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Top end cars were fetching £9/10,000 when I bought this.
They're now £15,000 rising to £20,000.
Similar to the spike with the Ph2 V6's a few years ago.
Even as a beginner, Basic tools, 30 minutes and you'll have it in bits on the floor.
Clean it, Paint it, leave to dry, refit in reverse order. If you get it wrong, just undo what you've done and start again. As my mate says, It's just nuts and bolts.
For painting it, just use a can if...
Ha! I'd love one mate but I'm giving up with cars now. Now I've got a proper job I just don't have the time to work on them.
This took 11 months and really it was 3 weekends work.
I'm just going to sell the lot and concentrate on my track car. Hopefully then I'll be able to actually do a...
You don't need a guide mate. It's so straight forward.
Just take your time, concentrate, and don't force anything when putting it back together. Apart from changing a wheel, it's about the easiest job you can do on a Clio.
Re-using the old gaskets is fine as long as you don't stand on them...
Yes indeed they should. But they always looked dirty/dull.
So we stripped them all, painted the black bits gloss and polished all the naked metal. They look frikkin awesome.
I don't think they've dropped that bad. I just traded a 55 plate with a humungous spec, 120k on it, shredded aux belt, every panel scratched/chipped, needing 4 new tyres, for £2250. It's now on the dealers forecourt for £4495.
If that was a 182 it would have been lucky to make £800 lol!
Lower mileage ones are advertised for £15k ish, and a smashed up one just sold on copart for £8k so I think £10k is the money.
There's some at £20k!! but they have under 10,000 miles on
I have some pics now...
When I joined In 2005 I had this;
And now, I have this (been in a lockup for 8 months, came out today, hence the pics)
I'll spare you all the pictures of my boring cars. Nobody wants to see a honda CRV or a Modus diseasal.
Whilst I agree they look naff (they look like they belong in a mondeo) they are proper comfy, the leather is really soft, and they are the fastest/hottest heated seats I've ever used!
11 months of dribs and drabs working on it, and this is the end result. To say I'm happy with it is an understatement!
Work we've done;
4 new dunlop SP Sport tyres, 205-40-18
New discs and pads all round
Wheels refurbed and re-polished
Full service
Brake fluid change
New timing...