So the story starts as this. I am in my final year at university now and after a very short discussion with other lads on my course we have decided that to celebrate our university careers we are going on a road trip.
so the plan is to go to le-mans, departing England on June 12th. spend a weekend there, then on to Germany for a few days at the ring followed by a few days in Amsterdam before home.
good plan i hear you say? then i realised that i drove a 1.9tdi VW bora. this would not suffice. So i got my car up on swaps in the hope of finding something more worthy of a road trip.
on 13th Jan i drove from Oldham to Dudley and picked up my first clio sport 172 in exchange for my bora.
below are a few pictures i took on tuesday morning at uni :
now the car seems lovely and straight on the body work and even the interior is pretty clean. it does come with a few problems. what do we expect for a 12 your old car?
So it is lowered but as far as i can see it is not on coilovers but seems very low and the ride is VERY stiff. could these be ultra low springs?
It has a Ktec racing exhaust twinned with a miltek backbox.
A silly cheap cone filter sucking in all that lovely warm engine bay air ( thinking of either an enclosed filter or a standard airbox with panel filter to replace it)
Silly Ripspeed head unit with tiny dvd screen that doesnt even fit properly.
steering wheel is at a strange angle when the wheels face straight ahead.
Digital climate control only blows hot air.
electric mirror stalk is broken and window switches a bit loose.
cigarette lighter has intermittent connection.
Needs a good service and i may throw a cambelt on as a precaution.
also desperately needs engine mounts doing. The engine attempts to leave the engine bay if you rev it with the bonnet open so you can see it.
Lovely headunit configuration.
This is the steering wheel position when the wheels are in a straight line....
thanks for reading and i will try to update this thread with my progress,
Cheers,
Jarvis
so the plan is to go to le-mans, departing England on June 12th. spend a weekend there, then on to Germany for a few days at the ring followed by a few days in Amsterdam before home.
good plan i hear you say? then i realised that i drove a 1.9tdi VW bora. this would not suffice. So i got my car up on swaps in the hope of finding something more worthy of a road trip.
on 13th Jan i drove from Oldham to Dudley and picked up my first clio sport 172 in exchange for my bora.
below are a few pictures i took on tuesday morning at uni :
now the car seems lovely and straight on the body work and even the interior is pretty clean. it does come with a few problems. what do we expect for a 12 your old car?
So it is lowered but as far as i can see it is not on coilovers but seems very low and the ride is VERY stiff. could these be ultra low springs?
It has a Ktec racing exhaust twinned with a miltek backbox.
A silly cheap cone filter sucking in all that lovely warm engine bay air ( thinking of either an enclosed filter or a standard airbox with panel filter to replace it)
Silly Ripspeed head unit with tiny dvd screen that doesnt even fit properly.
steering wheel is at a strange angle when the wheels face straight ahead.
Digital climate control only blows hot air.
electric mirror stalk is broken and window switches a bit loose.
cigarette lighter has intermittent connection.
Needs a good service and i may throw a cambelt on as a precaution.
also desperately needs engine mounts doing. The engine attempts to leave the engine bay if you rev it with the bonnet open so you can see it.
Lovely headunit configuration.
This is the steering wheel position when the wheels are in a straight line....
thanks for reading and i will try to update this thread with my progress,
Cheers,
Jarvis
