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I am not sure if @EthanMenace did speak to Nick. The replacement sleeve and bush were only about £25 to replace.

Ethan took the Clio to AW Motorworks to get the alignment done this weekend. As the suspension had been taken off for a service we expected the alignment to be well out. When the Clio went up on to the alignment ramp it was discovered that he had managed to put back the gearbox, subframe and...

I have got a set of Gaz Golds and the spring rates are 80nm at the front and 100nm at the back - for a track car set up.

The gearbox is back in the Clio and it has been given a quick road test. Ethan says that there is no crunching and all seems good for now. We will give it a proper test in 2 weeks at Zandvoort.

Welcome. It is more fun to drive a slow car fast than drive a fast car slow. The car looks better with spacers on but is more nimble on track without them.

I am hoping that we have now diagnosed our gearbox issues from early 2025 and have now got a solid gearbox. The morale of the story that I am going to tell you is that whenever you do any work on your Clio gearbox that involves some element of refurbishing or servicing always, always, always...

This is a screen shot from a Renault Sport brochure.

The gearbox was removed from the Clio in record time by @EthanMenace. It took 3 hours to get it out of the Clio. He came home from work at 5.30 pm and I said if you can get the gearbox out tonight I will drop it off at AW Motorworks tomorrow. The work was finished by 8.30 pm. The fancy gazebo...

LSDs make such a big difference to Clios.

The gearbox tale of woe continues. Ethan went to South Wales last Friday and picked up a clutch master cylinder from someone who was breaking a 200. He also picked up another crunchy 200 gearbox. After fitting the used clutch master cylinder the car refused to start. The dashboard came up with...

The suspension has been serviced and is back on the car now. The gearbox is playing up but was okay to drive a few miles to the MOT test centre to get the MOT done. The box gets worse when it is downshifting quickly at high revs. Low rev changes are less crunchy. We needed the car to be...

The Clio went for an MOT today and passed with no advisories. Last year it had an advisory for having no rear seats. This year the MOT test centre did not seem to mind that the most of interior of the car was missing. We have decided that our gearbox issues could be down to a faulty clutch...

We are driving the Clio to Zandvoort in about 6 weeks - but towing it would be nicer. I think we will probably keep the Clio road legal even if we have a tow rig as we do not have space to store a trailer.

The Gaz Golds have now been serviced by Gaz. I picked them up from Gaz as they are only a 20 minute drive from home. It is a proper old fashioned engineering factory. We got all four dampers serviced. Both front dampers needed new rods and the rears had replacement bearings. I think we...

The coilovers have now been removed from the Clio and are boxed up ready to drop off with Gazmatic for a service/rebuild. I am hoping that when they open up after the festive break they can service the suspension reasonably quickly so it can all go back together to get the car MOT'd...