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I modified my 172 Cup to make it faster around a track. Then I realised doing that was a complete waste of time. Car became less fun to own. I've learned my lesson, the 200's staying 100% standard.

Nice meet, nice pics.

Today I drove my 200 with the lightest foot possible while still making progress. Trip for the full 26 mile commute says 43.1 mpg. LOL

Lovely. I'd be so happy to have one of those parked outside.

At worst you'd have to remove it for each MOT. If you're just buying the basic vinyl strip wouldn't cost much more than £10 each time for a new one. There's no law on sun visors so not having them fitted is no problem. As said before though, drive like a prat or go anywhere near a McDs and the...

I personally went as deep as I could as I had my arse on the floor of the car, came down the windscreen almost half way. I ran opaque ones, started with yellow, then orange, then white, then decided to go for matt black so it wasn't so noticeable.

Sunstrip is your friend. You just have to accept that the 5-0 may take an interest in you, and you'll likely have to strip it off at each MOT. I couldn't find any other way around it myself. Never got pulled either.

Would be a failure, it's interfering with the swept area so would fail an MOT. Would be an interesting roadside stop if the 5-0 insisted you remove it meaning you'd end up driving direct into bright sunlight. I always worked on the basis that if I was stopped there'd be some understanding...

That'll be his medication. Bless.

General consensus on here I think you'll find will be that your car with a few stone chips will look approximately 1,000,000 times better than it will with a bonnet bra. Burn it I say.

Will fit fine. Did this to my 172 Cup at 107k miles and ran it to 120k before I sold it without issue. As above though, you'll lose all speed readings and trip calculations etc.

Just checked, is as above...so suggest you dig deep and get a proper one, or don't bother.

Not sad (coming from someone who records not just every tank, but every penny spent!) at all. My 200 is now just about on 26k miles, 8k of that since I owned it, and under my ownership, including one track day, I've averaged 33.6 mpg. Trip computers in the 200s are the opposite to the 172/182s...

I'd advise caution. The MkII jacks had/have a slot/recess in the top for the jacking point rail to sit into. On the MkIIIs, it's the opposite way around, there's a recess at each corner beneath the sill, and the top of the jack seats into that. So using a MkII to jack up a MkIII would give...

All depends on how deep your pockets are. Easily tuneable these French pocket rockets are not. To get a genuine 200bhp you're looking realistically at cams and ITBs, so budget around about £3k - £5k.

Welcome. Why is 200bhp your target?

Fairly hard sidewalls? Sure you were running T1-Rs? The sets I ran on my Cup were as soft as any tyre I've ever tried, hard on the brakes in a straight line on track and the car would be moving about all over the place. Had some loose T1-Rs in the shed for a while, and I can say with certainty...

Ooh, ouch, such a shame, wrong place at the wrong time. Fantastic pics beforehand though. Got to admit seeing the blue 172 Cup racing makes me a bit emotional LOL.

FLOL Excellent work Jay for the clip and Tony for the entertainment. Footage came out well :approve:

Weighed a wheel from my 172 Cup and it was 17-18 kgs from memory. As for weights, I think the 'published' figures from Renault are; Phase 1 = 1,035 kgs. 172 Cup = 1,021 kgs.

Have you adjusted the intermittent setting to the quickest of the 4 (or 5) settings it has? Or does it not even wipe the screen once when you turn them on?

That's nasty.

They're no BMWs that's for sure. But compared to my 172 Cup, my 200 is like a Maybach.

I think the monitor is a good call. Gimmicky though it may be, it is functional, unlike a lot of the (far more expensive) options that CS deems essential!

Why all the talk about auxiliary belts? OP was asking about cambelt change intervals wasn't he? Re the cambelt, as already said 5 years is max. Any more and you're running a material risk of failure. There's been two on here fail in as many weeks recently IIRC. Your choice, but I know what I'd do.

Why doesn't it use the standard cat like just about every single other aftermarket exhaust?

Was such a shame you had that incident. Got to say, I was amazed to see you just push the door closed again, check it wouldn't fly open and send her out again. Kudos! Great performance considering you didn't have the 37 man support team Messers Payne and Hunter had LOL

Mines colour coded and it works. Yours? I'm not so sure. Who cares anyway, just get in it and drive it, lots.

I was passed by a matt black wrapped Passat tonight on the way back from Brands. There are not enough words available for me to use to describe how sh*t it looked. If you did your Clio, I'm sure a few teens might think wow for 10 seconds, but most will look at it and think WTF/plum.