Clio 182
Hi all,
This is my new toy: a Clio 182
66k miles, 2 owners before me
So far in 6 weeks ownership I’ve spent £325 on an auto electrician, £50 on getting the UCH sent off and fixed, £700 on bodywork, £200 or so on bits and pieces like wipers, a refurbished seatbelt, new gearstick insert for the top, window crack repair kit, seat colour restorer etc
Just done the extremely fiddly job of finding and zip tieing the heater control sprocket thing, now getting to taking the horrible soft touch coating off the interior plastics.
Have just had a Milltek resonated cat back exhaust delivered (today) as they were on sale at £550 and the currently fitted one is ridiculous (it has recently set a parked up vans alarm off as I pulled out of a junction).
Next is some expensive garage work as it needs the dephaser/cam job doing. Going to get them to service it at the same time so preparing for a big bill, maybe £800-900?
All in all it’s costing me a fortune and makes no rational sense whatsoever. I know this but every time I put my foot down it makes me smile, it’s got bundles of character and there won’t be many 182’s around soon so hopefully it won’t lose too much money over time.
This forum has been great for advice and step by step guides. Thanks for everyone who has posted stuff 👍🏻
This is my new toy: a Clio 182
66k miles, 2 owners before me
So far in 6 weeks ownership I’ve spent £325 on an auto electrician, £50 on getting the UCH sent off and fixed, £700 on bodywork, £200 or so on bits and pieces like wipers, a refurbished seatbelt, new gearstick insert for the top, window crack repair kit, seat colour restorer etc
Just done the extremely fiddly job of finding and zip tieing the heater control sprocket thing, now getting to taking the horrible soft touch coating off the interior plastics.
Have just had a Milltek resonated cat back exhaust delivered (today) as they were on sale at £550 and the currently fitted one is ridiculous (it has recently set a parked up vans alarm off as I pulled out of a junction).
Next is some expensive garage work as it needs the dephaser/cam job doing. Going to get them to service it at the same time so preparing for a big bill, maybe £800-900?
All in all it’s costing me a fortune and makes no rational sense whatsoever. I know this but every time I put my foot down it makes me smile, it’s got bundles of character and there won’t be many 182’s around soon so hopefully it won’t lose too much money over time.
This forum has been great for advice and step by step guides. Thanks for everyone who has posted stuff 👍🏻
