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ye but Low altitude + very cold weather = insurance claim ;)

ye whats the saying.. prevention is better than the cure ? what ? is that right ? i forget heh.

Im not sure if your saying your existing brake light doesnt fit or you have a cup one and cant wire it up

No, Traction control was only fitted to late mk2 ph2 172s. There were some that came with traction but no button, then you got traction + the button. so it goes No traction > traction but no switch > traction with switch. I think it was summer last year that traction started...

wierd person ?

Not meaning to sound nasty but please check your facts before you make that statement. A lot of mk2 172s dont have traction control, like mine, but still have the knocking noise. It has been disussed before and the common consensus was that it was either axle tramp, or a loose engine mount...

I dont know about rarer, I thought the Cup had outsold the 172 now ? and I certainly see more cups than 172s. Im very lucky if I see a 172, but a Cup is common place.

Err the 182 is basically a 172 with the cup suspension, track, spoiler, splitter (options). Didnt think there was gonna be a Cup version since the 182 is in essence a Cup with toys, comfort etc.

There are advantages doing it both ways. You get a nice new car with full warranty, but you have to put it into the dealer when all the standard faults come up... with a used they have probably been fixed, then you got to run it in properly, a used one will be run in already, but your not...

Looks better with the mesh.

wow a Ram Air Super Ram Air Feed.. lol thats a mouthfull Doesnt the cold air come in through the front grille on these things ?

Depends what car you got (im gonna guess a clio cup ;) ) Renualt Clio (non cup/172) = 16,000 miles RenaultSport Clio 172/Cup = 12,000 miles

Er, The demist button switches the aircon on. canfordcliffs, sounds like you still have a problem with your aircon. It has never taken longer than 15 seconds to clear my windscreen when using the demist button. Rob, yes its the button top right of the CC panel.

If you do have CC like the 172s then just press that oh so famous "Demist Button" the air conditiner unit acts like a dehumidifier wipping the moisture out the air. Thats why if you have your air-con on a long drive then get out and come back later your windows steam up really quickly (cause...

Damn yanks..always have to make everything different. ;)

Well they are model specific. Like sometimes you might have 2 different manufacturors for you particular model, eg girling and lucas If you go into a halfords branch you can normally just look up the correct brake pads in the little books they have.

Well I got a 33-34in waist and the 172 seats fit me perfectly.

Two loafs of hoavis please.

I have done the weight thing to try it out, removed spare (I think your right about 17KG cause I weighed mine the last time) and back seat and it made quite a bit of a diffirence. Probably only psychological though, cause removing everything including the rear sound proofing mat made it much...

Be carefull, I did a website design job for a guy that lost 6 grand, cause the company went under. He never got the money back. Luckily 6 grand was only the deposit, its a good thing he didnt put the whole lot down. Cant remember what car it was but it was expensive one.

cast the turbo into a heatsink style shape (maximise air surface) and duct the hot air out of the engine bay using a bonet scoop ? aswell as oil and water cooled.

what about a belt drivin fan to cool it down.. no wait a minute thats what the supercharger is .. a giant fan... hmm oil and water cooled ?

I think luke warm is best. dont want to scald yourself when you accently drop the drain plug into the oil tray and have to fish it out with your arm after the entire contents of your engine is in it now.. not that this happend to me ofcourse. :oops:

I guess thats why its not been done, although im sure it could be done.. the more complex the more can go wrong.

Could you not use an electronic clutch ? controled by rpm ?

The intersting part would be finding out at which point the clutch would make the changeover.. what revs does a turbo start making more power than a supercharger, ofcourse that depends on the size of the turbine etc. So, if you used the same compressor then that would solve problems with...

They way I look at it is, its only cool if the car does it through heavy tuning, none of this bolt on crap.

I dunno there would be too many downfalls, what about the fact the power loss by driving the supercharger part when the turbo is trying to do the work ? and vice versa. I think any gains through no turbo lag would be offset by power drains to the engine. BenR stop being modest, yes you do.

ooOOoo get you.. arent you special. :D shouldnt your name be dom-clio MESF VISBA

Just looking at the two variations of engines (wankel and 4 stroke) I can see why the wankel is such a more simpler engine to work on. But how the hell can they get 220bhp from a 1.3 lol, thats crazy, I will assume there is virtually no torque ? *edit* okay it took me so long to read the...