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lol, not to be used on the road, but pic 2 seems to be on a public road.

Right, some goood news, the ABS will now happily kick in :D When changing the fluid yesterday, I did notice a few tiny bubbles, but the main thing was the fluid that came out of the fronts at first looked horrible. It took a canny while to get clean fluid through. I knew this would make a...

I assumed it would be like that, but haven't felt it yet. Will try tonight on my way home, will see if the new fluid has helped.

Old thread I know, but I am happy someone else had trouble finding the brake fluid reservoir. Took me 10mins :o

Good to hear ATS will do the tracking for free. Is the £39 and £45 for supply only?

Pads are the next thing to try, might as well get discs as well. Brembo and Ferdo mix seems to be the most popular, so will probably go for that, unless I can find a big brake setup for sale. After that, it's braided lines.

By the 'extra', I mean, can't get the ABS to kick in. I wouldn't normally want to have it kicking in, but when I get a new car, I like to check it works fine (once bought a car with ABS that didn't work and the one previous owner's idea of a 'fix' was to take the bulb out of the dash). Unless...

Last track rod end I bought was £10-£15 (can't fully remember) but it's also a good idea to get the tracking (from about £15 upwards) done afterwards (for obvious reasons), unless the garage does both but then I dunno what labour they'll charge.

Anyone? Are my calipers worth 'servicing', or do I get replacement ones (would only be looking for used ones)? Have serviced mitsi calipers in the past to sell on and it has worked fine, but no experience with Renault ones. *EDIT* Just realised I have posted in the wrong section...

If it means you get to keep the car you want to keep then is it not better to just take an extra car on these occasions? Maybe that won't suit you, but suggestion to hopefully let you keep a car you want. We just sort it all out on a 'household' basis, those living in our house come in either...

Why do your friends have to travel in your car?

I have 2 kids (one 4yrs old and one 10mnths old) and we have a Clio and Punto on the road. Both more than adequate of shipping the 'family' around. I considered selling my proton and getting a bigger car more than once, but didn't and ended up with my 172, plenty of airbags etc for piece of...

In geneal terms of the brakes, my car are fine, the initial bite is good and stops great under 'normal' braking but when making an attempt to stop quickly there just doesn't seem to be anything 'extra' there. I had a look at them today and all pads have plenty of meat left on them (rears are...

Thanks. I'm subscribed to this thread so once the details are confirmed, i'll sort out babysiters etc.

Driving this............... Had it aover a month and still don't have any decent pics of it.

I'll try to make it along if that's ok. I'm new so I never met Northern Will, but hopefully a big showing will make it a little more special.

Hello and welcome along.

I saw you (djchewy) heading towards the Jolly Drovers Roundabout at about 6ish. When I saw the car bouncing along I noticed who was driving..............I used to work with you at Kwik Save when it was open. Must be at least 5years ago now though.

Exactly what I thought.

I live in Dipton, just along the fellside road then past the hobson from Wickham.

I'm 26 and I drive a 172

That pic should be included in one of the buyers guides. If people know that can happen, they might be more persistent in getting the belts done before the car is picked up. I told the garage I wouldn't buy the car if they didn't change the belts, or nock at least £500 off.

Were you on DSC when you had that car?

I paid a little more for my 172, it's on an 04 plate and has 13k less miles though. The Belts were done in with the price and I was given the receipt (£450 trade price for belts) from the garage. My car is May 2004 car and it was 5years and 1month old and had covered 39k miles when the belts...

lol, the lad that had the Proton was called Adam

Spotted a canny loud 2004 (I think) 182 coming through Wickham tonight (about 5:15 ish). I was waiting to turn right to go up Wags lane in my m8s Yaris.

My passengers side was wobbly and was making a noise, as if it was constantly adjusting itself when I had the lights on. I just popped it back in and it's been fine. I pushed the bit directly behind the bulb (I left the rubber cap on), I think this is the way fubAr has mentioned. No bumper...

I hardly ever get bothered in the Clio, it's great. I can drive in peace.

I would go for a limited mileage policy. It means you can still tax the car without issue. Never heard of a 'weekend only' (as in the car is insured every weekend) policy myself and as far as I know, you can't tax a car on temp insurance.

There's loads of marks on the paintwork but the car is 5yrs old and has 40k miles on it, so can't really expect much more. I have just added my name to the steering wheel insert list because of this....................