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Apologise immediately. With flowers & a nice meal etc... ...before Mace sees this as an opportunity to turn up at your house, whilst you're at work, brandishing said flowers, chocolates etc

Is it a new car (IIRC it is) or is it 2200 miles into your ownership? My courtesy car bet is on a 1.5 DCI Kangoo :p Keep us posted on what the problem is & the customer service.

Normally it's done to a car with vaguely the same proportions?

All four (I'm counting the RS5 (?) in the back of the first pic too even if it's not yours!) look lovely. Props for standard splitter on both 182s as well. Can't wait to go back to a 172/182 myself.

Think this needs a bit of clarification, in bold :p For ALL PHASE 2 (F4R 738 engine) * Standard map: 6800 RPM when cold. When warm it's 7250 RPM in 1st, 2nd and 3rd. 7000 RPM in 4th and 5th. * Renault Group N map (standard on Renault Group N ECUs): 7400 RPM in all gears. * Most/all RS Tuner...

i.e. They're from a Clio Renaultsport (2.0L) rather than a Clio Sport (1.2L) Same on 172, 182, 182 FF, 182 cup & 182 trophy. The 172 cup had blue ones.

Re: Clio sport convertion! LMAO. Considering you need a degree (and therefore to be vaguely intellectual - which he is not) to become a Mechanical Engineer, it's pretty clear he just replaces/reattaches/services broken things.

Stereotypically (and can you suggest a better way to individually evaluate the risk of all however-many-million motorists in the UK?) the sort of person who buys a brand new (or nearly new) car takes more care of it & is a "more respectable citizen" than someone who's just bought a 7 year old...

Exactly this, 3mm lol. Bear in mind you can only change the springs (different compressed height [slightly ^^^] and different spring rate) you won't be able to fit the cup dampers as well. Suspension design is all about matching the damping coefficient to the spring rate to the chassis...

Lowering the rear (which is of the "trailing arm with torsion beam" suspension variety) does not change camber. Lowering the front (macpherson struts) has a side effect of effectively increasing the amount of negative camber (not "true" camber in the usual methods of adjustment etc, but camber...

Not having valid insurance is the illegal part. Otherwise everyone would insure some sort of £50 chinese 3 wheeler 300cc thing so they have "insurance." What loads of people don't realise (especially in wherever Police Interceptors is filmed) is that with a lot of companies you have to be 25...

Nevermind the worst happening, if you love cars it's just not worth your car-related life coming crashing down at such a young age. Thanks to myself writing off a 182 at 19, I'm now back to the start (0 NCB) and I have a write off claim on a high risk hot hatch. Though I'm becoming old enough...

You could try to reuse the holes but: A) They're a bit naff. B) Often when the original spoiler is ripped off (speedbump/carpark/kerb I always assume) the holes are ripped/destroyed too. C) Good luck working out what was a splitter hole, what is a random stone-chip hole, what is an...

This. There is a reason very very few people have a Renaultsport at 17/18. It's not because they can't afford the £2500 for an early Ph2, it's because even those who work full time aren't stupid enough to spend more than the car on insurance. If EVERYTHING is in your favour (2 years NCB, live...

The more crucial things tend to be the ones that get better with smaller sizes though (rotating mass, unsprung mass, centre of gravity, scrub radius, centre of pitch would improve too? [forgot about that one earlier!]) But yeah on the whole I agree. Plus/minus an inch, a KG, a % of suspension...

Sorry, my bad. I was reading the £5 tax breakdown in the basket as £5 for delivery. Go and pick them up if you live near? :rasp:

"Grip" was an innacurate choice of word by myself, but I'll stick with it to mean how much potential a car has to change direction. Grip depends on tyres (i.e. grip/width) and suspension response (also dictated by tyre profile and sidewall height). Keeping all else identical but getting those...

Am I an idiot for expecting it to have been refurbed? That's quite clearly a steering wheel grip that's been sown on lol...

Cliosport.net amatuers, the lot of ya :rasp: (this is going to go badly wrong if it turns out Pete sells them for twenty-something :o but surely not?) Pair of HC fronts. Kam Racing. Forum Trader. £30 inc. VAT FFS LOL. Done...

Mmm no, we're actually using well established engineering principles & equations used all the time in designing everything from designing the big/soft/comfortable Laguna to the S1600 spec Clios. Backed up by what proffesional racing/test drivers tell their engineers. You can read a book about...

This is the correct answer from a technical & looks point of view. However I think that's a good point. Yes 17" will be worse in every way if we want to start blabbing on about sidewall strength, scrub radius and damping coefficients... but at the end of the day you're making an already...

Carbon wrap is a sticker. We've all been using stickers since at least playgroup. This carbon kit is a sort of weird single-layer attempt at fully fledged wet layup. It's not complicated per say, but it's 100% the definition of "harder than it looks" & skilled people "making it look easy." It's...

Looks good. Looks confused (PH1 172 coloured bump strips, PH2 172 car, 182 wheels, gangster/pikey/chav/rude-boi stickers/tints yet trackday spec) but alright. Think you can throw the "budget" title out of the window though as you've gone beyond the basic striped/pads/discs & done extras like...

Depends on the insurer. Bell/Admiral/Elephant/EUI companies etc do make a distinction between types of claims. Get a quote using the online form, then declare a windscreen claim. No difference in price. Or at least there wasn't when I checked (nearly a year ago to be fair)

Nowt. Except it's not a 182 anymore and I've no NCB.

At the risk of being very anal... it's got the original front splitter too lol.

The search box in the top right is pretty good for common questions :) OE from Renault - £100 ish and will crack if you hit a kerb CFRP from K-Tec - £130 odd and will shatter into a thousand pieces if you hit a kerb Skoda Fabia VRS - £11 and is so bendy it's virtually indestructable Skoda one...

Serious question, what makes it an FF GT? There isn't a GT Cup? Presumably it doesn't have the fully blown 200 chassis?

LOL. You couldn't be more wrong according to the manufacturers! The whole point of having the G11 standard is that they can be mixed. LOL there's even a British Standard code printed on the bottle FFS. Not to mention G11+ and G11++ are also made specifically to be mix-able (lol?) with G11. I...

hids-direct.co.uk is what the search function will probably say. Can't personally vouch for quality as I've never bought any, but that's the one that gets recommended over and over on CS. £12.75 or something. You want the D2S fitment. EDIT: Clicky...