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I took my clocks out and apart and pulled the LED's off the clock PCB for my MOT today, and it worked ok! It's a bit medieval, but its free and easy.

I use an Xsource tracker off of amazon on my 172. It's reasonably complex to fit (compared to the simple trackers) but it works from a payg sim card, with no subscription, and responds to texts from your phone. You can set it up to do all sorts of things such as cutting the fuel when you text it...

Ah yeah, I'm going to stop daily driving the clio soon in favour of a bike (FZR 600)... Still keeping the clio, but only as a weekend/rally/trackday car

Ah thats a shame, what are you replacing it with?

Ah awesome! I saw a black 200 in tonbridge wells today, and waved, could have been you? I have Phillips Tyres on my side skirt (bit garish, but free tyre changes are worth it XD)

I have spotted the above clio RS's on my commute over the past few days, and wondering whose they are! Silver 182 (lowered) with bucket seats in and around Crowborough, we often wave in passing, I am in the 172 Cup! White 200 in Snodland Shell garage, with roll cage, very nice car indeed! We...

I think the best price/performance mods I have done/tried are solid top mounts and koni adjustable dampers. While they don't allow height adjustment like a coilover, they are a lot cheaper than a decent set. A good set of seats and steering wheel makes a hell of a difference too.

I love my 172 cup, there's a few different things that imo make it probably the best basis for a track car, there's no ABS, Air con (weight saving and power saving) and the front suspension has a slightly different geometry. Great fun car right out of the box, although you may do better to hold...

Awesome, thanks for the advice, which vag box is it? And how much work is involved with driveshafts and bell housings, ie are parts off the shelf or custom made jobs? Cheers

Hi, I'm wanting to rebuild my gearbox in a couple of months, but as my car is going to be used predominantly on rallies I want to upgrade from the current box to something better. Ideally I would go sequential, but I don't think I can afford it (not found someone selling one yet) so I am...

Welcome to the forum mate, most people tend to use brembo HC discs for track work, although some go for the more expensive HC maxi ones (with the grooves in). I have only used HC's although I have never managed to warp them, even in rallies. Track pad choices are usually Mintex 1155 for budget...

George at RTR is your man for discs, give him a message on here and ask for a price on some. He sells genuine renault rear discs and brembo's (although the brembo's don't come with ABS rings, so I would personally go renault ones). He does the best prices I have been able to find for club members.

EDIT: I just read an article that says 172 brakes wont fit on 1.2 hubs, so that would make me think the hub is different. Assuming someone hasn't been a total special case and swapped your 172 suspension and brakes to 1.2, there's almost 0 chance you have non sport hubs on there.

Pretty sure you'd have a hard time fitting a non sport hub to a 172, as they have different wishbones! Not sure of the difference, but google images is your friend. The lower suspension ball joint would certainly cause a knocking noise, but you should only have to replace the joint. In case you...

172 Cup, drive it for my 38 mile commute (38 there, 38 back) and it's traffic in the morning and clear in the evening. I usually get between 44 and 45.5 mpg, driving like a saint because it's the only thing to keep me occupied through the traffic. Mostly A/B roads on the commute, and the car is...

I use copper grease, never had a problem, and the brakes on rallies get plenty toasty. By all means use another grease, but copper works fine for me.

Ah right, cool, will remember it for next time.

Not disputing your knowledge, but why would a weak battery cause it to have an intermittent starting issue?

If you have feeler gauges you could take them out and check the gap, although I would doubt that that was the problem. You could try some redex, since you mentioned rocking the pedal seems to help it. My thinking is that the injectors could be a little dirty and it's reducing the flow. The other...

This is annoying because it's made me really want a sunstrip...

Yeah, that should be long enough to boil off the condensation ok.

Yeah, if you take off the oil filler cap and there is a white mayonnaise like substance on the cap, or if you find the same substance in the coolant, that points to the gasket being on the way out. The reason for this is that the oil mixes with water and forms an emulsion, which is what you can...

Just a word of caution to running semi slicks on the front and normal tyres on the back, it will make the car quite oversteery if you are pushing hard...

+1 to the above, I use 180 compound NS-2R's for road rallies, I find the wet performance and wear to be better than the R888, with the drop in dry grip to be too marginal to fully exploit on the road. I have been daily driving the NS-2R's as well as I managed to take all my other tyres below...

Probably 50-80 quid I should expect, although I am no expert as I do all the work on mine myself. The sensor for mine was 20 quid, and to fit I removed the airbox (two screws) and ten unbolted the sensor (it's only held on with 2 bolts). There is a tutorial on youtube on a 1.2 here:

My 172 was doing that, as well as misfiring very heavily occasionally at 5000 rpm. I replaced the crank sensor and it fixed the issue. That could be the cause of your starting issue, and it is only cheap to replace. Buy a non genuine part, if it fixes it and then the problem comes back after a...

Yeah, if it wasn't a ballache to get the leads out I'd offer you to come over and try the magnecor's aha... It would sound like the ECP leads, I think the way they heat up in the Clio between the rocker cover and plenum causes the cheaper leads' insulation to break down faster than the same...

I had the very same thing happen, changed coil, did nothing, changed the leads to magnecor and it fixed it. What brand are your plugs, leads and coil? I would recommend NGK for the plugs and coil, and magnecor or renault genuine for the leads.

I've seen Optical's petrol blue and it is awesome. Also saw one in Sainsbury Kidlington car park, but can only assume that it was his again, knowing how rare they are.

You can also use bleach for the same effect. Depending on the tread pattern it can have more or less effect. A semi slick has less surface area so the compound soaks in less. Tyre softener is a cheeky way to get more grip from the standard road tyres you have to use on autosolos, as it tends to...