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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...

That is the dream - to have a working gearbox.

The Clio has not moved since it came back from Donington Park in November 2025. Due to busy lives we have still not investigated the gearbox issue yet. I have SORN'd the car as it was due an MOT recently but I decided that as the Clio was not going to be used for a little bit that we would sort...

When I had the gearbox rebuilt (the first time) I was told that unless you are running significantly more power the standard clutch was fine.

Hi

Hi.

Have you thought about getting a 2nd loom make sure you don't have any rogue connections?