My 1.2 ownership adventure, 56k.. erm.. no..

[Jamesstone]

Well started driving november last year, spent better part of 3 years on motorbikes, traveling into london alot i just couldn't see the point in owning a car... but after a few winters & near misses i decided on a car , after looking on the net & reviews i decided on a clio, always preffered the look over other hatch backs so decided on a 1.2 mk2 ph2, unfortunatly at the time they were out of my price range so i settled for a Ph1, what it looked like the day i bought it -

4 previous owners, 65k on the clock, i saw hope with a few mods!

After a propa clean, spent a good few hours on the thing -

So with it looking "ok" to drive around & be seen in public i decided on driving it car to work for the first time.... i didn't make the 10 mile journey... on the first bloodey day this happend -

yep you guessed it, cambelt snapped.. just great so i was now forced to sell my bike.. tried the put a new belt on & see if it runs method, that didn't work though, i wonder why?? -

Luckily a m8 helped me sort it all out & get it bk on the road, 3 weekends on my drive in the rain. so with it all restored to former glory i was happy untill 3 weeks later the clutch started slippin.. was not happy with the reno owner ship at all & even got tempted to buy some thing new on fianance but luckily my gd side steered me clear & decided to fix it & carry on with the plan to do some subtle mods, first in line, alloys -

For £200 fitted with brand new contis all round i was a happy man indeed except for the fact it looked like a 4*4 lol so suspension was the nxt thing on the list -

How it looked after being dropped 35mm + some ph2 rear lights ( thanks to fubars site on the wirring ) -

next mod was a spolier of a dynamique, Got this for £20, was in need of some tlc & a respray

After spending a few days wet n drying, priming, painting & laying a few coats of clear i was very happy with the results -

So i was finnaly getting happy with how my clio was starting to look.. but before i could begin my next mod i lost the use of my back seats thanks to the poxy handles going on both seats so off to reno stealers & they wanted £50 to repair my old seats .. so finally found some one on hear sellin full set of bk & front cup seats, managed to get them for £70, result!

started to play with the interior -

side by side, old with the new -

Me likey

Was tempted at this point to gut it, make a big go cart:evil:
But i didn't... decided they'd come in use for some taxing as always

so next on the list was colour coding, went to halfords to put damage on the plastic.. later that day

drove round like this for a few days, even had a police car follow me for a gd 3 miles one night & didn't get stopped although i was preparing my self for, hmmm must of fell off

next up was the badges -

Abit of colour -

Thought about keeping one colour but ended up bk at halfords for black touch up -

so after money spent hear & there i decided i was finally happy after almost a year, the results -

So thats it till 172 insurance becomes sensible!

 

[Jamesstone]

woops, sorry in wrong section could mod move too - clio

 

[davebem]

Nice work, Clio loks very smart, reminds me of my old 1.2. You did a good job of bending those valves.

 

[Jamesstone]

Was just crawling through traffic too

 

[MEDD]

lovely work, looks very tidy.

 

[Daniel]

Very nice and tidy mate, you got good skills/patience too!

 

[JR]

fairplay, must be pleased with the way it has changed, looks very good now.

 

[Brett]

nice looks just like a mk2 ph2 from the back would take someone who knows there clio's to spot the rifference on the last photo, you did a realy good job of the colour coding mate i'm impressed, infact it looks better than the job renault did on colour coding my car and that was standard on my car

 

[Jamesstone]

Thanks for positive imput guys, makes it all worth it that some one notices , Brett_1990, i wasn't 100% happy with the finnish so went bk to halfords with 7 empty cans & said i'm not happy with the finnish, they said did you paint in a booth?? yes of course i painted it in my heated, sealed garage ( as you can see from the picture with the rear bumper :rasp: ) after half an hour argueing with the manager they gave me £55 back so it cost me about £30 to colour code my whole car:approve: .. although a weeks worth of prep etc was on my own time

 

[roders990]

id still see to those repeaters and handles tho mate, looks very smart, big diffrence from the origional car

 

[Marky_]

Well tidy fella. You have some good taste in mods and it's good to hear you stuck with it dispite the set backs.
Don't think they'd have believed you if you claimed it 'must have fallen off' :rasp:

 

[f0xy]

wow....nice amount of work gone into that, looks great too!

 

[RickyP]

wow....nice amount of work gone into that, looks great too!

Seconded. Good job! What next for your car?

 

[Jamesstone]

I'm thinking clear side repeaters & colour coding the door handles as said above, thing with the door handles is i've gotta take all the door cards out to get them off, had to do it through the summer as my drivers side elecy window packed up.. not fun so dont fancy doing driver & passenger side now theres no light left in the evening after work:dapprove:

 

[Greeny.]

Good work and nice thread

 

[GarethM]

nice fella

tidy

 

[AlexG]

wicked thread its nearly exactly the same as mine so its good to be able to see what some of the mods look like before i do them lol it looks great!

 

[Alastair.]

awesome, looks mint, u have patience abviously

 

[Hazza]

He's got his RS now.

 

[Mark One]

A good honest job and a lovely car

 

[Tigger]

Well done, tidy wee motor.
Fair play for doing all yourself too

 

[Jamesstone]

Thanks guys, nothing better than a little diy , 172 prgress thread will be on the way soon, didn't look so pretty when i bought it but like this one, I saw hope!! lol