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Hi all...
Just some questions around Clio 182...
You can apparently get a 182 on a 2004 with 85k on the clock for around £2-3k.
That seems like quite good value for money.
My questions are...
1) Does anybody have real life experience of MPG ?
2) Does it come with a 3rd seat belt in the rear as standard (couldn't see it on some pics?)
3) Is the car typically going to represent a money pit due to high mileaage - or are these clio's quite robust?
Thanks in advance.
Just some questions around Clio 182...
You can apparently get a 182 on a 2004 with 85k on the clock for around £2-3k.
That seems like quite good value for money.
My questions are...
1) Does anybody have real life experience of MPG ?
2) Does it come with a 3rd seat belt in the rear as standard (couldn't see it on some pics?)
3) Is the car typically going to represent a money pit due to high mileaage - or are these clio's quite robust?
Thanks in advance.
steve singh said:
Hi all...
Just some questions around Clio 182...
You can apparently get a 182 on a 2004 with 85k on the clock for around £2-3k.
That seems like quite good value for money.
My questions are...
1) Does anybody have real life experience of MPG ?
2) Does it come with a 3rd seat belt in the rear as standard (couldn't see it on some pics?)
3) Is the car typically going to represent a money pit due to high mileaage - or are these clio's quite robust?
Thanks in advance.
1) Driven well 25-30 in mixed, 35+ motorwayJust some questions around Clio 182...
You can apparently get a 182 on a 2004 with 85k on the clock for around £2-3k.
That seems like quite good value for money.
My questions are...
1) Does anybody have real life experience of MPG ?
2) Does it come with a 3rd seat belt in the rear as standard (couldn't see it on some pics?)
3) Is the car typically going to represent a money pit due to high mileaage - or are these clio's quite robust?
Thanks in advance.
2) It does.
3) Cam and aux belt need doing every 4 years/72k miles, if they're not done they're known to snap, few hundred quid to change. Other than that pretty good, no worse than any other car.
Buy the best you can afford with good quality service history and a recent belt change. Cheap ones can be turds, good ones same as any other car although main dealer prices can be obscene for what is still just a Clio. I have kept a blog of mine over the last 18 months or so and it hasn't been too painfull.
doogz said:
In traffic, mine would do 20mpg. On long motorway journeys at sensible speeds, never saw more than 33mpg out it.
Didn't keep it too long, didn't like it.
That is as bad, if not worse, than my T5. Which is lugging round more weight all of the time and has another 130bhp...Didn't keep it too long, didn't like it.
How?
jimbobsimmonds said:
That is as bad, if not worse, than my T5. Which is lugging round more weight all of the time and has another 130bhp...
How?
I never saw this in mine, the T5 in my ST is much thirstier. Worst I got was about 24 and this was when it was overdue a service, found after an oil change it improved by about 4/5 to the gallon. Bolton to Dover was 39mpg including getting stuck on the M25.How?
I have experience of 5 172/182's and never saw as low as 20.
Mine was a 2005 with 110k when bought, just under 130k when sold.
When driving hard, less than 25mpg is easily do-able. On an eco drive, (65-70 on the motorway) low 40's is certainly do-able. Mixed driving, mine averaged 30-35mpg.
Seat belt is included on all.
Aside from belt services, they're very cheap to keep going. Fred @ BTM quotes more for a belt service on a 182/172, more than a cup, as the air con system adds more labour time. I think prices were typically between £500-£700, including the dephaser.
Renault recommend:
36k - Aux belt
72k - Aux & Timing belt
108k - Aux
144k - Aux & timing
The exhaust backboxes are made of cheese, hense most cars now run aftermarket "performance" systems. Cat back stainless systems are often cheaper than a Renault back box. Rear dampers last about 50k iirc. And the steering wheels 'melt' and thumb rests fall out, not necessarily a fault, just gets a bit annoying on something you look at every time you drive the car.
To this day the best car i've owned so far, can see myself spending the money and picking up another one quite soon, maybe spend the extra and find a trophy though! GET ONE BOUGHT!
When driving hard, less than 25mpg is easily do-able. On an eco drive, (65-70 on the motorway) low 40's is certainly do-able. Mixed driving, mine averaged 30-35mpg.
Seat belt is included on all.
Aside from belt services, they're very cheap to keep going. Fred @ BTM quotes more for a belt service on a 182/172, more than a cup, as the air con system adds more labour time. I think prices were typically between £500-£700, including the dephaser.
Renault recommend:
36k - Aux belt
72k - Aux & Timing belt
108k - Aux
144k - Aux & timing
The exhaust backboxes are made of cheese, hense most cars now run aftermarket "performance" systems. Cat back stainless systems are often cheaper than a Renault back box. Rear dampers last about 50k iirc. And the steering wheels 'melt' and thumb rests fall out, not necessarily a fault, just gets a bit annoying on something you look at every time you drive the car.
To this day the best car i've owned so far, can see myself spending the money and picking up another one quite soon, maybe spend the extra and find a trophy though! GET ONE BOUGHT!
Thanks for the responses - really appreciated.
The MPG is a bit of killer - that's like a M3 - sounds very low !
Makes it a tough one - just wanted something FWD to do the station run in and surprised when I saw how cheap the 182 was...but with that MPG could easily get a scooby (ignorning the theft risk) for a little bit more and have a lot more poke ?
The MPG is a bit of killer - that's like a M3 - sounds very low !
Makes it a tough one - just wanted something FWD to do the station run in and surprised when I saw how cheap the 182 was...but with that MPG could easily get a scooby (ignorning the theft risk) for a little bit more and have a lot more poke ?
Robb F said:
How is everyone getting such bad mpg? Mine will do 42 on the motorway and drop to 35ish day to day driving.
Mine was used for stop start in rush hour and then country road blasts. It's not the car that's bad for MPG, it's the way it's driven and the type of use it has. For the same reason my Focus ST does 19mpg, it's driven in an uneconomical way.davebem said:
Im suprised the mpgs quoted are so low. I average 39mpg, normally get 42 on a motorway trip, but this is an earlier 172.
Not disputing, but if you are getting 42 on the motorway, which might be considered rather ideal mpg conditions (so long as you aren't trying for Mach 1... all the time 
). Then a 39mpg average would suggest rather ideal conditions too. The trouble here is, not everyone will have ideal mpg conditions. Hence the variance.If you do a lot of town work, or a lot of country road driving with a heavier right foot. Or short stop start journeys, then your mpg will be significantly lower than doing 20-30 miles a journey on dual carriage ways.
steve singh said:
Thanks for the responses - really appreciated.
The MPG is a bit of killer - that's like a M3 - sounds very low !
In my experience the MPG is certainly not like an M3! Mine is a 172 (but it's the same engine bar a couple of minor tweaks (exhaust I think)) and mine doesn't dip below late 20s- around town, mid-late 30s on a motorway run. The MPG is a bit of killer - that's like a M3 - sounds very low !
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