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In each front top corner of my interior there are a couple of mysterious looking items, they are black boxes about 1cm x 1cm square and look like tiny speakers with a wire from each onto going into the headlining and are located either side of the windscreen. what are they? are they sensors...

Oh must own up aswell, the drivers side damage was caused by myself where i park underground there are pipes in certain places that drip "limescale" and this stuff was impossible to remove and I bodged trying to get it off. Ive since been told it reacts with the lacquer and causes a...

Cheers for the advice the quote was £120 for the scratch repair on the back bumper and £225 for the other work (the drivers side will need 2-3 hours of fine sanding + machine polishing to sort out) . Its a company called CVS (in Jersey..channel islands which explains the high price not many...

Took the 182 to a local car detailing place (whom i consider to be very reputable and knowledgable) and they have quoted me approx £350 for some work as follows: - repair deep scratch on rear bumper (approx 3" long and down to the plastic) - fill + paint a chip on passenger door edge -...

Welcome :) I see around 30mpg give or take, under 25 if pushing. You will get rattles that is something you will have to learn to live with with the clio im afraid! (Along with squealing power steering and noisy indicators...). Mine seems to do it from the glovebox area... (my old 1.2 used to...

I picked up the magazine at the weekend - very interesting article - I thought that they could have given more info on the facelift model. Definitely a hardcore machine and still stunning in the flesh (especially the facelift version - ill take one in blue please!!).

regardless of version they are all essentially the same GREAT car. What i found interesting was the noise difference compared to the 172 not just the exhaust note (which was great) but the noise from the gearbox and engine under power was very very nice starting with different pitched whines...

eek beat me to it what he said!

full fat - i think it means a version with all the goodies like climate control / cd changer / abs - whereas the "cup" version doesnt have those things thus is lighter and also due to lighter wheels etc

nice one, it does have the dark wheels it wasnt a renault dealer so ill get on to the renault garage once its in my hands.

Hi All posted last week about viewing a 172 and today i put down my deposit on a blue 182 picking it up early next week!! Had arranged a test drive today on a 2003 172 and last night i spotted what i thought was a cup at another dealer, so phoned this morning to enquire, turned out it was...

Haha yes i remember - the extreme went back to the stealer when i moved - someone got a damn fine car it served me well. 7k is less than i was expecting.

Hi Folks, Just thought i would say hi - Its been a long long time since I have visited these boards from when I used to own a mark 3 clio 1.2 and I used to live in London. Since then I moved to another part of the UK through work, have settled down and currently drive a '96 Nissan Primera (2...

Cheers guys yeah know what you are saying but its happened to me before where someone has hit me at slow speed and I didnt see any damage till the next day which put me 200 quid out of pocket for repairs. It looked like no damage but i couldnt tell that well at the time. But i checked again...

Is it just me that has this problem cos it seems that everytime i get in the car there is some crazy nutter magically atttracted to me. Sitting at some lights this morning and bloke in a people carrier behind nudges me - id guess he slipped off the clutch. He sort of mouths sorry and puts his...

I recently switched to elephant - however one thing really annoyed me I had put a quote through them in the past and they phoned me with the standard sales pitch when my renewal was due. My best quote so far (More Than) was 430 quid so when they said they could beat it and offered me 390 i...

Im 25 with 3 years ncb and i got this from confused on a year old 172, garaged! "to see all the prices and other details weve found in a range of £987.00 to £4938.32. "

I am ashamed to say I nearly caused a pileup yesterday when i noticed one of these things! I was slowing down for a known gatso (probably doing 55 in a 40 dual carrigeway) when i noticed a van parked immediately opposite the gatso pointing at me and a camera sticking out the back. Instinctively...

Bleary eyed and half asleep this morming i scraped the wing of my car against the garage wall Ive scratched the bumper a bit and scratched the paintwork as well but tno too bad - DOH! whats the going rate for front bumpers? can you buy the plastic wings already sprayed from renault? Not that...

Hi I had mine done a month ago and it was 190 quid (herds of isleworth - west london) very similar brake pad & tyre wear as above. Everything else OK

Cheers for the advice all. I know better where I stand now I am not sure if I want the hassle of private selling so will probably end up going through a dealer but when I get a chance ill see what the damage is on the finance as it stands before I decide. Insurance is not too ball busting...

Hey all, I recently got a new job which is much closer to home so only a 10 min blat down the motorway instead of a 70 mile round trip in traffic every day. With a nice pay increase as well This means I can now afford to run the car ive been dreaming about for quite some time - the 172 So...

Cant help you with the problem - but id love to know as well as mines is always beteen 20-30 degrees! simply cannot be bothered to take my car within 10 miles of a dealer after they c0cked up a straightforward service.

Well i finally got it back last night £190 was the total cost of the service. They fixed the front window and the dash display but not the rattle from the sunroof (they only drove the car half a mile in total how is that supposed to test if its sorted?) anyway the service was OK front pads 40%...

The credit card is on standby - Id expect to be fed grapes by scantily clad maidens for that price!

Hi people I put my clio in for its 18k service this morning and also asked for a couple of items to be looked at under warranty (leccy window sticking, sunroof rattle (boo!) and in-dash radio/clock display not working). Dealer has just phoned me and said trying to fix the dash display they...

im in west london near heathrow in a fairly high risk area - if i try to insure anything with more power than a flymo its considerably more however ;)

About average I would say. 12k a year here.

Hi all just thought i would update you as I just took out a policy... the best Renault would do over my original quote was 730 quid with 250 pounds excess the absolute best quote I found and have just paid for was with Churchill at 530 pounds for the year with 150 pounds excess other very...

Hi people just though you may be interested I had a quote come through the post from Renault Insurance this will be my first year not on Renault free insurance on my 1 year old 1.2 16v extreme. I have been insured & driving since 18. 12 months cover £1,367.10 :o im 24 car Garaged 2 years...