Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
Spot on.... ;)
Glad you like it Andy, hopefully you'll have as much fun in it as i did!
Oh, and love the 106 too, that looks the business. Is that a 2" Pugsport exhaust? I used to have a 1.6 106 XSi, awesome cars.
Cheers, to be honest i originally had it at about 700 words, but they requested between 1000 and 1200, so i padded it out a bit.
I guess its a skill of a journalist to keep the reader interested so that they don't realise its so long. All stuff i need to learn....
Yep that's right - basically £10k per year.
Some people get the idea, some don't.
Hey Christopher, i'm up in Lymm at the mo visiting the folks for xmas, i'll keep an eye out for the FPM, i'm in my girlfriends poxy 1.2 Dynamique - where's all the power gone?!?!?!?!
Cheers for the comments all, it means a lot that people like it!
I got into it through my membership to http://www.ecurie25.co.uk
I've been a member for a couple of years, and whenever i took a car out i stuck a little 500 word post up on the Pistonheads forum about it.
I got a fair bit of...
Afternoon all,
Don't know if any of you will be interested, but i've done my first full road test peice for Pistonheads.
Its on the frontpage at the moment, or click here:
http://www.pistonheads.com/roadtests/doc.asp?c=47&i=17359
All comments welcome.
'Wierd', but certainly addictive!
It goads me into driving to the limiter so i can make it do its little vocal tricks, and ends up with me doing 23mpg!!!
I was just thinking back, and remembered that Chris Harris had a Black Gold Mk2 V6 as an Autocar Long termer a while ago.
Now the main difference was it had a full cream leather interior - a £1500 option IIRC. Not seen it anywhere since, so i wonder if it went on to be a renault UK car, or if...
Anyone live near Wickford that fancies coming round and having a look? I've got decent mechanical nous, but if there's someone near who knows Clios inside out and would be able to diagnose instantly it'd be a real help.
I've not had it too long, and haven't had to work on it yet!
There'll be a...
Okay, so over the last couple of days my steering has developed a 'clunk' when you turn the wheel when stationary, left to right.
You can also feel a 'jump' when you turn onto full lock in reverse/1st as you move off, as if something isn't right with the front sus.
I can't get under the car to...
Anyone know how much one of these would be from Renault?
Some prick has reversed into my car in a car park and driven off.
Luckily the paintwork stuff will polish out, but they ripped off the washer jet while they were at it.
I'm guessing its a bumper off job to refit as well.
w*****s.
Okay, these aren't the ones in the group buy, but these ones:
I'm thinking of getting a set in silver to go with the new style badges on the back. Just updates the car a little, i feel.
So what do people think? will they look good?
I may do a litttle photochop...
Typical, cleaned my car on tuesday night, gave it a proper going over.
Parked my car outside work yesterday, only to find when i returned that all the local birds have used it as target practice!
Little f***ers!!
Another hour of pressure washer, car shampoo and tar&bug remover, and its back...
Incidentally, had the Audi R8 this weekend - fooking amazing car, truly blew me away.
Looks like its from 20yrs from now....
Here's a full writeup if you're interested:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=429062