New-ish owner here, I'm Ronnie from stockport, just near manchester, late march i bought my liquid yellow R27, the plate is hy57 vrc (soon to be R27 LYX) as i just ordered a private plate.
not the best start to ownership, owned it about a month but only had it on the road a few times due to needing the gearbox sorting out as it was fooked, crunching and not going in gear, thought it was just synchros but the box had a hole in so i ended up getting a New (rebuilt) box and clutch put in and i will be collecting the car from the garage tomorrow so wanted to put a quick intro post up as i'm new to the forums, I use facebook and thats about it but this sites been recommended a few times, thought its the best place for help and advice and seeing other owners who are local to me etc.
The few times i have drove the car i loved it, pretty quick, handles mint! and looks amazing, LY is probably my favourite colour on a car, it also has the cup spoiler which im a big fan of. I always loved renaults from being a kid, a guy near me used to have a williams, my uncle had a 1.8 16v and my mum had a 1.2 oasis for over 15 years which i used to drive as a kid, my 1st car was a mk2 1.2 clio in red which i loved it only cost me £250 and i drove it everywhere did about 20k miles in it breaking it a few times along the way, I was then going to get a 182 trophy but couldnt get insured, so ended up getting a 2013 mazda 3 MPS, for some reason i could insure a 2.3 turbo with 260BHP but not a clio, oh well i loved the MPS, did over 35k in a year and drove it all over europe from germany all the way down to places like switzerland and austria, once i've got a few things sorted on my clio ill be doing the same so will put a post up once i do! anyway after a year i got a bit bored of the mazda, it was stupidly fast but abit too boring, no where near as fun to drive as a clio and now that i could get insured after turning 21 i was back looking for either; 182 trophy, clio williams, or an R27, there was a few other choices but these were my top 3, the other choices being a 147 gta alfa, 106 rallye, or an RX8 as i wanted something N/A, anyway i saw a for sale post from a guy called scott on facebook who i thinks on here, he was selling his car and was only an hour away in chester, went down to view the car, and then ended up buying it a few days later, since buying it i've bought a set of AD08r's, R26r discs, ds2500 pads and braided brake lines, will also be looking at upgrading the suspension at some point and then a few other bits, service, few exterior mods etc.
Going to use this forum as a way of tracking the progress of the car, uploading pictures and what work I've had done to it etc as I've seen a few others on here have done similar with their clios, almost like a car diary. tried putting pics up of my previous cars aswell as my R27, not sure if it will work but will have better pics soon.
Cheers - Ronnie
not the best start to ownership, owned it about a month but only had it on the road a few times due to needing the gearbox sorting out as it was fooked, crunching and not going in gear, thought it was just synchros but the box had a hole in so i ended up getting a New (rebuilt) box and clutch put in and i will be collecting the car from the garage tomorrow so wanted to put a quick intro post up as i'm new to the forums, I use facebook and thats about it but this sites been recommended a few times, thought its the best place for help and advice and seeing other owners who are local to me etc.
The few times i have drove the car i loved it, pretty quick, handles mint! and looks amazing, LY is probably my favourite colour on a car, it also has the cup spoiler which im a big fan of. I always loved renaults from being a kid, a guy near me used to have a williams, my uncle had a 1.8 16v and my mum had a 1.2 oasis for over 15 years which i used to drive as a kid, my 1st car was a mk2 1.2 clio in red which i loved it only cost me £250 and i drove it everywhere did about 20k miles in it breaking it a few times along the way, I was then going to get a 182 trophy but couldnt get insured, so ended up getting a 2013 mazda 3 MPS, for some reason i could insure a 2.3 turbo with 260BHP but not a clio, oh well i loved the MPS, did over 35k in a year and drove it all over europe from germany all the way down to places like switzerland and austria, once i've got a few things sorted on my clio ill be doing the same so will put a post up once i do! anyway after a year i got a bit bored of the mazda, it was stupidly fast but abit too boring, no where near as fun to drive as a clio and now that i could get insured after turning 21 i was back looking for either; 182 trophy, clio williams, or an R27, there was a few other choices but these were my top 3, the other choices being a 147 gta alfa, 106 rallye, or an RX8 as i wanted something N/A, anyway i saw a for sale post from a guy called scott on facebook who i thinks on here, he was selling his car and was only an hour away in chester, went down to view the car, and then ended up buying it a few days later, since buying it i've bought a set of AD08r's, R26r discs, ds2500 pads and braided brake lines, will also be looking at upgrading the suspension at some point and then a few other bits, service, few exterior mods etc.
Going to use this forum as a way of tracking the progress of the car, uploading pictures and what work I've had done to it etc as I've seen a few others on here have done similar with their clios, almost like a car diary. tried putting pics up of my previous cars aswell as my R27, not sure if it will work but will have better pics soon.
Cheers - Ronnie
