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well after 2 years of hell with my 53 plate 172 i had to say goodbye
good bits about the clio well i actually loved looking at it made me smile and driving it was fun but ive now got a 55 plate astra 150bhp diesel with alota wee extra half leather n stuff as the clio was just hell only had it...
basicly when im driving my serv light traction control light and electrical warning light will come on and it will stick idling at 3k revs and will not respond to the accelerater but if i turn the engine of and on it works fine for an hr a day a week just does it wen it wants basicly any ideas...
wen i drive sometimes the car loses all power the electrical warning light comes on along with the service light anbd the traction control light ive read soem other threads on this but none on the traction control light coming on aswell but wen i restart the engine all is fine till it does it...
basicly ive been having imobiliser problems now for months i turn the key and its like dead but eventually it will go i take it, it is the imobiliser as the wee light on the dash wotn stop flashing, i have a sigma alarm system on it but the guy from sigma says it wont be a sigma imobiliser as...
basicly im considering getting rid of the clio due to getting fed up with the power (or lack of compared to my mates cars) or would it be worth me keeping the clio and getting cams and a map would it give me a real new feel for the car or would i be better moving on to say an integra dc2 type r...
rite guys been offerd a turbo,manifold, and ecu are the engines the same and ecu is this possible if so wat else would i need do they fit a 182 arethe engines the same
cheers
ok i got a wee tango on a private road against a wee nova running 160 bhp ish ... sat with it till 135 then at the last bit b4 the end i was just about to overtake it and then i go on the local forum *strathycruise* only to find the clio is once again getting slated i hate it when this happens...
the lights are all out the fuses are ok its murder a cant drive her at nyte just now back lighs dont work but ma brakes are fine! and my sidelights dont work bu tthe xenons are fine and a cant see ma speedo ethier as its too dark!!! ahhh help!!!
im gonna get a new phone next week and was wondering what one to choose from its gonna be a nokia n73 or a sony ericsson k810i
dunno what one tho my mates have the 2 of them but one with the nokia says his and the other 3 with the sony say theres .. what would you guys say??
was driving home today to find my car was refusing to go into 2nd gear! i took it up to ma mates garage n he told me it would cost a fortune to fix the internals or summat so as i was drivin home i jus went off ma head n battered it into 2nd and it works fine again!! maybe a gear linkage?? any...
got my car remaped today ive got a cat back janspeed and an itg panel filter i felt a diffrence mid range it picked up alot beter, but my mate who has a 182 we have had a wee blast before from 50 to 140 n we sat side by side but i got my map tonite tried it again and there was no diffence! i...
getting a remap next week altho ive got a cat back jan speed and itg panel filter will i see or feel any improvments? the company claims 17bhp and 19 pound of torque for 295 just wanna know if its gonna be worht the money basicly!! or should i just go out n drink it all: )
next year a was maybe gna get an integra type r dc2 a think there amazin and hold there money well... but do i get rid of my beloved clio 172 for it ?? wat u guys think ?
whos all going to it tommorow night?? would like to go altho saturday ntyes at kroozes dont appeal to me i prefer a wee pub or club!! anythign involving booze!! altho it does sound good i might be forced to go up just to see how many of my frenchys are going show the other cars up :)
as cool as the sport is ive only had it for 4 months now and as expected it rattles and i always feel like its gonna fail on me somwhere putting me off big style compared to when i sit im my mates type r it just feels more reliable and sturdy makes me jelous :(
ive got a nice wee discreet itg panel filter on my car, but last night my mate had a pipercross twister thing lying in hsi garage and he said i should try it on, i did and i think it sounds like a crap mg lol needless to say itl be coming back off!!
right ive had 3 clios now and all of them have had the same crap with the windows i thought my 172 would be fine untill the other day it just kinda slides outa place!! its sooo annoying!! and happens with all my clios!!!
shorta cash n gna order a wee itg filter from ktech is it ne good fink its a panel filer or summat? http://www.k-tecracing.com/show_product.asp?id=1359 just a wee summat new coz am getting bored and funds permit :dapprove:
my mate whom i hadnt saw for about a year appeared last night in his new mini cooper s works... slated my car to death saying how he was gonna give me it so i took him down my cough ***private drag strip**** cough and sat side by side with him.. he still went on to say ahh but u never pulled...
he actually told a girl we work with she would be better with a wee 1.2 corsa than a 1.2 clio!!! couldnt believe wat i heard i hate vauxhalls he began to slate my 172 by saying its made of plastic!! true enough but still nicer than any corsa
old ppl should be shot!!
ryte sounds totaly daft now ive had it for a month and a dont know if its a 172 or a 182 its a 53 plate it dont have the dual exhausts and it has the 16inch ones that look like the standard clio wheels, ma mates say they made the 182 2003 onwards but a just dont know a typed in ma reg on a...
was driving home today n the abs and service light came on, turned my engine off and on again n it aint camke back on since?? any ideas?? am gna get it serviced neways!! made ma paranoid!! ave only had it a month aswell!!!