Rare Yellow Ph1 172 from Holland

[SmokeyTheBandit]

After years of driving a Saab 9-3 Turbo i sold it and bought myself a Clio RS.
It has been in mine possession for a whopping 2 weeks

Very standard state, but realy realy hated the "Campus" wheels (way to "cute" for such a pocket rocket).
Wanted something way more agressive for this car, it deserves it :clap:
Got some 17" Wolfrace wheels wich needed some major TLA for a steal
After allot of painting and TLA they ended up like this (these are the original colors).

I already fitted it with a large amount of goodies :

JVC KD-AVX22 (Mutimedia system)
OMP Steering wheel (with boss)
Upgraded the Speakers for some Kickers
A custom made exhaust
Xenon slim ballast Kit (6000k €27 ebay steal )
Original 197 RS Grill emblem

And since last weekend i fitted it with the most extreme upgrade.
A set of Raceland Coilovers !

Upcomming :

RS Sport 197 emblem
New chip to up the power a bit.

 

[Will.]

Love sunflower.

 

[jankees]

Nice car dude:rasp:

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Thanx, i realy realy like it drives totally different from al my previous cars.
I'm always looking for ways to improve it

 

[aucky]

Awesome colour, haven't seen one for years now.
It would've been 16" oz f1s for me though

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Awesome colour, haven't seen one for years now.
It would've been 16" oz f1s for me though

Well see, if the 17" get to bouncy maybe ill swap them over for the oz's just to get some comfort back

 

[kolatrl]

Nice looking car m8. Only thing I would change would be to colour code the door trims.

 

[AP'Moss]

Dont colour code i like it like that tbh

 

[Chip-mk1]

I'd love a mint sunflower on oz wheels.

V jealous!

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Dont colour code i like it like that tbh

I was thinking about painting the trims aswell, but thought i would go for some phs2 trims and painting them.
If it doesn't work out i can always place back the original trims

Nice to hear you all like her, i fell in love with the color aswell :evil:
The only real drawback is the small difference in color with the steel/plastic parts.
But i guess we will have to deal with it.

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Well gave her a good clean today and let her shine in her own photoshoot.
Made some beter quality picture's so you guys can enjoy the full "sunflower" yellow experience :clap:

 

[PaulClioSport]

Very nice sunflower!! They're very rare over here!
Where you from mate? Also on clioclub.nl?

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Very nice sunflower!! They're very rare over here!
Where you from mate? Also on clioclub.nl?

I live in Grootebroek near Enkhuizen.
Haven't registered there yet but getting to that

 

[PaulClioSport]

I'm from Zuid-limburg so that's the other side of Holland, clioclub.nl is a nice forum but i'm finding this forum much more fun/usefull

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

I'm from Zuid-limburg so that's the other side of Holland, clioclub.nl is a nice forum but i'm finding this forum much more fun/usefull

I have to agree with you, this forum is way more usefull. The guides alone are well worth the €18,- of member ship fees

 

[Stu.]

Looks good! Love sunflower! although I'm not too sure on the 17's.

 

[Adam-o]

wow thats a massive exhaust!

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Well the exhaust is going to be replaced with this :evil:

 

[sussex_gti]

Ive see. Those exhausts on eBay, look like a good price. Let me know what they are like.

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Ive see. Those exhausts on eBay, look like a good price. Let me know what they are like.

I will make a small movie so you guys can judge the quality of the sound/looks.
So you know he takes offers of 160 pounds

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Well much has been done on the sunflower.
The ebay exhaust was terrible, you could use the middle part but the rear part was not fitting at all so please stay away !
Decided to make the backpart a custom one, will place picture's of the result soon.

But there's more !

After driving with the 17" i have to agree with some of you, they have some drawbacks.
So i decided to go 16", and only realy wanted the original oz look.
Enough 15" ones for sale but i did not want these, after a 400km drive i picked up some 16" ones.
These are the original oz especially made for Renault (on the spokes ).
I believe these are very very rare, especially here in the netherlands.

Picked them up in this state :

After some cleaning :

I am painting them the same color as the 17", realy liked the combination of this color with the sunflower.
Already in the process of painting the first alloy so i can give you a spoiler very shortly

 

[Mr Burns]

That'll look and drive much better.

 

[Bren Rogers]

Better choice of wheels, I'd go for a dark silver personally. Planning on getting coilovers?

 

[01chris02]

Those wheels will look great the same colour as the Wolfrace ones. Do you have centre caps or are you going to have to buy them?

 

[plymcl172]

loving the 17's !

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Better choice of wheels, I'd go for a dark silver personally. Planning on getting coilovers?

Its already on coilovers

I don't have some caps yet but was planning to go for the original renault ones.

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

First one is fixed and painted

 

[Stu.]

16" F1s will look fantastic on the sunflower! Look forward to seeing them on it

 

[Bren Rogers]

First one is fixed and painted

They look pretty damn good!

 

[martysph1]

nice mate!no sunflowers the same!

 

[Jonathan]

First one is fixed and painted

Drool

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Good to see y'all like how they turn out
The second one is in primer, hope to have the oz's on in about 1~1.5 weeks.

 

[andywa]

Nice project mate.

 

[subarufreak]

look lovely.
been looking for original 16s for ages, but couldn't find them so bought them from oz

do these have any numbers in them? so maybe I could order them new from Renault?

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

look lovely.
been looking for original 16s for ages, but couldn't find them so bought them from oz

do these have any numbers in them? so maybe I could order them new from Renault?

I will look if i can spot a number for you.

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Well a big update
Decided to paint the alloy's silver instead of the 1st choice, they where to dark for my taste.

Will lower it a bit more in the front And painted the bullets glossy black with red 2.0 16v emblem

And yes there is an Phase 2 bumper on the sunflower , needs some small tweaks to let it fit to a Phase 1.
Will get painted within 2 weeks.

I realy like the looks of the new bumper, and especially when fitting some (15mm) spacers to the back.

 

[Stu.]

Looks great! I need 16" f1's i will say i prefer ph1 bumper though

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Thanks stu, thank you for pointing me in the right way, color wize
Well its good everybody has different taste then

Maybe this will help you make your choice on the bullets, i like the way the back breaks the car up this way.

 

[Stu.]

Thanks stu, thank you for pointing me in the right way, color wize
Well its good everybody has different taste then

Maybe this will help you make your choice on the bullets, i like the way the back breaks the car up this way.

Haha anytime And thats true matey Does look good with black strips!! Very OEM+ With the silver 16's. Think i need to go on the hunt for some Cup spoiler next?

 

[SmokeyTheBandit]

Cup spoiler next?

Well i have been watching for a spoiler V6/Cup to be ownest but as all Renault Sport cars/parts they are pretty rare here.
The good thing is that you drive pretty exceptional cars, the bad is that the parts are very expensive and very hard to come by