Thought I’d share a couple of photos of my 182 that I’ve owned for 5 years, but only driven a handful of times.
I bought it from a friend of a friend in 2015 with the ABS lights on, but only got it sorted last year (SAS needed calibrating). Since then it’s had a new dephaser/timing belt, all 4 abs sensors replaced, a good standard exhaust fitted, new rear springs, headlamps refreshed, coolant/oil/brake fluid change, and a few other odds and sods. I’ve tried to keep it standard-ish without going overboard. There’s “only” 83k on the car, and the boring ones are getting harder to find.
Last week it went for a MOT, which it failed on the o/s rear brake pipe. I purchased a new rear pipe from Renault (£35) and this morning it passed its retest.
Being in the highlands we’re blessed with some great roads, so even going to the shop for groceries is an event! It really is a bit of a laugh. I would’ve killed for this car back in 2004 - back then I had a 998cc Mini, but if I wanted to complete a journey I’d use my mum’s M reg Clio 1.4RT (”yeh it’s a 1.4 m8”)
I’m hoping to use it over the summer, but being off the road for so long I’m sure other issues will appear.
It’s in part thanks to this forum that I got the car back on the road. Lots of helpful info and folk here, a great resource.
I bought it from a friend of a friend in 2015 with the ABS lights on, but only got it sorted last year (SAS needed calibrating). Since then it’s had a new dephaser/timing belt, all 4 abs sensors replaced, a good standard exhaust fitted, new rear springs, headlamps refreshed, coolant/oil/brake fluid change, and a few other odds and sods. I’ve tried to keep it standard-ish without going overboard. There’s “only” 83k on the car, and the boring ones are getting harder to find.
Last week it went for a MOT, which it failed on the o/s rear brake pipe. I purchased a new rear pipe from Renault (£35) and this morning it passed its retest.
Being in the highlands we’re blessed with some great roads, so even going to the shop for groceries is an event! It really is a bit of a laugh. I would’ve killed for this car back in 2004 - back then I had a 998cc Mini, but if I wanted to complete a journey I’d use my mum’s M reg Clio 1.4RT (”yeh it’s a 1.4 m8”)
I’m hoping to use it over the summer, but being off the road for so long I’m sure other issues will appear.
It’s in part thanks to this forum that I got the car back on the road. Lots of helpful info and folk here, a great resource.
