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My First Car - 1.2 Clio



  Mk5 Ibiza Cupra
I don't understand why people have such dear insurance, I'm 18 and I have a 1.2 TCE at £1400 a year, still rapey in theory but not half as bad as some of the quotes I've heard...
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
You must live in a relatively nice area, mine should be about £2500 now if I started my own policy last year... I'm getting "1 years driving experience" as opposed to "1 years NCB"... hopefully my NCB will build and the price shall drop *touches wood*
 
  Renault Clio
jake my first year of insurance was 3800 got a new policy threw it has gone down 2 1800 pound I am happy that one year NCB helps alot man just drive safe and watch out for old people :p
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
Spend a good few hours cleaning her, nothing is new in this picture.

For those interested I only used AutoGlym cleaning products here, including the shampoo, glass cleaner and resin polish - as my good friends treated me to them for my birthday. Still, turned out pretty shiny :)

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  (s)Low Dynamique
Spent some of my savings that I didn't really want to spend hahaha. For £80 though, I couldn't afford not to!


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  (s)Low Dynamique
My mate had upgraded his seats for his 1.2, he payed £150, now he's selling his car and the seats didn't up-value his car at all, so he sold them me on the cheap :D
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
New bulbs
Yellow Lamin-x fog light film

(Sorry for the crappy picture, iPhone cameras are sh*t)

EDIT: Crying out for lows I know, hopefully around December/January coilovers will be purchased!
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  (s)Low Dynamique
If you want my honest opinion then;

- Lower it on coilovers at least 70mm front and rear.
- Either colour code rear bumper or get a 172 bumper.
- 3/4 front plate
- Lose the tints

And that would be lovely.

I've also got a dynamique in black, if your interested in my thread for ideas then go ahead ;)

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?603122-The-Black-Pearl.

Cheers pal, all the things (bar losing the tints) are already on my agenda :)

Tints are a love/hate thing on here, I personally love the privacy of them and they suit the black-on-black stealth theme which I'm aiming for (in my opinion anyway).
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
Few updates...

New mods:
Carbon wrapped spoiler (to cover up flake-y paintwork haha)
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Carbon wrapped rear wiper blank, rear diamond and front diamond
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Blindingly bright HID kit (I already regret this, planning on getting projector lamps)

Coming soon....
Well I've started to understand my car looks chavvy, and it bugs me! So soon I shall be ripping the tints out! And getting projector headlamps to rectify the HIDs a little (plus my standard headlights have really bad weathering).
3/4 front plate ordered
Colour coding front/back plastics
Raceland/Rokkor coilovers (ready to buy these now, just waiting to find them at the right price)
Also want to sell my chavvy-as-foooook subs, and with the money uprate the door card speakers instead
Wind deflectors

And before anybody says it, I know you told me so, regarding the tints haha ;)
 
  BMW 330ci
Plans sound good mate. I used to have tints, didn't want to remove them but one day I thought f**k it I'll see what it looks like lol. And was the best thing I done man. Looks miles better ! Should defo do it. And lower it mate.

Would look really good then mate.
 
  TT QS
as i read through this all i wanted to say was loose the tints and you say it at the end lol

makes it look like a van imo, spoils it :/

however, each to their own! you have a really nice car.

going to look even better slammed i love black on black

no jokes before anyone starts lol
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
as i read through this all i wanted to say was loose the tints and you say it at the end lol

makes it look like a van imo, spoils it :/

however, each to their own! you have a really nice car.

going to look even better slammed i love black on black

no jokes before anyone starts lol

Haha I know, everybody I know is trying to convince me keep them but I genuinely dislike them now. Gonna get pissed one day so I can rip them out without thinking about it haha!

You know what they say eh, once you go black you never go back ;)

Cheers pal
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
Wind deflectors have arrived, fitting them in 20 minutes haha. Also taking my sub(s) out tonight! Pics to follow shortly :)
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
Service booked in on Thursday! Pretty much finished now for mods, just want to lower it and colour code the front+back and it's done :)
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  Focus 1.6 soon a 182
Nice car. I've decided to do the same as you. I got bored of the stock look of my Clio quite quick so I'm trying to make my mind up on what to do with it :rasp:
 
  Focus 1.6 soon a 182
Yeah I found a few on ebay for about £50 and I'm going to get some LEDs on the bumper as well. Just trying to find some alloys.
 
  Focus 1.6 soon a 182
Yeah I've found a few on ebay for around £50. Also I want get 172/182 alloys and maybe new rear bumper.
 
  172 Hillclimb/Sprint
i like the effort you have put into your car jake, although the mods aren't to my taste now. we were all 17 once, i had lexus lights on my first car which i just thought was the nuts, but i cringe at any i see now and think, oh man that was me xD haha. seriously ouch on the insurance front, it's all down to postcodes tbh, i had a best mate in my village he was paying about 1900 on his gti 106 at the time, he moved to a birmingham postcode, and requoted at 5K, not even a joke, in the end he sold his car to his old man, because he coudn't afford to insure it. good luck with future mods :)
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
i like the effort you have put into your car jake, although the mods aren't to my taste now. we were all 17 once, i had lexus lights on my first car which i just thought was the nuts, but i cringe at any i see now and think, oh man that was me xD haha. seriously ouch on the insurance front, it's all down to postcodes tbh, i had a best mate in my village he was paying about 1900 on his gti 106 at the time, he moved to a birmingham postcode, and requoted at 5K, not even a joke, in the end he sold his car to his old man, because he coudn't afford to insure it. good luck with future mods :)

Haha cheers mate, I think I've gone past the 17 year old stage now (seeming as though I'm 18 ;) ), I did some ridiculous things like blue leds in the boot and limo tints but I realised how gash it all looks. Tried to rectify everything now and I'm pleased with the results :)
 
  (s)Low Dynamique
I know! Took me exactly 1 year from passing my test to lower her haha! Worth the wait though I must say
 


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