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No, it will not affect your NCD!

As above, it depends on the insurer. My wife has 2 none fault claims. First one being a neighbour hit her parked car, second was a rear end shunt. It has increased her premium in the past, but only by £15-20. Although a none fault claim, you still have to declare it come renewal time. It's...

I think i'd be checking brakes and CV joints before binning the gearbox.

Troll........... surely?

As above, take the seats out. It still might take some convincing though, but legally it should pass.

Troll lol lol lol

Spotted this morning @ junction 28 of the M1 about 07:45. Talking on the phone on the approach to the roundabout from South Normanton - tut tut tut! Dissapeared off down the A38 towards Sutton-in-ashfield.

Edit - I have the do88 pipework, but not their intercooler. I love the noise now!

Stage 3 on mine, I expect I'm at about 290bhp and 350lb-ft at the moment. Don't bother with stage 2 if fitting an intercooler - go straight to 3. It's the exhaust holding me back now, Intake isn't needed until you are going for 320+ as the oe is fine. I'm just running a k&n panel and ECU...

You can MOT your car up to 30 days before it expires (and essentially get a 13 month MOT). So Unless the garage you use has a 4 week waiting list then you have no excuse.

I'll 100% guarantee it will need more than just the belts. On that mileage the bottom ball joints will be getting ready (£200 at the lowest, £700 at Renault prices) Top engine stabiliser will be worn (£50+) front brakes will be in desperate need of stripping and cleaning (free if you can do it...

Not a good buy in my opinion. No history for the first 4 years of its life, belts are 2+years over due. As long as you are prepared to spend £1k+ on it as soon as you buy it then you'll be ok. Better out there to be honest.

Atmospheric dump valves don't really work well on modern turbo lumps, add to that that they sound terrible - it's a bad idea! Upgrade the OE recirc valve to a forge item or similar and you should get a little extra sound, I certainly have on the lolvo, especially combined with the upgraded...

Not enough passes in my opinion. You need to work the polish until it's fully broken down. Sounds like all you've done is spread it around.

Have you spoke to the guy you bought the car from? They might still have the parts?

https://www.gov.uk/driving-lessons-who-can-teach-you The law only states 1) be over 21 2) be qualified to drive the type of vehicle you want to learn in 3) Have their full icence for 3+ years She'll be fine!

Only write offs would show on HPI, it could have been damaged and not gone through insurance..... Of course, the colour change could be purely down to choice and nothing sinister at all!

Any map on it? It could have been mapped out

99% sure it will be the gauze at fault. I had the same issue. I stripped mine down and soaked the gauze in a descaler over night and it's been spot on ever since.

I had a 309 1.6 for exactly the same reason - it was the only car bigger than a 1.2 that I could get insurance on. Loved that car too. Peugeot 309 1.6 SR in met grey, basically the same lump as the 205 GTI but on single point injection instead of multi if I remember rightly. It even had the same...

I missed the bit about the belts - yep fair enough, makes sense to lift it out in that case! I did the clutch twice on my GTI-6 - and the second time it only took 4 hours start to finish on my own with nothing but basic hand tools, once you know what you're doing they are lovely and simple to...

They really are one of if not the best hot hatch of the 90's. I've had a 1994 S16 and a 2001 GTI-6 (as well as some d-turbo's). Such a capable car. Never had a Rallye though. Would love one again, but not sure I could do 'french' again!

It really isn't an engine out job on these. You don't even have to drop the sub frame. the box drops out the bottom nice and simple.

On your average n/a engine it's not going to make much if any difference. Forced induction is another story!

Other than re-typing it i'm not sure you will as the original isn't in a date/time format. If you've got to do a lot i'd use a vlookup against a table of dates. 2 columns of data like the below and use the vlookup to correct your originals. 1st Jan 2015 01/01/2015 2nd Jan 2015 02/01/2015 3rd...

It works out at 50 mpg, which is still bloody good!

I assumed the op wanted in gear times (hence my 5seconds in 4th post). As that takes away any element of driver c**k ups etc

If it's a decent quality exhaust you shouldn't really need anything, however I find sealant to work best personally. The putty stuff just hardens and falls out. Something like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0064YMAYU/?tag=cliospnet01-21

Low good of course! Nope, I didn't miss that at all. It still sounds very fast to me for a std power 172 powered vehichle.

Yes mate