Edd
ClioSport Club Member
Ghibli/Boxster/197T
Sold my Ph2 172 at the end of May.
Bought this off a cliosport member back in June. It's a 2000 W plate 172, and had 53k on when I bought it. The only faults were exhaust related, blowing and a rattle on start up. Sorry a lot of the pics were taken on my phone.
At a pub on the way home.
So the following weekend had the car over the pit and took the exhaust off.
Found that the cat was being held on with one bolt.
So I re-fit the exhaust with new brackets.
However this didn't get rid of the rattle on start up, so back over the pit it went for another look. Checked gear linkages but it turned out to be a lose bolt on the bottom engine mount. So after a saturday morning in a pit the car sounded much healthier.
Bought some Sportlines off drunkenmonkey.
Got them fitted along with some clear side repeaters and Ph2 rear lights.
Decided on some 2118's in silver as I fancied a change. But only had them a couple of weeks as I just wasn't keen, think if they had been anthracite it would have been a different story. Can only find the below two pics.
So then I thought I would try some 16 inch OZ F1's, but it really didn't seem to handle aswell on the 16's and wasn't long before the 15's were back on.
Wanted to try and refurb a set of wheels so managed to pick some 15 inch OZ F1's up off the bay, alot of the paint was bubbling and they were curbed.
Set about rubbing them down, knew it was going to be hard but it did take longer than I expected.
Several coats of primmer, black and laquer later and I was very pleased with the result, the time spent rubbing down felt worthwhile.
Got them fitted.
Finished the centre caps off and added some wheel tape that Greeny supplied. Still can't make mind up about the wheel tape, but it took that long to put on I don't really want to take it off.
Then came a 307 splitter, which I think has improved the stance of the front end.
Got afew more plans, so I'll keep it updated.
Bought this off a cliosport member back in June. It's a 2000 W plate 172, and had 53k on when I bought it. The only faults were exhaust related, blowing and a rattle on start up. Sorry a lot of the pics were taken on my phone.
At a pub on the way home.
So the following weekend had the car over the pit and took the exhaust off.
Found that the cat was being held on with one bolt.
So I re-fit the exhaust with new brackets.
However this didn't get rid of the rattle on start up, so back over the pit it went for another look. Checked gear linkages but it turned out to be a lose bolt on the bottom engine mount. So after a saturday morning in a pit the car sounded much healthier.
Bought some Sportlines off drunkenmonkey.
Got them fitted along with some clear side repeaters and Ph2 rear lights.
Decided on some 2118's in silver as I fancied a change. But only had them a couple of weeks as I just wasn't keen, think if they had been anthracite it would have been a different story. Can only find the below two pics.
So then I thought I would try some 16 inch OZ F1's, but it really didn't seem to handle aswell on the 16's and wasn't long before the 15's were back on.
Wanted to try and refurb a set of wheels so managed to pick some 15 inch OZ F1's up off the bay, alot of the paint was bubbling and they were curbed.
Set about rubbing them down, knew it was going to be hard but it did take longer than I expected.
Several coats of primmer, black and laquer later and I was very pleased with the result, the time spent rubbing down felt worthwhile.
Got them fitted.
Finished the centre caps off and added some wheel tape that Greeny supplied. Still can't make mind up about the wheel tape, but it took that long to put on I don't really want to take it off.
Then came a 307 splitter, which I think has improved the stance of the front end.
Got afew more plans, so I'll keep it updated.
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