Clio 172 Iceberg

[Nadine]

So i am new to the Renault scene and i decided that a 02 plate 172 would be a good choice to start with. I have been a ford girl all my life owning at least 7 escorts, then i moved onto a 53 plate Astra. The Astra i swapped for the Clio, i loved my Astra and still trying to decide wither or not it was a good idea to swap. So anyway here she is:
Clio 172
74k miles
1 yr mot, 6 months tax
recent service and cambelt change
17" Fox R3 alloys (changing to 15" oz superts)
powerflow cat back system
huge cone filter (which in thinking of changing)
dark tinted windows on rear (also going to change to light smoke on front and dark smoke on back)
painted blue calipers

Couple of niggles that i need to sort, rear shocks i think are gone, i can push down on rear with little effort and it creaks like hell when i do
steering rack inner joints were an advisory. And sort the rattle from the exhaust
I had to change the battery as went to her today and it was dead, which i found strange as she has driven for a week with no issues.
small tear in bottom of passengers seat, that i ll repair.

Here are the pics

my plans for her include, lowering at least 40mm, new gear knob with blue insert. re trimmed steering wheel with blue stitching. Diamonds done in a light grey, also wheels to match. Inside wise really not sure might change the trim to light grey. However im thinking a blue and silver theme is the way to go. oh also fix all the niggles

comments welcome

 

[1991renaultsport]

Oh dear at the wheels and tints

 

[-Danman-]

Oh dear at the wheels and tints

OP said they're going to change these


I'm not sure about the colour coding on the front and rear bumper tbh. Has it had a bump and then had the front bumper replaced?

It looks as if it was rushed a little, I don't mean the quality but just how they've sprayed over the grills, headlight washers, badge surround and fog light surrounds :/ it's like they didn't have time to remove them.

I think if you changed that as well it'd look a lot nicer

 

[Nadine]

No hasn't had a bump the last owner wanted it all coded like that. It doesn't really bother me but ill have a look into changing it. Not sure if the headlight washers actually work lol
but yeah the tints and wheels are deffo getting changed

 

[Nadine]

Quick update managed to get rid of those awful wheels! However the super t plan has changed as managed to get myself a nice set of turinis

 

[LiamR172]

Thats better already!

The grills and all the other bits that have been painted silver need to go black.
And some fresh numberplates

Once lowered it will be nice

 

[Nadine]

Going to get a smaller one for front I normally get pressed metal plates but think ill go a different route on this. And defo agree with all the painted parts needing to go black. Going to get carbon fog light surrounds and diamonds. Looking at springs as we speak

 

[Cookson]

Thats crying out for a splitter.

Are those wheels 15s? They look really small

great base car though, be good to see how you progress

 

[Cookson]

Looking at springs as we speak

I may have some Apex springs going cheap soon

 

[Nadine]

Thats crying out for a splitter.

Are those wheels 15s? They look really small

great base car though, be good to see how you progress

what splitter would u suggest? No they are defo 16" think the arch gap makes them look small let me know about springs

 

[LiamR172]

Skoda fabia splitter is around 12 quid and is most common on here!

 

[Nadine]

Might get myself a carbon splitter, as going to be doing some carbon on the car. Ill have a look at the skoda one too