What have you done to your car today ???

cat171 said:

Hi, who did it? Whereabouts are they? I want a new one for a FF Phase 2 172.

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First of all I rang Renault for the part no and to see if they could order one for me? The back order from there had no eta which I presume meant they won’t be able to get me one.

Fortunately a fella on Facebook contacted me selling an original screen that his mate didn’t get round to using.

I then got a local firm come round to my house remove the old screen to fit the new one.

Yours might be easier to get hold of being a FF as it’ll have the regular blue tinted screen.

Matt Cup said:

First of all I rang Renault for the part no and to see if they could order one for me? The back order from there had no eta which I presume meant they won’t be able to get me one.

Fortunately a fella on Facebook contacted me selling an original screen that his mate didn’t get round to using.

I then got a local firm come round to my house remove the old screen to fit the new one.

Yours might be easier to get hold of being a FF as it’ll have the regular blue tinted screen.

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Cheers
I'll get searching for one. Hopefully it will be easy to get one. It has some chips and has started to delaminate in the bottom corners. It looks ok at first glance, but bugs me!
I'll get a new screen surround kit too

Not today, but on Sunday I had my preventative maintenance head on.

• Swapped out the inlet O-ring.
• Added a new inlet gasket while I was there.
• Removed the TDC sensor and gave that a good clean up.
• Cleaned up the relay tray and inserted them back in.
• Cleaned out the fuse panel and wire brushed the fuses, before put them back in. The dust blaster thing I have blew out a lot of debris in and around that area too.
• Noticed that one of the air tubes into the airbox wasn’t twisted into the opening correctly, leaving a fairly large gap.
• Cleaned up the main contacts on the coil pack that looked a bit tired. Out of interest - does the 4-pin wire that connects on the right-side only have 3 connectors in it? (image below).
• Disconnected the battery terminals and gave them a good clean up too as they were layered in shite.
• Reconnected the bonnet release warning button as well as the wiring had disconnected somehow from the switch.
• Added two bits of sticky foam to the ECU box to stop the little fecker rattling.
  
  
  

Darren S said:

Not today, but on Sunday I had my preventative maintenance head on.

• Swapped out the inlet O-ring.
• Added a new inlet gasket while I was there.
• Removed the TDC sensor and gave that a good clean up.
• Cleaned up the relay tray and inserted them back in.
• Cleaned out the fuse panel and wire brushed the fuses, before put them back in. The dust blaster thing I have blew out a lot of debris in and around that area too.
• Noticed that one of the air tubes into the airbox wasn’t twisted into the opening correctly, leaving a fairly large gap.
• Cleaned up the main contacts on the coil pack that looked a bit tired. Out of interest - does the 4-pin wire that connects on the right-side only have 3 connectors in it? (image below).
• Disconnected the battery terminals and gave them a good clean up too as they were layered in shite.
• Reconnected the bonnet release warning button as well as the wiring had disconnected somehow from the switch.
• Added two bits of sticky foam to the ECU box to stop the little fecker rattling.
  
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Yeah only 3 pins mate. (live, earth and 5v signal referance i think)

Flicked off the exhaust tip surrounds over the weekend to get them painted up - proper faded and crap looking. High winds put paid to that, however!

Still, got them sanded ready for primer. Might give those exhaust tips a once over with some polish while I'm there.

As they were just textured plastic, wouldn’t a heat gun or some plastic restorer get them back to as good as new?

My Saturday morning consisted of swapping this.

Matt Cup said:

As they were just textured plastic, wouldn’t a heat gun or some plastic restorer get them back to as good as new?

My Saturday morning consisted of swapping this.

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I'm not sure if applying heat is a good idea. When I last spoke to local detailer, they say a heat gun just brings oils to the surface for a quick remedy. Once the surface oils evaporate. The platic looses its colour, elasticity and usually becomes brittle. The more you do it; the worse it gets.
I think that is why the clio 182 exhaust trims always look grey.

I'd say that infomation is relevant for all cars. But probably more weighted to Perth cars, as the plastics have already been heat gun treated from the sun.

Last year I used a product called 'Mr Black' from Bowdens Own (Aus company). All exterior black platics were treated. But specifically for the exhaust trims, it's held up so far to the heat and the suns UV. Not sure what the equivalent would be in the UK.

PerthRS said:

I'm not sure if applying heat is a good idea. When I last spoke to local detailer, they say a heat gun just brings oils to the surface for a quick remedy. Once the surface oils evaporate. The platic looses its colour, elasticity and usually becomes brittle. The more you do it; the worse it gets.
I think that is why the clio 182 exhaust trims always look grey.

I'd say that infomation is relevant for all cars. But probably more weighted to Perth cars, as the plastics have already been heat gun treated from the sun.

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Fair comment. To be honest I’ve just seen clips of people doing it. I just use AG bumper and trim restorer on my black bits.

Matt Cup said:

Fair comment. To be honest I’ve just seen clips of people doing it. I just use AG bumper and trim restorer on my black bits.

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Washed it at the weekend - it was strangely satisfying to wipe the crud and other crap from behind the clips that had sat in situ for two decades!