133/225/CLS AMG
Well thought I'd start myself a project thread for fairly recently acquired 2003 Clio 172 as I have some plans lined up for it.
The background is that a good friend of mine bought the car last year for around £3k. It had 50k on a the clock and a full service history, was in mint condition and he loved it.
Anyway, as much as he loved it his Mrs wasn't so keen as they shared the car. They also weren't keen on the fuel consumption. Anyway, he had a little mishap with the car which resulted in it looking like this.....
Otherwise though the car was perfect. Anyway he wanted a quick sell and feared the trade in would be rubbish with the cosmetic damage so offered it to me for £800!!!! He knew I'd look after it and having been a Renault fan all my life and at that price how could I say no?
So I got cracking on the car, mainly enjoying it as a daily driver but making a few little changes along the way. LED sidelights to match the whiteness of the Xenons to begin with...
Then a couple of LED bulbs for the interior...
If anyone is interested they are just cheapo ones from E-Bay. They are the five LED bulbs as I found lesser ones weren't really bright enough.
She's got a few random stickers, mainly because I'm not taking the car too seriously. Need to get me a ClioSport.net one soon.
She's now a 182
Interior wise she's in very good condition, the leather has stayed nice with the aid of my mate using Autoglym Leather Care Cream on them a few times since he bought it. Also I had some custom cut chequer plate steel mats lying around from my last Clio 172. Only been sitting redundant for 6 years but I still think they look quite cool and they're hard wearing!!
And now the outside having had the exterior work done on the car. Cost me in the region of £600 to have the dent pulled out and the entire front bumper and most of he drivers side sprayed.
Being French it hasn't all been straight forward so far. She failed her first MOT with me due to a hole in the back box and excess play in the suspension ball joints. I decided to replace the back box with a custom made Powerflow back box. Went for a 3" tailpipe and requested the noise to sound purposeful but not chavvy, they got it just right.
So far that's pretty much it. I have a set of standard silver door bullets on their way to me so I'll go OEM with them for now. I intend on attempting Plastidipping the wheels matt black so may do these current door bullets matt to match.
The background is that a good friend of mine bought the car last year for around £3k. It had 50k on a the clock and a full service history, was in mint condition and he loved it.
Anyway, as much as he loved it his Mrs wasn't so keen as they shared the car. They also weren't keen on the fuel consumption. Anyway, he had a little mishap with the car which resulted in it looking like this.....
Otherwise though the car was perfect. Anyway he wanted a quick sell and feared the trade in would be rubbish with the cosmetic damage so offered it to me for £800!!!! He knew I'd look after it and having been a Renault fan all my life and at that price how could I say no?
So I got cracking on the car, mainly enjoying it as a daily driver but making a few little changes along the way. LED sidelights to match the whiteness of the Xenons to begin with...
Then a couple of LED bulbs for the interior...
If anyone is interested they are just cheapo ones from E-Bay. They are the five LED bulbs as I found lesser ones weren't really bright enough.
She's got a few random stickers, mainly because I'm not taking the car too seriously. Need to get me a ClioSport.net one soon.
She's now a 182
Interior wise she's in very good condition, the leather has stayed nice with the aid of my mate using Autoglym Leather Care Cream on them a few times since he bought it. Also I had some custom cut chequer plate steel mats lying around from my last Clio 172. Only been sitting redundant for 6 years but I still think they look quite cool and they're hard wearing!!
And now the outside having had the exterior work done on the car. Cost me in the region of £600 to have the dent pulled out and the entire front bumper and most of he drivers side sprayed.
Being French it hasn't all been straight forward so far. She failed her first MOT with me due to a hole in the back box and excess play in the suspension ball joints. I decided to replace the back box with a custom made Powerflow back box. Went for a 3" tailpipe and requested the noise to sound purposeful but not chavvy, they got it just right.
So far that's pretty much it. I have a set of standard silver door bullets on their way to me so I'll go OEM with them for now. I intend on attempting Plastidipping the wheels matt black so may do these current door bullets matt to match.
