£250 Project / Road To A 5 door Stanced / Pic Heavy

[T00000M]

Good Evening Clio Enthusiast

This is is my thread for my £250 1.2 16v Clio With 90k

Bit of background on me...

screwed my GCSE's up hanging with the cool kids at secondary school. so scraped into a course at college signed up for some computing course as I spent my child hood in front of one. day one the course just sucked the fun out of computers so changed my course to mechanics studied mechanics for 3 years and came out a qualified mechanic and got 2 years experience with welder and various welding qualifications. moved out at 16 as my parents are army so they got posted up north I didn't want to do that as I was in a relationship with " the one " haha. lived with a friend for a year then for the last 3 lived with my ex and owned a saxo vtr that was tuned to the brink, lost my job had to sell my saxo my motorbike and then evidently my relationship failed after 3ish years so at nearly 20years of age had to move up north back to my parents with my tail in between my legs, but my parents have been great and have purchased this clio for me to get me back on track what are family for aye I got high hopes for this clio cut am currently unemployed so bare with me, when I got cash flow the clio with pprobably end up eating it all up

So these are the images of the advert looks Fairley tidy

unfortunately is has been smoked in
there was no service history
it was sold to me v5 only, no service history
and on inspection it has been in a knock but the repairs are very good, the car is straight and the panels are colour matched very well ( pattern part drivers wing, bonnet and bumper ) suspect it was crashed very early in its life due to age on repairs.

but the car was £250 quid and its not got any Accident categorising on paper
the car had a miss fire and was sold to me by a women who was scared to drive it as it was a very moody misfire. (CAT is destroyed due to this misfire running on 2 cylinders)

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Got it home gave it a quick rinse and removed the hideous wheel trims to see what I was working with and was pretty impressed for 250 squid.

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First things first i did an OBD reading and got 2 codes

oxegen senor
single cylcinder misfire

now the oxegen sensory was because of the misfire obviously

so single cylinder misfire,

replaced the the plugs with no joy. cleaned the inlet and the throttle body also gave the surounding area a quick going over to.

BEFORE.

AFTER.



then read an article about the tamper proof box throwing fault codes and causeing a misfire due to chaffing through wire on the ecu plug.
so got to removing the box to to see the damage (tip use a mirror to unscrew the the box took me seconds once my dad sugested it lol was trying for ages blind to get it undone)

Box Location.

So there was a few wires that we chaffed fixed that cleared the codes and it still misfire so did a simple pulling of the ht leads of the plugs while it was running to find out that it was actually misfiring on 2 cylinders (1 & 4) sort of new that anyways as the engine was wobbling like jelly lol. replaced the coil pack and she was sweet

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once it was running on all cylinders went to the scrapy and got an engine cover for a coulpe quid

and here's a shot of the engine bay with some spit and polish run over it

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Thats what i got up to in the first week of having the clio stay tuned for plenty more and a full list of whats to come

 

[Dannyeff]

250 bux well done bargin

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

Nice write up mate. Engine bay looks proper tidy.

 

[Mr R.]

Great little project.

Well done dude.

 

[bennettxo]

Engine bay looks sweet! Looking forward to seeing this change!

 

[reedy107]

Looks sweet mate. Good luck with her

Ben

 

[MWright]

With aircon too proper bargain.

+1 on the engine bay looks proper.

 

[MonacoDan]

Great looking project, bargain at £250

 

[T00000M]

Evening Guys,

Today as there is no service history for the clio I ordered multiple items for a service. filters and oils the usual.

then as there was no evidence of the cambelt being done (engine bay sticker, etc.) I decided to crack the covers off and see what the condition of the belt was, and to my amazement the belt was practically brand new along with the tensioner so quids in there

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After being rewarded with a good ! cambelt, i decided to clean up all the gunk and grim and while i was at it painted the engine mount.
not a fan of the engine mount, draws the eye striaght away lol so just stealthed it with some paint

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[Tooter]

Wish I could get my engine bay looking so good..

 

[T00000M]

strip all the auxiliaries off and get in there with some spit and polish

 

[Tooter]

It makes such a difference!

 

[T00000M]

Thanks dude its just the start

 

[T00000M]

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okay guys failed my theory today by one mark GUTTED, hey ho rebooked if for next month. but i managed to get a job and made some more progress on the car so here goes ...


first one was the airbag light the service light was on so guess what the airbag light wasn't so i was guessing it had been knocked out and hey presto it had lol.

while i was under there i found a tracker of some description just chilling next to the air bag all wired up to the ignition. i just removed the sim card and left it .

then after that, traced the wiring under the seat and found this mess and a soldering burn on the plastic matt attached to the carpet under the pedals lol.

so stripped all this apart and wired it all back up correctly same with the passenger .
now its iver crash data on the airbag ecu or some other component failed not to sure how to find it without clip so any help ? aha also anyone no the spec of the airbag light/led that has been removed ?

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After All the wiring was sorted and squared away was left with this mess, factory radio made for a good phone holder to play music while is was flipped upside-down wiring the seats
So gave the interior a good clean out.

BEFORE

AFTER (Y)

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So Ordered Some Carbon Fibre Vinyl A While Back And Decided To Add Some To The Interior.

over heated a patch on the long strip and then smudged it with my finger apart from that its pretty need the typical thing in these clios now lol

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Next Was To Tackle The Head Lights Took Me An Hour Or 2 There Not Perfect And Need A Deeper Polish But Removed The Oxidation.

How They Stood

Started With 600 Wet And Dry

Then Went Onto 1200 Grit

Them To 1500 Grit

Then Finished With A Machine Cut And Polish

And A Comparison, So Made A Big Dent But Not Perfect

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Day After Discovered The Rear Wiper Didn't Work So Good Excuse To De-wiper The Rear And Give The Badges A Lick Of Paint

what a b*****d it was to get the rear wiper off just like my saxo seized so got the dremel out

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Gave It a Clean And This Is How It Stood For Another Week Or Two.

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More Updates Coming Soon Stay Tunes !

 

[tomhunt85]

Good progress, I like it.

 

[Willsam]

Looks good mate, not bad for a cheap car, it is the little things that can make a bit difference.

 

[T00000M]

shes getting there bumper, offside wing and bonnet paint is very thin and is chipped as well as the dented bonnet it also has filler on it don't know what this clio has been through lol so once i got all the little jobs squared away ill iver sport rep it or get them sprayed properly needs a new bonnet really its awful she photographs well lol

 

[MWright]

The airbag light is a small smd led PLCC-2 3528 (orange) I have loads spare but you can buy them very cheaply on the interwebs.

Coming along nicely, must admit.

 

[T00000M]

well long time coming here an update

i have been collecting allsorts for the clio

16s ,
Coilovers,
wind deflectors ,
boss kit / wheel ,
bonnet bra ,
silver indicators ,
spacers ,
172 complete kit ,
K&N inducation kit ,
Wipers ,
172 spoiler ,
Splitter,
Fogs,
Plastidip 10litres :wink:,
Pressed plates,
sunroof repair kit ,
tinted side repeaters,
bumper quick release,
airbag ecu and list goes on and on

its just been piling up so ive taken a week off work and here is a snippit of the progress ive made, FAR from the end

on thing u guys didnt spot which i have only noticed today lol my headight have diffrent coloured inserts one is silver one is black lol !

more soon just mega busy. new job all that stuff more detail coming up !

 

[Wee_Billy_92]

Like how this is going, a lot of work being put in.

I was wondering, Always considered smoothing my boot lid. How will you still have the use of it, is their ways for it to still be opened?

 

[T00000M]

@Wee_Billy_92

relatively easy bud you just get a 12v popper of ebay and wire it up to a switch, its basicly a solinoid that will pull on the previous boot mechanism and open it for yah if ur realy clever u can wire it to the rear wiper or washer saving the headache of a new switch.

 

[Wee_Billy_92]

Cheers for the advice mate. Only problem is that would take me a lifetime to work out and finally get working llf. Im a total amateur when it comes to wiring and that.

 

[T00000M]

so i did it this weekend was straight forawrd enough, went of the original wiper motor wiring but the gauge was a bit thin so it wasnt powerful enough to open the boot, so i ran 2 wires front the boot popper to the front passanger foot well. put the ground to a anchor on the sill and the took power from the power steering fuse (so when the ignition is off no power is active on the solenoid) and just had an inline fuse and momentary switch will update with a video of it in action @Wee_Billy_92

 

[mace¬]

had to move up north

Sorry to hear that.

 

[T00000M]

@mace¬ haha it a s**t hole up here