What’s happened here?

[hipwell]

Mine’s just on 100,000 so not that much higher, but l think 100,000 is a psychological number and a car with even 97,000 will be worth more, even though it makes no actual difference.

I totally agree, I watch plenty of cars on eBay as my mate is into buying and selling. He won't touch anything with 100k plus as it seems to be a magical number which as soon as a car gets to, it is worth next to nothing.

So asking top dollar for a car with such mileage will be difficult to sell even if the car is spotless.

If love to drop 3600 on your car but the issue will be when I come to sell it in 2 years and it's got 120k on the clock nobody will want it.

 

[Landyman]

Well, most cars that are 15 + years old are going to have that mileage.
I looked at several low mileage 182’s and the condition was no better, in fact worse in many cases.

 

[hipwell]

Well, most cars that are 15 + years old are going to have that mileage.
I looked at several low mileage 182’s and the condition was no better, in fact worse in many cases.

I agree mate. My mate has just bought a 63k mile monaco but id take my 120k monaco any day of the week.

I'm always skeptical of a low mileage 15 year old car, it screams mileage correction service to me, as if done properly before each MOT nobody will ever know..

 

[Touring_Rob]

It is completely physiological, I would buy a car in worse condition with 60k on it than a mint example with 90+k, you can (normally) make a rough car mint with enough time, money and patience but you can't (can't really) reduce the number of miles it has done.

 

[R3k1355]

I have no idea why the cups sell for more? Rarity I guess?

Is it even that though, I mean it's not like there's a mega shortage of them for sale, they come up often.

I wonder if some people assume the 182 Cup is the better car and overlook the FF cars.

 

[Touring_Rob]

Is it even that though, I mean it's not like there's a mega shortage of them for sale, they come up often.

I wonder if some people assume the 182 Cup is the better car and overlook the FF cars.

I have no idea, I know that when I initially started looking for a 182 I knew nothing about them and was looking at cups just because I made the assumption that the cup was better than the ff. After lots of reading I restricted my search to FF cars with cup packs only because they were the same price (or less) and have a substantially nicer interior imo.

So wonder if people make the same assumption that I did?

Either way, I still cannot believe how good they are for the money, 1-2k gets you something that works and is fun - can't think of too many other cars with so many grins per £ spent.

 

[Landyman]

The thing is with these cars, and it’s something l have learnt since l bought mine, is they are not yet classics.
So you cannot expect to buy one, run it for two years, and then get your money back when you sell it.
So as mentioned above, if someone was to buy my 182 and then put 20,000 miles on it, it’s going to be worth less.
Not a lot less, certainly a lot better than buying a newer car where depreciation is a factor.
But the Clio 172/182 has not yet arrived at the stage where you can buy a good one for £2-4,000, use it for a year or two, then sell it on for a profit.

Unless you buy one for next to nothing and do it Up. Say under £1,000. But at that price you’ll probably have to spend £2,000+ to get it to the point where it will be worth £1500-2,000.

 

[imprezaworks]

I made £150 on mine after three years

 

[Landyman]

I was meaning more, that if you buy a solid useable 172/182 for £1-2,000 and then spend a further £2,000+ doing all the work on it, then you are unlikely to find that it’s then worth all the money you’ve spent.

Unlike (say) a Land Rover Defender where you can buy at £10,000, spend £2,000 on it, keep it four years and 50,000 miles, and it then be worth £14,000+

 

[STEVE.M]

I was meaning more, that if you buy a solid useable 172/182 for £1-2,000 and then spend a further £2,000+ doing all the work on it, then you are unlikely to find that it’s then worth all the money you’ve spent.

Unlike (say) a Land Rover Defender where you can buy at £10,000, spend £2,000 on it, keep it four years and 50,000 miles, and it then be worth £14,000+

I`m sorry, but I`m not the kind of boy that had a poster of a Land Rover on my bedroom wall.

 

[Landyman]

Neither was l.

In fact l didn’t have any car posters on my wall, l wasn’t really into cars as a kid.
I didn’t get my Land Rover until l was much older, bought because l was fed up losing money on vans.

 

[Clio_fool]

I made £150 on mine after three years

f**k off, it had £2k worth of wax on it! ?

 

[Landyman]

Most of the wax on mine is underneath, inside the sills, and behind the wheel arches!

 

[Touring_Rob]

I was meaning more, that if you buy a solid useable 172/182 for £1-2,000 and then spend a further £2,000+ doing all the work on it, then you are unlikely to find that it’s then worth all the money you’ve spent.

Unlike (say) a Land Rover Defender where you can buy at £10,000, spend £2,000 on it, keep it four years and 50,000 miles, and it then be worth £14,000+

I think it really depends on what work you do your self. These are seriously cheap cars to maintain and fix from a parts perspective. Bought mine for £1000 with 74k on it, by the time its had suspension (everything), belts, water pump and a clutch etc. I will have spent around £800, with a little body work it will be really tidy.

I don't expect to make money on it, but its fun and economical and I know I won't loose money on it (if that makes sense). Where spending 4k on one, you are basically guaranteed to loose money but the advantage is you get to jump into a well sorted and reliable car which needs nothing. The difference is in the labor.

 

[Landyman]

Yes l think you are right there.
I spent £2,000 on the gearbox, clutch, driveshafts, belts and aircon.
I have done a lot of other things myself basically smaller jobs like speaker wiring, HT leads, replacing the gear lever, Waxoyl, etc
But l don’t have the facilities to remove a gearbox for instance.

 

[bloke]

I'd say location has almost as big an effect on price as mileage, some people will give a list as long as your arm what they want in a car and then say it's got to be within 25 miles of them!!

 

[Touring_Rob]

I think the value of these has nearly bottomed, I would not be surprised if we saw them gently increase over the next few years. Not sure I can be bothered to hold out that long! But they do deserve to be worth more than they are.

 

[Clio_fool]

Over the last year prices of 172 cup and RB 182's have gone up a bit. Tidy cups certainly seem to be in demand.

 

[Landyman]

Well yes, one just sold quickly for £4500
Where my FF which is probably about the same even down to the colour is unsold at nearly £1,000 less.

 

[Landyman]

The car is still not repaired

The first set of injectors from Renparts seem to have become lost in the post.

They have promised to send another set, but
the replacement set won’t be sent until Monday.

 

[flebay]

The first set of injectors from Renparts seem to have become lost in the post.

They posted a item that sells for £138 but dont have a tracking number?
I find that hard to believe, have they even sent them.

 

[STEVE.M]

The car is still not repaired

The first set of injectors from Renparts seem to have become lost in the post.

They have promised to send another set, but
the replacement set won’t be sent until Monday.

You should have had an email linking to a tracking number.

 

[Clio_fool]

The car is still not repaired

The first set of injectors from Renparts seem to have become lost in the post.

They have promised to send another set, but
the replacement set won’t be sent until Monday.

Well that's (not) surprising. Should have just gone to ecp. Actually, cancel them and go to ecp now. I'll bet you don't have anything from them next week.

 

[STEVE.M]

Well that's (not) surprising. Should have just gone to ecp. Actually, cancel them and go to ecp now. I'll bet you don't have anything from them next week.

If Renparts have not sent them, it will because they have found that the ones they bought from ECP have something else in the packet.

See post 159

https://www.cliosport.net/threads/really-feint-hesitation-miss-at-light-throttle.813309/page-4

 

[Landyman]

I used the link to Renparts that was recommended on here.
How much are they from
ECP?

 

[R3k1355]

£176 for a set of 4

 

[JamesBryan]

It would seem that Renparts have been given an incorrect batch, as Steve says.

 

[STEVE.M]

£176 for a set of 4

7 days a week, at the counter?

 

[Landyman]

Renparts was £135.

I will give ‘em a chance. Let’s see if they can deliver the correct set.

 

[R3k1355]

7 days a week, at the counter?

Click and collect ?

 

[STEVE.M]

Click and collect ?

Using discount code XMAS75 I`m still getting £44.21 each & my local branch only has 2 in stock.

Anyway, this is what pisses me off, if I can buy 5 litres of oil from them for £17 on a Sunday, and they are making a profit, why should I be expected to pay more

on a Wednesday?

 

[Louis]

Just get ecp to price match renparts?

 

[STEVE.M]

Just get ecp to price match renparts?

I was thinking that their pricing is just like all the car parts shops in Luton, always trying to rip you off, and then I found this to confirm it.

The company was founded when Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia opened a motor parts shop in Willesden, North West London, in 1978. Euro Car Parts now have two hundred branches nationwide, having opened their 200th branch in Moss Lane, Manchester, United Kingdom, in December.

 

[Landyman]

Finally the injectors have arrived from Renparts!

 

[Landyman]

Well, it seems Renparts did dispatch the injectors last Tuesday as promised.

The original parcel arrived today, looking like it had been around a bit.
So l need to send one of the sets back to them.

 

[mossyv6]

That's very honest of you.

A lot would sit on both sets and wait for any come back.

 

[Landyman]

All fixed

Four new injectors new HT leads (gen) and runs better than ever.

Nice to have it back on the road, just needs the EML resetting.
I assume it will stay on until reset? On my BMW although the fault remained in the memory the EML would go out after a certain number of “good” engine starts were detected.

 

[Louis]

All fixed

Four new injectors new HT leads (gen) and runs better than ever.

Nice to have it back on the road, just needs the EML resetting.
I assume it will stay on until reset? On my BMW although the fault remained in the memory the EML would go out after a certain number of “good” engine starts were detected.

Yeah buy a cheap obd reader and clear the codes.
The £5 eBay ones will do