Titanium 182
Had this is in the media secton first, decided I would put it on here with my updates on him so far.
This is my 1.2 clio 'Patrick' when I first got him, had service history and cam belt change.
2002 1.2 16V, when the log book arrived it had 7 previous owners, which got me a bit unsure about it as to why so many people had had it but it isn't an issue anymore.
After the first couple days of driving this car it seemed fine, ran well and got me around pretty decent, was strange going from a diesel to a petrol. In heavy rain the car would lose power and a light on my dash would come on, unsure what the light means..
After this happened and left me stranded twice I had my girlfriends dad who is a mechanic to have a look at it, after a diagnostic check came up with nothing a couple of forums had mentioned that a couple wires coming from the cars ECU would have come apart and got torn and wet forcing the car to lose power, apparently it is something that Renault don't check for so whenever this is taken to their garage and it is never found the problem is never fixed. A bit of tape around the wires and a test drive in the rain, the car ran perfect and no problems with the loss of power.
After a week or 2 of driving this new car I got rid of the wheel trims and sprayed them black, which I still didn't like, it was just a made do for now job, I soon found on here that someone was selling a set of turini's not that far from me so I offered the guy a price and he accepted, I drove down to chester to pick them up a couple days later.
The headlights on the car, one of in excellent condition on the front but behind the connections were broken and the other headlamp was hazed and stratched, I got out the headlamp polish and gave a go at restoring them both, but after the hazed one not even getting a single bit better i got some cup headlamps for chorley and fitted them.
Need to get the alloys refurbed but for now they are fine, might arrange to get it done after winter.
With this swell a couple of small modifications had been changed, 3/4 front plate, aero wipers and xenon bulbs
The car pretty much stayed like this for a little while, including a ken wood stereo which I changed as soon as i could as the one that came with the car was just dreadful.
After a pretty good payday I bought a few parts for Patrick to pick up on the mods, first I always wanted an aftermarket exhaust, sported seemed to do fairly decent ones and so I bought one. After a week of waiting for it to arrive, it felt like ages, it finally came and got it fitted 2 days later by myself and my girlfriends dad.
Was a real pain to take the stock exhaust out but defiantly worth it.
As well as the exhausts I also ordered a few various bits to help improve the car, some Cree reversing lights, Team Heko wind deflectors, my cup spoiler and a set of fog lamps. the car doesn't come with fog lamps with it only being an Expression model so I plan to fit some fog lamps and the usual yellow tint on them, common but it looks good IMO.
I'm arranging to have the spoiler resprayed, I'm also trying to get my hands on a 172 bumper off a guy on here which will be getting sprayed at the same time and will properly be going on the car after christmas maybe.
Today I got a few cleaning bits to give a car a small detail. I'm new to detailing so I don't have much stuff to use so I went and bought a couple bits to help me give it a go, I think it came out alright for now, needs a bit more work on it.
After a first detail...
I tried to spray the 'clio' badge at the back in white as it was the only spray paint I could find around my house but not really a fan of it so need to get another one to replace it.
Got a couple of plans for him next which are lowering, colour code, and Ive seen the FK tail lights which I think look alright so might have a look into some of them aswell
Cheers for looking.
This is my 1.2 clio 'Patrick' when I first got him, had service history and cam belt change.
2002 1.2 16V, when the log book arrived it had 7 previous owners, which got me a bit unsure about it as to why so many people had had it but it isn't an issue anymore.
After the first couple days of driving this car it seemed fine, ran well and got me around pretty decent, was strange going from a diesel to a petrol. In heavy rain the car would lose power and a light on my dash would come on, unsure what the light means..
After this happened and left me stranded twice I had my girlfriends dad who is a mechanic to have a look at it, after a diagnostic check came up with nothing a couple of forums had mentioned that a couple wires coming from the cars ECU would have come apart and got torn and wet forcing the car to lose power, apparently it is something that Renault don't check for so whenever this is taken to their garage and it is never found the problem is never fixed. A bit of tape around the wires and a test drive in the rain, the car ran perfect and no problems with the loss of power.
After a week or 2 of driving this new car I got rid of the wheel trims and sprayed them black, which I still didn't like, it was just a made do for now job, I soon found on here that someone was selling a set of turini's not that far from me so I offered the guy a price and he accepted, I drove down to chester to pick them up a couple days later.
The headlights on the car, one of in excellent condition on the front but behind the connections were broken and the other headlamp was hazed and stratched, I got out the headlamp polish and gave a go at restoring them both, but after the hazed one not even getting a single bit better i got some cup headlamps for chorley and fitted them.
Need to get the alloys refurbed but for now they are fine, might arrange to get it done after winter.
With this swell a couple of small modifications had been changed, 3/4 front plate, aero wipers and xenon bulbs
The car pretty much stayed like this for a little while, including a ken wood stereo which I changed as soon as i could as the one that came with the car was just dreadful.
After a pretty good payday I bought a few parts for Patrick to pick up on the mods, first I always wanted an aftermarket exhaust, sported seemed to do fairly decent ones and so I bought one. After a week of waiting for it to arrive, it felt like ages, it finally came and got it fitted 2 days later by myself and my girlfriends dad.
Was a real pain to take the stock exhaust out but defiantly worth it.
As well as the exhausts I also ordered a few various bits to help improve the car, some Cree reversing lights, Team Heko wind deflectors, my cup spoiler and a set of fog lamps. the car doesn't come with fog lamps with it only being an Expression model so I plan to fit some fog lamps and the usual yellow tint on them, common but it looks good IMO.
I'm arranging to have the spoiler resprayed, I'm also trying to get my hands on a 172 bumper off a guy on here which will be getting sprayed at the same time and will properly be going on the car after christmas maybe.
Today I got a few cleaning bits to give a car a small detail. I'm new to detailing so I don't have much stuff to use so I went and bought a couple bits to help me give it a go, I think it came out alright for now, needs a bit more work on it.
After a first detail...
I tried to spray the 'clio' badge at the back in white as it was the only spray paint I could find around my house but not really a fan of it so need to get another one to replace it.
Got a couple of plans for him next which are lowering, colour code, and Ive seen the FK tail lights which I think look alright so might have a look into some of them aswell
Cheers for looking.
