My Phs1 172

[Black2]

Hi - I am new to the forum and new to owning this Renault Clio.

Story behind me obtaining this is my friend who has owned it for the last 5 years had to move abroad for his job so he was basically going to scrap it or px for a newer car and get peanuts for it.

I thought its far to good a car to scrap, plus I have always liked these cars, I nearly bought a ph2 in 2005 but bought a new fiesta ST instead. Ive never really owned anything other than a Ford since driving so I thought I would buy this, it was dirt cheap.

As you can see it was filthy and generally just a little neglected in the presentation department. So far all I have done is give it a good deep clean, both inside and out. It currently has non standard alloy wheels which I would like to do away with in favour of the standard 15" OZ rims. The car seems to be remarkably genuine from what I can see. It still has an unused spare with what I think, or looks like an original tyre, Mitchelin pilot?? is this correct? It has the original warning triangle, medical kit, fire extinguisher and jack kit.

The car had a short MOT when I bought it but it has recently passed with only minor advisories. I love the way the car drives, really does give good feedback in the way an older car with no PAS does.

I don't really have any plans as such for it, bar regular maintenance and obtaining the standard wheels. The bonnet and pumper also need painting as they are shagged, bar that its a very presentable car.

Heres a few pics:

As you can see was in a fair old neglected state so i started to deep clean it :

Comments welcome,

Gareth.

 

[-J-]

Welcome to the forum, great looking PH1 you've got there

 

[imprezaworks]

Echo the above

 

[Black2]

Cheers guys. I think im right in saying its Monaco Blue in colour?

Gareth.

 

[Djw John]

Great turnaround so far mate.

No, Ph1s are Odyssey Blue, slightly different.

 

[cb10]

Cheers guys. I think im right in saying its Monaco Blue in colour?

Gareth.

No mate its called odysey blue i think.

 

[Black2]

Ahh cool, I didn't know that. I will need to get some paint for the front so at least now it will be the right colour, lol.

 

[imprezaworks]

Yeah odyssey

 

[barnesautos]

Welcome to the Forum - that's coming up lovely . . Keep up the good work

 

[GrahamS]

I saw the first pic and cried at the alloys (very emotional I know)

Read on and though what a top bloody job, love the PH1 in OB and especially with silver OZs. Headlights look fab, need to do a similar thing myself.

 

[Alastair.]

Get some acid on those wheels. Welcome.

 

[Black2]

Wheels are finished now, I took each one off and scrubbed them for hours! I will get some better pics of them, they came up really well considering how bad they were.

 

[Stefan.]

I saw the first pic and cried at the alloys (very emotional I know)

Read on and though what a top bloody job, love the PH1 in OB and especially with silver OZs. Headlights look fab, need to do a similar thing myself.

Completely agree!

Top work :approve:

 

[Mar172]

Good to see another odyssey ph 1

 

[Liaaaam]

Massive difference you have made already, shows what a good bit of TLC can do. Any plans for the car ?

 

[Black2]

Massive difference you have made already, shows what a good bit of TLC can do. Any plans for the car ?

Only plans are to use it and enjoy it , keep it maintained and I would like a set of standard wheels for it. I paid so little for the car, so basically anything I do will cost me more than i bought it for. It will be a daily driver, we need 2 daily cars so this one and ST. The mk5 will be sold.

Itching to start using it now! but waiting till the mk5 fiesta is gone.

Gareth.

 

[Black2]

Looks like my Fiesta is sold so the clio will be on the road towards the end of this week!

Been reading up a bit on here and general internet regarding changing the cambelt and despite all of the threads saying its the worse job in the world ever I still feel inclined to do it myself.

I understand I need to obtain the camshaft locking tool (gear box end) and the crank locking pin, there seems to be confusion as to weather or not the cam shaft pulley locking tool is required, some people seem to say 100% yes, others say not needed if the pulley's are not being disturbed?

I have also read and seen links to a PDF guide, but the threads I have been looking at are old and the links don't work anymore, could anyone possibly PM me over the guide? as that would be a decent help at this stage.

regards, Gareth.

 

[Stefan.]

If this is your first go at doing a cambelt on a renault sport, i would advise against it without someone watching over your shoulder.

Will likely do more harm than good. i know everyone wants to learn start from somewhere, just wouldn't without some help first.

 

[Black2]

If this is your first go at doing a cambelt on a renault sport, i would advise against it without someone watching over your shoulder.

Will likely do more harm than good. i know everyone wants to learn start from somewhere, just wouldn't without some help first.

Ive done cambelts before but not on a clio sport. Would like to read the guide first of all and then decide what to do. From what ive read the thing that makes it such a hard job seems to be the lack of space rather than the complexiity of the cambelt configuration.

Gareth.

 

[Chi]

Nice work mate, good job on saving it

 

[Black2]

Just a general update to this, I will get some more pics up soon but I am now using the car and I love it. Says on the trip its returning circa 33mpg at the moment, which is steadily increasing. What can you expect mile wise to a full tank of fuel? I filled it to the brim last night so i am hoping to get 300 plus from a tank, does this sound about right?

I will shortly be ordering a service kit to change filters, plugs and oil etc.

I have also now obtained a manual for changing the cambelt so I will start buying the parts for this soon as well. Just a point on this, as Im sure most of you know even buying the parts (Gen Renault) to do the job is not cheap!

Gareth.

 

[Jekyll]

Worth paying to become a full member mate. We get discount from Renault Wolverhampton. The £12 pays for itself it savings plus you get access to the whole site. Well wort it IMO.

With regards to the car, it's cleaned up nicely compared to when you started.

 

[Black2]

Small update.

Noticed recently the handling had gone slightly odd and that the rear drivers side tyre would rub when the car compressed at the bottom of a hill (car is not lowered). Turns out the rear shocks were totally shot.

This clio sport (below) came up for braking so today I went and got the wheels and rear shocks off of it. Ive been looking out for a set of standard wheels for a while now, so i couldn’t resist them at a decent price, they need new tyres though so i wont be fitting them just yet.

I have put the fresh shocks onto today and the handling is great again, but its sitting like a monster truck at the rear now, the old ones were really shagged so it was sitting lower with the knackered ones on. Think I may have to lower it just a touch, maybe.

Oh does anyone know the silver phs 1 being broken? It had cliosport windows decals and tax disc holder, so its been on here at some point in its life. I asked why its being broken and it seems its just because it failed the mot on trivial stuff like emissions, hand brake etc – seems such a shame!

Few pics:

Gareth.

 

[Mar172]

Ahh cool, I didn't know that. I will need to get some paint for the front so at least now it will be the right colour, lol.

D44 the colour