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if its mainly town driving buy an 86, if its a bit of mixed motorway and town driving get the 106.
86 is much better around town with very little turbo lag, infact you wouldnt know it had a turbo, it just pulls smoothly and strongly from the minute you put your foot down, 106 has loads of lag...
lupos are gash, my sisters 1.4 16v 100hp has cost about 2 grand in the last 2 years. its an 53 plate one lady owner before us, 30k full VWSH, id never ever ever own one, i got it for her because i wanted something reliable for her, what a joke that turned into.
remapped dci 100
its not the wear im worried about, get in and out them properly and they will be fine, as per every other car fitted with recaros, its more just about keeping them in good nick when going to and from work
i went in to order a brand new one but this one was delivery millage pre reg at a cracking deal, with cup chassis and recaros, and in the colour i wanted, so only really missing bluetooth, projectors and speedlines, all of which ill probably end up adding anyway
using the usb connection will give you track listings on the screen, you wont get that with the headphone to aux one. think the usb slot only comes with the uprated bluetooth stereo which still has equally as pish sound quality.
mk2 clios that are driven hard are bad for wearing out inner track rods and track rod ends, ive had 2 of my past cars do it, one by 45k miles and one by 80k miles. worth changing them and having a proper geometry setup done. loads of people fit the best suspension and brakes and overlook this!
i think people get hung up on numbers too much, when running turbo torque 240/250bhp in a mk2 clio would be phenominal on the road! no need for anymore really
good to know, too many conversions out there giving a massive lump of power at 3500rpm braking traction, gearboxes, and anything else that gets in its way lol!
that looks not bad, some benchmarks with that graphics chip...
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-9600M-GS.9450.0.html
that cpu will likely be socketed and depending on what models fit will be upgradeable to a 2.5ghz or somewhere around they lined if needed.
ive yet to see a turbocharged F4R that has the drivability of the F4Rt though, if going to all the effort id do it properly and fit one of those, sure there was a guy on here running something crazy like over a bar of boost at 2k rpm!