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That was me :rasp: My friend actually told me about this thread tonight, as he bought the car off me :( Youngish? Im not that old ;)

Excellent read :approve:

I literally just commented on this on RMS :p Nice example mate

I wondered that also. Based on the many reviews I read here, I get mine fitted on Saturday. Seems they lower approx 1 inch.

Exactly. The previous owner bought and refurbished a spare turini though. Not a bad complaint!

Thanks for the comments. Took a while finding one in such excellent condition which hadn't been molested . Yep, no headlamp washers in these either. If you don't like luxuries of any kind, they are fun cars ;)

Hi everyone, registered here a couple of years back when I had my first 172 cup. I stupidly sold up and bought an EP3. But I fixed that on monday night when I picked up this :) 45K miles, 2003, K-Tec Stainless Steel exhaust I Dont possess a real camera, so my iPhone had to do :(

dude, what a missus :approve: I picked my new bird up after my birthday, have to wait till next August :(

Didnt know that could be done. May keep that in mind for next October :o

Brakes, thats where the fun is come MOT time :(

Well took it through this morning, the manager didnt want to know and thought my head was up my arse. Thankfully the guy testing the guy seemed to know all about the cups and bounced on the brakes to get me an acceptable reading, job done :)

With me doing this in NI with the DVA Im not sure if they will accept the VOSA? My best bet is to ring head office and pick a fight :(

If all this is such an issue is there not some sort of way of just tightening the rear brakes? Im not very mechanically minded btw lol

25 sounds abit low lol. It's sounding like I will have to argue the bit out tomorrow with them :(

Tell me about it, it's a bundle of shite lol. I just have no idea how I will find this extra 5% brakig effort, I changed discs and pads last month. The bloke at the MOT centre said he understands this part isn't on my motor, buts it's still braking too weak, so do I just argue the point home...

Dead on thanks

Il give them a shout in the morning thanks. Pretty piss poor that these motors keep failing, then Renault don't have a notion about what is on their cars. The only thing throwing me of is it went through MOT fine last year

Yeh it's just I see you lot have VOSA to complain to when the garage gets it wrong, I can't really attempt to go over anyones head at a dvta office, that's another problem I have ffs

Got ya. Sorry if I come across as stupid but is VOSA a mainland thing? Or do they cover MOTs here in NI?

I'm in NI, we only have like 3 testing centres :(

Thanks. But surely my overall braking needs to hit a certain percentage? But does tightening the handbrake have any effect on the brake pedal? I'm tired of garages being c***s lol

As I said lol, but my overall braking effort is 45%, 5% below what it should be, will tightening the handbrake increase braking effort at the foot?

Right I accept that the load sensing valve is on these and isn't used, the MOT centre accept this, but the garage doing the work is insisting on fitting this to my car at a cost of 124 + vat :( I've been told by a reliable source that simply tightening the handbrake will increase the overall...

Still, Id start with the exhaust and go from there

I find the rubber bit just eats itself :( especially the bracket at the very back. Never had any trouble with the one in the middle though.

You will be replacing the mounts on a regular basis Ill tell you that much lol

Mine done that continually until I sorted out the exhaust mounts

Thats insane. Does this not torque steer like mad? You need to get a video up of how well it goes :rasp: *edit. Insanely cool i mean btw :approve:

Where did you get the sticker for the bonnet? Looks well :approve:

mine done that right after i changed the oil and oil filter. stopped doing it itself after about 20mins