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[bigfella2]

As everyone seems to be buying Clio sports, I thought I would dig out my Clio 182 and put it on the road. It's been shielding in my garage for the last six months.

While it's been parked I have added another earth to each rear cluster to stop it lighting my dash up everything I brake, fitted a new o/s drive shaft, even  autodoc supplied to correct part.

Fitted a new temp sender and adjusted the brake switch to cure my abs fault.

Drove ten yards

Maybe I didn't fix the abs problem. Typical Clio ownership experience.🥳

[320touring]

#cliolyf

[Jamie]

18 minutes ago, loserone said:

A slightly scruffy but tested and not fucked one sold on eBay tonight for £360.  That is a lot of bang for buck!

the orange one? Saw that but was a mission away, plus could have had the axle issue :S 

a moonstone blue one ended the other day @ £510, and is now on Autotrader for £995 i think 

I hope once my axle's sorted it will be a 'minter' for a 206

[17-Coffees]

3 hours ago, HMC said:

I sold this old forum friend over a year ago.
 

I had’nt seen it since, until today. It’s still alive, but a bit modified....

 

Punching above it’s Weight (320i badge gone/ m3 front apron ?) it’s still an auto so I’m assuming it’s not had an engine transplant etc

On the E36 Stereotype bingo sheet, nearly a full house on the mod's.
I did always say to @Supernaut that this would end up happening once it left here...

Another reason for him to keep the 316 at all costs! 

[brownnova]

Thursday night (it was decided before I got home from work) was takeaway night.

So I hopped aboard the most able curry collection vehicle: 

Now I took the photo and had planned that the post would end there... but... 

About half a mile from home it started making quite a din! (It’s a 2CV it’s not the quietest anyway...) I think it blew a hole in its exhaust.... (hopefully not a foreshadowing of what will happen to me after the curry 😬)

No... not a hole... it sheered the bugger off!!! 

 

Thankfully I have the one I picked up from as kind soul on here as a replacement!! 

[SiC]

1 hour ago, bigfella2 said:

As everyone seems to be buying Clio sports, I thought I would dig out my Clio 182 and put it on the road. It's been shielding in my garage for the last six months.

While it's been parked I have added another earth to each rear cluster to stop it lighting my dash up everything I brake, fitted a new o/s drive shaft, even  autodoc supplied to correct part.

Fitted a new temp sender and adjusted the brake switch to cure my abs fault.

Drove ten yards

Maybe I didn't fix the abs problem. Typical Clio ownership experience.🥳

Has the battery been disconnected? I don't know with the Clio but usually you need to put the steering from lock to lock for recalibrating the steering angle end stops after reconnecting the battery. 

[bigfella2]

Yeah the battery has been disconnected, but it's always done since I've had it, always seems to behave mot time.

It doesn't throw any codes up so I was thinking it was the brake switch pedal out of adjustment, as I've read the when you brake the abs realises there is a increase in pressure in the system, but if the brake light switch isn't activated it throws up the abs light. So needs to be adjusted properly.

It's possible to trigger the light without even driving the car just by keeping foot on the brake.

I don't know if the lock to lock will do anything with this as I ripped out the shite Pas system for epas.

[Supernaut]

13 hours ago, 320touring said:

Meh, bigger losses at Culloden as me maw says...

Glad it's still alive though. Wonder if is still a 2 key job to start it?!

...and stop it again!

That, plus the non-existent driver's door check strap, random cutting out in neutral, and general scabbiness of it plus having a tidy 316i become available made me offload it.

I also remember the driver's side window regulator was cracked (as in the metal itself was cracked), and being a coupe meant it dropped and lifted the window every time you opened the door. This meant it made a rather sphincter-clenching BANG every time I opened the door. I tried replacing the regulator but it was held in with the world's strongest rivets. A hardened drill bit didn't even make a dent!

I still want another straight-6 in my life though. The noise that 320i made on full-chat was addictive. I also went the fastest I've ever driven a car in that one.

[dozeydustman]

Taken a freighter to Fareham Scania for MoT.

It’s tempting to buy some Swedish HGV trinkets and tat.....

[Aston Martin]

Stupid 4x4. Didn't start on the first turn, I left at 6:30 so it wasn't too bad.

However if I leave the house at 5am as normal. The neighbours will batter me to death.

[busmansholiday]

7.5k on it when I bought it at six months old seven years ago.

[vulgalour]

Today I've been pestered by a memory of an advert from probably the early 90s.  Couple keep taking their car back to the dealership to find the source of a squeak in their new car.  Ends up being the woman's earring.  My brain is telling me it was for the Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier... or maybe the Mk2 Volkswagen Golf.  Definitely a manufacturer beginning with V.  It's really bugging me at any rate, anyone else remember the advert and maybe have a link to it?

[louiepj]

Definitely VW Golf as I remember Jasper Carrot doing a spoof on it, think they were Carrotts Commercial Breakdowns.
Reg No. AXI 7191.
1987 Mk 2 Golf
according to youtube?

Edited to add year and mk of golf.

[vulgalour]

Thanks for reminding me of Carrott's Commercial Breakdowns which I'd completely forgotten until you mentioned it!

[barefoot]

Bought a new plate for the back of the Rover.

Before;

After;

I was very pleased with FancyPlates.com

 

 

[beko1987]

Why would you want to advertise that your car came from Slough? Could have picked the (what was) the most prestigious rover dealer! Mayfair Park Royal or something! 

 

(I am only joking, I do understand. I'm lucky in that my xsara original plates and dealer decal on the tailgate are in tip top condition) 

[vulgalour]

That's a really weird looking registration, it's the OUO that's doing it, makes it look like it's a weird letter/number format.  Subtle removal of the fixing bolts is a nice touch.

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

That's a really weird looking registration, it's the OUO that's doing it, makes it look like it's a weird letter/number format.  Subtle removal of the fixing bolts is a nice touch.

Oh, two. Oh - you. Oh! Why not bolt it - surely more original?

[richardmorris]

Talking to my parents just now. Dad has mentioned a spanner in the works of the fiat’s Mot next month. Our friendly reliable old car and bike mot place is in Weston Rhyn, Shropshire ( by half a mile) and they are in wrexham, wales and not allowed to leave. Hmm. I’ve not even seen the car since February! But brakes, tyres clutch and exhaust were fine then.

[Six-cylinder]

44 minutes ago, richardmorris said:

Talking to my parents just now. Dad has mentioned a spanner in the works of the fiat’s Mot next month. Our friendly reliable old car and bike mot place is in Weston Rhyn, Shropshire ( by half a mile) and they are in wrexham, wales and not allowed to leave. Hmm. I’ve not even seen the car since February! But brakes, tyres clutch and exhaust were fine then.

Ask the garage to collect and deliver?

[richardmorris]

1 minute ago, Six-cylinder said:

Ask the garage to collect and deliver?

It’s a one man band. It was next door to the Citroen specialist we used since I got my 2cv in 1993! Has motd the fiat since I’ve had it. The alternative is box lane mot which is about 500m from the parent’s house and been there since the 1950s so should be familiar with older cars. It doesn’t need a service - it’s done 20miles this year!

[egg]

It's probably gone up in value! Oh for the days when they were £500.

[richardmorris]

7 minutes ago, egg said:

It's probably gone up in value! Oh for the days when they were £500.

Some still are, but they tend to be a little holey.

[HMC]

6 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Today I've been pestered by a memory of an advert from probably the early 90s.  Couple keep taking their car back to the dealership to find the source of a squeak in their new car.  Ends up being the woman's earring.  My brain is telling me it was for the Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier... or maybe the Mk2 Volkswagen Golf.  Definitely a manufacturer beginning with V.  It's really bugging me at any rate, anyone else remember the advert and maybe have a link to it?

I remember it well. Mk2 golf. If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen. The garagiste had very noisy stubble if memory serves

[HMC]

And that man is @RobT for both ownership of a mk2 gti and ESP for interior noises.

@vulgalour I remember it as it as on a family video recording of Christmas Day Screening of return of the Jedi on Itv- about 1989

slightly less relevant were these adverts on the recording too (we only had about 2 memorex blank tapes so watched it a lot and hence lodged in the memory....)
 

 

 

 

[SiC]

I have quite a thing for a MK2 Golf atm. Would have to be a GTi of course. But probably only a knackered and rusty 8v is all I could afford

[320touring]

Just now, SiC said:

I have quite a thing for a MK2 Golf atm. Would have to be a GTi of course. But probably only a knackered and rusty 8v is all I could afford

8v is the one to have. That's sufficient valves per cyl

[RobT]

30 minutes ago, HMC said:

And that man is @RobT for both ownership of a mk2 gti and ESP for interior noises.

LoLz!

Oak green big bumpered 3 door.  The most unreliable car I've ever owned.  But I was also fussy in those days and wanted it perfect.  Nowadays I'll drive any old shit.

[mitsisigma01]

12 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Taken a freighter to Fareham Scania for MoT.

It’s tempting to buy some Swedish HGV trinkets and tat.....

Get them to use Scania at Please Pottage near Crawley and you can nip over the road to Bridgers scrappy 

[LabRat]

That's the mg6 dropped off for its mot. It's only done 4000 miles since the last test, but that was done by stoneacre mg before I bought it, so Christ only knows what will happen.

If you're anywhere near Oldham and hear a strange, high pitched wailing in the next hour or so, it's just my wallet howling in misery!