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I think I am one of the lucky ones who has auto lights that work. Can't fault them, they are spot on and would never want to go back to the old manual type.

That is an amazing statistic because I seem to see loads more Cups and figured they were just as numerous as the full fat. The rarest 182 must be the non cupped full fat. By the way telford mike, the other day I was just randomly reading an old thread from 2002 in what I think was a Seat forum...

These things puzzle me. They aren't automatic because you always have to turn them off and on again each time plus they don't work as well as the old adjustable intermittent wipe. Also that thing you twist that supposedly adjusts the sensitivity or something? It makes no sodding difference! I...

Just being curious and nosey now..... I always delete my SMS's as soon as I have replied and keep my received and sent folder empty. I thought everyone did that? Why have you kept them, I mean what is in them that you can't just write down (like addresses and stuff)?

One thing I really regret is that I had a 1.2 but rather than go straight to a 182 I gradually got quicker and quicker cars until I built up to it. Each step was fun but not exactly mind blowing. If I had gone from the 1.2 straight to the 182 it would have been an absolute riot! I can...

I know what you mean about us PC gamers always having cutting edge graphics. I spend my time trying to explain to satisfied PS2 owners why their system really is long over due replacing but they won't have it. HL2 was for me one of the best games I have played in many years. A leap forward...

The problem is developers seem to create games designed to run on the top 1% of game systems as flash screen shots sell the games to muppets who end up shoving it in a drawer or nubs who play at 10fps and say "I don't notice any problems with the frame rate". The cost of a top SLI system is...

Yes I usually do use Vsync if I start to see that tearing effect. Doom 3 ran at 60fps in 1280x1024 and never dropped a frame. However on Doom 3 I didn't run any AA or any AF. I do run a fair bit in HL2 though which again is rock solid at 60fps, no idea what it would be if I let it run...

I personally demand 60fps from a game even when the action gets hectic otherwise it just isn't immersive. As I remember I was running in 1366x768 or whatever my LCD TV goes up to. I know it does a lot of clever stuff that is a step up from Doom and HL2 but as I said because I can run those...

My machine ain't top of the range but it ain't too bad. FX53, 1GB Ram and an X800XT. Have to say I wasn't impressed by how well it ran, frame rate wasn't brill, it jerked a lot when it had to load stuff from the hard disk and I eventually quit the demo after it totally crashed my PC. Compared to...

I think we had this argument in another thread once about the causes. To a certain extent it is random attacks by kids but they normally go for a certain type of car - i.e. those that tend to be driven by other young males. They do it because you have something that gives you a higher social...

I'd get the 182 as planned. The new RS Clio could be delayed and being a new model it will have even more flaws than the 182. With the added weight and not enough power there is a darn good chance that the 182 will be a better drive - I reckon RS Clio 2 v RS Clio 3 will be like Mk2 Golf GTI v...

Looks like his bad back has healed up alright.

My mate is now on his third car of the year having had a CTR, an S2000 and now a Mk1 V6. He did a direct swap, its silver on an 02 plate with 13k on the clock and looks like a brand new car apart from one chip on the left rear wheel which you don't notice. The previous owner had stuck to the...

I still think that whilst there is an element of jealousy involved a lot of it is down to people driving our cars like tw*ts and giving them a w*nker image like BMW's. I am sure they do it because they assume a certain type of person must own it. I bet if they saw some fit blonde getting in...

I have found it doesn't seem to go in that far. It does seem to depend on the pump though.

What are you getting out of it mpg wise? My record over a tank was around 55mpg on the computer but that was during the summer. I was down to 48 in the winter! The 55 involved free wheeling down hills and not giving people lifts if I could help it to save weight!

Saw the new Civic on the news yesterday coming off the line at Swindon. When I look at the new Clio now it just does nothing for me. It's like when the 206 first came and made everything look obsolete over night, thats what the new Civic has done. I wouldn't look twice at the new Clio, it...

My mums cheapy £40 freeview box pwns our Telewest cable TV and my brothers Sky digital on picture quality.

Weird, had something similar happen in my 1.2 16v once. Pulled out of the pub, went over some speed bumps, started accelerating gently and everything just died for a few seconds. All the trip computer and everything had reset (but not the total miles) and that was the one and only time it...

Just get a cheap USB 2.0 PCI card.

Weird experience on the evening of Tuesday 20th and I apologise for my ignorance if the person involved reads this. I was out in my 182 for the first time in a fortnight as I now ride to work. I took the car out for a gentle run just to keep it in working order. I was crawling down the Avon...

As you have probably seen here, people have different priorities and use different yard sticks to form completely opposing opinions to eachother. You have to either look at a number of reviews or ignore the opinions of others and form your own. Especially when laying down a five figure sum.

Sounds like a weather boost to me. Tyre life sounds ok, if you only hammer the car in a straight line like I do then the tyres should last. Cornering hard doesnt do the most damage to the tyres IMO, its when you get a clumsy driver who abuses the car by using too much throttle in corners...

Although I prefer the CTR in many ways I would get a new Clio rather than a second hand CTR. My mate had a second hand CTR with 30 or 40k on it and had a fair few things go wrong - contrary to the myth of bullet proof rattle free reliability. The Clio could very well have stuff go wrong with...

So how are people getting past lifting the car and bodging off the locking wheel nuts without setting off some fancy german alarm system?

I think I have seen a picture of the car after the accident and it definitely wasnt a Clio. Just looked like some standard old mid eighties car to me. Saloon sized if I remember correctly.

Depends if you are a regular track day goer. A regular track day person probably would benefit from having lessons. I have found I can drive many seconds a lap quicker just by having an instructor alongside me saying do this do that. Id take an instructor over an extra 30bhp anyday even if they...

I figure if I had a garage I could live with one all year round, it certainly would be easier to use in ice and snow than the bike. The trouble is without a garage it would last all of five minutes outside my house in Bristol... If they could just design a hard top roof that still allowed...

Far too expensive IMO. Wish they could have been more radical with the design too.