WARNING!!! Cup to be avoided!!!

[simonjones10]

I feel obliged to in form anyone who is looking to buy a 172 Cup in the Wiltshire area, to avoid WU53KSJ like the plague.

It's my old motor, got rid of it last weekend.

Although I always serviced, warmed and cooled the little beasty without fail it spent nearly all it's life being thrapped like I hired it, everywhere.

I looked through my receipts file and thought it best to remove some of them before taking it in for part-ex. I think I went through 8 pairs of front tyres and 4 pairs of front pads in total!!

You have been warned!! LOL!

 

[edde]

A hammered life doesn't seem to matter the fastest and least problematic are hammered ones.
How many miles had it got?

 

[172 Dave]

yikes you wouldnt be chuffed if ya bought it then entered here, joined and read this...........gulp!

 

[Rich]

Should be a quick one then!

 

[steven.m]

i'm always wary of buying a car like that cos you always know its probably had a hard life

 

[simonjones10]

It had done 50k, 49.9999 of that was between 5,000 rpm and the limiter (Sometimes over on down shifts!!)

 

[GazCB]

lmao, noted, thanks!

 

[ukaskew]

lol, noticed it had gone recently. New motor looks nice.

Mine is off soon so we will go from 2 to none on the same road within weeks.

 

[Timmay]

nice warning. lmao!

 

[Thomss]

funny

 

[Floodie]

At first i was thinking "you w@nker".. then realise you had given it to a dealer.. or, im assuming you have???.. if so, fair play hope it was a reno stealer too

 

[Tyson-182]

LMAO...quality thread. Now thats honesty for you!! I bet you ran and hid after letting it go..

Tyson

 

[Rufstuf]

Pmsl.. I traded in a saxo for my clio and it had holes in the bonnet where bonnet pins used to be, and holes all over the inside where the roll cage was. I filled the holes and painted them and it looked terrible, so I made sure it was pissing down when the dealer looked at it and it went un-noticed!! Took the clio back a week later for a minor repair and the salesman saw me and went mental! It felt good seeing the salesman being ass-raped for a change lol.

 

[Ally]

^^^ Hope it was an Arnold Shark as they've p*ssed me off recently...

 

[Jones]

isnt that the same as all the other renault sports? mine hits the limiter before the end of my road and yesterday it spend the best part of an hour drifting round a farmers field in the rain!!

 

[KyleB]

i pick this car up tomorrow?!

haha got you hahahahahahahahahaha!

haha!

 

[Rufstuf]

^^^ Hope it was an Arnold Shark as they've p*ssed me off recently...

As a matter of fact it was.....

 

[Gilbert_Ratchet]

I'm sure 99% of cups (thats are'nt smashed) are driven like this I know mine was. Like you said warmed through and full history. Mine went like stink!

You're just showing off cos you think you're mad.

 

[GazCB]

The dealer isn't gonna be arsed you've ragged it. They'll sell it just the same and get the same cash for it. It's the poor bugger who pays the extra cash to buy from a dealer just to get a shagged one.

 

[daviebroon]

It had done 50k, 49.9999 of that was between 5,000 rpm and the limiter (Sometimes over on down shifts!!)

Hahaha awesome

 

[Alex_225]

Pmsl.. I traded in a saxo for my clio and it had holes in the bonnet where bonnet pins used to be, and holes all over the inside where the roll cage was. I filled the holes and painted them and it looked terrible, so I made sure it was pissing down when the dealer looked at it and it went un-noticed!! Took the clio back a week later for a minor repair and the salesman saw me and went mental! It felt good seeing the salesman being ass-raped for a change lol.

that is wicked mate!! I love hearing a story like that, surely if the salesman was doing his job he's have checked it over properly.

I bet you felt proper smug after that!! lol

 

[stokedRich]

great thread, lol - appreciate your honesty - as Edde said you will be surprised how much abuse the Cup will take, of course as a buyer you would rather it wasn't thrashed within an inch of it's life on an hourly basis but I think buyers should also be realistic - the Cup was squarely marketed as a car built for competition use...as long as the car always had good fully synth oil in it, was serviced properly and warmed up before given a bloody good hiding it will probably be OK...for reference I hit the 'gear change' light on a daily basis and me & my Cup like it that way :approve:

 

[Rich]

Pmsl.. I traded in a saxo for my clio and it had holes in the bonnet where bonnet pins used to be, and holes all over the inside where the roll cage was. I filled the holes and painted them and it looked terrible, so I made sure it was pissing down when the dealer looked at it and it went un-noticed!! Took the clio back a week later for a minor repair and the salesman saw me and went mental! It felt good seeing the salesman being ass-raped for a change lol.

lol superb!

 

[Jon1978]

Wouldn't touch YY53 KSU either - but that's cos (a) it spent 1/4 the time I had it in the garage, with bunches of recess monkies from Dixons standing round it scratching their heads (and balls), and (b) I HPI'd it to see if it was still in existence, and according to the DVLA it has never existed, which makes me think that the dealer put the wrong plates on it from day 1. Plus I believe the kid after me pranged it and put it back on the road.

Incidentally it IS still on the road cos I saw it a short time ago near Harrogate.

 

[simonjones10]

I really hope some muppet Trowbridge chavvie buys it. I would take great pleasure in seeing it steaming away on the side of the road somewhere after the gomo has blamed the lack of ABS for him crashing into a lampost (don't want anyone hurt obv!!).