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videos to follow tomorrow.. got 3 hours of footage to sort out
martins car is fast and does he know how to drive it!! thanks for the passenger ride, was an experience to say the least!
some piccies from the day:
what on earth is a ''BIELLETTE INF'' ? code R82 00 413 526
just been charged this on my 24k service at 29 quid?
should a 12k and 24k service be the same price??
i paid £171 for a 12k service including 2 sidelight bulbs and fitting.
had my 24k, told them its had a new air filter (so...
are these the same?? (apart from the metal pedal cover)
is the connection the same and do they work on the same resistance as the 1.2 16v (52 regd)
cheers
right, sisters 1.2 16v 52 regd clio has been driving crap. that light with the square and zigzag through it came on (electronic system warning light) and it wont accelerate at all..
its been looked at and the only fault code on the system was a throttle pedal potentiometer?
anyone know if...
gave the car a quick wash today.
AG shampoo
AG super resin (1 coat)
Harlys wax (1 coat)
pics:
will it get even shinier if i apply more coats of harlys?? if so how long should it be left between coats?
s**t pics (cars filthy and its dark) but picked up my engine cover earlier
been painted, the writing put back on in vinyl, then laquered. its real shiny but looks a different shade of blue compared to the car
may look better in daylight though will see tomorrow.
not sure if i...
this is what a trip to GDI 125 miles away does:
took my wheels off and used engine and machine cleaner on them with a paintbrush and got them like this
but cant get them any cleaner.. anyone got any recommendations?
use a stiffer car cleaning brush thing? should the AGE&M...
anyone know what renault are like for buying bolts from??
i.e. top headlight bolts, two silver slam panel bolts, 4 big engine mount bolts, ecu mount nut, 4 engine cover torx bolts, etc?
i remember buying from a shitroen dealer before soem clutch bolts and they were bloody EXTORTIONATLY...
parked behind a blue 172 cup in the nosey parker pub today, had some aftermarket alloys on
then on my way out at the traffic lights passed an FT04 regd arctic 182 with cup packs
anyone?
im sure some of you have seen various posts about my brakes being very poor.
they were amazing when i got the car (14months old) then gradually got worse until i nearly overshot a junction.
so fitted some ds2500 pads and left the discs, was ok for a short while but then got very poor...
took my wheels off, engine and machine cleanered them up as best i could, inside rim etc
then engine and machine cleanered all under the arch
its actually BLUE under there!!
couldnt find any decent place to jack the rears up though so couldnt do them..
fitted the new discs and pads i got off ya, havent drove/bedded them in yet though
but any idea whats going on here??
passenger side disc had a big ring of black s**t roundinner face of the disc??
drivers side disc didnt have it, but on the inner 'lip' big chunks of it were missing...
sister just came round in her clio (52 regd 1.2 16v)
when driving, its not pulling at all.. powers dead.
and the light is on the dash that has a square with a zig zag in, then a coil underneath it
its the diesel pre heating light / electronic system warning light
any ideas what it...
took a couple of photos after a while...
did a bit more and put the cover on to see where i need to concentrate
now we getting somewhere
hmm, still needs a bit of work at the bottom of the 'tubes'
but it was getting dark so packed everything up..
here's how she is at...
some bloke at work asked what car i had and i said a clio, and he started calling it a hairdressers car and asking if theres a hair dryer on the back seat..
does anyone else get those sortof comments??
i just replied, ''yeah, so i can dry my hair at 140mph''
dick. lol
i tried to use one of them microfibre clothes on my old car and it seemed to put swirl marks all over the bonnet.
on the 182 i just use rags from work
we get them in big packets and i pick out the stuff that feels decent n bring them home n polish the car with them. seem to work fine to be...
decided to take this wee mofo off and start polishing it up.
now im regretting it as im going to have to finish it!
need to get some more wet and dry tomorow, flat it all down then take it round to my mate who has a buffer wheel on a bench grinder in his garage.
when i pull of slowly in first i get a kind of juddering noise under the car?
like underneath and infront of the gearstick.
thinking it may be one of the lower engine mounts, gear linkage or the exhaust?
already had the top drivers mount replaced recently. is it quite likely that the...
flashed at a silver 172 heading towards lincoln on the a46, near lincoln
and saw a silver 182 with cup susp pack parked in a gravel garden in middle rasen.
anyone on here?
washed with AG car shampoo, clayed it for the second time ever, then a quick polish with AG super resin.
tempted to leave the front plate off as it loks so mean without it. my mate got away with no front plate on his VR6 for ages.
thats all folks