VO54 FFZ - liquid yellow avoid in Edinburgh

[Heez]

Looks like its been bought, seen at the fort in Edinburgh

 

[Adam.]

KILL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LiamR172]

Its back again.. should of flagged the driver down and told them haha

 

[.Stevo.C.]

I seen this the other week in wester hails.

 

[Gildstar]

Kinda feel sorry for him, then again google the plate lol!

 

[Matt W]

That looks like VD54?

 

[BoatNonce]

Kinda feel sorry for him, then again google the plate lol!

Google doesn't throw anything up about it unfortunately.

 

[LiamR172]

Kinda feel sorry for him, then again google the plate lol!

FLOL.. just googled it. Is there a BEWARE thread on every forum in the world? Haha

 

[Adam.]

Down for a wee swatch of the Lambos?

 

[Adam.]

Google doesn't throw anything up about it unfortunately.

Let me help you wiv dat, http://bit.ly/V9enhx

 

[Gildstar]

Google doesn't throw anything up about it unfortunately.

Really, there's a fair few pages.

 

[BoatNonce]

Note the edit in my last post.

 

[Gildstar]

My bad didn't see the edit till i made my post.

 

[Luke.]

Oh dear..

 

[LiamR172]

It really does look like VD instead of VO tbh..

 

[Knuckles]

It really does look like VD instead of VO tbh..

What are the odds though lol

 

[.GAZ.]

VD54FFZ - Doesn't exist.

 

[Alan]

That looks like VD54?

Agreed.

 

[Alan]

VD54FFZ - Doesn't exist.

Strip' has spoken.

 

[.GAZ.]

Just looks like a 'D' through the wet windscreen.

 

[Adam.]

It was up for sale on gumtree in the Edinburgh area for a while too IIRC.

 

[A4LLY]

I remember it being on gum tree back in may in Edinburgh. Was about £5000 they were looking for it. Looked quite nice at the time though.

 

[Heez]

When I looked back at the photo when I got home I thought it was VD54, it wasn't though.

Some old boy was driving!

 

[Alan]

Can someone give a brief summery of this bus?

 

[Don]

Can someone give a brief summery of this bus?

Car had some kind of modification to allow clutch pedal to be used by person without left leg. Also...had ph1 172 engine in with approx 80k on it...Fred did big report about it.

 

[Alan]

Sound interesting..

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

You wouldn't have a leg to stand on to sell that.

 

[.Stevo.C.]

You wouldn't have a leg to stand on to sell that.

I see what you did there

 

[Adam.]

Can someone give a brief summery of this bus?

Brief.

Vehicle Report

Customer - Andrew Morley
Vehicle - Renault clio 182 - VO54 FFZ
Mileage - 32160

Mr Morley recently visited us so we could inspect a knocking noise coming from the front suspension, during conversation with Mr Morley he asked if we would cast our eye over the entire vehicle whilst it was in the workshop and see if the vehicle was mechanically sound incase of any future problems he may encouter with the vehicle (brakes, ball joint etc etc)

On first glance the car is in very good condition bodywork wise, the liquid gold paintwork was a factory option (cira £1100) and certainly offers the wow factor!

Unfortunatley for Mr Morley the bodywork is the only good thing we found with the car.

After removal of the engine undertray the starter motor heatshield was found sitting on the undertray, not where it should be! - a strange inital problem we thought! On inspection of the heatshield it seems to have been damaged, repaired poorly and then not fitted back onto the car properly (impossible to do without unbolting the exhaust manfold from the cylinder head).

starter motor heatsheild image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view&current=fcf4a305.jpg

We also found a wheel speed sensor had been fitted very poorly to the OSF inner half shaft bearing, this certainly was an after market part, what was it doing there?

driveshaft sensor image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view&current=45cfd0b7.jpg

We traced the wire back through the bulkhead into the vehicle and to our surprise found a very bizzare installation under the passenger footwell carpet and strange moddifications to the foot pedal on the drivers side

passenger footwell installation image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view&current=70927ad3.jpg
clutch pedal moddification image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view&current=83640b0f.jpg

chain mechanism behind clutch pedal image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view&current=625bcf4a.jpg

After a bit of investigation we found the car had been installed with an electronically activated "twin clutch" aka - the vehicle at some point had been moddified for disabled user.

The problems highlighted thus far are relativley easy to rectify, removal of the motability unit we estimate at approx 3 hours, a new starter motor heat shield is £48 and takes 1.3 hours to fit.

On further inspection of the engine bay we found a few relativley major issues - the main one being that this 2004/2005 182 (F4R 738 engine) car has been fitted with a 2001 engine from the older 172 (F4R 730/2/6 engine)

as you can see from the following images -

note the raised breather tube in the middle at the back 172 engines had this, 182's did not - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view&current=047ec81c.jpg

To compare, a 182 engine looks like this - http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/Fredmrsclio/?action=view&current=182engine.jpg

date sticker on the rear of the block (VO54) ending in 01 - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view&current=20982ca8.jpg

Without doubt this car VO54 has been fitted with the incorrect engine and isn't worth anywhere near market value


I ramble on for a bit longer, but you get the idea

 

[slob]

Can't beat a good ph1 engine.

 

[Alan]

You wouldn't have a leg to stand on to sell that.

Mind that time that lassie tried to stab me in lloyds.. I wouldn't of had a leg to stand on if she'd cried sexual harassment..

 

[Alan]

Can't beat a good ph1 engine.

Faster than the ph2 engines..

 

[.GAZ.]

Flat OOOOOOOT!!

 

[Luke.]

Liquid Gold?! FFS!

 

[Knuckles]

So in theory, can that car be semi-auto?

 

[Adam.]

So in theory, can that car be semi-auto?

It was before some of the stuff got removed iirc. Hence the leg joke from Danny LOL.

 

[MarcB]

Seen this driving up morningside the other day and its an older gent with specs that was driving.

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

It was before some of the stuff got removed iirc. Hence the leg joke from Danny LOL.

Its the fire for me

 

[markerboy2002]

Poor person, I feel for them....

 

[Adam.]

Its the fire for me

I'm sure you'll walk it off no problem.