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Yep, pretty much what I was saying in my post above. Pretty lousy advert for a lousy car being sold by a company who are shamelessly using a previous owners name to inflate the price and help the sale. But anyway it’s been taken down now.

I’m not sure if I’m reading too much in here but the advert says “owned“ by Jethro and him being the “last owner” almost in the past tense and there are other references in the description that seem to imply that ownership in the past tense. It certainly seems to be being sold by someone other...

Thanks Will, mine has similar mileage so interesting to see another’s underwear! Mine seems to be mostly dirty but could probably do with dismantling to give it the same treatment.

https://cliotrophy.co.uk/threads/another-diy-sachs-rebuild-service.53642/page-11 some useful info from post 214? But the whole of the thread is well worth a read but as above “just refurb them”

As I have tried to stress, movement of the reservoir is not a good way of checking the health of a damper on it’s own. The dampers are unlikely to fail together so you have another to compare it against. If you can push down on the front corner and it bounces but not on the other side then the...

The second good damper was fine with no movement but I wouldn’t get too hung up on that as I have another pair that have both failed and neither remote on those moves. As to the technical specs, I doubt any of the specialists will release that information.

I’m not totally confident offering advice on this as I’m not the expert, but yes I could move the reservoir ever so slightly by hand on the failed one. There was no sign of any oil leak and had lost pressure, in the end the whole shaft was replaced despite looking perfect

When I said “like the ones above” I meant that the fact the the rods were retracted into the body meant that they needed a refurb, in good order they are always extended. If you are able to easily bounce a front corner, the damper has failed in some way. Rik would be a better person to answer...

I forgot to quote Dibois Yannick in then above post, he basically asked if it was possible to check the condition of the front dampers at any time.

If they look like the ones above, they will need a refurb. No real hard and fast rules and short of them being put on a test jig there is no well to tell how healthy they are. Generally if you can push down the front corner of the car they have failed, it should be absolutely solid. The same can...

Anthony, Audrey has replied on the thread you started there with a faircomment and to be fair the op had been banned, hopefully for being a racist little scroat. But he did seem to be there for one reason only, to sell his overpriced plate.

I think you get a better sense of community from a forum as well.

I was wondering if that little spat would make it’s way over here. When the “For Sale” thread appeared I guessed it was only going to go one way, the price offered was going to attract ‘well meaning‘ comments that he was being unrealistic and then degenerate into what it became. I didn’t...

It’s possibly too late but it would be really useful to see any pictures of the work progress? Also when you say “entire rear end stripped and underside fully cleaned“ do you mean you have stripped off the underseal?

All jacking points will need checking, the void between the front wheel arch liner and the front doors, the metal work underneath front and rear bumpers - these areas only seem to have thin layers of paint etc, rear subframe, the join where they welded in the panel where the spare wheel would...

Well done, I emailed them a while back and heard nothing back. I actually don’t understand why have not produced one as they already produce a lot of fairly niche versions of various Renault models. I’ll copy and paste that though and email it over. it would be nice to have a limited edition...

When I get around to it the set of Mark Fish springs will be going on all round on 307.

No longer available and as rare as hens teeth second hand. I would always be a little wary of refurbing a rusty spring but your choice Based on condition.

Now you can call me a pellet counter and they do look fine, but what happened to the colour?

Squinting, that works well. Or just go full Trump, ignore all the evidence, say it’s a Trophy and go and play a round of golf. ?

Well I expected a little more to and froing before the theory was debunked?

So is it or not a Trophy driving out of the drive through in the new Flying without wings Maccy D ad?

The rear cup dampers are as close as and as you say probably the next best ( I believe Rik did a Dino test on both) after revalved Koni from Mark Fish (does he even still do these?) The cup are not exactly the same spec as the original Sachs but if your Sachs have been on there for 15 years they...

I think you’re wrong here Cue, the rear spring used on the Trophy was always the same as that used on the Cup. Ie there was never a separate part number.

I was quite excited when I saw this thread revived (yep, sad) and much as I applaud the effort, a 1:43 for €45 will be a hard sell. For example below is my Otto 1:12 5 GTT and a 1:43 Corgi Whizz Wheels MG get and a pound for scale. I will probably go for smaller as there is no other option but...

You have arguably a grands worth of spare parts there which would value the car at £7k, waaay too cheap, if that doesn’t go in a day or so I’ll be surprised it looks a good example.

My bad, Koni come with this little lot but not the dust covers.

You are polishing the paint layers so the plastic panels need no extra care other than the usual care you take when using machine polishers. Also a DA is a safer option in itself.

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