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you can have one anyway

£5 if you lose the thing or if you cancel any agreements and cant hand it back in. Nothing painful or unexpected there. If anyone doesn't like it, they can always buy their own anyway

Eelated to wheel speed and not engine speed you say? Anything caught in your brakes? How are your wheel bearings? Are the CV joints in good order? (is the boot still in place on the driveshaft/joint)

Hands-free kits don't have as much gush-factor as an exhaust, or being 2 inches closer to the floor. #priorities

Pattern parts definitely work, and they really can't be any shoddier than the quick-rot metal in the Renault genuine part.

Bugger. Yeah, that's a sod. Maybe they'll accept en engineers report?

Depends, did you want to keep hold of a broken spring? Maybe for sentimental issues or something? Provided there;s no argument over whether it was truly broken or not, no issues.

Just get seats with adjustable backs, and you can roll with ultra badmanz lean angle. As said, you'll only wipe your bumper off on a bollard when your sik low seat means you cant see squat when you're parking. Trufax

In any event, sounds like you've got yourself a new bottle-holder. And before you start getting dry-bummed for rebuild costs, may as well put the feelers out for the cost of a replacement engine.

I cant be held responsible for things I did/didn't do/thought I did/ straight-out-hallucinated that evening :)

If they're the original dampers on the car, you'd do well to replace everything in one go. 10-15yr old dampers may not like the lowering so you'll be looking at new ones anyway. By the time you factor in new dampers as well, you're probably staring at the price of reasonably decent coilovers

That looked like a fun day of crashing! Got really confused though, the Chevvys are using a livery that looks a bit like a homage to the old Opel DTM livery of years ago. So for the first 2 races i thought they were Insignias. Ah well. They weren't Calibras anyway

Yeah, that's what I used. Not ideal. but better than just saying RENAULT

ol, looks nothing like it. Guessing you've not seen Listerine in the reals though. In Mazda terms it's closer to being "Splash green" but, in any event, it looks minty fresh. Good work

What cabling did you use to connect to the display? Back when I had a Clio you needed a specific alpine lead for about £70. Mind, you needed to do £200 of head unit to support it too.

Cheaper alternative, does 90% of the expensive one, just with less screen (unless you spend your time behind the wheel staring at your stereo, that surely isn't a problem)

oh right. Never heard that,

Those springs should be good with the Konis. Old OEM dampers may not be too..... ...hang on. You've got a trophy? Yeah, all bets off, just refurb the OEM sachs kit, which probably costs more than any kind of 3rd party coilovers

EA? So, will I need to pay microtransactions every time I need to reloads....unless I don't mind waiting 10 minutes for another clip, or a friend "gifts" one to me?

can't hurt. :)

Dont be so hasty, at least see what it costs first. A set of refurbed Konis will be better than standard parts (be them Renault or pattern) and if you're going to go down the "OMG LOWS" route, then a refurb will be cheaper than the cheapest eBay specials.

If you have the original receipt with your name on it, yes, you'll probably get a free refurb. But if you don't, then it's going to cost.

As much as you don't need a driving license to race, it would help for getting to and from circuits. With the attitude on display in this thread, you may be best off sticking to playing Forza instead.

Mk.1s rust less, MK2.5 rust like it's the new fad, but come with all the parts that Mk.1 fanbois then retro-fit to their lightning-mcqueen

A ratty mk.1 costs less than changing the belts on a 182 fella.....just saying ;) Of course, one that hasn't been perverted into a Tokyo Drift, Paul Walker JDM memorial special, that will cost more...but at least it wont be both sh1t and embarrassing :)

WIlwoods are great, but completely overkill for this car. Maybe a twin-charged, 300+ hp one, ok. Otherwise, yes, Mk2.5 big brake upgrade is the way forward, at about 1/4 of the cost too. You know, the brakes that Mazda developed, and put on the better 5s ;)

yep, spotted that in the end. Still I've heard of sillier things happen

The blower install on the Mk2.5 I saw at the weekend was tidy and 220hp, but apparently it wasn't without a s**t-ton of grief.

Dont trust Renault parts to last even as long as they claim. As said, since the dawn of CS, belts before 5yrs or you may as well find yourself a new engine now. and....did you just change the one, snapped, spring?