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I had some AD08's fitted last week and they are great in the wet. Plus they have 2mm more tread than 595 RSR.

It looks like those ebay seats fit the existing bolt holes in the floor. If you do need a frame you need to know if the sliders will fit on the frame as they look a bit wide. Another issue is the seat belt, as the retainer or whatever its called is mounted to the clio seat base and those seats...

I replaced my rear cup shocks with Koni yellows and it has definitely improved handling. The koni's have a big amount of adjustment, so turned down my car feels softer than before and roles more in the corners, but when turned up it corners much better than before, but obviously its a harsher...

I am looking for some 195/50/15 atm and was thinking of the 595RSR, but Yoko AD08's are only about £300 including delivery, so I might go with those instead.

I have the same frames and the lugs that have been removed are of no use. I have used the other lugs for the belt plugs

Isn't the bolt spacing on the front shocks different?

I got my cup for £1650, with 68k and recent belt change.I have had it 6 month and the only problems have been a speedo sensor and reverse gear sensor. I bought a std 172 with about 115k from someone on here last year and had no bother with that either, but it had obviously been well looked...

You could buy some PTFE sheet and make some for about 10 quid

Here are std cup springs next to non cup springs. The rear is a lot shorter, but the front looks almost the same. I have replaced my cup springs with eibach sportlines and the rear is the same height, but the front is now lower.

The cup springs are not the same and cup's do sit lower at the back.

The top one looks like a std 172 spring and the lower one a cup spring. Here are the std front and rear next to cup ones. The cup springs lower the back end about 30mm compared to std 172 springs.

I had problems with this method when fitting Koni shocks and Sportline springs. I had to put a trolley jack under the shock and jack it up in order to get enough thread to tighten the top nut onto. This may have been due to the new rubbers, or the Koni shocks might me slightly shorter than...

My brother had a similar problem with his Clio, so rang a local place that repaired sunroofs. They suggested rubbing Vaseline into the rubber where it meets the glass and it worked a treat.

I bought one of those ones in the first link and when I hit a pot hole approaching a round about, it snapped and the bottle of coke it was holding ended up behind my brake pedal. I had to stop using the hand brake.

Clio's don,t have rear struts, they have a rear damper and separate spring located between the floor and sub frame/axle. Because of that, there's only really up and down force on the damper tops anyway, most of the cornering force is going through the rear axle. If there was a lot of force on...