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Also something I never expected, a tech at my old work checked the gap on every plug he fitted one week and more than 50% of them were wrong straight out the box!

My Mrs is currently looking for your head on a plate......

What do they make them out of????? Found out on my travels locally, no idea the back story!

usually a throttle body or accelerator pedal when it they both come on, as Brigsy said, get it scanned to confirm

Register on the virgin media forum, post your problem up and generally a moderator who works for VM will PM you asking a few details and will arrange to have a new hub sent out in the post, saves dealing with their nonsense on the phone (feel your pain with that!) - Thats been my go to source of...

as mentioned above a misfire is never really cured by a good run. As Brigsy said, if plugs have never been done, its a great place to start as its not going to cause any harm and isn't going to brake the bank. - Coils are also common on these engines, I had a tiny intermittent misfire on my 197...

good work, I've not done a 172/182 while the engine is in the bay, out the bay I find it quite an enjoyable job!

Good find, on the website now at £104 with trade, product code 563126

SOLD pending collection, it's going to Leeds, I'm meeting the new owner in Edinburgh to drop the car off with him next weekend. a gentleman who's son also has a 182 so seems it's going to a good home! Sold for £3500 which is bonkers cheap id have thought but it was the only bid!

a cable clutch will always be heavier than a hydraulic clutch, that's why hydraulic clutches exist. a 172/182 with a new clutch and new cable is absolutely fine to drive, and its once they get into their life cycle they get heavy and creaky. I'm not sure why you posted this here if your not...

I run the factory ones but they don't fit the RS unfortunately

that's got me stumped!!! There isn't much to the system so in that case id just stick a pump on it they are usually only a few quid and take less than 5 minutes to swap

if you're getting a dribble, pull the rubber hose off the washer jets under neath the bonnet and run the pump and see what the flow is like. If you get nice even flow it's the washer jets that are blocked, if you get uneven flow from one pipe, it's that pipe that's blocked and they will usually...

most times a broken spring doesn't make any noise or knocks if its just fractured down near the botom where its common to do so, its only if it snaps in half half way up the spring etc where it dislodges it out from the top/bottom mount

for the 5 minutes it takes i would just stick a pair of eBay used springs in, cost about £15 delivered! take it for a retest then swap back out, assuming your happy the rear springs you have are not going to actually fall out on the road lol or just make a wooden spacer and pop them in to really...

i take it your running lowering springs not coilovers? or is it coilovers with the rear adjusters removed?

Shifted my kangoo daily this week, this is back on eBay ending today again, let's see if its 2nd time lucky starting at £3.5k!

mine never used to do that back in the day

yellow is the most desirable colour in the 197, if it was the going rate they would have sold by now. That second one has been up for months

as above, lock everything then loosen all pulleys, remove timing end locking tool, replace dephaser, belt, idler, tensioner etc. set tensioner, torque cam pulleys to 30nm and lower to 80nm, unlock everything, turn engine over by hand a couple of times. lock it all again and make sure the...

depends on the scrappy, my local place probably £30-£50, benefit is you get to move upto 260mm vented front discs from 240mm solid discs

Get yourself to the scrappys and get a pair of 58mm hubs, callipers and discs and then order 58mm coilovers.

same mate, i know this was a part service history, needing a bit of work car but for over a month there, it was the cheapest 200 for sale bar none! and that's with no blowing manifold flexis, no swivel hub failure, no gearbox issues and a fresh belt change! i felt that was priced fair! So into...

Was up for £4500 with no bites! Went on eBay auction starting at £3500 and never sold! what am I missing? It's now about to become my daily beater as I'm not giving it away!

that looks as high quality as anything else out there imo! not had time to read any of it yet but ill check it out

awesome, nice to see a setup where they keep the customer informed with pics, shows they are confident in their work! looks top notch!

can't see why not. The doors are the same and the switch gear etc!

another silly job, while at the scrappys i grabbed good condition rear eyelets from the rear foot well as mine were rusty! - A small job but they all add up!

Not much to report on this lately! The ABS and ESP light came on with a warning for the rear ABS sensor so assumed it would be the brackets that hold the ABS sensor in as its fairly common for them to corrode to nothing.... While i was there i done rear discs and pads on it since the discs were...

good advice above didn't know about the Citroen brakes! The option to use 172 callipers would probably involve moving over to a wide track front end, so swapping ARB, lower arms, Hubs, brakes and suspension. - A worthwhile upgrade but getting harder and costly to source the bits.