my lil 1.2 :)

[joshhatton]

well iv been hear for a few months now and havnt posted up my 1.2 16v

got this of my uncle who sadly has nearly left us with parkinsons, he had his lisence taken away and this was his present to me, its only a 1.2 16v expression but my plans are to take this car to my limits and really get it lookin top.

plans so far are as usual a 1*2 rep, but with a differnce, as im aware there is no point doing all this stuff to the engine on a 1.2 as you dont get nothing out of it, but it should look nice


-so far i have the standered 172 spoiler, in process of gettin colour coded,
- dorr strips in process of being colour coded,
- wingmirror covers in process of being colour coded,
- RS grill fitting tonight direct from ren with a good discount
- lowering 35mm in the next month
- 10" sub with amp full wiring kit going in next month,
- flip up dvd monitor in front (fitted)
- ps2 in the glovebox (fitted girl friends choice )
- ktec exhaust, looks really nice, sport model
- silver colour coded strips on inside (fitted)
- silver gear knob thing (doing tonight )
- 1*2 steering wheel when i get the money
- 1*2 alloys (fitted)
- silver 1*2 door handles, (asap)
- xzenon bulbs up front (fitted)
- white sidelights (fitted)
- silverstones all round (fitted)
- some type of air filter intake (from ktec) (asap)
- light smoke window tint kit
- new mats prob from group buy
- ipod docing station (fitted)
- colour coded bumper strips
(EDIT)
- Forgot the fog lights these will also be modified somehow with inserts

and the good ol cliosport stickers




basically that was my orig list of what i wanted to do, and well a bits changed

started of with the new wheels they went on and made a big diff

then basicly went on to do some work on the inside,
- started of with a new headunit, as had plans for some little gizmo in the glove box so had to be a pop up screen couldnt afford alpine so settled for ....

- then went onto put my little gizmo AKA ps2 into the glove box, really easy and works so well really keeps the girfriend entertained

then got myself soem 172 dash trims made the colour coding begin

after all this i decided to start putting some audio in, started of with a sub box

with all the bits and sub box ready we started to carpet the sub, BUT with me being a booy, not really into this textiles stuff, i got my babe round

and their she goes, started with the staple gun, was really wondering wether to trust her

after this, i think she may of got bored? not sure ?

but any way i love her lots as well she did an amazing job

the sub was cut perfect to fit rite in the clio where it has a rise in the boot cut a bit out fits in perfect and goes over the hook in my boot

but yea, that was then all wired up and put in the car, every thing came out so i could rout the wires, and now there invisable!!!

next day i decided to pop down my local car centre and see what door speakers they had in and i got lucky

SALE!!!

got me some pioneer 10cm speakers really goood 74.99 i got them for 37.99 really happy

got home and relised my mates old clio was 10cm my new one was 13cm so the project began

old speakers out

new speakers then onto some ply wood

all marked up and ready to get jigsawin

but while we where doing this the grand prix was on so we watched how lewis didnt have a very good race at the same time

got them cut out and got them all ready to bolt in

perfect fit

cut out the new holes for the little bit smaller speakers

then sprayed them silver :S even though you cant see them :S

new speakers in

and the covers back on

well thats it up untill this date more in a few days

 

[Timmay]

cool project - quite a list youve got there! - will be very inteersted to see what it looks like wehn its done

 

[Chrisjk]

Good work so far, any full pics of the car/her.

 

[joshhatton]

well.... will give you a full pic of her if you like please paypal money tooo .....

 

[Jamesstone]

Little list of to do's then lol, looks like some good work is going into it, keep it up!

 

[Michael172]

i used to drive an expression, sooo much better than the dynamique, ended up stripping it out for the space of 2 weeks befroe i got sick of the road noise but i had some reet fun with it round the roads near me.

As for the filter, get a pannel filter, a k n N if you can, wont be noisy but it frees the engine up slightly. VERY slightly.

 

[joshhatton]

got a link to it michael??

 

[guysy]

Those speakers look tiny ! Whats the sound like?

good job on making them fit though.

nice gf aswell /

 

[joshhatton]

speakers are amazing 10x better than the standard 13cm really crisp

 

[Alastair.]

full car pics required, good work though! bth that shitspeed headunit be give u endless trouble in the future

 

[joshhatton]

i know moneys tight though really couldnt afford any thing else, full pics tomo when i get the grill back on and wingmirrors and other

 

[LaurenF]

Good McFly CD??

 

[joshhatton]

shut up its my girlfriends na i was free with the paper and i was really hoping someone didnt notice

 

[LaurenF]

I secretly like McFly........ and i forgot to buy the paper the other day

Oh, speakers looking good

 

[mikey_172]

nice project matey

 

[AlexG]

nice little project matey, are those speakers coaxials? and have you connected them to the amp?

 

[Christopher]

LOL @ your lady's "help"

Coming on well lad

 

[joshhatton]

yea well the bill was on, i cant do all that stuff and get it lookin good i tried one and made a big mess,

the speakers are not conneted to a amp should they be? im quite new to all tis audio stuff ?

 

[drummie]

Nice project mate. You've got a nice long list of mods to get through.

 

[joshhatton]

got this nice little package today

so fitted it earlier and made a big dif to the car really happy disoucnt aswell

so then fitted new bulbs zenon bulbs silvervisions and white sidelight bulbs look amazing when lit up

so now took the old handles out ready for the new ones in :L

 

[drummie]

RS grill make a great improvement to the front end!

 

[AlexG]

grill looks good you should get some fog lamps in there it makes it look better but you dont even have to wire them in if you dont want to

 

[Max.]

Looks really smart! I'll be trying to achieve a similar sort of thing with my 1.2...

All though there is no way I'd make my own sub box, would take my cack-handed self all day to get it right. Yours looks really good though.

RS Grill makes so much difference, looks a million times better than standard. What is this discount you speak of , I could do with a bit of that... So your getting all the 172 bits new? Rather than a breakers yard?

 

[joshhatton]

cheers lads, yea i got a good discont through renault the sub box was easy, started of with a box then cut it to the shape of the car,

fog lights are trying ot be baught now, really hard to find

 

[VeinAST]

Nice one on the grille

With the fogs, you should wire them up seperately to a switch on the dash if you can rather than fiddling about with the loom unless the wiring's already there. Just a recommendation though

 

[joshhatton]

yea was goign ot do that, but anyway
pissed off

jsut got my wingmirrors covers back one is perfect looks brill, one if fuked, paint, and tissuw paper stuck to it, so thats set my car meet back grrr

pics up sooon

 

[joshhatton]

rite well hears the wingmirror covers look good from a distance but close up the left is rough, so need to get it done again

and hear is the rear of clio made it all myself still needs a bit of work but you get the jist of things, sounds really good with the pioneers up front

and got this fitted today goes so well with the inside, silver 172 gear knob insert, of a member on hear thank you sorry about poor cam

and hear is the front of the car as it stands now without the bumper and fogs

 

[Tomc90]

How much you manage 2 get the grill 4 ?

 

[iimushroomzii]

f**k me looks like a massive box for that grille!

 

[joshhatton]

sorry about that, she wasnt ment to post on hear, that is the box all grills come in. as said, lets wait till some nice weather comes, get her top off, clean my car, pics up

way forward

 

[AlexG]

sorry about that, she wasnt ment to post on hear, that is the box all grills come in. as said, lets wait till some nice weather comes, get her top off, clean my car, pics up

way forward

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looks good though the sub box looks well good you done a good job on making it fit perfect.

 

[Willy]

look good dude :approve:

 

[.J.a.m.e.s.]

keep up the good work, i ilke the grill

 

[micp]

Looks great mate.
Think I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

 

[joshhatton]

cheers spoiler should be going on today with some other new bits, thansk for all the posts

 

[Willy]

when you get round to sorting everything we should go for a cruise :approve:

 

[Brett]

looking good, would befit from dynamique or sport interior though as the expression one is poor imo.

Mistake number one though - Posting a pic of your gf on here, endless amount of ramarks to come.

 

[joshhatton]

haha i know been getting a few comments about her, im not fussed though share and share alike

yea interior will be one of the last things, cant afford it.

 

[Lewis_Spurs]

cars looking pretty smart, will have to keep an eye on this thread like the look of things

 

[joshhatton]

new door handles came today thanks to some good members

pics

new old

and now to upgrade the speakers in the rear of car,

old speakers soon to be out