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Never really been into serious cleaning, but after giving the valver and its admittedly tired paint a damn good t-cutting, i was amazed how much tar and general crap came off. I was advised to give it a claying, by coops after bobbing a few pictures up, and i have to say, its something ive...

Not posted many pics of mine, so heres some after a good clean. I am possibly the worlds worst photographer so the pics are crap but you get the idea.

Ive got a hill power ik on my valver, which was on the car when i bought it. Been very happy with the noise and performance etc, but the foam filter itself is looking distinctly the worse for wear. Its the original kit they made with the ramair filter mated to a semi-enclosed fibreglass...

My alternator has recently become very noisy on startup. When the car is cold, when you first start it, the alternator sort of intermittently whines, its almost melodic, in that it comes and goes every 2 seconds for about 3 seconds at a time. Its bordering on a light grinding sound, almost as...

My cars been developing a serious squeal for some time now. When its cold and you first start it up, theres a squeal along with a sort of light grinding noise, ive traced it down to the alternator. Now the alternator hasnt stopped working, the car has never failed to start or run out of leccy...

Few things turned up today so ive wasted no time in getting htem on the car. New Splitfire dual mag HT leads, thanks to new_world_disorder And the new plates from the group buy organised by matt_trev Cheers Tom

A bulb has gone in my dash. Its been out for a while now, but a few weeks back i had the whole innacle out and in pieces to fix another problem, but i didnt have a new bulb at the time to put in. Its one of the larger bulbs that illuminate the main speedo/rev counter rather than the smaller...

Going to be refreshing my ignition system shortly with new leads, dizzy cap & rotor arm and plugs. I know what im doing with the leads but what plugs should i go for? Would it make the blindest bit of difference which plugs i had, bearing in mind im going to be getting some high performance...

My gearbox has recently started the annoying habbit of pulling itself out of 2nd. It only does it in 2nd, and it will only happen if youve been trailing on and off the throttle, if your foots down it wont do it. Youll be going round a roundabout in second, off and on the gas to trim your speed...

From a mental drive out last night up by Dent and Settle. Truly mental single track roads at first, but these vids were taken on the fast, wide, properly tarmac'd section on the way home. http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-389324853508761422&hl=en-GB...

Realised earlier this week that my car would soon be going past the 100k mark, and earlier today, oddly enough just as i finished my 20 min drive, she was sat at 99999. I parked up and when i came back to the car half an hour later set back off, but as the odometer started to wind round it just...

Im already stuck in my steering column removal attempt for my mk1 valver. Im not sure how the airbag comes off. Which bit is it i unclip - the black terminal with the wheel or the orange clip with the airbag? I know its a simple thing but i thought id better ask rather than having an airbag...

I planned to have a go at changing over my steering column on my mk1 valver tommorrow, i knew it wouldnt be a walk in the park but i didnt think it would be too bad. Ive just check in the Haynes manual and it says you have to remove the airbag as part of the process and this cant be done...

Friday night is now our established 'mental drive night' usually up into the dales to places like the buttertubs pass, but we'd done the hills for a few weeks now so this week decided on a run to Whitby. It was mostly uninteresting but i decided to give my new camera mount a try by mounting...

Im after some silvervisions for my indicators on my mk1 16v. I know its a really common thing on mk2's but ive not heard much of it being done with mk1's and im aware that there are different types of bulbs - something about offset pins. Could anyone tell me what type i need? I cant be...

Sat in the traffic going down into uni. Near the girls school. I was walking back up towards James Baillie Park. First time ive seen the car in the flesh, looks really good! Some nice cars sat in the traffic - there was yours, a black DB9, a new white TT convertible, a 968 ClubSport and...

Went for a lovely drive today with my mate who has a starlet gt-turbo, weather was awesome and the roads are cracking - not as good as the buttertubs pass we did last night but perfect hot hatch territory none the less. Stopped in a place called patley bridge and took some pics. Theres a lot...

After getting a valver ive notied the clutch is decidedly stiff. I had a mk1 clio RT before this which has a stiff clutch action so its not like im jumping from a car with light controls and its just a matter of getting used to it. In short its really stiff, so much so that its like i have the...

Recently wired my headunit into the existing wiring loom for the audio setup in my new valver. My friend did it as he knows much more about that sort of thing than me, it it took a fair bit of playing around with bullit connectors to get the correct speakers fading out when you change the...

Ive got the usual mk1 problem of excessive play in the steering wheel, ive not checked but i strongly suspect its the usual column wear issue. The car had a new steering rack recently so i think it must defo be the column. I dont want to fork out £150 + fitting for a new rack and ive read up...

Picked this up from jammydj this friday, a top person who was uber helpful, and i have to say im impressed with the car. Still not use to driving it properly yet, the clutch and accelerator are way stiffer compared to my RT, and then of course there is the power. Friday night i took it out for...

Well ive just bought my first valver, and one of the niggles (all of which were known before buying) is that the top of the foam of the hill power IK fitted has split slighlty. Its not all the way round so it isnt flapping about, but if you pull back the top of the foam you can see right inside...

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Im after some clear bulbs to go in my indicators of a mk1 ph2 valver. I know silvervisions are regarded as the best but after doing some searching i think i found that they wouldnt fit a mk1. IIRC mk1 indicator bulbs are P21W whereas silvervisions come in PY21W. Can anyone shed any (less...

I was insured with adrian flux for my first years driving on a 1.4 RT. Ive just bought a valver but ringing for quotes just now they were absolutely useless. I was put through to a woman who i genuinely suspect was from the past. She got everything it old her wrong, she repeated the same...

Im on the verge of buying a valver, theres only a couple of iffy bits with it, one of which is that the heater blowers dont work. I currently have my old mk1 ph3 RT on the drive doing nothing, so i could potentially steal any parts from that. Firstly, is it possible to just steal a blower unit...

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Had a meganesport and a cliosport sticker on it, was turning up the road towards devonshire halls as i was walking back from uni up the main road. Does Pmurray still have a silver 225?

Copied over from the thread in clio discussion: Coming home from a trip to the supermarket about 6 tonight, doing 30 on the main road, a chap has come from the right at a give way point, and completely failed to give way, and hit the rear drivers side of me. Ill need a new door, rear quarter...

Coming home from a trip to the supermarket about 6 tonight, doing 30 on the main road, a chap has come from the right at a give way point, and completely failed to give way, and hit the rear drivers side of me. Ill need a new door, rear quarter panel, alloy and tyre, as well as all the trim and...