Just took an hour to read all this (in work time oops!) - fantastic write up for a great car - it sounds like its been an eventful journey for you!
Ben - that would be great! I haven't seen any of you guys for years so count me in. Any ideas on dates yet or are you thinking of waiting until Christmas and New Year are out of the way?Will have to sort meeting up. Spoke to G about getting together so would be cool if we could manage something similar to last time (brick not included) and with mini me in tow
Cheers, Skip. Sorry it took up your precious working time... :lol: ...and glad you enjoyed the read. Eventful? Yeah, I'll go with that!Just took an hour to read all this (in work time oops!) - fantastic write up for a great car - it sounds like its been an eventful journey for you!
Ben - that would be great! I haven't seen any of you guys for years so count me in. Any ideas on dates yet or are you thinking of waiting until Christmas and New Year are out of the way
Thanks, Grov. The only problem I have with the red is that it is starting to fade in places - especially the plastic bits and panels! The door handles are worst so they'll hopefully be off and replaced sometime early next year. The limited edition red looks good... but pink is not so good!That is really nice mate, love it in red.
My mates just got a silver 182, he thinks it's a cup, but im not sure. It has some awful Apex springs i think they are, it's far to low, surely if it was a cup you'd keep the standard springs?
Cheers danga, glad you enjoyed the read. French cars, eh? I'm told it's "French car character"... :lol:What a build thread. I throughly enjoyed reading that.......although I have always said this about French cars (issues in one form or another :lol.
BUT....I still like the car, and as said, real labour of love.
I won't argue with you, mate. The sooner the gremlins are gone the better. In one respect I'm glad the problems are being sorted now (over the winter months) so that I can start afresh next year and get out and enjoy it. Well, that's the plan.Nice read. Sounds like a bit of a mare, but I think you are right to continue to persevere with the car for the reasons you have mentioned. Just hope the gremlins foad soon, so you can go and enjoy it more.
Funnily enough I have been considering something along those lines, Ben. I was looking to get carbon fibre surrounds for the exhaust and considering black wrap on the handles and wing mirrors. I might have to get the old Photoshop out at some point and try a few experiments!Andy would a black wrap look ok on the door handles as I see you have black headlight washer covers?
Funnily enough, mate... a LOT of people share your opinion! It's real hard to explain to folks though just how much fun this car is. I know it's not the fastest (although the mod's have helped a bit and it's a bit of a sleeper, not many folks give it a second thought) but the way it handles and suits my driving... it's spot on. Especially after the damper rebuild. It's like your favourite pair of slippers / trainers that you just cannot bring yourself to part with. Which is indeed true of the Trophy. It is a keeper regardless of where future car purchases take me.That is one hell of a read Andy - I would have thrown the toys out of the pram ages ago!!!! :lol:
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Hmmm, sounds a bit dodgy to me mate! :lol: The Cup is a bit lighter and doesn't have all the luxuries of the 'full fat' versions but - handling-wise - it should be up there. It won't match a DC-5 for pace though, even less so as the speeds increase. It sounds like the handling on your mate's car has well and truly been screwed up with the aftermarket setup.Think it's got the cuper extra's, it's got half leather, HID lights and washers, and the black wheels, dunno if it's aproper cup though as i assume there lighter and have the better suspension? Says it doesn't grip much and it's dodgy on uneven surfaces, think it's the springs and kumho tyres or w/e they are to be honest.
It's no match for the DC5 in a straight line or in the bends.
Yeah pink is never good, seems to happen to all cars, Corsa's are bad for it, and Honda's.
Thanks mate - appreciate the feedback. I dropped the car off yesterday at the specialist to have the engine torn to bits and looked at so fingers crossed all will be fixed in a week or two. I'm just hoping there are no more huge bills headed my way.Superb write up. I would never have stuck with it with those problems. Have a soft spot for Clio's as i had an old 94 1.4 years ago and loved it although mechanically was always an ar$e.
Mint to look at and hopefully no more trips to the garage after this current one.
Yeah - spot on, danga. The rocker cover leak does appear to be gasket related (needs sealing properly) and sparks 2 and 3 are indeed swimming in oil. The rocker cover leak is a common issue on the ClioSport model. Hopefully the sump leak and cam seal leaks can be sorted easily. With my car being at the garage I actually noticed that there was a bigger oil leak than I thought (judging by the state of the driveway). That will be a pain to clean up.Just thought, the oil leak could just be a rocker cover gasket? I had it with my RS1800, that caused a couple spark plugs to swim in oil too.
Hi, davis.Where you from mate im from maesteg , great looking car however i dont know if i would have stuck with it given the faults you have had , i use to have a 172 , came with its own swimming pool in the boot , other than that it was faultless , my mate had same prob with his , only use to happen after washing under the rear arches , strange .
Literally the best thread ever!!!!.. Well done mate, the 182 is (another word for good) lol nearly bought one myself