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Cleanest one in the pitlane!

Great. I like simple fixes. I was worried there was something weird and French going on. Renaults are not Peugeots! I must remember that. Car is at Keevil airfield on the 9th June and i'll be putting your work to the test. Off to remove the cover and dodge the dried s**t.

Anyway I need to take the Cup for it's weekly run, do an O/S/R tyre pressure check (s**t accelera tyre keeps losing a couple of PSI. Be glad when it dies.) chuck some V-power in and then chuck it back under it's cover. It's parked under a tree on my drive. So much bird s**t, seeds and sap to...

Adjusting? What is this wizadry you speak of? Having even had the rear clusters off to have a look yet. That'll make more sense when I see the pins? My Peugeot ones just rotted away but Peugeot helpfully provide several alternative places to attach a new earth easily! like they knew it would fail!?

He may have been the glue master but thank god for his wallet. Your computer recommended the coolant be changed at the next service and the brake fluid. I assume it's just whats on that standard service interval. Do you just clamp the line and top up for a caliper change or run fresh through? I...

Receipts are at my dads. Rear wheel bearing was adjusted but still had slight play. Passed MOT with an advisory on rear brakes light being slightly affected by another light. Assuming it's an earth issue like my Peugeot!

He's retired now so not got the money to burn. Hence the cup and me fixing it. Although I plan to get it in when the service is due to keep it all up together. Standard cups are getting rare and that's how I plan to run it. The quickshift will go eventually and the wheel will become silver if...

Had bad was the rear wheel bearing? It doesn't make itself known but my spider sense could hear something amiss on the journey home. On my list to get a set of discs and pads for the rear as they are cheap and not an arse to replace.

That's the one. Some git keyed the Clio from front to back so he only got 2200 for it.

Have done a few runs with the torque app and yep I'd agree it runs well :)

Replaced nylon gearbox linkage bush (stupid little soddy b*****d it is to fit!!), gearshift conrod and greased it all up as it was all bone dry and quickshift works ok now. It has the early type linkage so it has a slightly worn pin and so still has a bit of play and I didn't appreciate the fun...

You may have seen my dads silver 182 FF a couple of years ago. That one had a lot of work done at your work and really went well :) One of the main reasons we took the plunge on this one. The interior on this one has seen better days and the window clunks on the way down but it's good enough to...

Yes about six weeks ago in Kidderminster. Had a misfire, The quickshift was as stiff as feck, Top engine mounts were tired, the rear discs were a little rusty and all the wheels needed balancing but they were all cheap fixes so we knocked 100 quid off and went for it. Turned out to be a cracked...

It does indeed!

Wish you had my cup! Number plated super glued on, child seat marks on rear bench, hole in carpet from no mats, sticky residue from carbon nastiness on dash and a garden in the boot. Looks ok now. Thankfully. Good job these interiors are tougher than they look!

I wish more previous car owners were like this!

My 106 diesel was the same. I really thought I was going to break something and then the lightest tap knocked it off.

Something to aim for one day! For now I have a cup that needs throwing round wherever I can afford :)

Just 20k! I scrape 14k in 2014 and work more than full time hours. Working on my covers band to increase funds as I earn more doing weddings. Made some choices in my early 20's that didn't pan out. share the Clio with my Dad who is retired and now on much lower income. He bought the Clio, I...

I meant keeping out your way! I've had a few near misses with kit cars ignoring rules (not that kit cars do it more even though they do get held up more by normal traffic) and with them being lower it's easy to miss them in small car mirrors so I always do an extra check. I'm not about to claim...

If all I can afford that month is an airfield day then it's better than nowt. Some of us don't have such lofty budgets or high requirements! I love the rain as it keeps the caterham and westfields away so I don't have to keep one eye on my blind spot. Airfields bring their own challenges and as...

Each to their own I think is the thing although it's always interesting to discuss this stuff :) I know what you mean when I look around the pit lane sometimes. I just want space to spank a cup! If it was thirty years ago that would be somewhere in deepest Wales not going round in circles!

Maybe but that's a world away from the money my family and I had to play with and in a country that rains as often as it does I'd still rather stick with a Clio on road tyres thanks! Everyone loves an underdog. Except the XBOW thing I lapped in the wet in a 182 at an airfield track day. I...

I started caring about adjustments and improvements and being overtaken instead of focusing on enjoying the car and improving my driving in that car. Spent a fortune on my first car stripping it out, adding a cage, fibre glass, perspex, cams, carbs, taking it to a handling firm getting it corner...

It's a bit of a driving experience thing with the clios your better off just keeping it up together although if you want to go further there is plenty of good advice just a search away. It's not a straight line car and you have to use the gearbox. Find a good back road and all the fuss about...

Like he said!

Ha!

I didn't find it did that when I ran 182 FF on and off track when I left it on but I did prefer it off.

Yep stinks of troll but just in case we'll see how it goes!

205 is unlikely. You'll have some more power but in the real world it won't be much to shout about. What are you tuning your car for?