Excellent review. You deserve more views . Thanks!

Oh and don't worry about the track or not track usage. My 222k daily one I also use on track, in fact I've got Mallory Park to book for May. These cars if looked after can handle trackdays no problem

You mentioned steering wheel melting. Rather than retriming the wheel, I bought a new set of thumb grips from Ebay for under £10 and they are fine.

Nice honest review dude appreciate it! I also bought a 182 3 weeks ago (FF, BG, standard wheels though), my second. Had the same debates about price.. I'm taking it into Mark Fish Motorsport in Essex who looked after my previous 182. He built a lot of racing 182s and still looks after Clio V6's, so knows them like the back of his hand. Last time he gave me a 2 page report on the status of every mechanical component which was great, but a little nervous about doing that again! Will see what comes up..

I saw your 182 up for sale last month around the same time I bought mine. They're a great combination in racing blue with turini's but I went with a well sorted black gold, thus avoiding the colour tax. I can also recommend a Snappy retrim which mine had last year. I hope your fettling goes well and you get to enjoy the car in the coming months.

Excellent video, especially on price! The 182 has been a dream of mine ever since I had a 1.2 when I first passed my test. I bought the 182 off my mechanic/personal friend for £2000, I’m the 17th owner and it’s had all the mods under the sun; fully polybushed front end, new cams, race clutch, race exhaust, remap and the like. Saying that it was a shakedown/test car for an owner 3/4 people before me. Saying that it’s been sat on my drive since 2019 with no spark plugs so I’ll definitely have fun rebuilding it! Might be time for a R26 engine swap! 😉

Hi I enjoyed that and have subscribed so keep them coming! I bought a brand new 182 cup in the same colour in 2005, in 3 years I did 12000 miles and was my pride and joy! I bought it just before I started dating my now wife and only sold it as one of her friends begged to buy it off me (it was a second car and I was big into bikes too) anyway I've been looking lately to get another as I remember this car being the most cheap natural fun I'd had on 4 wheels and by a stroke of luck I found my old car... Its looking a little sorry for itself and now has 140000 miles under its belt! I could go out and buy a low milage clean car but that wouldn't mean anything to me.... So the deals done and it will be back with me next week ready for a full strip down and refresh... I might even try and do a vid myself, anyway any hints or tips would be appreciated so keep the vids coming 👍

Looks like a lovely 182! I’ve just paid 4200 for a Clio 172 cup but it’s in lovely condition. Enjoy mate

I just replaced the steering wheel on my 182. But with an omp 330mm gp Instead. Huge improvement really sharpens up rack feel and overall feel

Nice video, I actually almost bought this exact car! The guy selling sold me there had been no track action despite the stripped interior, bucket seat and popular trackday tires :D He aslo told me the EML was on intermittently due to the sports cat so fingers crossed there's nothing else causing it. I ended up settling for an 80k mile example in the slightly less exciting silver, but I've had zero issues with it so far so I'm hoping I've bought wisely haha

front splitter is from a skoda fabia. but that's ok as the original one snaps very easy and costs a fortune!

If you’re going OEM then bin the Cooksports and put the cup springs back on, they drive fantastic and the ride is so much better.

Just bought Exhaust for mine, rs192 meant to be one of the quietest about, only little bit louder than the original.

Snappy does the best steering wheel retrims, check out the thread on clio sport.net

Get your steering wheel refurbed by Snappy off the owners group on facebook. Absolutely mint!

A nice 182 in France is between 10 and 15 000 euros. A ragnotti, 20 000

I brought mine yesterday 65k mileage for 3750

i own a 182 and when i bought mine i kept having issues with the lambda sensor but fixed and i havent seen an engine light since

Great video, I’ve got the exact same car!

Howit. Nice man i bought a 182 two months back. Dont think it came here to South Africa in racing blue?

I love the video but about the exhaust, you really shouldn't of bought a Clio 182 Cup if you was going for something that is quite quiet.

I’m now selling my racing blue 182 cup for £1800 no wonder he ripped my arm off.

Sounds like you overpaid by quite a bit for your car mate. I assume this car came from OEM Plus ( absolutely ridiculous name as the cars they sell are anything but OEM Plus ) Will be interested to see what other issues you find as time goes. Good luck.

Think its 72k or 5 years So it could be due soon

Buy a cheap OBD reader it comes in handy

That isn’t the cup splitter.