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Might be more noticeable in real life but I can't tell any difference between the before and after shots.

not those wolfrace ones for god's sake. And at £570 for the fox in 17's, I think you should go for option C of some renaultsport ones. ...possibly turinis. http://www.motor-world.co.uk/show_prod.php?prod_id=11756

Only thing I can think is seriously going on with this car is that they've bought it from BMNC and are trying to make a bit of cash. I mean to not forsee that you'd have to sell this car within a month of buying it is beyond ridiculous. What kind of mortgage lender would lend someone £100000+...

The duct for the air intake looks like he's chopped the end off a funnel :S

was going to say i got a casio exilim 6mpixel one with sd card, case and 50 free prints from asda last summer for £140 I think they have something similar now on the newer 7mp one. (I have mine set to 3mp anyway as the pics are ridiculously big over that)

I thought they do, but it really is an "over-revving" indicator rather than an optimum gear change indicator. i.e it's nothing to get excited about imo as you should never get it to light up and the limiter kicks in a millisecond later anyway

My car wiggles it's ass when I brake REALLY heavily. Nothing that has ever worried me but it's noticable.

I change my tyres over to try and time them needing to be changed all at the same time. Just prefer to have tread as similar as possible and also find replacing 4 tyres at once more convenient than changing two tyres twice as often.

Nice car ...and at that price you should even have enough left over for a cambelt change should it need it.

We know UK 172's are supposed to be run using 98ron fuel. It says it on the petrol filler door, in the manual and I even e-mailed Renault to ask if it was okay to use 95ron and they said it would run on 95ron but recommended I carried on using 98ron.

Cheers for your opinions fellas.

I've been using optimax since I bought my 172 and found it a lot better than 95ron fuel. Since I Optimax changed to V-Power, my car has seemed to have greater torque but has suffered from noticably worse fuel economy. Has anyone else noticed this or is it all in my imagination? I'm trying...

Yeah, having handbrake on is likely to interfere with it a bit! :rasp:

I've got a latop cos I needed something portable and compact and my main uses would be internet and downloading music. Got a cheap £400 jobby. Looks nice, compact and does everything I want apart from play games ...which I'd need a desktop for unless I wanted to spend stupid money. Might get...

Buy private with full service history and a hpi check.

Renaultsport models are very good on fuel considering their performance, but my ex had a 1.2 16v and that thing just wouldn't burn petrol. I had a 1.2 16v courtesy car once too and I couldn't get the economy figure to drop much by ragging the s**t out of it.

Saw one for the first time in the Dealer's when I was getting the new backbox fitted on Saturday. I was quite impressed. Not enough to want to change from my 172. It still wouldn't feel like enough of an upgrade for the amount of money. The seat was squidgely comfy compared to mine, but...

TV, my modifying days are over.

I bet a 225 would!

197>dog Have a word! ;)

I would imagine it will still be for sale, wasn't it up for like £28,000 or something?

I don't like wheels either. £450 for a new set from renault plus £250 for tyres to go with them.

I thought there was a large consensus on here that replacement filters have no effect on performance whatsoever.

If you've got a 16v, then get a 16v box.

The exhausts fall off and aren't cheap (I paid £200 for a new back box this morning) They creak and squeek like hell. The shock absorbers have a tendancy to fail. The fan for the climate control sensor eventually makes a loud buzzing. The steering wheels wear out within a couple of years.

Jammy git!

Sorry to hear it mate. Poor show for my home city. Ardwick isn't the nicest of places though.

The clio is basically a girly car, so despite the 172/182 having a massive cocktail of steroids, it's still gonna keep some of that image unfortunately. I probably get more comments about "french crap" though than "girls' car". I don't mind too much. I knew what the car was when I bought it...

I hope you get it! Very nice cars.

If you don't mind paying the extra, then it's gotta be Liquid Gold. Only colour better than flame red :D