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Was thinking about them for a 172. But they really need a fraction wider wheel, say, 7.5" wide, to do them justice. And I couldn't find anyone here who had that size. And I wasn't sure if 8s would fit. I decided that an extra 10 mm of tyre width wasn't worth the trouble. That it was a lot easier...

pbirkett, yes, they're designed that way. All cars are designed to have more clearance between the wheel and guard at the front than at the back because front wheels have to have the room for steering as wwell as just the room for up and down suspension movement that the backs do.

Anyone know what pressure is the feed to the injectors at?

The other things I hate about the light switch are that when you're on high beam and you need to dip quickly: (a) its too easy to grab the lever too far out and just twist the control knob at the end to some setting you don't want rather than dipping the lights, and (b) the lights don't dip...

Ha, ha, ha. Disco, don't believe fungusman. Electricity doesn't flow through a thicker wire quicker. And ozzyo99 has got it backwards. A thicker guage wire doesn't increase resistance. It decreases it. Reduced wire thickness increases resistance. And more resistance in the wire decreases...

1 BHP = 745.69987158227022 W PS (Pferdestärke) is metric horsepower. 1 PS = 743.49875 W A Clio Sport 172 is 172 PS, not 172 BHP. So it is 170 BHP. A Clio Sport 182 is 182 PS, not 182 BHP, so it is 179 BHP.

In another thread someone showed pictures of the display on his Digimoto software than runs in either a PC or a PDA and connects to the OBDII port through an interface unit. He had it connected to a Megane. It looked good. I tried contacting Digimoto to see if they knew whether it worked on a...

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I have to ask this. Where did you stick the trolley jack to jack the car up to change the wheels? Changing the size of the wheels absolutely definitely should not change the straight-ahead position on the steering wheel.

Have to switch them around to even up the wear so they all need replacing at the same time because Renault imports Clio Sports cars into this country (Australia), but Michelin doesn't consider there's a big enough market for the tyre it uses, so they don't import them, so you can't buy identical...

Usually the easiest way to find out is to look for where the wheel size is cast into it somewhere. It'll say something like 7HJ15 ET48.5. The 7 is the width in inches. The 15 is the diameter in inches. And the "ET" number is the offset in millimetres. If you can't find it you need to measure...

Don't know about your country, but in mine its illegal. It doesn't matter that its still a seatbelt and the racing authorities think its a safer sort of seatbelt. The authorities here don't like it because it has to be adjusted correctly for each user, rather than automatically adjusting...

Given how crappy the synchros are on the Sport's gearbox I would have thought a quickshift mechanism was just a quicker way of destroying the synchros. And the better/quicker it works the quicker it destroys them. I've driven plenty of cars that could do with a faster gearbox action, but in the...

I suppose there's no way of removing the electronic throttle actuator from the side of the old single throttle body and grafting it onto the end of new multi-throttle body set up. After all it does the same thing. It rotates a shaft 90 degrees.

You only get more power from higher octane if your engine is tuned for it. So if your engine is tuned for 98 octane the ECU can detect knock and still run on 95, just producing less power than it would on 98, and maybe even a bit less than it would if it was tuned for 95. But it won't produce...

The wheel that's going to fill the arches best isn't necessarily the one that will give the best handling. The suspension geometry is designed for the standard width standard offset wheel. Increasing the tyre width can improve grip. And a wider tyre needs a wider wheel. And a wider track...

Even if they don't improve performance, I wonder if they're any more reliable that Renault's part. This is the sort of thing people doing new ECU maps do. Advance the ignition a bit further than the manufacturer was willing to do for fear that you'd put some crappy petrol in and destroy your...

Put it this way. I had both a chip and a Viper fitted to my 172, and the Viper has been removed and thrown away and the chip is still fitted. I wasn't able to do a before and after dyno of the chip, but it felt better with the chip fitted right through the power range, and I got measurably...

Thanks, I've got to agree with you that its a terrible gearbox. I bought a Renault after having lots of Jap cars thinking everyone had learned the lessions they had on how to design cars right, build them right, and fix them if they hadn't. Renault clearly hasn't. And you guys in your part of...

I've had gearbox problems with my 172. They rebuilt it with all new synchros. It was never established why they all wore out to start with. But one problem I have repeatedly complained to my dealer about he's done nothing. I think he thinks its just me, that I'm clumsy, or careless, but I've...

Its like warranty. Anything that's not standard isn't covered. Unless they have agreed in writing to cover it. Anything that's not standard that they consider might have contributed voids the warranty/insurance. Unless they've agreed to cover you anyway. So in terms of insurance if you put big...

They're running the engine rich to make sure it doesn't run lean, then using the cat to burn off the excess fuel. You can tell the classes that don't have a cat by the flames out the exhaust.

Any rolling road that quotes horsepower figures that are the same as the manufacturer's figure for the car, and torque figures that look anything like the manufacturer's figures, is simply lying. They are not quoting what they're actually measuring ... they are massaging the numbers to massage...

And one more warning about tow bars for Clio Sports. I had gearbox problems. Problems that would have been very expensive for me if Renault hadn't paid for it under warranty. At one point the dealer pointed at the tow bar and said you're not supposed to have one of those on one of these ...

Renault did not offer a tow bar on the 172. It offered it on all the lower-spec Clios, but not the 172. The one with the biggest most powerful engine that you'd think would be the best for towing things. I wanted a car with a tow bar so I could tow a light trailer for things like taking rubbish...

You want it to warm up quickly, but not be over-stressed while it is still cold. In a cold climate the best way to warm it up quickly is to drive it. Leaving an engine idling in a cold climate is NOT good for it.

Happens that I answered this in another thread. My 172 was in for warranty work and the dealer loaned me a Megane. I weighed the Megane's spare wheel, then when I got my 172 back I weighed its spare wheel. The Megane's 16" steel wheel with 205 tyre only weighed 1kg more than the 172's 15" mag...

Mine didn't work at a particular location. I assumed there was radio interference from something there. How do you lock your drivers door if the remote locking doesn't work? Open the passengers door, reach in and press the door lock button. Then close the passengers door and lock that with the...

What's a "spare wheel cannister"?

Is it really carbon fibre, or is it just a carbon fibre skin for appearance on a fibreglass frame. If its only a carbon skin and all you want is appearance, then its probably worth it. But I asked them for a price to ship one a little while back and they had to admit it was pretty heavy...