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| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
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 Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:28 am Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
Chet's Delta is nice, I would never get used to LHD.
GTI-R, screams chave and insurance is a no go.
200sx, wasn't impressed before. |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:42 am Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
The front end had been crashed in japan, hence the new front bumper and all I guess.
It was easy to spot inside the front bonnet. One side had crumpled and had been straightened out, filled and sp ... |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:00 am Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
It had been crashed quite badly so the search continues...  |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:07 am Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
| Thats what they are making over here these days, at least they hold their value quite well. |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 9:56 am Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
| Looked at it today at lunch time. The light cam on under boost and not with the aircon. The guy said it was nothing and wouldn't shift on the price so I told him he could keep it. Going to look at thi ... |
| Topic: Non-interference engines... |
Colm
Replies: 8
Views: 3892
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:03 pm Subject: Non-interference engines... |
| indeed |
| Topic: Non-interference engines... |
Colm
Replies: 8
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:51 pm Subject: Non-interference engines... |
aparantly the mr2 turbo is non interference, hence my interest  |
| Topic: Non-interference engines... |
Colm
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:34 pm Subject: Non-interference engines... |
| If the timing belt snaps on a non-interference engine will no damage at all occur? Sounds too good to be true......? |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:28 pm Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
| Ah okay. Well if it comes on with the ac I'll know what that is. I can use it to get him down on the price with a bit of luck. |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:36 pm Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
| Well I'm going back mondy morning and I will check that the light comes on and goes off with the air conditioning. If so I might even buy it if I get him down a bit more. It was by far the nicest one ... |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:29 pm Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
| Chris you are an encyclopedia of car knowledge It was when I put the AC on that I noticed the light. I'll look up moe info on it now. Cheers |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:03 pm Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
Yeah it was but as I was driving a light like this came on...
http://img261.imageshack.us/my.php?image=engineth3.jpg
I think I means the engineis too hot, not a good sign. |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:34 am Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
Drove this one today, it was nice..
http://carzone.ie/usedcars/index.cfm?fuseaction=car&carID=510922 |
| Topic: Threaded wheel studs... |
Colm
Replies: 6
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Forum: Tech Questions
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:11 pm Subject: Threaded wheel studs... |
I thinking now that I swapped the bolts to the megane when I put the alloys on it. This all happened when the spare whell was put on so the bolts might have been too long for the steel wheels.
I'll ... |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:11 pm Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
I wouldn't call the MR2 a haridressers car, maybe the newer version.
The 200sx I drove might have been down alot on power but it didn't seem fast at all. I might try another few before I make up m ... |
| Topic: Threaded wheel studs... |
Colm
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Forum: Tech Questions
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:49 pm Subject: Threaded wheel studs... |
| aye, either way it looks like a new hub will be going on saturday. |
| Topic: Threaded wheel studs... |
Colm
Replies: 6
Views: 3413
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Forum: Tech Questions
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:31 pm Subject: Threaded wheel studs... |
| Threads were damaged on the ones that came out. I got new studs I got when I bought alloys for my clio. So I used the old studs from the clio, I presumed they would be the right thread... seems not |
| Topic: Threaded wheel studs... |
Colm
Replies: 6
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Forum: Tech Questions
Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:21 pm Subject: Threaded wheel studs... |
| On the megane yesterday I changed the front passenger hub as the wheel nut hole threads had sheared and the wheel nuts would not tighten. My Dad phoned there now to say he change the wheel(took the sp ... |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 3:31 pm Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
There are two ways of doing the conversion. One (the cheaper way) is to send the ECU mph signals instead of kmh. However this has the undesired effect of making the steering really light at speed, a ... |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:26 pm Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
| 112mph is 180 kmph so that must be it. |
| Topic: Thinking about buying.... |
Colm
Replies: 52
Views: 12945
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Forum: Retro-Renault General Chat
Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:42 am Subject: Thinking about buying.... |
| Is it? From what I had read it was 180km but that could be old now. 112kmh is just silly. |
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