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If the car has a standard exhaust it WILL fall off after 40k miles, so bare that in mind.

If you're going to lower yourself to the poverty spec of the cups, go for the 172 cup. As IMO the 182 cup is rather pointless - it's just a regular 182 with a really crap interior and a lower spec with a mere 20kg weight saving which no one will notice. The 182 cup's downfall is the fact...

When I drive over a bump in the road, I occasionally hear this very bizarre noise. Roughly once every 5 bumps or so I drive over, instead of the usual quiet, dull 'bump' noise you get it makes this noise instead. I can only describe this noise as the sound plates (plates which you eat your...

Bit pointless changing really. Either keep the phase 1 or if you feel the need to change, change to a completely different car.

Trading in, you'll only get £4k-£4.5k tops imo (Renault valued my ph1 for trade-in which has the same milage as yours but is a year older at £3.5k!). You'll get over a grand more if you sold it privately though.

ITG panel filter = £30 Silvervision bulbs = £11 £41 in two years.... I've really got to cut down my spending :o

Ha ha, that thread was quality. Some really clueless comments made.

I rev mine to 2k max whilst it's cold, tis horrid if I have to go straight onto a national speed limit road :dapprove: Once warm - it gets hell :approve:

If they gave me £10k towards it, I'd consider it ;)

My 172 was noticeably quicker than my mate's cupra. He never got his remapped though, so don't know how it would have faired then!

MK5 :rasp: The guy said he does 20k miles a year, so I wouldn't get something like a 205 gti or a Williams.

I think in 2000 the clio got revamped (in terms of safety) and went from a 2 star to a 4 star NCAP rating. So ph1 172s are just as safe (according to NCAP (4 stars)) as the phase 2s.

Ok, so 75bhp and (including the stripping) I reckon your car weighs about 900kg. So that's 83.3bhp/ton.

What mk and phase 1.2 you got?

You'll have to estimate how heavy your car is first. Then: BHP divided by car weight (in KG) = 'X' Then multipy this 'x' figure by 1000. This is your bhp/ton.

If Plattsy's theories (which completely ignore convensional physics) were true, you could gear a 1.2 clio to do 10,000mph and, if given enough road, the little clio could eventually hit this 'gear-limited' 10,000mph ;) I can't see him winning a Noble prize anytime soon :)

Official kerb weight is 1035kg. In reality it's probably a bit heavier than that. All cars (when weighed at a weighing station) seem to be heavier than their claimed kerb weights. For example, a friend of mine with a fiesta zetec s got his car weighed, Ford claim 976kg, but his car actually...

Because it has 100bhp more power! Well i'm not going to call you a "c**k", because that's just childish, but you are talking out of your arse and know nothing about this particular subject. POWER is what limits a car's top speed, not gearing. When the force produced by power is matched by...

You guys are all on pot :eek: Nobody here ever heard of drag? Air resistance? Friction? And, you know, physics? :clown:

I hope in this post (and the one before) you aren't being serious. Your aren't driving in space you know :clown:

Renault put some well dodgy speedos in those 1.2s.

^^^^ So that's what a clean interior looks like! Like what you've done to the footrest.

Mine says "Clio sport" :S

If I only managed 50-60 miles to £10 of fuel I'd check to see if my petrol tank had a hole in it! £10 will do me over 100 miles easy.

I've never understood the need to put aftermarket valve caps on a car. Just keep the standard black plastic ones on there, then nobody will try and nick them (hopefully).

If you put parts on your clio from a different spec of clio, you still need to declare them to insurance yeah. They aren't factory standard and I suppose they are classed as aftermarket.

I think they look quite good actually. Seeing one next to an older shape clio really makes the older clio look dated. I've only had a fairly short test drive in one but I really liked it a lot, quality was leagues ahead of the previous clio, as was how it drove, seating position, steering...

I'm assuming a 24k service is the same as a 48k service (both minor)? I paid £90 for mine :approve: £289 is mad! That's more than I paid to have my cambelt changed!

You can't afford a faster car... but you can afford to spend £££ on mods which you'll never get your money back for, and can then afford to declare these mods?

Then a nice 'sport' badge to go underneath the 'Renault' one on the back ;)