320Touring's Hill climbing Clio
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This has mainly been doing commuting duties for the good lady (whilst her mk1 golf gets new injectors)
The road to the island is a decently twisty, fast flowing road, and the closer you get to the campsite, the lighter the traffic.
I took the opportunity to run the 182 down and back - sticking to speed limits, but enjoying the roads.
The car is great for this sort of drive - you can leave it in 5th and tickle past slower moving cars, or shift to forth if you need to be nippy. Holding 60 is possible on a light throttle and engine braking is aggressive enough to allow attacking the corners with no energy lost to heat from the brakes.
All in all, a great weekend away - with the added bonus of a best ever tank over 370 miles!
34.57 mpg (US)
41.53 mpg (Imp)
I expect I'll be back down again, so will see if I can better that
The road to the island is a decently twisty, fast flowing road, and the closer you get to the campsite, the lighter the traffic.
I took the opportunity to run the 182 down and back - sticking to speed limits, but enjoying the roads.
The car is great for this sort of drive - you can leave it in 5th and tickle past slower moving cars, or shift to forth if you need to be nippy. Holding 60 is possible on a light throttle and engine braking is aggressive enough to allow attacking the corners with no energy lost to heat from the brakes.
All in all, a great weekend away - with the added bonus of a best ever tank over 370 miles!
34.57 mpg (US)
41.53 mpg (Imp)
I expect I'll be back down again, so will see if I can better that
Latest on this is it just continues to plod along.
Had a run out in the borders with some mates
Didn't get any more pictures as too busy driving .
I was going to book onto a hill climb this Sunday - last chance for the year.
Went into my emails on Thursday night to get my club membership number and found an email saying it was cancelled due to low numbers (7).
This was despite the website showing 14 spaces of 30 booked.
All a bit weird.
May try to do some trackdays instead - as trying to remain well behaved on the public highway..
Had a run out in the borders with some mates
Didn't get any more pictures as too busy driving .
I was going to book onto a hill climb this Sunday - last chance for the year.
Went into my emails on Thursday night to get my club membership number and found an email saying it was cancelled due to low numbers (7).
This was despite the website showing 14 spaces of 30 booked.
All a bit weird.
May try to do some trackdays instead - as trying to remain well behaved on the public highway..
This is now coming up on its second MOT with me.
How is it doing? Well, I keep it immaculate
It olds along ok, and has done about 10.5k miles since I got it. Only 2 k to the big number
I took it up to Clio Stu for a going over - he has a 2 post lift, so we could get right in about it.
A few things were sorted:
Horn terminals cleaned so it worked again
(Yes, that is directly in the way of all the road s
te, great design)
The lack of reverse lights was resolved by fitting a replacement reverse switch to the gearbox - relatively easy to get to between the gearbox end cover and the LH driveshaft.
A new* set of rear discs and pads was installed. The right rear bearing had munched the disc spacer - so we had to replace that too
After fitting and torquing it all up (175nm if you want to know), we reinstalled the pad carriers and set up the handbrake for a satisfying 3 clicks
A front damper was replaced - passenger side this time. If it gets an MOT I may treat it to NEW DAMPERS
the pollen filter was removed
And an exhaust clamp changed.
We also swapped the wheels front to rear.
All in all, good improvement all round.
The morning after, the blower motor stopped blowing. Obviously, this was most helpful in -6 at 7.30am.
Handily, the motor and wiring is easily accessible - just under the scuttle near to the pollen filter.
2 6mm bolts and some plug wiggling got it pulled out
With the fan speed whacked up to full (to bypass the resistor), there was no life at the fan. I imagine most folk here have had a car with a failed resistor - so you can just run at full until you can fix it.
Fuse was ok, had 12v at the power points on the plugs. Dead motor. Has to be.
Time to head back up to Clio Stu today and see what's what. I left the wiring unhooked so I could plug in another motor to test.
43miles later in -5 temps. And I made it there ok. Luckily most of the run ia A road/motorway or dual carriageway, so enough airflow to draw in some heat.
We plugged in a motor. No dice.
We swapped the resistor for another.
All fan speeds, and original motor working perfectly.
So there you go. Typical ClioLYFE. The resistor failed so there was too much resistance, and the motor wouldn't turn. The exact opposite of every other car I have had with resistor issues.
I drove home warmer..
How is it doing? Well, I keep it immaculate
It olds along ok, and has done about 10.5k miles since I got it. Only 2 k to the big number
I took it up to Clio Stu for a going over - he has a 2 post lift, so we could get right in about it.
A few things were sorted:
Horn terminals cleaned so it worked again
(Yes, that is directly in the way of all the road s
te, great design)The lack of reverse lights was resolved by fitting a replacement reverse switch to the gearbox - relatively easy to get to between the gearbox end cover and the LH driveshaft.
A new* set of rear discs and pads was installed. The right rear bearing had munched the disc spacer - so we had to replace that too
After fitting and torquing it all up (175nm if you want to know), we reinstalled the pad carriers and set up the handbrake for a satisfying 3 clicks
A front damper was replaced - passenger side this time. If it gets an MOT I may treat it to NEW DAMPERS
the pollen filter was removed
And an exhaust clamp changed.
We also swapped the wheels front to rear.
All in all, good improvement all round.
The morning after, the blower motor stopped blowing. Obviously, this was most helpful in -6 at 7.30am.
Handily, the motor and wiring is easily accessible - just under the scuttle near to the pollen filter.
2 6mm bolts and some plug wiggling got it pulled out
With the fan speed whacked up to full (to bypass the resistor), there was no life at the fan. I imagine most folk here have had a car with a failed resistor - so you can just run at full until you can fix it.
Fuse was ok, had 12v at the power points on the plugs. Dead motor. Has to be.
Time to head back up to Clio Stu today and see what's what. I left the wiring unhooked so I could plug in another motor to test.
43miles later in -5 temps. And I made it there ok. Luckily most of the run ia A road/motorway or dual carriageway, so enough airflow to draw in some heat.
We plugged in a motor. No dice.
We swapped the resistor for another.
All fan speeds, and original motor working perfectly.
So there you go. Typical ClioLYFE. The resistor failed so there was too much resistance, and the motor wouldn't turn. The exact opposite of every other car I have had with resistor issues.
I drove home warmer..
Edited by 320touring on Saturday 10th December 21:28
Edited by 320touring on Saturday 10th December 21:32
Cambs_Stuart said:
That's a good effort! Both the clean pass and amount of miles.
Cheers!Hoping it can do some miles In anger this year between hill climbs and track days. 2022 was a washout for a number of car and life related reasons, hoping 23 can see some entertainment with the Clio.
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