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Cheers for all the advice everyone, just out of curiosity has anyone, or do you know anyone who's had an engine rebuild on a 172/182?

I wouldn't say I was bored of it, still love driving it, just fancied something different

Nah I didnt ever think it would be worth as much as that. Anyone got an idea of that I could get for it as it stands?

There are less than 1000 registered on the roads now, but I did think this about the value with it being quite a high mileage, I'd probably have to spend a fair bit of money to get some value out of it, anyone ever had an engine rebuild for one? adamlstr - your profile pic is the car I want...

No not done any track days, I did half think about keeping it as a track car project if it didn't go up in value. I do keep thinking I'll regret selling it. if I had somewhere to store it I'd probably just garage it and save for something else.

I have currently own a 172 Cup and I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. I've had it for 3 years now been such a fun car to own but I'm wanting something else now. I know the number of cups is steadily dropping, but I'm not sure if it'll be worth much more in a few years time. I'm not...

I don't have one but I could get one. The old battery looked ancient to be fair. Cheers for the advice. I'll look into getting myself one

Checked my earth strap this morning and it's fine so just went out a bought a new battery. Chucked it in and fired up straight away. Sorted now, thanks again Dex!!

That would make sense, I'll see if I can get a jump start from some one. Thanks Dex

If it was a bad battery would it not then stop all my electrics functioning? My central locking, lights, radio all work fine. I've not got anyone to give me a jump unfortunately

I hope that's the case, I'll check over the weekend, I'm hoping that's the case as its a cheap easy fix. Thanks Dex!

Yeah it sounded fine when it would turn over, now it straight up refuses, it just clicks. I checked the fuses/relays last night, haven't had the chance to check the earth strap, was going to jack the car up and have a look at the weekend when I have time. Cant see it from the engine bay, I'm...

Yeah I have a spare key, I tried it and it worked for like a week then it stopped and it's doing it with both keys now

Anyone?

I've seen a few threads like this now so apologies if I'm repeating what others have already posted, but I cant seem to find a solution and they don't 100% relate to the issue I'm currently having. So my car has been a bit temperamental when starting, most of the time its fine and starts first...

Think you could be right flebay, did a bit of investigating at the weekend, the noise cant be heard in the engine bay, but stuck my head under the car and sounds like its coming from the cat

So I had a bit of a play with my car on the way home from work. Tried bringing the revs up when the car was still and out of gear, it starts to make the noise at bang on 4000rpm. Also discovered that the noise starts at 4000rpm when driving, when giving it more revs this time it seemed to stop...

I've heard this before, that the engine mounts are't great. Is there any way I can diagnose this for sure before I splash out for new engine mounts?

Would that not be more of a knocking noise? It definitely sounds like a metal on metal grinding sound, and its only at high revs, lower revs it's fine

Hi everyone, I've noticed a noise I can only describe as scraping or grinding when my car is under heavy load, it only does it when I take it above 4500-5000 revs is, so its when ever it comes into the power band. I held the car at at 5000ish revs and it continues to make the noise. My immediate...

I've only noticed it since then, may have been doing it before I'm not sure. Got them done by a local Renault Specialist

It had been raining, but the rain hasn't been an issue before, I've just had the cambelt and dephaser done, don't know if that's of any relevance. I did ask if he'd noticed any problems anywhere else and he said it was all fine

Hi guys, I started my car up yesterday and it was juddering slightly on idle, I raised the RPM to about 2000 and it started juddering quite severely. When I tried to drive it felt like it didn't want to rev and was struggling for power. I let it sit and get up to temperature and the RPM that it...

I'm literally about to go back to the garage that did the MOT because as I said earlier, this wasn't happening before I took it for it's test. Cheers for the feedback

They said they couldn't do the emissions test because the car was getting too hot just sitting running and not moving, there was no fan to cool the engine. The heaters feel very hot, like the car has been running for at least half an hour

My Clio 172 Cup has been running fine. Took it for it's MOT on Friday, but they couldn't do the emissions test because the radiator fan wasn't kicking in. The garage put in a temporary fix to get it through the test and gave me it back. I've since been to an auto electrics place to sort the...

Hi, I'm sure this is been covered before, if it has, and someone can point me in the right direction, that would be great.... But I've been having problems with my boot, for a while it wouldn't lock, and how all of a sudden it's locked and it wont unlock, does anyone know the solution to this...

Thanks for the advice guys!

The wheels on my 172 Cup have been powder coated and I'm sure many people have done the same. Just wondered if anyone knows if I can use alloy wheel cleaner on them? I don't know how aggressive it is and I don't want to risk damaging the paint. I'm just cleaning them with normal car shampoo at...

I've sent the new ones back as they were no good