Clio 182 ff

[Jezza.wright]

So last week I got this car for £800. It has full service history up till 8000 miles ago. It has full cup pack stainless ktech exshaust and is standard apart from coil over that will be coming off and will be replaced with standard cup suspension again.

when I collected the car last week, gosh it was dirty. It has been stood for 4 months since the last owner lost drive and could not afford to fix it. It's due a cam belt/ dephaser pully and a service. I started cleaning it out this week during the evenings and what a difference. First job was to strip the back out and to deep clean it. So rear seats were removed and it began.

This was before I cleaned the carpet either side on the wheel arches.

Looks a lot better now clean.

One very dirty seat belt.

One clean seat belt.
Will update this as I go let me know your thoughts cheers.
Ps I'm new here so advise is welcome.

 

[LeeRS]

£800 bargain. Why can I never find these. I want me a toy.

 

[N4TH4N]

800 ? Did well. Why so cheap

 

[LeeRS]

Still £1400 taking the belts into consideration @N4TH4N though.
Still cheap though.

 

[N4TH4N]

True true..

 

[N4TH4N]

How do people clean the seat belts

 

[Ben.Block]

Pull them all the way out, clamp the top so they don't pull back in, soak and clean away!

 

[Thrust-Rated]

How many miles has this done?
Seems a decent price, belts aside.
Dread to think what my 04 182 is worth nowadays
Half the reason why I can't part with it after the amount I have put into it

 

[Jezza.wright]

Done 65000 miles its lost drive so needs gear box rebuild and belts. Belts 190 and fit myself and rebuild box myself so not 1400 more like 1100 still cheep

 

[Ashh]

Peanuts.

Looks well considering it's been sat about for 4 months.

 

[Jezza.wright]

Couple of nights ago I refitted the rear seats and boot carpet and what a diffrence.

So last night and tonight I did a bit more to it. Took front seats out last night and gave a good clean came up well to be hounest. Also did hand brake surround and little cubby box under seat.

Tonight I gave the carpets a good wet vac but forgot to take a before picture but here are the after pictures.

What a big diffrence it makes. Just changes the whole inside of the car. This will be left to dry out now and then I will refit the front seats and the mats. Quite pleased takes time tho.

 

[Jezza.wright]

Also cleaned both door cards and rest of the interior. Here are a few other pictures.

Also all windows were polished inside and out and then the out side rainX them.

 

[BREMBO]

Great work, like threads like this

 

[Jezza.wright]

Thought I would update this. Been doing odd jobs the last week tbh. Unfortunately not many pictures.
So one of the jobs to do was to replace the bulbs in the centre display and they were not working and as if read it was top of dash off. Was worried about doing this but how easy it was was unreal. So they were changed and is now working spot on.
Another job was to remove the spoiler as the brake light wasn't working so removed and was shot so one was ordered. Whilst off cleaned all under the spoiler.
Next job was to start stripping front rear bumpers off to be painted. Also took off roof inserts above rear windows to clean them out. And the side door strips to clean behind these too.

Only picture I took. Will update tommorow with few more.

Must add also head lights out to polish up.

Dose anyone know how to make all the black grill and plastics look good again?

 

[Jezza.wright]

So today the headlights were polished and led's were fitted.

 

[Daniel]

What sidelight bulbs are they? They look great.

 

[Jezza.wright]

What sidelight bulbs are they? They look great.

There from slick touch leds on Facebook

 

[Canary172]

What a bargain! And good on you for saving it from going the scrappers - it's got loads of potential

 

[DannyR]

What did you use to clean door cards?

I've been told a soft tooth brush and some fairy liquid, is that ok?

 

[Jezza.wright]

What a bargain! And good on you for saving it from going the scrappers - it's got loads of potential :smile:

Thank you Canary172 massively appriciate it. Means a lot.

What did you use to clean door cards?

I've been told a soft tooth brush and some fairy liquid, is that ok?

DannyR I used multi purpose cleaner and a micro fiber cloth to clean them. After that I dressed the plastic in a light plastic dressing to protect and make look a bit better.

 

[Jezza.wright]

So today I did a few jobs.
First job I took my wheels to work to remove tyre off and took them down to city powder coaters in Bham, these are the wheels before.

I replaced the gear stick cover as my last one was worn and you couldn't read what it says even though I don't need to I replaced it anyway.

 

[Jezza.wright]

So today I did a few jobs.
First job I took my wheels to work to remove tyre off and took them down to city powder coaters in Bham, these are the wheels before.

I replaced the gear stick cover as my last one was worn and you couldn't read what it says even though I don't need to I replaced it anyway.

Next job was to replace the indicator bulbs in the front and rear lights for chrome bulbs as I don't like the light always looking orange.

Orange bulb in still.

Chrome bulb in.

Orange bulb in.

Chrome bulb in.

Then I decided to cover my fog lights to make them yellow as I like the look of yellow fog lights even tho I don't use front fog lights as they are useless. I used lamx stuff, never used befor but ow how easy it was. Quite impressed with the results.

First off I cleaned the fog lights to make sure there was nothing on the lenses.

 

[Jezza.wright]

This was my first fog light covered.

After I had done both of them I decided they were not yellow enough so I put another layer on top and this was the result.

As the rear bumper was off I decided to polish the tips of my exhaust as they are very easy to get to at the moment.

All in all I'm impressed with the progress so far and fairly pleased with the results let me know what you think. Cheers in advance.

 

[Jezza.wright]

Today I didn't do much I just did a bit on my manifold. Sprayed and polished it.

 

[Jezza.wright]

So collected my wheels from Birmingham City powder coasters today and wow what a difference. Put tyres back on balanced and the polished, sealed, and waxed. Look great. £20 per wheel is so good.

 

[Jezza.wright]

So not don't much in that last week to be hounest. But did manage to strip clean and paint the front calipers and rears will be done this week.

One thing I have noticed tho was water under my drivers and passengers seat. So I cleaned out the drain holes in the bulk head as the centre one was blocked and behind each wheel ach was blocked so cleaned all this out. I hope this solves it if not dose anyone have any other suggestions.

Also managed to get hold of a fuel rail guard and painted and polished this too.

 

[PP200t]

Really nice project mate, well done for saving it as has been said. As said bargains like this don't come up often!!
The wheels look good, how long did they take please?

 

[Jezza.wright]

The wheels took 4 days and they were pretty bad.​

 

[Jezza.wright]

So it's been a while again and quite a bit has happened.
Got my bumpers back and they are back on, all back together and brakes all back on and bled, also this sat I did the gear box on the car. Now drives and is spot on.
Fitted new rear badge too.
Also today I polished sealed and waxed the whole car and wow what a difference. Few pictures for you.

 

[Jezza.wright]

 

[PP200t]

What a transformation!! Well done for turning another one around.

 

[Jezza.wright]

Thank you appreciate your likes

 

[Slowcookedbeef]

Looking awesome mate, good job. I've ordered the led bulbs and gunna switch to chrome bulbs and also very tempted with the yellow fog lights.

 

[Jezza.wright]

Where are u located as I have film left over

 

[Slowcookedbeef]

Washington area mate if you know where that is? Did you just use soapy water for the seat belts?

 

[BGEarles]

Great turnaround [emoji4] What a bargain!

 

[Jezza.wright]

Been a long long time since I have been on here. I managed to do the cam belt and service the whole car and have used it and done 4 track days in to too now. Anglesey twice and oulton park twice. I fitter yoko AD08R's to it and also decaf it and what a difference they make, handles so much better and pulls so much stronger. Not a lot else has changed tbh apart from One problem I had on track was the power steering fluid over heating so in the last week I have wrapped the manifold in heat wrap.

sorry about the crap photo that's all I have haha forgot to take one before I fitted it.
I plan to get the steering wheel done by snappy becuse as usual the thumb grips have gone on mine and the top of the steering wheel is poor too.
This year I'm thinking of stripping it out putting bucket seats in and a rear cage and harnesses.