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nearly ;)...
Authentique is the bottom of the range one, avoid that, dont even know if you can get a dci in that actually.
Privelidge is a pretty low speced one too never really saw one up close to look at one.
Expression has the electric mirrors, CD player after a certain year, wheeltrims...
rubber mounts are there to absorb vibration, you have removed one and replaced it with something that doesnt absorb it as well, you will get more vibration at idle and when driving.
better of just replacing them with a new genuine renault one every once in a while
ok so converting to diesel apart from the cost involoved will half your fuel bills but you wont benefit from the £35 a year road tax or cheap insurance?
ive read some s**t on this forum but never this bad
you cant afford to run it but you can afford the £3k+ bill to convert it?
ill quite happily put a 2.0 16v in a non RS car for someone if they wanted me to but convert something to a dci, thats asking for trouble i wouldnt touch it!
if your going to spend £££ in the first place on a car then yes its worth paying a bit more than average too get one already done
if your into standard cars and find a minter, the perfect car then its worth getting it cheap as possible to buy the bits needed to get it back to standard
sports suspension package was fitted on all Dynamique cars with the 1.4 16v, 1.6 16v, and DCi models
ive driven cars equipped with the "sports suspension package" and then driven the same car with eibachs fitted and their is a difference, however the eibachs in my opinion arnt a great match...
standard brakes arnt that bad.
suspension again isnt to bad set of 2nd hand springs from a 172/182 and it would be fine untill you get around to doing the suspension properly
VVT disengages after 7200rpm which is why your power is dropping like a stone.
reason your not noticing it in first and 2nd is because the car has little resistence so will still rev that high without you noticing the drop
dci 100 is the one to go for, 65 means u get the colour and spec u want due to being less rare, 80 is a compromise of both and 100 is a case of take what you get!
if thats straight id snap it up ive got the same car but mine has climate, electric sunroof and xenons. and i paid £3.8k for a minter.
i made the swap from a 190bhp 172 and dont really miss it! 130bhp/190lbft ftw!!
if you have a good budget get a 100 but they hold their value.
80's again hold their value quite well but are a bit more common
65's if your looking for a cheap runabout, not fast but plenty of torque so dont give you that horrible slow feeling the 1.2's do
i had Bilstein coils on the 172 too for the last part of ownership, they were just at a sensible height for driving.
the FK's on the 1.2 were brilliant on a smooth road, infact you couldnt really go fast enough to corner "too fast!" on a bumpy road they wernt great but that wasnt the coilover...
3rd RR Graph is really interesting with the flat spot gone at 3k revs, im trying to work out why and i just cant work out what could cause it and what would have sorted it.
initially i thought it could have been the decat but then i noticed 1. it done it before the decat was fitted and 2. you...
dci 65 has DCi in silver and has a turbo
dci 80 has DC in silver and i in blue, has better injectors and a front mount intercooler
dci 100 has D in silver Ci in blue, same 80 injectors, runs 200psi more fuel pressure, bigger turbo, more efficient but smaller intercooler, has a different bottom...
look what ive started lol
looks really clean mate, theres so many of them out there that are completely imaculate with high milage that go for pennies, my old 65 was completely mint inside, bit rough on the outside but nothing that tlc wudnt sort out.