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The guy at the garage suggested the wires to the brake pedal sensor may be weak and they could be replaced. No warning lights in the last 24h :?:

My tracking is out but by the tiniest amount - I had a full geometry setup and this is how it came. I wasn't going to bother with it to be honest, but if it registers as a fault maybe I should take it back and get them to do it again?

Well after running around with the dreaded Serv and TC warning lights on for the last few months I finally took it in for a brake pedal sensor change which appeared to fix the problem. That is, until yesterday when I had the MOT and a brake fluid change and now I've got one more warning light...

Hopefully after this it'll be OK until next year or is that wishful thinking!

Quite a coincidence! :lol:

I haven't checked it out but having spent as much as I have recently replacing/rebuilding all the dampers, brakes, oil, brake fluid etc I should expect it'll pass. As long as the garage remember to put the cat back on first :lol:

... fingers crossed :|

I was in the area at the weekend but didn't go as far as Nottingham, must have been someone else

I never tried the standard pads on track but I also thought they were awful on the road.

Yes, tracking = toe

Nothing is adjustable without camber bolts or shims. Only tracking.

The DC2 is missing? :?

They actually only charged me £60 so I gave them a £20 tip. They may charge more now they know what they're doing with Trophy's

I thought I'd post a follow up having had my car alignment done successfully :D I took it to AutoDynamics in Sheffield in the end. I had the camber bolts fitted elsewhere (there's actually a garage across the road that will gladly fit them for you). The guys at AutoDynamics then set about...

I'll answer my own question :) 172 is F4R 730-736 182 is F4R 738

Does anyone know the Engine Code for the 182? Apparently the wheel alignment place need that to match up the Trophy against the models listed on their machine, and the car is in another garage at the moment.

I can't be bothered is the simple answer to that! My drive doesn't lend itself to easily jack a car up so I just don't do anything on the car myself these days

OK so in an attempt to not overcomplicate things for my local alignment centre I've asked my local garage to fit the camber bolts for me... only they've never fitted camber bolts either. This should be interesting :?

Oh FFS there goes £140 on changing perfectly good ball joints #-o I'll just get them to fit my camber bolts instead then

No I'm being serious its going in the shop tomorrow and if they all creak a little when manoeuvring then I may be barking up the wrong tree!

Do they :shock:

Mine isn't so much when going over speed bumps, its mostly from steering and manouvering and its definitely coming from the front

Its going back in the garage tomorrow for another nosey :^o The creaking now is only at very low (< 5mph) speeds while turning the wheel and manouvering. Must be one of the bushes somewhere?

That's where I went to on Saturday! I'm sure they can do it eventually but they really didn't fill me with faith.

I'll be covering about 2000 miles in 10 days in a couple of months... Doing the 3 peaks (Nevis, Scafell, Snowdon) in July then a trip to the 'ring about 4 days later!

I'm looking for a good wheel alignment place near Sheffield, I wouldn't mind driving as far as Leeds / Nottingham and anywhere in between. I need them to fit the camber bolts as well since the last place I went to didn't have a clue. Hunter equipment would be best so I'm told. Many thanks Rick

They're tyres fitter but they say they got the hunter machine about 10 months ago If anyone knows of anywhere near sheffield that could do the lot I'm all ears. I think I'll get there with this place but I think it'll take a while!

Well that was a waste of time :roll: The geo place got the car up on the hunter machines, fitted all the sensors and then couldn't find the car on the machines #-o It comes up with two 'codes' for a 98-2004 clio neither of which made any sense to us. I wondered whether or not it mattered...

I've just had the ball joints replaced as well and no sooner have I driven it out of the garage that I can tell the suspension is still creaking :( I had them check the track rod ends and apparently they look fine. Any other ideas?

There's got to be a better way to stop these buggers getting on here... [-X