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If it was wet when it was parked the pads will stick to the discs. You then get a clunk clunk sound whilst braking until the rust wears off. Nothing to worry about - happens on most cars.

Yeah not to mention the missus!

Who cares Frosty - bring it on!!

LOL yeah even I did mine myself!

Spot on Fred. Yes I have the PiperX panel filter. Got it from Demon Tweeks, about £30 I think. Makes no difference to the noise at all as far as I can tell. Power? Well my quarter mile times are not too shabby for a Mk2, but the rolling road day might tell us more. I very much doubt whether it...

Why not recommend that he takes it to somewhere that we know is good, e.g. London Superchips. Hell get a proper graph (before & after), and the chip with custom map is just £300 + VAT. If he needs an uprated fuel regulator (or whatever) theyll tell him and hell know for sure that its necessary.

Had a drag from the lights with a T-Sport before Christmas - no problem at all. I suspect theyre pretty good once they get rolling though.

LOL! Had to be said :D

Geoff - wont your neighbours misss having all those noisy hatchbacks parked along the street every time we have a trackday ;)

Nice site Rob - is that yours?

In my case the 172 also has: 147 Pay & Display tickets Old pair of scratched shades 79 copied CDs with no labels - dont know what any of them are 2.1kg mud in passenger footwell thick coating of grime on inside of (sound deadening) windscreen Go to your local dealer and look at a Cup -...

Or if the screwdriver idea is a bit scary, use the corner of a credit card - no chance of scratches.

Except a Superchip actually exists :confused:

Always nice to get a wave or a flash after a bit of a blast. Puts the whole thing into perspective - its just for FUN! :)

Totally happy with mine - especially this time of year (cold, dark, wet - just want to get home) when most performance cars are such a pain. Looking forward to a spring and summer of trackdays, quarter miles and great days out. Must get around to washing it :confused:

OK I know we share everything on here but Im stuffed if Im talking about my weight! Lets hear it for pie-power!

Have either of you actually tried it?? ;)

CSB - you HAVE to bring that thing to York this summer once the mods are done.... We should be having a big day out from here at some point.

Same answer for both questions I would have thought... whats the 0 - 60 of your car dash? - "its faster than yours" What was the most important thing that made you buy it - "its faster than....

Any of the above cars would be fine, but a chauffeur to take me to track days (car on trailer) would be nice :p

Cant disagree with any of that - and Im of the same opinion when it comes to my customers too. I dont think that many of the dealers see themselves as part of corporate Renault though - theyre XYZ motors of nowheretown, and their profits some from car sales and servicing, not warranty work. I...

Agreed, you hear of some pretty amazing examples of poor service from dealers. In the interests of balance though, we only get to hear of peoples bad experiences as a rule. How many threads do you see which say Took my car for a service today and there were no problems - none, cos its boring...

It would be nice if all this came to pass, but alas, Ill believe it when I see it!

Lift-off oversteer. Theres a whole thread about this somewhere in the past couple of days. If you back-off the throttle in a bend the back comes around.

This is a known problem - go to another dealer and never visit your local one again (who are they BTW).

Cant say Ive ever noticed this. The VVT actuator comes in at around 1500 rpm so it wont be that. Id get the dealer to have a listen if I were you.

Almost everyone gets this. Your dealer should have fixed it the first time as there is a tec-note telling them what the problem is. Its the wiring for the seatbelt pretensioners under the seat. Basically the wiring works loose causing the ECU to report a fault. Make sure they fix both driver and...

Viper stripes as standard, same shape as the new Megane, 5 door only (with estate option), shark fin aerial, standard towbar, flower vase on dashboard. Engine options: 0.6 litre low-torque petrol 0.8 litre n/a diesel electric milk-float optional Thatll give those Pug 180s something to...

Civic Type R - test drove it 3 times - drove the salesman crazy. Good engine, weird gearbox, too big, poorly equipped and I think the one I tried had no suspension and 4 flat tyres. Couldnt possibly have lived with it 7 days a week.

Nice one Paul - just needs a Cliosport sticker to finish it off ;)