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I'll just go to Danny at 519, he's a top bloke and has worked on my car a few times,
i'll just have to clean it within an inch of it's life as he's deathly allergic to dog hair,
I felt proper guilty when he told me. :o
Gumtree's good for some things, I had an armchair and sofa I needed rid of,
it was in good nick so I stuck it on Scumtree 'free to collect',
within 3 hours a bloke had shown up and strapped it to the roof of his car and driven off,
saved me a trip to the tip.
They're popular sellers, i've found if you type '182 cup alloys' or any of the other bits you've got into the search bar,
you can see how much they went for in the for sale threads.
I'd do this, if your getting another car this week then mothball the Clio until you can drop a replacement in,
you've spent money on some nice bits getting how you want,
shame to throw in the towel for the sake of an engine swap.
The event is, you might hear the odd swear word but that's no different to walking down the street,
but generally everyone's polite and respectful, no one wants to get kicked out the club for being a dick.
The camping is basically BBQ's and beer late into the early morning,
so that might not be...
To open it you'll need to climb in the back and unscrew the plastic boot trim,
then pull/push the metal bar that actually locks it.
But in terms of fixing it, a trip to Renault is in order to get a new dohicky,
you're best off talking to Adam at Wolverhampton Renault, he's a trader on here and...
Change the dogbone for Powerflex bushes first,
it's the cheapest one to do and even if there's nothing wrong with the car it's an improvement over standard.
Then at a later date you can replace the main engine mount and the upper gearbox mount
with either OEM parts from Renault, or...
I think I threw my snapped of bit away,
but seeing as I never have the back seats fitted and the car's worth about £2.50,
it doesn't really matter, although i'm now wishing i'd thought of using superglue.