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The thing with mine is two-fold. The best part of my life, getting married, and having kids, has always had this car in the background. It came along just before Megan turned 1 year old, and since then it's always been there. She remembers going out in it at an early age...and still (well did)...

It was worth 2k all day long today. Found two buyers who appreciated its life and history. Reality is since the 200 arrived it was 100% surplus to requirements. Before the 200 I used to drive it once, twice, three times a week for a driving thrills fix. Since, if it's started once a month it...

9 and 4 year old girls. Need things more than I do. Apparently.

I watched my Cup reverse off of the drive for the last time this morning...and it broke my heart. The buyers seemed genuine enough, they plan on trackday use only so it should get the abuse it's grown to need/love. I got a good price for it, so all should be happy. But I'm verging on...

Same happened in my Cup, barrelling along at 80+ and suddenly got a noise from hell and vibration through the steering wheel. The arch liner had come out, bent backwards, and kept catching under the front wheel. Luckily it didn't catch properly under the wheel and rip itself out at 80mph. This...

Part of the reason for loading you for the crash, is that a huge amount of 'accidents' are avoidable. Sadly you couldn't avoid the Punto driver, but the insurers have to base their risk calculation on something.

FLOL, that could be the exact same for my Cup, just sits there unloved now. The 200 gets all the attention.

And they're lighter...significantly. The extra power was never really there in the 182s...maybe 5bhp more, but nothing that outweighs a 75kg deficit. You need to buy mine - apart from the higher mileage (engines are pretty much bullet-proof so mileage shouldn't be a concern, condition and...

This was the best sounding car at the Airfield. Ever. That's a stone cold fact.

Now now now Mr Revels, that's enough.

Yup! Gallons that it's consumed + mileage recorded using an origin b2. As Daniel said earlier though, a notepad and pencil would suffice. I don't see the mileage as being a major thing to any potential buyer...it's known that mileage means little on these things, and I couldn't be a more open...

Nice one Dave. Looks very smart. You'll learn to drive around the woolly throttle, I have to give mine a full on proper press when rev-matching now...takes an age to wake the engine up.

Check when cold that it engages gears without too much resistance. There's a few out there that can be really difficult to get into first, especially when the temperatures are down.

Waitey had this one instantly available and at the time, there weren't many/any 172 Cup 'boxes about. I think I had another trackday booked so couldn't be arsed waiting.

Pictures just because I've spent all day cleaning it, digging out history, writing it all up, then sticking it up on Pistonheads classifieds. I'm emotional.

Wording now tweeked, thanks.

Didn't realise that. Seeing as they'd have the original purchase invoice in their possession, what's to stop the buyer of my car phoning up and pretending to be me (apart from someone from K-Tec seeing my advert/knowing that I've sold it on)?

He he, thanks Chris, I think I'll pass. Ad now up, took a lot of effort (and moaning from the wife) to actually press 'Submit Advert'. http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/3787380.htm

LOL Writing this f***ing advert is taking an age...almost done.

Thanks Daniel. That's exactly what I wanted to hear.

If fitting a new gearbox is easy then yes!

I's passed every MOT for the last 3 years without issue. Under the new regulations is it now something that will fail it?

...but I'm unsure of the following... My 172 Cup's speedo doesn't work as there's no drive from the gearbox, so I have a Road Angel showing MPH instead. Is this legal? Thanks

Aside from how they look, are they worth the cost for the improvement in how they throw light down the road? I recall there's split opinion over whether Xenons are better than standard on the mkIIs, so are these Projectors night and day difference or a bit meh compared to standard? In other...

If it beeped around 6,750 on the test drive sounds like the engine wasn't fully up to temperature. The limiter and light operate at lower revs until all is warmed through...can't say for certain as I've never revved mine hard when cold, but I'd imagine the beep is lower too. Get yours fully...

Ooh. Have you got a 200 on order Christopher?

Likely fuel queues could make that a PITA! I've now got tomorrow completely free. Cleaning the 200 though so if I get done in time I might come along.

If you'd filled it to the brim, you'd know how much you had left...(50 litres [or whatever it holds] less how much it took to fill it up). Then, knowing what your likely mpg is...you'll know how far out/accurate it is. Until you do that, you've only got really random guesswork to go on.

Mythbusters proved this is b****cks IIRC. Had a shed with glass windows in the middle of the desert, and repeatedly flew past it at supersonic speeds. It shook a bit, but no windows destroyed.

And the throttle is affected by the driver...so 160 bhp Clio vs 330 bhp Clio with all things being equal... The traction out of any given corner is the same, the tyres can withstand the same x bhp before they slip. So x bhp is applied by the driver, and the experience is identical regardless of...