RE: SOTW: Renault Clio Renaultsport 172

[Mr Wolf]

only1ian said:

Mr Wolf said:

BigTom85 said:

only1ian said:

Now i know SOTW has run out of ideas! They are featuring EXACTLY the same car as the last time it made SOTW back in January 2011:

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=162&i=229...

Not just the same model but quite possibly the ACTUAL car itself that or clio cups all come with the same after market steering wheel cover! Check that mileage matches some receipts and MOTs...

Also nice to know deprecation has stopped!

Hmmm, I too am a bit suspicious.

Different car - same wheel cover. Steering wheels are notorious for peeling

Car from last year has colour coded door handles and no rust

Plus that reg on last years advert has 6 former keepers

Rust could have easily developed in the last 2 years. Ive gone and checked and dont take your point about the door handles and the wheel cover is definitively the same, as is the sale price. I think this is someone trying to claw their shed money back. For someone who has gone to alot of trouble to clean the car up, they are very low on service details and the 6 owners issue would be covered by "clio previously had a different registration number but this is going onto one of our other cars"

Its the outside door handles I am referring to Ian - on the old ad they are painted silver (black as OEM) and in the current ad they are black (as per OEM)

It's fishy for sure but I reckon its a different car

[pat*1]

Fantastic pocket rocket ....but then again i too drive a 172

[Canningmister]

Speaking of "stories" about French reliability. A few years ago me and some mates were on our way to a pub or something along some country lanes and one of them under-steered his Micra into a ditch (one of the funniest hings I have ever witnessed). So another mate tried to pull his lightly stuck micra out with his Citroen C2 and destoyed the clutch (in about 15 seconds). Then another mates Renault Clio Mk 2 got a flat battery, and another mates Peugeot 206 wouldn't start. This was all within the space of about 20 minutes.

[anonymous-user]

Loving this, the Renaultsport range is always good. Great driver's cars

[ant leigh]

Canningmister said:

Speaking of "stories" about French reliability. A few years ago me and some mates were on our way to a pub or something along some country lanes and one of them under-steered his Micra into a ditch (one of the funniest hings I have ever witnessed). So another mate tried to pull his lightly stuck micra out with his Citroen C2 and destoyed the clutch (in about 15 seconds). Then another mates Renault Clio Mk 2 got a flat battery, and another mates Peugeot 206 wouldn't start. This was all within the space of about 20 minutes.

So the moral of this story is buy Japanese and end up in a ditch

[Baldy881]

Love the 172's, never did have long enough with mine before selling and going into company cars



No dodgy interior here

[Mr2Mike]

rallycross said:

A couple of yeara go I had a Clio Williams and a 182 cup at the same time, the Williams interior is a nicer place to sit, seats are lower and with better lateral support, the steering wheel is better positioned, the car feels less plasticky than the newer models, just lacks much in the way of toys and is a bit flimsy being 17 yr old crappy french renault quality.

You jest surely? I am far from an interior we (I was pretty happy with my AX GTi a few years back) but I sat in a friends 1.8 16v just after he bought it and I was stunned at just how nasty and plasticky it was. Proper old school hard scratchy plastic, acres of it. He turned it into a tarmac rally car, and after the interior was stripped out and a cage added it felt like a higher quality car

[trunks82]

m44kts said:

I was all set for buying a phase 2 172 until Swift Cover said I was too young to be insured on it, (I'm 28 FFS!) could have went elsewhere but didn't fancy losing 6 months no claims.

Shame as I really like them.

i feel your pain.im 30,never had so much as a parking ticket and they still try and sting me.bds.

[urquattroGus]

Just bought this a couple of weeks ago;

http://classifieds.pistonheads.com/classifieds/use...

Bought it as a fun trackday car, as the quattro is too heavy and expensive to track.

Great little car. There are about 15 secondhand engines one ebay at the moment for £250-600.

Best mod I have done so far is replce the throttle cable that some muppet fitted back to front and mostly with insulation tape, and I now have full throttle!

[mr hat]

Here's mine, 72k,

[MarkRSi]

andrewhutch1 said:

Hi guys - having seen a few interesting topics on RenaultSport models over the past few days I thought I'd chip in with my thoughts on reliability.

I've had the following Renaults over the years...

Renault Megane Dynamique 1.9 dci 120 (2004)
Renault Megane Dynamique 1.9 dci 120 (2005)
Renault Megane Dynamique 1.9 dci 130 (2006)
RenaultSport Clio 197 (2007)
RenaultSport Megane 225 (2008)
Renault Koleos (2009)
RenaultSport Clio 200 (2010)
RenaultSport Megane 250 (Jan 2011)
RenaultSport Megane 250 (Dec 2011)
RenaultSport Megane 265 (Sep 2012)

The only "issue" I've had is the Clio 200 had a light come on the dash indicating an engine problem which went to the dealer for a look - they couldnt find any issue but the fiddling around that they did fixed the problem all the same.
The rest of the cars have given me 10 years of trouble free motoring (touch wood).

You must be MINTED

With all the depreciation you've had with buying all those new Renaults (although if I could afford it, I'd do exactly the same!)

[exigepete]

mr hat said:

Here's mine, 72k,

Looks mint, lovely! Had a 1.2 now in a 172 Cup. Love them!

[CarlT]

MarkRSi said:

You must be MINTED

With all the depreciation you've had with buying all those new Renaults (although if I could afford it, I'd do exactly the same!)

Mmmm

[CarlT]

MarkRSi said:

You must be MINTED

With all the depreciation you've had with buying all those new Renaults (although if I could afford it, I'd do exactly the same!)

Mmmm

[exgtt]

My rascal, 103k been reliable so far. Grp N engine mounts starting to get on my nerves, the dash rattles like mad till warm.

Things to do:

lower arms
rack bushes
track rods
belt service

Gonna be busy but ill hopefully have a sorted car for £2k. Spot the castor!

[John D.]

LuS1fer said:

No mention of a cambelt/dephaser so there's £800 straight off. Sadly, these "performance bargains" require the right upkeep because they are fast cars that can kill you and I suspect once you spend the money putting it right, it will be long past being a bargain. The reality is that you can't really "shed" fast cars like this, they always need to be at the top of their game.

£800? Do you get it changed twice just in case?!

[HTP99]

mr hat said:

Here's mine, 72k,

Thought I recognised the plate, I used to work at the Guildford branch.

Lovely looking car.

[John D.]

300bhp/ton said:

Sir_Dave said:

LewisR said:

Reliability & Frenchness notwithstanding, I still think that these are horrible, buzzy, 4 cylinder, FWD, understeerynasty tin-boxes.

Understeery? Might i suggest some driving lessons, and/or some tyres that arent made in China?

Ive owned 4 x 1*2s and never had any issues, also broken about 10 of the things for parts.

Sold the Trophy in September on 187k miles on the original engine/box/clutch, was still fine, & will go to well over 200k im sure. It was my track car, & has now been bought by another chap for similar use.

Pretty much all fwd vehicles are understeery and it has nowt all to do with tyres or driving lessons.

That has got to be one of the most dumb comments I've read on PH.

An RS Clio (and I dare say many recent and past hot hatch) have got to be some of the pointy-ist/on-the-nose cars out there. The rear wheels pretty much cling on for the ride!

[LuS1fer]

John D. said:

£800? Do you get it changed twice just in case?!

Funny. But that was what I was told by people professing to be "in the know" when I was looking for one. Ultimately, it didn't matter as that wasn't what put me off them.

[KM666]

A non functioning window?

You best hope to god its the regulator. I bought my megane because it was just a window needed fixing, 6 months and 3 regulators later it now works as in goes up and down, but jumps out the runners. Alot of people fk up the whole thing trying to fix it badly.

A complete new window assembly is £160 as I was quoted last week.

Still £160 isnt too shocking considering that somewhere like Kwik Fit would want about that for a backbox.

Somebody should buy this car and sell me the wheels


Re J4CKO If I can insure my cooking Megane on classic i'm sure a more special version of a Clio can be.

Edited by KM666 on Friday 14th December 22:59