Drive Safe Guys

[Ray Roocroft]

No problem here (as such) but ive just picked up my clio on Monday, and after the advertiser said the car was in great condition I got there to find it was in 'ok' condition.
This wasn't my issue or the fact that made me cringe, no no. That resided on the brakes...
You see, this seller let his wife and her kid in a baby seat use the car as a daily driver despite there being 'a noise' from the rear of the car.
He said it sounded like vibrating from the exhaust, however....

All I can say is please check every nook and cranny when one mentions 'a noise'. This could have been a miserable ending which I would wish upon nobody.
Drive safe peeps

 

[Typhoon]

Jesus, wonder what's made it do that? Excessive heat?

 

[Matt W]

It's a cup, so I reckon that someone has done something to the rear brakes to make it pass a MOT and then left it like that, loads of extra heat going into it!

 

[Ray Roocroft]

Going to find out tonight when new discs and pads are going in. Hopefully the calipers aren't f*cked. If they are ill just grab some new ones anyways but rather spare the expense for other parts of the car.

Cant believe he NEVER looked at the back of the car and wondered what the sound was, its horrendous. also I can hardly turn the wheel when pushing it round full force up on the ramps. Got a feeling the car will feel completely different once sorted lol.

 

[Matt W]

Have you had a look at the bias valve thingy? These can be cable tied up for the MOT...

 

[Knuckles]

She must have been hammering that!

 

[darkbluesheep]

yip, too much heat generated from a sticky calliper. I have gone through several sets of rear disks before changing both rear calipers for new items, and then the hand brake cables too. The Bias Value is cable tied from factory IIRC.

 

[Ray Roocroft]

Have you had a look at the bias valve thingy? These can be cable tied up for the MOT...

Not checked anything out fully yet - went to change the brakes and we thought they had sent fronts instead of rears, turns out they sent the completely wrong discs and pads. Utter idiots.
Ill be sure to check that out though, thanks for the suggestion.
Ive got a feeling it will take new calipers to sort it, just hoping we can free this one up enough for me to be able to drive her for a bit.

 

[car.crash]

Weld it up and smooth to finish.
Away you go

 

[Ray Roocroft]

Weld it up and smooth to finish.
Away you go

*tells mechanic to weld up brakes until they are smooth to the finish*

 

[adamlstr]

Cant believe he NEVER looked at the back of the car

You've done exactly the same though?

Seller says there's a funny noise, you didn't have a poke about.. ?

 

[Ray Roocroft]

You've done exactly the same though?
Seller says there's a funny noise, you didn't have a poke about.. ?

Sorry, didn't explain that part...
When going to view the car he said it was in great cond.
Upon an initial drive to the petrol station to get it under lights for scrutineering he said about the noise and we guessed it could be this.
Looked under and found it - knocked £250 off asking price immeditely.

 

[adamlstr]

Understood.


Though, the rear brakes on a 172 cup do about 0.5% of the braking.

 

[Ray Roocroft]

Understood.
Though, the rear brakes on a 172 cup do about 0.5% of the braking.

Ive gotta say to the contrary - this f*cker is stuck on real good and does ALOT of my braking!

 

[adamlstr]

Ive gotta say to the contrary - this f*cker is stuck on real good and does ALOT of my braking!

Haha, unless they're seized to buggery!

 

[Ray Roocroft]

Mechanics just sent me these haha, nearly cracked all the way if it carried on and seems like the shaft is pretty war torn:

 

[James]

Christ lol

 

[Ray Roocroft]

Christ lol

the amount of people that have said "Christ!" and "Jesus!", im starting to think I may have needed them if I wouldn't have spotted it! haha

 

[Goodj]

f**k

 

[Ray Roocroft]

Apparently the caliper is relatively unscathed and appears to be in 'ok' condition itself, but in a month or two ill get fresh calipers (the handbrake cables already been done, maybe they didnt spot this?).

 

[cod3oz]

Shocking and to think with a bambino in the car as well ... very lucky

 

[Darren S]

"It'll be reet"....... the amount of times cars make horrendous noises, belch smoke, or roll on rubber smoother than a snooker ball - yet the owners do sweet FA about it.

The exact same type of people that when eventually the car does let go, they complain at how much it is to fix.

Hope you manage to give it a bit more TLC than the previous owner(s) clearly haven't!

 

[Ray Roocroft]

"It'll be reet"....... the amount of times cars make horrendous noises, belch smoke, or roll on rubber smoother than a snooker ball - yet the owners do sweet FA about it.
The exact same type of people that when eventually the car does let go, they complain at how much it is to fix.
Hope you manage to give it a bit more TLC than the previous owner(s) clearly haven't!

Its gone back to the seller as per this thread:
http://www.cliosport.net/threads/position-for-returning-a-car-to-a-trader.784609/
Lost £140 when i started sorting it out but I thought I had best give it back and not take any risks. Now ive picked up another clio sport 172 in black thats a fair minter if im honest, needs TLC but for £500 I cannot complain

 

[Goodj]

ah, you got that one then eh.

Looks shiny, from the 1 photo.

 

[Ray Roocroft]

ah, you got that one then eh. :smile:
Looks shiny, from the 1 photo.

Ill be getting more, but ive whacked it in the garage the minute i got it for strip down inspekshuns.

 

[skinz]

Same thing happened to my old clio 182 - js heard a knocking and never thought much about it, then one day noticed smoke coming from brakes. Long and short the caliper was sticking and scorched the discs so bad they failed, ended up replacing calipers and discs and pads