Hi all,
I got this nearly two years ago now and have slowly started to do bits and bobs to the car.
When purchased it had just short of 24,000 miles, FSH, all MOT Certificates, All previous Tax disks etc. I paid just under £3k for it which wasn't bad considering the above along with the fact that it has A/C and an electric sun roof.
All fresh and new:
Not long after i decided to treat the car to a full service and the MOT was due.
The service included:
Cambelt
Water pup
Aux belt
All filters
All fluids
Full check over the car.
Thankfully she came back fully healthy however my wallet wasn't!
We had a bad patch of weather that seemed to be non stop for around 3 months, during this i realised that my sunroof had the classic leak which most renaults seem to inherit at some point. I had a look around at all of the guide which were for manual sunroofs, i had also read somewhere that electric ones can be more difficult to remove and to refit therefore i decided to get a professional in.
http://www.sunroofrepairs.co.uk/index.php
They charged a grand total of £110 including VAT to carry out the following work:
Fix sunroof
Fix chip in windscreen
Reseal windscreen
They were in and out within and hour and did a first class job (highly recommended)
I had and incident January of this year where i hit a pot hole on a blind corner, this resulted in a damaged alloy.
I ended up stranded in the middle of no where for 1hr until a friend managed to get to me with a breaker bar, we swapped over the alloy to the spare and i drove home. The following morning i took it over to a local garage and they checked over the suspension and wishbones etc. All was ok, so now i went about searching for a new alloy.
Foolishly i ended up buying a full set of brand new Monza R alloys with tyres for £500. I later sold these on without tyres for £200.
Also foolishly i ended up applying the decals that you can see above.
I ended up with a set of the standard alloys which i powder coated Black
The next main mod was a 172 rear bumper to which i got sprayed to match
List of current Mods:
Front diamond, dash inserts, gear stick insert, painted Ford graphite grey.
Wind deflectors
Powder coated alloys
Vinyl wrapped wing mirrors and bullets
List of plans:
Exhaust system
Lower
Carbon Aqua-dip the wing mirrors, front and rear diamonds, bullets, dash and gear inserts.
Fabia splitter
Thanks for reading if you got this far, i will try to update as things happen (will be a lot in the next few months) and sorry about the image quality / sizes, i am no photographer!
I got this nearly two years ago now and have slowly started to do bits and bobs to the car.
When purchased it had just short of 24,000 miles, FSH, all MOT Certificates, All previous Tax disks etc. I paid just under £3k for it which wasn't bad considering the above along with the fact that it has A/C and an electric sun roof.
All fresh and new:
Not long after i decided to treat the car to a full service and the MOT was due.
The service included:
Cambelt
Water pup
Aux belt
All filters
All fluids
Full check over the car.
Thankfully she came back fully healthy however my wallet wasn't!
We had a bad patch of weather that seemed to be non stop for around 3 months, during this i realised that my sunroof had the classic leak which most renaults seem to inherit at some point. I had a look around at all of the guide which were for manual sunroofs, i had also read somewhere that electric ones can be more difficult to remove and to refit therefore i decided to get a professional in.
http://www.sunroofrepairs.co.uk/index.php
They charged a grand total of £110 including VAT to carry out the following work:
Fix sunroof
Fix chip in windscreen
Reseal windscreen
They were in and out within and hour and did a first class job (highly recommended)
I had and incident January of this year where i hit a pot hole on a blind corner, this resulted in a damaged alloy.
I ended up stranded in the middle of no where for 1hr until a friend managed to get to me with a breaker bar, we swapped over the alloy to the spare and i drove home. The following morning i took it over to a local garage and they checked over the suspension and wishbones etc. All was ok, so now i went about searching for a new alloy.
Foolishly i ended up buying a full set of brand new Monza R alloys with tyres for £500. I later sold these on without tyres for £200.
Also foolishly i ended up applying the decals that you can see above.
I ended up with a set of the standard alloys which i powder coated Black
The next main mod was a 172 rear bumper to which i got sprayed to match
List of current Mods:
Front diamond, dash inserts, gear stick insert, painted Ford graphite grey.
Wind deflectors
Powder coated alloys
Vinyl wrapped wing mirrors and bullets
List of plans:
Exhaust system
Lower
Carbon Aqua-dip the wing mirrors, front and rear diamonds, bullets, dash and gear inserts.
Fabia splitter
Thanks for reading if you got this far, i will try to update as things happen (will be a lot in the next few months) and sorry about the image quality / sizes, i am no photographer!
but they would've looked great if you powdercoated them black. May I ask how much it was for the 172 rear bumper and respray? As I want that to be my next mod. Colour coding is always a winner, will freshen up the look of the car, the side strips can be done quite easily and cheaply and they really do make a difference. I'd also suggest colour coding the boot release button so that your rear diamond looks like a renault diamond rather than just a solid block. You seem to be on the right track, good work 
