Hi guys, after speaking to the new owner of my beloved first car on here I thought I'd do a write up of my ownership as I never made a project thread.
Here she is as I bought her, totally standard in June 2008:
I'm embarassed to think this was me but my not so tasty initial ideas for the car can be seen here:
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=349626
WTF was I thinking?! Thankfully I was put right by a few stern words from CS members and begun to see sense.
First few mods were simple things like silver side badges:
The mandatory Cliosport silvervisions:
Diadems:
And a CTR aerial:
Then came the RS Grill, a great mod for non sports:
Perhaps the best money I spent was getting it colour coded, which really tidied it up nicely:
Followed by other small changes that I was constantly making;
Painted the calipers gold:
And a cut down, recess fitting number plate:
I've always been about keeping my car immaculate and I spent so much time out on my drive washing and polishing it! Heres one from my pre- FCS detail:
And one from the show itself (more memories!):
Soon after I took the car to Fred at BTM performance who did the 5 yrs cambelt/water pump change. Excellent service, if I can ever get through to him (lol!) I will be going back for work on my current car
I finally got round to lowering:
went for 50mm Cobra springs from europerformance which gave it a great stance:
More money well spent was calling out my good mate Russ to work his detailing magic on it lol.
Russ' thread here:
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=450159
A few afters:
I then forked out on some decent rubber, a set of Toyo Proxes T1-R's:
I kept adding bits all the while, next was a carbon diamond:
And genuine Renaultsport mats:
Picture also shows colour coded dash strips and 172 gearknob, other nice touches.
Project 'complete'
, clean as ever:
.
14k miles and 18 months later I was ready to sell, got the new owner to sign up on here so hopefully he'll be continuing my good work!
Just shows it doesn't take a great deal of money to get these cars looking good (Albeit with plenty of time/effort in my case
) Hopefully this might be useful to people starting out for 1.2 Clios looking for ideas.
I still miss it a lot!
Cheers,
Alex
Here she is as I bought her, totally standard in June 2008:
I'm embarassed to think this was me but my not so tasty initial ideas for the car can be seen here:
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=349626
WTF was I thinking?! Thankfully I was put right by a few stern words from CS members and begun to see sense.
First few mods were simple things like silver side badges:
The mandatory Cliosport silvervisions:
Diadems:
And a CTR aerial:
Then came the RS Grill, a great mod for non sports:
Perhaps the best money I spent was getting it colour coded, which really tidied it up nicely:
Followed by other small changes that I was constantly making;
Painted the calipers gold:
And a cut down, recess fitting number plate:
I've always been about keeping my car immaculate and I spent so much time out on my drive washing and polishing it! Heres one from my pre- FCS detail:
And one from the show itself (more memories!):
Soon after I took the car to Fred at BTM performance who did the 5 yrs cambelt/water pump change. Excellent service, if I can ever get through to him (lol!) I will be going back for work on my current car
I finally got round to lowering:
went for 50mm Cobra springs from europerformance which gave it a great stance:
More money well spent was calling out my good mate Russ to work his detailing magic on it lol.
Russ' thread here:
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=450159
A few afters:
I then forked out on some decent rubber, a set of Toyo Proxes T1-R's:
I kept adding bits all the while, next was a carbon diamond:
And genuine Renaultsport mats:
Picture also shows colour coded dash strips and 172 gearknob, other nice touches.
Project 'complete'
, clean as ever:14k miles and 18 months later I was ready to sell, got the new owner to sign up on here so hopefully he'll be continuing my good work!
Just shows it doesn't take a great deal of money to get these cars looking good (Albeit with plenty of time/effort in my case
) Hopefully this might be useful to people starting out for 1.2 Clios looking for ideas. I still miss it a lot!
Cheers,
Alex
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