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thats not bad really, cambelt it a pain but expected, tyres you should keep an eye on (they are the only thing keeping you on the road) and the brake fluid leaking you couldnt have known, but a strip and clean would suffice for now

fair play chap,need to do that with my mount! lol

does it use oil mate? cant think its engine related, i bet some oil have seeped past the ht leads

which two mate? it could hasve been simply spilt oil, that has recently happened on my mates 182, spilt oil ran own and contaminated a plug check your ht leads too mate

Re: The story of a high mileage 172 Damn it! i just missed it: And just for the hell of it, here is a vid of how she performs at cirtain miles 122k: http://s54.photobucket.com/albums/g108/Russ_16v/?action=view&current=bet0-100.flv 113k ...

oh my god mate!!!!

:D 125k to be exact matey, 141@ the wheels, 173.3 @ the fly and 149 lbf ft torque, with the only mod being a stainless cat back :) So true, mine spend most of its life on the motorway, and even with my miles i have no rattles at all

Re: Taking The 172 Of The Road... rule of thumb is most of whats been said, iv not heard of draining the oil though, i cant see that doing any harm being in there, will it be near you? might be worth taking it for a good drive once a month

if its going to cost more than 2k to buy it back and ix it then walk away mate, thousands of ph2s made you can get another one

loving both, but got to say ph1

Re: The story of a high mileage 172 brilliant mate, glad to hear from another clio lover from Oz, only 85 ph1s made it i didnt realise that, might be a rare sight! Yeah the springs being snapped did suprise me, funny thing was you couldnt really feel in when driving

fair play for coming on to talk about this, and welcome :) so just so i get this right, if someone brings up a 182 with aftermarket air filter and exhaust ( i would define if that is cat back, with/without cat ect) and you will re map it to make approx 196 bhp? and the owner of said 182 can...

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the dash re sets its self when you reach 10,000 miles, so that was my readings over those miles :)

you got to mate lol

yup 99,999.999 re accuring lol, i couldnt take the pic at that so only 40 miles off from reset

is when the dash computor resets on my 172, second time round in my ownership, this is the miles just before it reset : this is how many galons it used over that mileage: and the mpg over that mileage :

Re: The story of a high mileage 172 just a few quick pics after a good clean at work

sweet mate, looks smashing, how much did you pay and whats the miles?

you'd still kill the gearbox ;)

fair play mate only 25k behind me! and dont worry about the miles even on the mileage mines on its still kicking out 141bhp @ the wheels roll on the next 125k lol

na its better than vec and vtec, VTAK YO!! lol

i'd look at it this way, were you happy with it before you knew about it? it must go well enough otherwise you wouldnt have bought it id forget about it until you decide if your sticking with n/a or going with f/i as going with the latter i would imagine the head will be coming off, then...

activates the nos and the vec yo

i was going to say thats not too bad lol, my first valver i had 140 over all cylinders lol to be fair it was on 170,000 very hard miles

check my thread,. pics of my std discs http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=317888&page=5

mine hasn't either a shift light or ally bonnet,mine was reg'd in may 2001 though i do have a twin cat and 2 lambda probes lol

cool mate, good plan

Re: The story of a high mileage 172 you have pm sir ;)

ah fair enough, im still waiting for my trip out in it!