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Spent today making my valet bay out of scraps of wood and pallets. Ramp, air line, all products in their place (sort of, still a work in progress as I’ve got bottle hangers on order) can’t wait to start using it!

Grind the head off, pull the liner out, use grips to remove the threaded part.

My parents next door neighbour was in one when it got rear ended and she was proper touch and go life or death. Car was rotten and just fell apart when it got hit.

I absolutely love these things and when I saw it on eBay this morning I was really tempted to buy it…🤦‍♂️😂 Strip the underneath, properly rust proof it, 1.7 conversion and that’s all the daily driver a man needs surely?? anyone who doesn’t like them hasn’t driven one. And certainly hasn’t...

It’s fine for selling cheap bangers though mate. 😂😂

Never mind. You’ve got a cheap good car and you’ll probably punt it on with better pics and a better advert for at least what you paid for it. Win win.

Volvos of that era are Powershit boxes aren’t they?? I’d rather have AIDS than one of them. 😂

£20k and it’s not even an actual 172/182 ffs.

I use these and have done for years. The only time I’ve ever needed to replace parts is when I dropped it/stood on it/drove over it. I get mine off a local guy that sells car cleaning stuff from his van. £45+vat...

You got a link?? I like the sound of these.

Show us a picture of your nuts. (!) I’ve got standard 172/182 wheel bolts on mine and I’ve had turinis, 182 wheels, steel wheels, williams wheels, TD 1.2’s on my car and only ever used the standard bolts. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I don’t know if any of you have a steam cleaner, but this is the best £70 I’ve ever spent on a cleaning product. I’m cleaning bits of cars I’ve never been able to! It’s amazing.

@eves Kettle of hot water, pour it on as slow as you can to let it get as hot as possible. It will then become tacky and the hard surface broken so you can attack it with WD40/white spirit/whatever you’ve got at home.

Ooooh I love an RSI. I remember when I first got my 172 and and a guy in an RSI caught me off guard and it took me a good 2 lengths of dual carriageway to catch him. 😂

Have you tried the lamda sensor?

As above, may not be the issue but… my dads current Merc was doing something very similar. Properly random MAF issue and subsequent EML and properly random limp mode. Absolutely no pattern and could go weeks without issue then it would act a t**t for a week solid. Then every other day. Then no...

I can’t believe I’ve never had a go in one of these. They seem like the ultimate hot hatch and let’s be honest, they look badass and surprisingly still look modern despite how old they are. Good choice sir!

2002 Mr Two, yes. They lasted a good two years before they started going again. Proper cheap s**t plastic though, so so thin.

1500 wet and dry, 2000 wet and dry, machine polish with some compound, et voila;

It’s a deadly time of year. I’ve got a few cars to shift and the last two I sold, were advertised for 4 weeks before I finally made them the cheapest ones within 100 miles of my house. And even then they only sold to people that needed a car rather than wanted one if that makes sense.

Those types of trailers are normally purchased by people with caterhams and westfields, not 2.0 clio’s. there’s a guy in this thread that explains it well; https://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/topic/23730-nose-weight/

I wouldn’t mind betting that the nose weight limit of that trailer is 80kg. With a 2.0 clio on it - and it will be all the way to the front on a Minno - you’ll be well over.

On a trailer that small I’d personally prefer not to have a tyre rack on at all. That’s a lot of added nose weight when you could just put the wheels in the back of your tow vehicle.

They have mapped about 4 or 5 cars owned by people I know. I have also used their wheel alignment service a couple of times. I also used to work with 2 of them. All properly good guys, your car will be in safe hands.

I can’t wait.

I really want to go there for a day out, and have a picnic on the beach. Will I die?

I’m not even sure this is real or there’s a gas leak in my house and I’m high. but take a look at this!

Oh my god, this thing is beautiful.

Mechanically this is well sorted, and it has no side doors which is very rare, but cosmetically it’s rough. well, I say rough, it’s an 18 year old commercial vehicle. It’s probably quite tidy tbf. But it’s no show queen.