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I remember you chief! I also now have a great disliking of you....................
.............I was going to phone that guy up tomorrow about buying that very car! Arghhhhhhhhhhhh!;) lol
Ah well, better keep on the look out!
Some of you here may remember this username, I've resurected it due to my impending 172 purchase. Have previously been Paul_P1, but sold that for an S2000.
I'm looking to buy a MK1 Clio 172, circa £4K.
Having been away from the Clio scene for a while, can anyone point me in the...
...I think it has to be CTR. I want a new car that I can afford to run and is on par with the 172. Im not changing car because I think the 172 is a bad car, Im just bored with it now and having any car for 2 years is long enough for me! I will either be going for a v.low millage 2nd hand CTR...
It depends how you quantify massively quicker. On the move there is not much between them. But try racing it off the line or over the 1/4 mile and there is a noticable difference!
The Cups are not limited editions, I dare say when production stops of the Cups, so will the 172. There are thousands of cups on the road now, to me thats not limited edition. The only limited edition 172 was the Exclusive!
GR,
So that car has been sitting on the forcourt for over a year and is not UK spec. Hmm, that is a major bargaining chip for someone wanting to buy that car. Id be tempted to go into the showroom and say to him "£18 grand cash and Ill take it off your hands now!". Wonder what the reaction...
Glenvarigill in Dunfermline seemed to know what to expect when they changed my mid-section. They hardly looked at it, the guy spent all of 2 mins examining the exhaust, before whipping out a new mid-section.
Rhys,
I think any suspension tweaks etc, can be called chasis tweaks. IMO in the top of 4th and all the way through 5th, there will be absolutely nothing in it!!
Why is it ppl take the best times for a car and the worst recorded for the other to make their point! The fastest I have seen the MK2 172 timed to 60 is 6.7 and 17.9 to 100, this equates to very little on the road, maybe one-2 car lengths!
Can i confuse matters here......
.....well, when I went into get my centre section replaced the garage had kindly ordered up the whole exhaust system just incase anything else needed replaced. The CAT section had two muckle CATs side by side, like a divers air tanks, they were HUGE!! I...
Just say you were out ragging it on a nice sunny Sunday afternoon, theres nothing in the warrenty that says you cant drive your car hard!! Plain fact of the matter is, it shouldnt of gone that early even if it was on the strip!!
It also has to be down to the amount of VTS/VTR and GTis there are going about though. A lot of companies have noticed this growing market and exploited it. In other words they made it very easy for Johnny in his VTS to save up a grand , take it into them and come out with 30+ more brake! Its...
Its because there is no mass market recognised tuner for Clios. If someone was to bring out a performance package for the Clio, Im sure it would be snapped up. You could do it in stages, i.e. Stage 1 - exhauts, induction to Stage 3 - throttle bodies, nos etc. If you spend 2/3 grand on a Clio...