha. It was pretty tight to be honest. Just enough wiggle room to swap it without pulling the spoiler off. I was more nervous about cracking the thing when tapping the light back in!

Cheers chaps I’ve already ordered the SGS struts, but if they are iffy like @MRBILLYUK experienced, I’ll take a punt on the 1 series struts above. I bought the cheap ones I currently have from eBay and they were for a standard Clio. Probably why they are a touch too long with the cup spoiler...

Funnily enough, These were the ones I was just looking at. I can’t imagine Renault made different struts for the trophy over the 172/182? Will get them ordered and update this, cheers Colin!

I noticed the rear bumper/number plate light was going yellow again. I only replaced it 18 months ago! Went to pop it out and it was incredibly loose. Turns out one of the clips and snapped, so again, I’ll need to order a new one this week. And finally, thank you to @Iranian Pudding for the...

I managed to get a few bits done on the car this evening. First up was sorting the aerial. Old base off. New base and aerial on. Now the only issue is that I’ve replaced my boot struts with cheapo knockoff jobs and they are slightly too long, which means the spoiler catches the aerial...

My daily shed was not passing its next MOT without welding and the likes, so I punted it on marketplace and it’s gone. This means the Clio is now stepping into daily duties for a couple of months. Its great to be able to put a few miles on the car and enjoy it a little more while the good...

I’ve just run out of my little bottle of C4 Trim restorer. That was my first thought tbh. Might just order a new bottle and try again.

This is incredibly sad but has anyone managed to sort the colour on their seatbelt tensioner. Mine are currently pink and faded. I wouldn’t mind trying to bring the colour out in them and bringing them up back to red. What’s the best way of going about this? I’ve tried a bit of heat but it...

Got one in the back of mine and it’s brilliant. I think I opted for the slightly thicker one but it’s great and keeps the noise down a little.

Just a small update today. The rear Turini’s I swapped onto the car were in pretty bad condition. One had a pretty noticeable dent in it and the other had previously cracked and then been welded… So I picked up a pair of clean silver Turini’s from a chap down in Wales. As is stands, it’s in...

That racing puma is rather lovely. It’s an older gent who drives it, owned it from new iirc. He’s a proper petrolhead.

Spotted a silver 182 in Lidl in Hawick today. Anyone on here? Always good to see another one around locally.

Parked up today and heard a ping. The passenger side handbrake cable snapped. Bugger. I’ll add it to the list of bits to do. Any got a link for half decent handbrake cables?

Met up with a mate today who bought a 182 a few months ago. He bought it with Renaultsport Turini’s on it and didn’t want them. I offered him my standard non-renaultsport Turini’s and a few parts he needed and the swap was done. Whilst my car was up in the air, I noticed the rear exhaust bush...

Thanks chap (y) Your team sorted it underneath incredibly well. I’ll need to get booked back in next year for the bumpers/bonnet sorted as they are the only thing bugging me now!

Spent this evening checking over the car after it’s big run as I’d not used properly since October/November(!?) last year. The front top mounts were a little loose, the rears certainly need looked at as the near side rear looks like it’s not fully threaded - it’s maybe got another 2 turns left...

Primer, wax and Dinitrol applied below. Im missing the rear heatshield here. Currently sourcing one To collect at some point soon. This was then left to cure and cavity wax injection was done. Completed. Very happy with the results and it gives me at least a better chance of the...

The next stage was to degrease everything and a steam clean. Once everything was clean and shite free, they inspected underneath for any especially rough areas. We are solid underneath thanks to @Gally and his team at Protek, so it was straight onto rust conversion for any surface...

Righto, update time again. I picked the car up from Preserve and Protect in Glasgow on Saturday morning. It was another red hot day and the car performed faultlessly on the drive home. So that was around 250miles since pulling it out of storage and it was spot on. Here are the pics from...

This bolt here chap.

As above, use either the chassis rails or bolt 8. I usually Jack on bolt 8 and then place the jackstands on the rails. My brother has a 1.2 mk2 Clio and we put the Jack stands in between number 3 and 4 on that diagram because we couldn’t be arsed to move the car. The front of the sub frame...

I remember a post on his Pistonheads thread a while back about the persona. He mentioned that he did the Millie Miglia in an XK120 with the Jag Heritage fleet and loved it. A real dream come true type experience for him. He posted the video and it tanked in views and half the comments were the...