Donny_Dog
ClioSport Club Member
Jim's rejects
I don't have a home forum anymore and the seat cupra one looks dead, so thought I'd have a moan on here.
Against my better (lack of) judgement, I bought this piece of sh*t to use as a daily car and return some funds from my Vectra.
The advert was a complete lie, but yet I still just checked under the bonnet and drove it home - massively out of character for me. Idiot.
On the drive home, the 'to do' list was starting:
Horrible vibration, whining gearbox, oil leak, missing aesthetic parts, water in all footwells (thus steaming cabin), horrible light tints, rusted door and so on and so forth.
I cried myself to sleep.
A week passes and Jim kindly took the wreck for an MOT just to see what it would fail on, despite not being due until Feb.
A couple of bulbs and a split gaiter, which were remedied easily enough, so at least I could have 12 months legal motoring. First job done.
Jim then balanced the wheels - as none of them had any weights! yet the vibration was still there, only not as bad. Put that to the back of the list, for now.
Door seals next. Common on these:
Passenger front never been done, so stripped and sealed with Butyl. Rain gully cleared as well.
No point posting pics of the other doors - they were all original barring one I replaced (later).
Did find that the outer seal on a rear door had come away, so used some black instant gasket to assist
Struggling to hear any Dianna Ross from drivers door...
Speaker not working properly - edges had set in, maybe due to water ingress. Got heat gun on them and popped back out. fixed.
Expecting something behind this.
Correct.
It also had those gash fly eye tints on the headlamps. I couldn't see fck all. Pretty sure I hit someone on the way home.
better without, vision partially restored.
Whipped a coil pack out just to check if they'd burnt out and found this...
As common as the door seals apparently. Cam cover gaskets had gone (I thought external, but internal also).
All 4 plugs swimming in oil.
Small niggly things just piling up, missing bulb glass (Stuff like this pisses me off more than bending a rod)
And rear jacking point cover only had two clips, so was on the piss big time.
Utilised some Saxo body panel clips. Fck it.
Sits flush at least
Next night I was paranoid about the oil leak, so picked up some gaskets.
Cam cover off
Both outer and inner gaskets snapped off when removing, they'd gone very brittle. new ones made of a rubbery plastic also, so wonder how long they'll last.
Inside the cam cover needed a bit of a clean, I usually wouldn't bother but was waiting for some instant gasket to cure, so why not.
Had some instant gasket left from my other project... like a tracksuit from the 90's with the colour combo.
forgot to mention, swapped plugs, somewhere in all this. look how deep the oil was..
Fashioned some cotton wool on a screwy to clean the spark plug bore
Finished - no leaks.
TBC...
Against my better (lack of) judgement, I bought this piece of sh*t to use as a daily car and return some funds from my Vectra.
The advert was a complete lie, but yet I still just checked under the bonnet and drove it home - massively out of character for me. Idiot.
On the drive home, the 'to do' list was starting:
Horrible vibration, whining gearbox, oil leak, missing aesthetic parts, water in all footwells (thus steaming cabin), horrible light tints, rusted door and so on and so forth.
I cried myself to sleep.
A week passes and Jim kindly took the wreck for an MOT just to see what it would fail on, despite not being due until Feb.
A couple of bulbs and a split gaiter, which were remedied easily enough, so at least I could have 12 months legal motoring. First job done.
Jim then balanced the wheels - as none of them had any weights! yet the vibration was still there, only not as bad. Put that to the back of the list, for now.
Door seals next. Common on these:
Passenger front never been done, so stripped and sealed with Butyl. Rain gully cleared as well.
No point posting pics of the other doors - they were all original barring one I replaced (later).
Did find that the outer seal on a rear door had come away, so used some black instant gasket to assist
Struggling to hear any Dianna Ross from drivers door...
Speaker not working properly - edges had set in, maybe due to water ingress. Got heat gun on them and popped back out. fixed.
Expecting something behind this.
Correct.
It also had those gash fly eye tints on the headlamps. I couldn't see fck all. Pretty sure I hit someone on the way home.
better without, vision partially restored.
Whipped a coil pack out just to check if they'd burnt out and found this...
As common as the door seals apparently. Cam cover gaskets had gone (I thought external, but internal also).
All 4 plugs swimming in oil.
Small niggly things just piling up, missing bulb glass (Stuff like this pisses me off more than bending a rod)
And rear jacking point cover only had two clips, so was on the piss big time.
Utilised some Saxo body panel clips. Fck it.
Sits flush at least
Next night I was paranoid about the oil leak, so picked up some gaskets.
Cam cover off
Both outer and inner gaskets snapped off when removing, they'd gone very brittle. new ones made of a rubbery plastic also, so wonder how long they'll last.
Inside the cam cover needed a bit of a clean, I usually wouldn't bother but was waiting for some instant gasket to cure, so why not.
Had some instant gasket left from my other project... like a tracksuit from the 90's with the colour combo.
forgot to mention, swapped plugs, somewhere in all this. look how deep the oil was..
Fashioned some cotton wool on a screwy to clean the spark plug bore
Finished - no leaks.
TBC...
Could just be the cheapo tyres, but I suspect its worse, given this is already a wreck. 
