My silver TCE

[Dan...]

yea heres the link : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/330882823136?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648

Only had them today,ones replaced my interior bulb but i oushed it all the way in and it didnt work so i turned the switch on and pulled a little and it came on need to get another one for my numberplate lights as i only have one LED bulb left

Cheers I might try one of those

 

[bennettxo]

Good for the price considering you get 2! I'll let you know if the blow or anything

 

[Dan...]

Good for the price considering you get 2! I'll let you know if the blow or anything

Thanks mate

 

[Dan...]

Sooooo, christmas came and I got this!...

Personalised Plates! by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Just waiting for all of the paperwork to come through then I can get it on the car!

I also got these delivered today, I've been meaning to get them for ages. I'll fit them on Saturday and post some pics

Philips Silvervision bulbs by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

 

[Dan...]

Fitted the silvervision bulbs this morning. The photo's aren't great as it was pissing down with rain and I didn't want to get the camera wet so i've used a couple of photo's I took the other day for the before shots.

Front before:

Renault Clio-7 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr


Front after:

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr



Rear before:

Renault Clio TCe - Before-2 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio TCe - Before by Dan Jenks, on Flickr



Rear after:

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Much better!

 

[bennettxo]

Fitted the silvervision bulbs this morning. The photo's aren't great as it was pissing down with rain and I didn't want to get the camera wet so i've used a couple of photo's I took the other day for the before shots.

Front before:

Renault Clio-7 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr


Front after:

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr



Rear before:

Renault Clio TCe - Before-2 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio TCe - Before by Dan Jenks, on Flickr



Rear after:

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio TCe - After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Much better!

What's it like fitting the rear lights? And how do you fit them?

 

[Dan...]

What's it like fitting the rear lights? And how do you fit them?

Easy mate:

Open the boot
Unscrew the three screws on the plastic part of the light
give the light a bit of a push in the upward direction and the light will come away from the car
unclip the plastic part holding the bulbs
change the bulbs
put it all back together

 

[bennettxo]

Cheers mate definitely going to have a go at changing them

 

[Dan...]

Cheers mate definitely going to have a go at changing them

No worries, drop me a pm if you get stuck

 

[bennettxo]

No worries, drop me a pm if you get stuck

Will do man

 

[Kazumz]

Yuck! Swap the back and front bumper out! I absolutely hate the old looking Clio's they are vile! Espcially with the black strips across the back; looks like a pair of eyebrows!

Apart from that, going good so far but that's just my opinion.

 

[Kazumz]

I'm not 19 now! Lol I'm only 17 atm. What i meant was by the time my finance is finished on my car il'l be 19 so insurance should be affordable on an RS.

RS is £2000 on insurance at 19 with +2 no claims. Its priced at £1500 for me on Confused.com @ 20 years old. No way, still cheaper for me to mod the s**t out of my TCE.

 

[Dan...]

Minor update -

My documents arrived earlier in the week for my private plates. After a battle with the old double sided sticky tape, I finally got them on.

The car was given a quick once over this morning so I took a few pictures with the plates fitted:

Private Plate by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Private Plate by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Private Plate by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Private Plate by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

While I had the camera out I took a few more photo's of the Silvervision bulbs as the last ones were taken when the weather was rubbish:

Renault Clio 2014-5 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio 2014-3 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Renault Clio 2014-8 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr


I've also been looking online this morning and some lowering springs - I'm thinking a drop of around 30-40mm. If I do eventually get the car lowered I would like to get some spacers fitted at the same time however I am unsure what size I should get?

What size spacer would you guys recommend?

 

[bennettxo]

just bought springs for mine 40mm for £85 brand new. im looking a 16mm spacers for £35 on ebay with all extended bolts. if you want the links for any of them let me know mate car looks really clean,nice example of a mk3,will look much better lowered!

 

[Loz H]

nice, looks proper smart!

as for spacers, id say try 10mm's, yours doesnt look that bad atm. i bought 20mms for my mk2 but the backs rubbed too much

 

[Dan...]

just bought springs for mine 40mm for £85 brand new. im looking a 16mm spacers for £35 on ebay with all extended bolts. if you want the links for any of them let me know mate car looks really clean,nice example of a mk3,will look much better lowered!

Cheers mate ...I saw the springs you've ordered in your project thread but have you got a link to the spacers please? Definitely, the arch gap on the MK3's are ridiculous, they cry out for lows!

Just found you on instagram btw

nice, looks proper smart!

as for spacers, id say try 10mm's, yours doesnt look that bad atm. i bought 20mms for my mk2 but the backs rubbed too much

Thanks bud... I think your right, about 10 or 16mm as suggested above should be plenty for me.
Ahh gutted, can you get them changed?

 

[bennettxo]

Cheers mate ...I saw the springs you've ordered in your project thread but have you got a link to the spacers please? Definitely, the arch gap on the MK3's are ridiculous, they cry out for lows!

Just found you on instagram btw



Thanks bud... I think your right, about 10 or 16mm as suggested above should be plenty for me.
Ahh gutted, can you get them changed?

yea heres the link http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360730246...eName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
cant wait for my springs to be fitted,will look so much better. haha thought it was you

 

[Loz H]

Thanks bud... I think your right, about 10 or 16mm as suggested above should be plenty for me.
Ahh gutted, can you get them changed?

Yeah whatever you think looks best
haha i did! swapped them for 16's, they rubbed still, but ive found that it rubs with people in the back & no spacers so i reckon i need to roll my arches before i refit my spacers.

 

[Dan...]

yea heres the link http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/360730246...eName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
cant wait for my springs to be fitted,will look so much better. haha thought it was you

Brilliant, thanks - Is that just for two spacers? I bet you can't it'll look ace

Yeah whatever you think looks best
haha i did! swapped them for 16's, they rubbed still, but ive found that it rubs with people in the back & no spacers so i reckon i need to roll my arches before i refit my spacers.

That's alright then You must be pretty low if it's rubbing when people are in the back ?


Actually thinking about it I often have passengers in the back as I car share with some people I work with, I won't have any rubbing issues at 30/40mm will I??

 

[bennettxo]

Yea just for the two that is bro

 

[Loz H]

That's alright then You must be pretty low if it's rubbing when people are in the back ?


Actually thinking about it I often have passengers in the back as I car share with some people I work with, I won't have any rubbing issues at 30/40mm will I??

Haha only 60mm

nah wouldnt of thought so, should be sweet :

 

[Dan...]

Earlier in the week I saw a member on here selling some genuine door seals for the mk3. As i've been needed to replace mine for a while now I snapped them up straight away.

Door seals before by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

As you can see they were long overdue being replaced!

New vs Old by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Door seals After by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

 

[Dan...]

Not really that much happening but just thought i'd put these here to keep the thread updated.

After giving the car a good clean at the weekend, I started to wonder if I preferred the car without the fog light tint...
before:

Clio TCE-20 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

After:

Spring-1 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

I'm so glad i've taken them off. It gives a much more fresh and cleaner look to the front of the car.

You may have seen from another thread that I recently attended a meet with a few others on the forum, more photo's can be found here but I thought i'd stick a couple in here too:

CS 01.03.14 P'borough-7 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

CS 01.03.14 P'borough-19 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

 

[Dan...]

Saturday = Spending time tinkering with the car! On todays list of things to do was to give it a wash, sort my number plates out and have a play with my interior.

Popped over to Halfords first thing to get some bits that I needed.

This was the behind the numberplate before:

Then applied this (AWESOME stuff btw!):

Left the remover to dwell for abit then scrubbed everything off resulting in this:

I then reapplied my velcro coins:

Hopefully it will hold in place a little better now.

Moving on to the interior, I had some 'carbon' vinyl wrap lying around so I thought I'd try wrapping my dash strips.

So, before:

During:

After:

I'm not sure if they will be staying yet as they are not by no means perfect - especially around the edges and I think it may bug my OCD a little! lol

Apologies about the photos - Camera phone pictures + Photof**kit are a bad combination!

 

[Dan...]

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[CoryColeWilkins]

Dan... Can these models not be made into rs replicas?

 

[Dan...]

@Dan... Can these models not be made into rs replicas?

I believe so, I'm not too sure if many people have yet though. I made the decision not to modify this excessively so I could put the money aside for a sport

 

[MicKPM]

There are some differences in the arches on the RS models compared to the standard version (and between those and the S variants) not to mention the R'S being 5 stud so you won't get the genuine wheels to fit.

I do love these cars a lot though and plan on a 1.2tCe myself in the summer.

 

[Z1gZa]

@Dan... Can these models not be made into rs replicas?

Been done a few times here in Portugal. I can even show you a 5 door dCi with RS kit. For the 3 door, you only need to adapt the rear bumper and make the archers wider since the bumper is larger.

 

[Dan...]

Haven't posted in here for a while so here's some up to date photo's

Fresh plates thanks to a member on here as my old ones had a strange 3D text that I wasn't too keen on.

KT02 Dan-2 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

KT02 Dan-6 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

KT02 Dan-7 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

KT02 Dan-8 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Much better.

The car will be up for sale within the next couple of months to fund the next ...an RS

 

[bennettxo]

Haven't posted in here for a while so here's some up to date photo's

Fresh plates thanks to a member on here as my old ones had a strange 3D text that I wasn't too keen on.

KT02 Dan-2 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

KT02 Dan-6 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

KT02 Dan-7 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

KT02 Dan-8 by Dan Jenks, on Flickr

Much better.

The car will be up for sale within the next couple of months to fund the next ...an RS

I need a set of fresh plates,gone off the pressed ones. Nice to hear your getting a rs!

 

[Dan...]

I need a set of fresh plates,gone off the pressed ones. Nice to hear your getting a rs!

Yeah I've never really been a fan of the pressed ones - keep an eye on this thread as I think he might be making another batch soon.

I know, all going well I should hopefully have one soon

 

[Dan...]

FOR SALE:

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/show...ique-3dr-%A33-800-ono&p=10414550#post10414550

:approve:

 

[Loz H]

ooooh what you getting next?

 

[Dan...]

ooooh what you getting next?

If all goes to plan - A 182!

 

[Owen92]

You better still be in that when we go CSS! I don't want to be the only 1.2.

 

[Loz H]

If all goes to plan - A 182!

Good choice

 

[Dan...]

You better still be in that when we go CSS! I don't want to be the only 1.2.

Haha, I don't think I'll have this sold & another bought before then so I wouldn't worry

 

[Owen92]

That's good to hear! Mine just tends to be sat on it's own in a sea of 1*2's at CSS.