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People can like whatever they like in terms of colours and styles. And I can understand people buying cars in colours I wouldn't want one in. But white! White isn't a colour. Its an absence of colour. It what they choose when they want to avoid offending anyone, not to make them...

This is the definition of a car enthusiast, right? Someone who doesn't think the water that good enough for him to drink is clean enough to wash his car with.

Japanese cars were crap when they first built them. But over time they caught up. Its the way industries work as they mature. The companies and countries that were first start off with a big advantage, but over time there are fewer and fewer remaining ways of making the product better, and the...

Tires with more grip tramline more. Low profile tyres tramline more. Tyres that are worn down tramline more. Suspension that's a bit worn and there's a bit of play in the joints and linkages tramline more. So, yeah, if youi've got a cup that's done a few miles and the tyres are worn down...

Sounds like the same as what Honda had years ago. Not that that's saying it doesn't work. Only its puzzling that Renault could say it patented it in 1991. A couple of the Japanese manufacturers tried 4WS - and a lot of other crazy gimmicks - then abandoned them. You get very responsive...

That is an entirely plausible power output for a Clio with ITBs. But to do a 13.1 second quarter mile and a sub 5 second 0-60 with (only) 220 bhp the car's weight would have to be below 750 kgs. To do those times in a Clio that was about standard weight would require something in excess of...

Good cars are wasted on the young. And fast cars are dangerous in their hands. They don't appreciate them. They do appalling things to them. They abuse them. They ought only be allowed to own crappy old rubbish that it doesn't matter if they wreck. Wait, they are, thanks to the costs...

Whether or not its legal I think if you work through the economics of it you'll find it doesn't add up. It ends up costing more than you benefit.

In this country 172s got 15x7 wheels with an offset of 48.5 mm. That's OK with the 195/50 tyres they come with. But I understand that the offset had to be reduced to 45 mm for the 205 tyres that come on the 16x7 wheels the 182s have so that the wider tyres clear the suspension. So the answer...

Manufacturers put warm air feeds on cars for a reason. Because its harder to atomise fuel into cold air than warm. So if you want best specific fuel consumption and minimum emissions you are better off feeding an engine warm air. Yes you can get a greater maximum power out of a car with a cold...

When you start the car everything defaults to on. If you press the ESP button the light on the dash goes on which means the ESP and Traction control are off. The situations the ESP/TC light on the dash light up are when you've got it switched off, and when its actually doing something. That...

How do you "uprate" a flywheel? Make it able to take higher revs before it explodes? Do you mean a lightened flywheel?

Imagine a car that had 172 bhp and weighed 1080 kgs, ie, 1.08 tonnes. Oh, you've got one, well that's good. To get bhp/tonne (power/weight) you divide 172 by 1.08 and get 159.3. Ie, it has 159.3 bhp per tonne of weight. More bhp per tonne gives you better acceleration. The other way of doing...

Yeah? Sure?

All that would require is a revised throttle potentiometer, or a change to the linkage. Since it involves a computer I would suggest it might work quite differently and much smarter to that. And if it doesn't it should. I would suggest that it works like brake assist. The way the cable...

You appear to have a small misapprehension. Its not a Honda VTEC. The cam profile doesn't change.

It probably wouldn't increase top speed. That's a matter of how much drag the car generates versus how much horsepower the engine produces. You figure out what speed that amount of horsepower can produce and gear it so at that speed the engine is at the revs it produces peak horsepower at...

Re: 50% complete 172RWD! The trick with a water-cooled engine in the back and radiators in the front is to get the heights right and the air out of the system. Most people don't think about the fact that the fill point (normally the radiator cap) and the overflow has to be highest point in the...

You fit a roll car if you are going to use the car on the track, and are either afraid you'll have a big enough crash at a high enough speed that you need more protection that the standard features like the airbags are going to give you, or the category you are going to run it on on the track...

The tank has a nominal 50 litre capacity. On mine its actually 51. But its less than that before it shows empty. Mine give me the time to fill up warning light at 43.5 litres.

There are two ducts feeding air into the air cleaner. One is an open pipe feeding up into the bottom of the air cleaner. The other feeds into the side of the air cleaner and has a valve in it that's connected by a vacuum tube to the intake manifold so it only opens at highish revs and throttle...

Is there a fuse you can pull or a wire you can disconnect to a critical part so its disabled?

I'm not sure whether that's a compliment or not. Intake systems are supposed to "suck", right?.

They can't make it any stronger, or the gearbox wouldn't take the strain.

I got mine knowing full well they're hot in summer (I'm in Australia), and impossible to keep clean (remember, I'm in Australia, we have lots of dust and not much rain to wash it off) and you're more likely to get run into because people are less likely to see you (yes, true, black cars are hit...

Hey guys, anyone else think this doesn't sound right for a short circuit in the wiring? I don't know exactly how that part of the dash is built, but, knowing how secretive Renault is about wiring diagrams, before I went chasing the wiring I'd make sure there wasn't a problem with the...

Re: Some tw*t has let the air out from my tyres Rear tyres slashed. Front tyres let down. That's like finding someone who's been shot AND stabbed. It means two people did it.

Put in lower octane fuel than the ECU was tuned for and you'll get knocking. The knock detector signals the ECU and it backs off the timing to stop the knocking and save the engine from danage from it. But it doesn't have any way of knowing you've put higher octane fuel in. So if you are going...

What determines the weight transfer to the front is the amount of retardation, and that's limited not by the size of the brakes but by the amount of grip. Since the 197 doesn't run racing slicks and have wings to push the car down it has the same amount of retardation as everything else that...

75% of the size you should have on a 2 litre. What are they?