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My first yellow car - Leon FR
- Thread starter Djw John
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Mot done, nice clean pass after I kicked the number plate light back into life 😂
Bought these, absolutely f**king filthy but you can clean anything right? Right?!
Apparently quite rare, they made a special edition called a FR550 with these seats, the supercopa body kit and xenons I think. And they made 550 of them so not common.
Just the same as cupra seats but with the correct FR fabric.
Bought a heated seat kit too so will need to figure out how to take them apart.
Apparently quite rare, they made a special edition called a FR550 with these seats, the supercopa body kit and xenons I think. And they made 550 of them so not common.
Just the same as cupra seats but with the correct FR fabric.
Bought a heated seat kit too so will need to figure out how to take them apart.
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Jesus, some c**t has been busy on them 😂
You could well be right, I'm far from an expert on these!
Better or worse than your old bed?!
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Both seen the same amount of action
No me neither, only looked into it when i kept seeing people selling cars as ‘fr550’ which aren’t. Annoying!
How wrong can this go?!
Proper kit, 2 settings, for the base and back for both fronts
Proper kit, 2 settings, for the base and back for both fronts
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
I'm sure @CliosportCal put some in his old seats
I reckon the hardest bit will be reassembling the seats but I'm sure I'll get there in the end!
Martin_172
ClioSport Club Member
There's a yellow one in my local scrappies, I went to message you on Facebook but seems I've been deleted 😂
You got rid of fb no? I only delete accounts that folk have deactivated!
Send a request again. Which scrappies?
Send a request again. Which scrappies?
You know when you start something and think "this will never go back together just as good as it was"?
Yeah...
Only doing 1 at a time, planning on putting some stain remover on the covers and putting them in a 40 degree wash when the wife is out. Decent idea or will it f**k them?
Yeah...
Only doing 1 at a time, planning on putting some stain remover on the covers and putting them in a 40 degree wash when the wife is out. Decent idea or will it f**k them?
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Bang em on a 20 or 30 wash
Might be a bit tight but you should get em back on. Did them with my aunties corsa seats when she spilt 6 pints of milk all over the seat and left it for 2 months
Might be a bit tight but you should get em back on. Did them with my aunties corsa seats when she spilt 6 pints of milk all over the seat and left it for 2 months
Good shout.
Urgh gawd 🤮 that'll have smelt worse than death
Urgh gawd 🤮 that'll have smelt worse than death
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Honestly mate, me and my dad both gipped when we opened the door
She said she just left the window slightly open all the time so it didn't get foisty 🤢 Inside the car smelt like someone covered themselves in s**t, died and then rotted away, proper gross. Even the foam was fucked
Sod that lark.
Cover them in anti-bac interior cleaner and wet-vac them dry after a decent scrub !
Cheaper to buy a wet vac than buy more seats. Probably
Cover them in anti-bac interior cleaner and wet-vac them dry after a decent scrub !
Cheaper to buy a wet vac than buy more seats. Probably
I was gonna do that in situ but then thought I could make them heated for £50-60 so why the f**k not?! Now that it's off anyway figured get the machine to do the hard work
Started working in a covid ward start of last week which has meant by usual 90 miles a day has gone to 130. And no time for anything else. I'm not sure the car counts as yellow anymore 😂
So gave it a whores bath and just cleaned the bits that let me see/be seen.
So gave it a whores bath and just cleaned the bits that let me see/be seen.
Yup, and they work so much better than Renault attempts!
Touch me, I've made it.
Had to take the day off whilst I wait on a test result so made the most of it between phone calls and emails.
As said above ive been doing stupid miles and hours recently so think this is the first wash in a couple of months and a good few thousand miles.
It needed it for sure. Turns out it's yellow.
Then it started to batter down with rain so I didn't get a finished pic or swap the wheels to the new ones but it's better than it was.
As said above ive been doing stupid miles and hours recently so think this is the first wash in a couple of months and a good few thousand miles.
It needed it for sure. Turns out it's yellow.
Then it started to batter down with rain so I didn't get a finished pic or swap the wheels to the new ones but it's better than it was.
I took a gamble and bought it with zero history.
Im gonna guess it's not though, it's the main reason I haven't had it mapped yet.
How much did that cost?
Im gonna guess it's not though, it's the main reason I haven't had it mapped yet.
How much did that cost?
R3k1355
ClioSport Club Member
I did exactly the same, I'm on near enough the same miles and it was still on the original clutch.
Actually drove perfectly fine still, only got done because the slave cylinder failed, clutch was near enough down to the rivets.
Mine was mapped when I bought it as well, bought it from a "dealer" in Leeds.
Clutch kit, DMF and slave cylinder was £700 fitted. Not cheap, but considering the miles I was impressed.
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
And up for sale it goes 😂😂
I need to do the belts too really. I'm trying to just run it with routine maintenance but I'll regret that when I'm at the side of the motorway at night.
I need to do the belts too really. I'm trying to just run it with routine maintenance but I'll regret that when I'm at the side of the motorway at night.
R3k1355
ClioSport Club Member
It's painful, but it does the job I want it for so it's just running costs at the end of the day.
I literally just did the belts, waterpump, thermostat and tensioner two weeks ago.
My wallet is smoking right now the cash I've lashed out on the thing
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Belt on them is pretty straight forward tbh
Is this a CBDB?
Is this a CBDB?
Krarl
ClioSport Club Member
Ah sound so its a round port head instead of a square port
Few of my mates used to work at Darkside so VAG fag knowledge passes across😂😂
Few of my mates used to work at Darkside so VAG fag knowledge passes across😂😂
I'm in 2 minds about the belt. Or 3 really.
Gamble
Do it myself
Pay a man.
clutch etc can wait until it's a problem.
Gamble
Do it myself
Pay a man.
clutch etc can wait until it's a problem.
R3k1355
ClioSport Club Member
Thats where it got done, be silly not to really.
I assume it needs locking tools and such, which eats into most of the savings doing it yourself.
Just comes down to how many miles you wanna put on the thing,
A mate has the tools but yeah I'll cost up the parts, I get them at trade at least.
As far as I know it's done 128,500 miles so far!
As far as I know it's done 128,500 miles so far!
