Hi all.
As some of you will be aware, I’ve recently purchased an 172 Cup, which some of you know as Kyle’s old cup!
Was going to put together a little thread for anyone that’s interested (possibly even Kyle ?) for the crack.
So my journey starts a few weeks back where my car is a 2017 Citroen C3 HDI in white, I bought it as before that I had a white X reg Impreza 2000 Turbo (remapped/exhaust/induction/coilovers etc) which I loved but was costing me the earth to run. Decided it was a good idea to get a cheap to run commuter that wasn’t going to fall apart and try to be an adult. After owning the C3 for about 4 months it had to go, I don’t have children yet and it isn’t the life for me! It was perfect and I hated it.
I wanted a 182 a few years back but decided I’d get an ‘86 Mini instead (a beautiful/awful car but that’s another story!).
So I’m trawling through eBay and see this blue 172 Cup for the kind of money I was looking to spend. Awesome! 61k, FSH, all the right kind of mods I would have been looking to do myself anyway.
So I message the seller and arrange to view the following weekend.
Upon viewing the car, it was even better than I expected. This thing was mint and had so much paperwork I didn’t have a clue where to start. The pictures didn’t do it justice.
So I send him a bank transfer and I’m about to drive it home. “I’ll tax and insure it before I leave” I think to myself. So I grab my new keeper slip and tax it for 12 months straight away, no problems. Now for the insurance. I’d phoned up Adrian Flux a few days before viewing to give me a ballpark figure and it was okay. Little did I know Adrian Flux had closed by the time I handed over the money, hmm.
Unable to go ahead with that, and with a 3 hour drive home ahead of me, I really didn’t want to drive it back uninsured and wasn’t paying for it to be towed back.
So I insure it for 24 hours on one of these temp cover sites as a “standard car” and pray I don’t get pulled over. I needed to fuel up on the way home, pull into the petrol station and what do I see? 2 police cars sat in there. Fantastic. This thing isn’t exactly quiet and discreet.
So I fuel up as quickly as I can, pay for it “I don’t need a receipt mate!” and get out of there. Phew.
The car behaved really well all the way home. Always a bit nervous driving a new (old) car home as you never really know (well I don’t anyway ?).
Couple of commutes under its belt with no hiccups, fluids holding, no leaks, I’m chuffed!
Then it happened, dreaded engine management light during my commute. Awesome.
Got me to work fine, did my 12 hour shift, start the car up to go home and the cold idle is lumpy as hell. I’d gotten used to it being a bit lumpy, with the Cat Cams etc but this thing could cut out at any point. Gets up to temperature and behaves again. Light stays on mind.
So today I’ve taken it to a mate of mine who’s a mechanic at a garage to get it plugged in. Verdict is a lambda sensor. Still dead smitten with it but an early reminder that I am no longer driving a 2 year old family mobile. Hopefully that rectifies it!
Future plans for the car, hopefully I can get hold of some second hand carbon bucket seats and a pair of new Sabelt 4-points. Definitely flock the dash.
Purchased a spare wheel and new tyre to stick in the back as the carpet kind of hangs in the well and doesn’t look the best. As soon as I’ve got that refurbed it’ll go into the back.
It’s off to a couple of shows in October (Trax being the biggy) and I’ve booked I’m some track time while I’m there (Mrs in the passenger seat, see how this goes ?).
I’ll let you all know when the lambda is fitted to see if she’s cured??.
As some of you will be aware, I’ve recently purchased an 172 Cup, which some of you know as Kyle’s old cup!
Was going to put together a little thread for anyone that’s interested (possibly even Kyle ?) for the crack.
So my journey starts a few weeks back where my car is a 2017 Citroen C3 HDI in white, I bought it as before that I had a white X reg Impreza 2000 Turbo (remapped/exhaust/induction/coilovers etc) which I loved but was costing me the earth to run. Decided it was a good idea to get a cheap to run commuter that wasn’t going to fall apart and try to be an adult. After owning the C3 for about 4 months it had to go, I don’t have children yet and it isn’t the life for me! It was perfect and I hated it.
I wanted a 182 a few years back but decided I’d get an ‘86 Mini instead (a beautiful/awful car but that’s another story!).
So I’m trawling through eBay and see this blue 172 Cup for the kind of money I was looking to spend. Awesome! 61k, FSH, all the right kind of mods I would have been looking to do myself anyway.
So I message the seller and arrange to view the following weekend.
Upon viewing the car, it was even better than I expected. This thing was mint and had so much paperwork I didn’t have a clue where to start. The pictures didn’t do it justice.
So I send him a bank transfer and I’m about to drive it home. “I’ll tax and insure it before I leave” I think to myself. So I grab my new keeper slip and tax it for 12 months straight away, no problems. Now for the insurance. I’d phoned up Adrian Flux a few days before viewing to give me a ballpark figure and it was okay. Little did I know Adrian Flux had closed by the time I handed over the money, hmm.
Unable to go ahead with that, and with a 3 hour drive home ahead of me, I really didn’t want to drive it back uninsured and wasn’t paying for it to be towed back.
So I insure it for 24 hours on one of these temp cover sites as a “standard car” and pray I don’t get pulled over. I needed to fuel up on the way home, pull into the petrol station and what do I see? 2 police cars sat in there. Fantastic. This thing isn’t exactly quiet and discreet.
So I fuel up as quickly as I can, pay for it “I don’t need a receipt mate!” and get out of there. Phew.
The car behaved really well all the way home. Always a bit nervous driving a new (old) car home as you never really know (well I don’t anyway ?).
Couple of commutes under its belt with no hiccups, fluids holding, no leaks, I’m chuffed!
Then it happened, dreaded engine management light during my commute. Awesome.
Got me to work fine, did my 12 hour shift, start the car up to go home and the cold idle is lumpy as hell. I’d gotten used to it being a bit lumpy, with the Cat Cams etc but this thing could cut out at any point. Gets up to temperature and behaves again. Light stays on mind.
So today I’ve taken it to a mate of mine who’s a mechanic at a garage to get it plugged in. Verdict is a lambda sensor. Still dead smitten with it but an early reminder that I am no longer driving a 2 year old family mobile. Hopefully that rectifies it!
Future plans for the car, hopefully I can get hold of some second hand carbon bucket seats and a pair of new Sabelt 4-points. Definitely flock the dash.
Purchased a spare wheel and new tyre to stick in the back as the carpet kind of hangs in the well and doesn’t look the best. As soon as I’ve got that refurbed it’ll go into the back.
It’s off to a couple of shows in October (Trax being the biggy) and I’ve booked I’m some track time while I’m there (Mrs in the passenger seat, see how this goes ?).
I’ll let you all know when the lambda is fitted to see if she’s cured??.
