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i like the passion people always have at the foreign meets, theres always some one with a banner or cake or something lol!! always look a lot more close and friendly than the pics from CS meets, although the scottish ones as rare as they are are usually pretty friendly!

this is what ive been doing, its not rounding anything its just twisting torx bits until they snap! decent halfords professional ones too, this car hasnt done many miles in years so the discs are ancient!

i would say the timing belt is bad luck. when was it last replaced. i think the original garage offering to repair their fault straight away with no cost to you is a good offer and i would be taking them up on that!

im taking about an rstuner from fastchip.nl not RStuning

yeah no problem to get that mpg, with a mixture of normal town and fast open road driving with loads of overtaking i get 33-35mpg in the ph1 they handle well as standard if the rear dampers are in good condition with fairly decent tyres on it. common mods are Eibach springs or coilovers. if...

ouch, it happens, and going by your lights u walked away and as you do took the camera phone out lol!!! £100 from the scrappies with £70 of fuel in it! ffs id have gave u double that and picked it up!!

you looked into the RStuner would work out a bit cheaper

exatly, quicker spool up with decats on them, and id imagine when mapping and raising boost pressure more gains can be had. something to keep in mind though is the dci 100 runs the same exhaust as the 65 and 80 so id imagine not much gains to be had on the post cat system

try Admiral ive been with them since 18 on 172's im now 22. im like you, low risk area. servicing is cheap for a performance car, 12k or 1yr which ever is first, i service mine myself, oil & oil filter for £45 or what ever you pay (its been a year lol) and a wash and oil of my pipercross...

might try that too lol got myself a meaty drill for tomorrow so we will see how it goes!

thats balls about the cat, if you fit a 2nd hand one and it passes an emissions test then its fine?!?!

reliability generally they are good, pretty much on par with what your used to with a 106, you get ones that are better than others, look after them and they will look after you economy - generally they are good on fuel for what they are, watch what ur doing on a long run and it will return...

ive never played with the exhaust system on my DCi however if done correctly they sound pretty cool, different, but cool. you dont want to go loud but just slightly deeper and you get a bit more turbo noise. go custom, find a place local to you that has a good reputation as custom places can...

genuine renault ones are cheap, think your £90 for a pair, go for 182 cup ones as they are slightly uprated in stiffness and fit straight on :)

thats ok if they are rounded but they arnt rounded (they dont round if you use the proper size in the first place ;)) they are just solid lol

discs and pads ordered from G172, went for Brembo OEM pads just to get it through an mot and get it back on the road, ill replace them with DS2500 after winter as its only going to be on the road for a few months before getting locked up for winter again!

looks awesome, i drove a 1.2 16v for the first time in years today, pitty you dont have DCi power! lol

anyone got one? want the factory colour :)

red face moment that i didnt think of that myself lol! cheers dude!

im with Aldo, im all for working on my cars however the cost of the tools is what stops me doing my own belt, however congratulations on getting stuck in about it and doing it urself. at least you have the satisfaction of knowing its spot on timed up well and nothing was missed or overlooked as...

will be the rear dampers if its bad. bad tyres are going to make it worse but not cause it to be really bad

na its sound mate showing perfect voltages etc however its coming back on the road next week so ill see how it goes once its getting a bit more use, possibly just needing a decent run, i dont know much about batteries

not sure where else to get a decent torx bit its halfords professional ones ive got, ill see if i can get a hold of the snapon van this week at some point see if hes got anything better cheers for the advice though, assume if i wanted to reuse the hole with new torx bits im going to need to re...

is this another contender for thread of the year?

as above, never had to drill something out before, these things are solid, ive had the blow torch on it, rattled it to bits with a massive hammer its still twisting torx bits lol any advice?

my ph1 is going nuts, if you lock it it goes nuts and alarms, then sometimes it will last 2 or 3 days and then go bonkers alarming its nuts off! been fine for over a year and recently developed this. not sure if this makes a difference but its recently had a brand new battery about 2 months...

LOL! correct mr moneybags

wrong. it does

welcome, i like that. the white one is very cool too!

cheers for the advice so far guys ill get onto G172 tomorrow to see about ordering a set of brembo HC's what about the DS2500 is there anyone considerably cheaper out there for them or do they all charge roughly the same? cheers