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Filter looked clean, apparently oil was changed at a garage in April! The oil wasn't so dirty to make me think otherwise TBH. It's possible using a driver caused it to pinch on the thread, but it was wasn't moving before that, so makes that unlikely...

Really pretty damn hard - was difficult to get it moving, the chain whip did nothing, a big screwdriver through it did nothing except drain it! Took two hands on the proper pliers to move it, and that was tiny bit-by-bit at first. Have read it's happened to others on here before too, so not just...

Damn, I thought I might be able to get rid of it by adjusting one of the double-links round by one spline :(

Phil, just get NGK PFR6E-10 plugs from a local motor factors - it's what Renault use anyway AFAIK. Mine's only done 40K but is 9years old and the plugs hadn't ever been changed - til I did them yesterday!

If you don't mind me asking/don't mind telling - roughly what did you charge for that?

Only problem for that guide, is that in the photo marked #6 - my 2002 172 didn't have that connector/need it removing. Also, he says you need a 16mm plug socket, but you don't, just a regular one is fine - 14mm i think?

Just for info, these were mine - they're probably the originals (9yrs old), 40K:

Not long after I got my 172, I removed the wipers recently to fix a leaking washer bottle, but i'm not sure I put the wipers back on in the right place as I didn't mark the spindles before removing. I've noticed they don't sweep a small area of the windscreen at the base of their arc in the...

Well that was a nightmare & the threaded section also came out of the engine block, attached to the filter - not impressed!

Cycling to Screwfix in a min to get the pliers! Closer than Halfords or the factors too...

Whoever the drunken gibbon was that fitted the oil filter to mine has done a right job on it - just beaten the crud out of it with a screwdriver to no avail, my chain-whip wouldn't budge it either. Going to have to cycle to the factors tomorrow for a set of those pliers :mad:

Wests Renault are probably the same people selling the ones you've seen on ebay for £48. It's about a quid cheaper buying them via this website, than ebay once you include postage, IIRC.

I think we're stuck with the guides already written. Hopefully using both will explain it well enough, i'll be giving it a go in a couple of weeks, just recently bought some MDF baffle rings

Haven't you got a local hardware store that you can pickup the right bolt from? It wouldn't have to be Torx afterall, just the same size.

It ended for less than a quid - i'd have bid if i'd seen this earlier :(

25way D-type (DSUB) are what you're after. Maplins sell them - not the cheapest place but easy, and they do backshells too.

I guess that'll be it then, just new bulbs needed - perhaps they easily pop if the wiring is messed with?

Is the other side the same? If not, then yes it's dragging a bit on that side, but from that clip it doesn't look too bad IME. Ideally, you should clean off the caliper/carrier with a wire brush before fitting the new discs & pads. It's also worth getting in behind the piston seal (if it's easy...

Was there a resolution found for this in the end?

Have a look through older threads (or search for Sony or something to find it), I think this was raised recently but i'm not sure a positive outcome was reached.

That sort of service will likely be nothing more than an oil/oil filter/air filter change & probably a look around to see if anything looks worn out/broken.

Not been toying with Android, but a workmate built a blackberry tablet app, and they liked it so much they gave him a playbook to do some more!

Putting the front speakers into the rear means you won't have any high-freq. sound there unless you've moved the tweeters too.

You need a co-axial one for the rear, they don't have separate tweeters (IIRC).

Just wondering if this went anywhere? Suffering similar probs with the display myself

They're both fine, if you can use the "3" network you can get a better deal/package than the other networks. Previously, i've used www.mobiles.co.uk to get a decent phone & claimed cashback to reduce the avg. cost much lower. Also... can be worth going through Quidco to get a cashback deal -...

Maybe there's just a cack earth somewhere then, or i've caught the car loom & the pin isn't connected tight - pants! Where do people tend to mount the blue control box? I squeezed it in behind the fan controls, above the removable panel.

I think plugged the mute cable directly into my Alpine HU's phone interrupt input. I remember realising the Parrot mute cables went to either nothing or to a power feed on the iso connector.

I fitted a Parrot MKi9200 bluetooth device to the stereo recently, and noticed that the clock & temp. displays are dimmer. Really can't be bothered to put in dedicated power wiring, just wondering if this happened to anyone else?

Dammit - was hoping this might've been updated with the photos, I need them too!