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Wished mine looked this good :)

Finally changed thermostat only to find no thermostat actually fitted to the car, now I have car running better as it is now getting up to normal temperature. Should have expected as such knowing the previous owner! Car seems to be running about 6-7mpg better off at lower speeds as well. So all good

Yeah it moves slowly can do 10 miles and virtually no moment eventually creeps up after sitting in traffic but only to around half way, sounds like a new stat on the cards then, thanks for the info will try after I've had a quick look at instructions cheers, love this forum

My water temperature gauge hardly ever shows normal temperature usually it shows around a third then occasionally almost up to normal then drops. The mpg also doesn't seem to show much more than 31-34 mpg It's a 172 phase 2 it had been off the road for a while, it's had new spark plugs...

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Cheers is it a breather pipe to feed back I into the plennum airflow?

I have this pipe on the pulley side of my engine it is blanked off but clearly looks like it should be attached to the engine round the back. ClioSport 172 ph2 1 What is it for and where should it be connected 2 Why would it be blanked off and left to one side! Confused

Sounds good, but what does it look like, as I have no idea?

So my 172 ph2 Black Pearl is nearly ready for a an MOT and soon to be back on the road, but I need a new cat back exhaust, after to speaking to a few people I have been told to get a custom stainless steel one made (with optional decay pipe), almost bought a yozza, I already have a single hole...

The difference between Night and Day, good work, slowly getting mine roadworthy, next job will be the engine bay after looking at yours

My 172 had a really bad misfire all through the range when I bought it off the previous owner, who thought it was serious so sold it cheap, changed HT leads and the put in new NGK plugs misfire sorted, just fixing all the other problems, but should start there first. Good luck hope it turns out...

Just tried fitting front K-Tec Racing coilovers to my 172 and have just realised that the two upper bolts at the bottom of the shock have a strengthening flange that doesn't allow the standard nut and bolt to fit flush. I have contacted K-Tec to find out what I need, they replied I need the...

Thats sounds a good idea as I can't move the car. did try and split the nut in half, but looks like that is going to take some time but the other side I will look at getting the machine mart impact gun. Cheers guy

I'm thinking maybe a nut splitter might do the trick as I'm sure the shocks are fine and would rather not damage them and keep them as spare

Yeah it is off the floor now as I had to remove wheels and to get new tyres, will have problem using impact driver as i haven't got one or accces to one and cant move the car, even when I get the wheel the front spring broken and will slice the wheel as it already had done! I will try and move...

Spent ages trying to remove the top mount nuts on my shock absorbers on my 172, nicely seized on, so have been hammering my spanner, using wd40 and oil to try and get the top nut off my shocks, now I have a broken hex in the top as well, am I better off using an angle grinder or drilling the top...

Decided to start back on the clio seeing as my last car was nicked and burnt out, so finally got the HT leads and battery I kept meaning to try and sort out this misfire, thought I would need to do loads more work seeing as I hadn't start the car for over a year! Like change the fuel out etc...

Just out of interest how much did you pay for your 182?

Already spent a few hours researching on this site, it's getting a bit addictive, thinking about what I need to upgrade, before it's even on the road.

Thanks that's nice to know, it might not be as expensive, beginning to think it was going to escalate beyond my means. :cool:

Thanks for the replies, OK being new to these cliosports pocket rockets I've heard of a dephaser, but not sure what that is so will look it up! Looking at gaskets for the inlet as mine seems to have been sealed with sealant, anyone have any idea how much from renault as the ones on ktech site...

Went to put new spark plugs in my project 172 and found water on the plugs for the two central cylinders, I did a degrease of the engine at the weekend using loads of water (as it also had loads of oil down the cam belt side of the engine), but when pulling off the leads they were dry and clean...

Good thread guys, just what I was after, as my 172 has dodgy o/s engine mount (n/s looks brand new) and have decide to go for oem topmounts and powerflex dogbone as other threads have said, as I wasn't sure whether to get ktech mount, but seems overkill now.

:dead::(Hi all Been the owner of this 172 just over a year, bought it broken with no MOT off a friend who has a habit of killing cars, always wanted a fast renault now I have one, although off the road (my love started with the R5 Gordini). Haven't been able to spend time or money for various...