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I can't even imagine how boring it would be to call up and get a quote from a few insurers, let alone 5+ xD Comparison sites DO charge commission after all (Bell/Admiral/Elephant were roughly £100 cheaper (which was errr about 5 - 10%) when I went to their website direct) but there's nothing...

If you have bad circumstances then insurers won't like you and you'll get an expensive quote, but that's just tough luck. However if you are truthful throughout the entire quote and circumstances aren't bad then you'll get an alright quote. Unfortunately being 17 and male the "bad circumstances"...

They don't ask you 283 questions per-quote for fun, every little bit is relavent and decides whether they quote you 2.5k or 4.5k Also, unless you have an identical postcode, occupation, history, car, age & NCB amongst all the other things there is absolutely no point comparing with...

It was an official warranty problem, yes. Big folded A3 letter (yes, A3) from "Quality Assurance" at Renault UK sent via recorded delivery. Letters sent out to all DVLA registered owners. Had my letter in the service history, went to renault, they checked to see if it'd been done. Answer = no...

This really. Glasses are far too expensive to own a set big enough for your family and friends to watch a film together. Even then it's not 3d as we know it, 3d at a cinema is in a different league and then there's the likes of COD in 3d... yeah thanks I really want the scoreboard yet virtually...

Sooooo this will get mentioned at some point so may as well do it now... Why not just buy some £30 or so 2.1 logitech speakers? You'll get infinitely better sound and its not significant money. The speakers would plug into a headphone socket if the TV has one. If you don't have a headphone-out...

I think the question here is what constitues a change that you need to know about, and what consistitutes general maintainence or replacing worn out bits? Surely you don't need to know about ALL changes, I mean I am positive that you don't care about my non-renault light bulbs, non-renault...

Ghey. Ordered yesterday before you bumped this thread. Oh well.

Which is pretty much 99% garunteed, btw... :p

Rentech (portsmouth)?

No idea what facilities they have as they seem to be more of an engine builder, but "TDF" (Tour De Force or something french sounding) are always the people that get recommended for anyone around London.

You can't really do one without the other, hence they are usually done together. You can start to balance the car's weight, but then that alters the ride height. Alternatively you could do the ride height, but then that'd upset the weighting. Catch 22, which is why people have both done at once.

Chicken or the egg? Combination of loads of factors. Torque steer is caused by things like unequal length drive shafts, engine mounts or the natural play in CV joints etc. Torque steer is then exaggerated by suspension geometry. However lowering a car (i.e. altering geometry) puts the...

More housepower FTW. Given the F4R we can safely assume that you will not get remotely near 7, letalone 15 BHP unless you've already spent £10k on the engine and neglected the exhaust. Put this in the same catagory as the electric superchargers, £100 sports exhausts and 215 BHP clios on ebay...

Oh. Em. Gee. That is all. Also, what timps said, "best" height for you would appear to be lowest height at which nothing scrapes when you get anywhere near bottoming out.

Bear in mind whenever anyone on this forum quotes prices anywhere remotely below 3.5k, they're usually up north :p There is a good £1000+ difference in the same car "dawn sawf" or "opp north"

I had 77,777 mlles a few days back... I'd take a pic but I just have the standard red/orange colour scheme. No bright blue/green/yellow aftermarket mllomoter for me.

People like BTM performance/fred (Birmingham) TDF (london ish) Birchdown (no idea, not southcoast though) Rentech (portsmouth) etc always get recommended but there are other specialists. Have a look in the traders section. I found K-tec in the New Forest to be the cheapest at £420ish inc...

This times 100,000,000,000,000. The "Black" is actually "Black Gold" so when parked next to a mere "normal black" non-RS clio it certainly does look much nicer, but at the end of the day it is black which means it's a pain to keep looking clean. Racing Blue also looks fantastic. A fun colour...

Purists will say it's not as good, fly by wire throttle, slightly heavier etc etc But for 2k, with FSH, belts and low miles it certainly sounds like a good buy therefore does the small difference matter? (Though I see you're the other end of the country so I've not much of an idea what this...

If you are enjoying the Clio as much as it sounds, does it really matter?

Thread title was a let down. I obviously over-estimated the chav's intelligance assuming he'd at least try to pull the handbrake to initiate some sort of attempt at needing opposite lock.

Current is a Black Gold. Would love an RB.

I'm thinking American style policing? Attempt to ram the saxo off the road with some massive Hemi V8, failing that point a few shotguns at it...

By the way, it's not just you, the clio lineup seems to easily confuse people at first (and it still confuses lots of people a while later...) Maybe this will further clarify things? This is the sales data for the standard 182. Shows how many colours, shows how many people ticked which...

Goodj is totally correct, the terms & conditions for Bell (which is the same document for Admiral and Elephant) which a significant amount of this forum uses state that you have to declare mods including factory fitted optional extras. Depends who you're with and how dubious you are of them...

Whilst we're on the subject... what are people actually imagining a "Full Fat" 172 is? Maybe it's just me who thinks it's odd to use the "cup suspension and cup spoiler" moniker to mean "I do not have cup suspension or a cup spoiler or a cup splitter but I do have all the things that come as...

Pics. Of the car...* *usually on CS you will find "or gf/wife/sister" at the end of this phrase, but I'll spare you the first time

As above, french flag is very nice little bit of detail. Fogs looked amazing till I saw the wheels :dead: but then again I wouldn't have those wheels with normal fogs... or indeed anything... (though possibly excluding a large cheque)

Besides, there is nothing at a sensible price. 'cept the driveability of a remap. Also, as a learning point for me, what do you mean "big brakes?" I assume you mean bigger than standard disc rotors (or are you on about calipers? or do you class new pads or braided lines as "big brakes")...