Another Cup (172 obviously)

[mharvey]

Hello everyone.
So I joined the forum about a year ago but didn't become an 'active member' till a couple of weeks ago.

I found a 172 Cup on here which was previously Scott's and then briefly owned by Ricardos.
So last Saturday (21st) I made the trip to Thundersley, Essex to buy the Cup.
It had a decent service history and had only covered 64k which was a fair bit lower than most Cups I saw. It had also had the cambelt changed. I only paid £2,100 for it so thought I'd got a bit of a bargain.
It had a ProSpeed exhaust, K-Tec Coilovers and Xenon's. I am planning on making a few changes.

Some pictures from the previous owner

Since purchasing on Saturday I have already started doing a few things,
firstly I removed these horrible door protectors, I know they serve a purpose but I'll just be careful with the doors.

They're gone, much cleaner looking

Then I decided I didn't like the 6*9's in the parcel shelf

So replaced them with some speakers in the rear door card as standard

and put a new clean and uncut parcel shelf in, much better imo

I also removed the side window stickers as they were all peeling anyway

Added my cliosport sticker

So I have a few plans...
Firstly get the standard cup suspension on with some eibach springs.
Get the rear bumper resprayed. (eventually front end too)
Get a new gearknob and inserts.

Got some new pillar badges on the way to fix this...

So a final few pictures for now

Thanks for looking, will keep this updated

Matthew

 

[LewisTaylor]

Bloody hell Rich sold both cars almost within a week, i'm picking the white ph1 up Saturday car looks good mate, i do love a 172 cup

 

[mharvey]

Typed that up the other day, since then though I have already had issues.
Car started running rough so I took it to Fred@BTM who diagnosed it as a faulty map sensor. He replaced this and also informed me all 4 plugs were the wrong ones so I had those replaced.
Unfortunately it also seems the clutch release bearing has gone which is going to be an expensive job and it seems that at least one of the previous owners on the forum knew about this problem, should have checked previous posts.
Anyway that will all be sorted eventually.

 

[Flat Eric]

Ah gutted mate. Hope you manage to sort things out. Looks good on pictures. Is it a stealth exhaust then?

 

[mharvey]

Ah gutted mate. Hope you manage to sort things out. Looks good on pictures. Is it a stealth exhaust then?

Yeah just a bit, it's running okay now, just gutted that I need to spend £400 on a clutch which was money towards a set of cams. Need to get better pics as they were just on my iPhone. Yeah is a stealth exhaust, fairly quiet until you open it up.

 

[Alx]

It looks really nice imo, xenons look so much better

 

[mharvey]

It looks really nice imo, xenons look so much better

Thanks, not actually sure about the Xenon's, got the standards to go back in. The xenon's look a bit droopy :s not sure how to explain it lol

 

[chapperzuk]

Smart mate! Good to meet you on Saturday, hope to catch you at future meets

 

[Tombola]

Yeah bit of a shame they didn't say mate, especially selling it on here as there's plenty of comeback for a dishonest sale. Any symptoms of the clutch release bearing? Looks like a nice car mate, so hold onto it.

 

[leewxm]

looks a minter for £2100...shame bout the problems but good luck

 

[MR.172 Cup]

Looks real good! If ur selling the xenons let me know .

 

[mharvey]

Smart mate! Good to meet you on Saturday, hope to catch you at future meets

Thanks, yeah was good to meet you too, you got some good pictures of ours next to each other. Will certainly attend as many meets as possible as you're all a good bunch.

Yeah bit of a shame they didn't say mate, especially selling it on here as there's plenty of comeback for a dishonest sale. Any symptoms of the clutch release bearing? Looks like a nice car mate, so hold onto it.

Yeah was a shame, turns out Ricardos who I purchased it off didn't know, I wasn't sure if he did but certainly the previous owner did after his posts on here. Well I didn't notice so much before but there's quite a squeek coming from it and also it does seem to have some difficulty in changing gear and pulling away which I put down to me not being used to the car.

looks a minter for £2100...shame bout the problems but good luck

Thanks, yeah I'll get it sorted soon and then it will be mint.

Looks real good! If ur selling the xenons let me know .

Thanks. I'll PM you first if I decide too.

 

[leeds_182]

Nice motor.