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Hopefully it's just bedding in. I've had EBC pads before on my E46 [think they may have been Redstuff] and they bedded in without grinding etc... but maybe YellowStuff and above are different. Fingers crossed for you.

OK. Have you done more driving ? Maybe give it 100 miles or so of urban driving with gentle braking to bed them in. If the grinding doesn't stop and/or the pad wear is still very uneven, you'll likely to have to take the caliper off and see if there's something misaligned or wedged in there ?

Glad the pedal is solid, that's a positive. With new discs and pads there should be no grinding noise at all. EBC pads won't cause grinding. I'm assuming we're talking about the fronts here ? Did you take the caliper to bits and ensure the sliders are moving smoothly ? These are notorious...

Thanks so much for that. That's an interesting one alright... I was originally thinking it might be that - as it's positioned in the firing line for all the weather etc... - but I noticed the battery cable was a tad warm the other day after I started it. I agree, it's not the battery itself...

@Brit as @Brigsy said run regular Dot4 through it until the pedal's good and then use the Motul at the end. It's a real pain the first time you do it, but I've done it a few times now and I've got it licked.

Great news. The battery was fine to be fair but it's always been lazy turning over on starting - even though the battery is brand new - so I think there may be an earthing issue [common on these 182s] and I'm going to replace the earth cable at some stage.

Yes you need to bleed each wheel in the order they tell you. It's step by step process. RS Tuner is the same.

OK... maybe they've updated it since I last checked in 2024 ?

Yes it won't work. The ABS pump bleed function is not available on anything other than the Renault dealer diag system [CLIP] or RS Tuner, the mapping software. I went and bought RS Tuner to do it. It was a complete pain as I wasted so much time to discover that.

Here's one for you now. The guy from Febi told me not to fit either of the two I have to the car and to return them to the place I bought them. He said that Renault do not make that part separately for the 172/182 and that it has to be bought as a complete wishbone set [as in the Renault Parts...

Massive thanks again here... and you've got Cup front suspension on yours ?

Thanks so much for that... they use the 12mm mounting bolts, right ?

The saga continues... I'm trying to buy the correct one of these and was speaking to somebody at Febi who told me that they don't manufacture them for the Cup suspension... and that Renault don't have a part number for the Cup versions either ??!!?? What manufacturer's parts are you guys using...

Thanks so much for that, makes sense.

Do you mean Cup and non Cup or just all 182s use the larger ones ?

Just a silly question here. I bought a pair of Febi bottom ball joints from two different suppliers on eBay and have been sent different sized versions of the same part... one has slightly larger mounting bolts and holes than the other... even though they're supposedly the same Febi part...

That's great guys... thanks so much.

Thanks so much Louis... I was looking at that a little earlier and then went to the Febi parts finder to discover a plethora of different options for the 182 - with and without PAS. I might shoot Fish Brothers a quick message to see if this is the right one for my cup-pack car.

That makes a lot of sense. When I've had that before on other cars it was generally the strut top. I was getting the car MOTed yesterday and the guy doing it said he though it was the inner or outer ball joint on the track rod... and while it could be that, it's under a lot less load that the...

I have a 2005 Clio 182 with the cup pack suspension and need to replace the track rod ends as either they [or the inner joints] are making a creaking noise when I turn the wheel. The car has power steering and I was planning to buy Febi parts. The track rod ends are fine - there's a single...

70mm 45 degree elbow and the RamAir cone ?

Looks good. I took a quick look at the Fatty thread but unfortunately all the images and links are gone - I guess it's 10 years old so maybe they've been pulled down since.

Thanks so much for everything here... really appreciate it.

Not quite the topic you might expect. I'm considering replacing the stock induction system on my 182 with something like a Ktec setup. This isn't to get more power or driveability but to give me a little more space on that side of the engine as I'm fed up of faffing around with all the loose...

I did. I bought RSTuner from Fastchip and it did the bleed process perfectly. I don't plan to use the remapping elements of RSTuner but the rest of it is really excellent so it's worth the investment if you plan on keeping the car.

Maybe you're right... can't remember from 4 years ago.

That's what it seems to be. A Gates kit in a Renault box !

Well I've bitten the bullet and bought a cambelt kit, an aux belt kit and a water pump all from RPD. A bit of a strange one. The aux belt is labelled up Renault with a part number etc... but the cambelt is a Gates belt with just Gates part numbers on it. Now I know Gates make the belts for...

That's very helpful... cheers. I probably do a couple of thousand miles a year at most in the car so my tyres will probably date out before they wear out ! I've always had good respect for Avon as a brand - used their F3 slicks on my modsports GT car back in the day.

I've a second set of wheels shod in Uniroyal Rainsport 5 - two tyres are excellent... two are 1mm. I've never used them so I may get two new Rainsports and try them for a bit while I cogitate on getting 4 new Pilot Sport 3s.