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I get rarity and appreciation etc, but my resounding memory of the phase 2 V6 was blowing the doors off my mates one with my low boost mk1 Clio about 14 years ago. They're a catastrophically bad car in stock form, can't corner, can't accelerate, just comedy slow and lumbering. That memory has...

You won't regret it, mines still doing me proud

Just with a hamster driving the wheels, thus negating completely which wheels are driven 👌

Funny looking Clio that mate

Looks like it's going to be loud!

Fair enough although iirc the 6th makes very little difference at cruise as the 197 are short geared to improve acceleration to overcome all that extra mass that makes them feel refined...or disconnected depending on how you look at it. However they sit on a bloody brilliant chassis, absolutely...

Welcome, you may find you get a really lovely 182 for that budget which IMO is the better car

Welcome, older cars? No idea what you mean..

They're painted, no idea with what a I bought them off chap on here years ago who I believe did it

Couple from a wash other day, paint is so badly marred, needs a buff at the very least like you wouldn't believe! Raised the ride height too and drives so much nicer.... Doesn't look as cool though, flol

I'm about 6.5K into the oddy now including mods and purchase cost of the car.... So yeah, money gets spent! Lol

Did you not find the circlip to remove as I suggested?

As the car is currently in daily use I elected to insert the adjusters into the rear spring platforms and raise the ride height around 15-20mm all round. Just to make the car slightly more comfortable and chuckable for the day to day usage. Also gave her a wipe with a rag and sealed the...

Common fault that one the old alternator harness snaperoo

Brakes squeal like a bastid so I've ordered some Mintex 1144 for road use, hopefully that'll make it manageable. Also a sidelight blew so swapped those out for new. Nothing else new to report really, just counting down the days to Mallory

Probably quite rare as they'll be late registered cars basically they gave away as the mk3 was being sold. Build date could be anytime though, may of sat about years

Andy (Snappy) sorted me a new gear gaiter, oem+ approach again so went alacantra with white stitching and moved the stitch from the front which the stock one had to the rear so you can see it. Next job is the handbrake cover to match. Old original New Fitted

Welcome, introduce away

Unsurprising really, to me that says people who've owned it in past haven't kept it long and as such probably unlikely to be project thread or similar kind of folks

JR life, awful things by all accounts Lovely roads out here though old bean, enjoy

Daily drive.....pfffft yeah right 🤪

Oh and those other wheels whatever they are, massive improvement. White sucks, 2118's suck

Looking great Mark and some cracking progress ticking jobs off. Glad I bought new genuine wishbones last year now for stock ready to sort my subframe etc later this year. So much stuff going nla now it's worrying. Reliving the mk1 nightmare of parts acquisition all over again

Hold my 🍺

not entirely sure as all i have done thus far is buy the part but the tail of wire on it tells me the connector may be a bugger to get to i was going to google/youtube it tbh

yeah lets the spider sit further down the spline on the shaft itself

If it's later model mk2 it'll be the booster in the rear roof mounted aerial base common fault, i have same and have just bought new genuine base from RPD for 30 quid or something to fix it

I haven't mate, don't think i took any. But smack the outer CV off and should be there in middle of the spline if anything like a phase 1 172 shaft

have you removed the outer circlip behind the hub side CV joints? I had same issue on the mk1 with the 172 conversion, 6/7mm free play. two minutes with a mallet and screwdriver to remove out CV and pop that circlip off and gained an extra 5mm and vibrations all gone. Did that 3 years ago and...