Saving another 172.

[Alastair.]

Browsing Facebook last week I stumbled across this. 02 plate flame red 172, been in the family from new. Totally original, hasn’t been messed around with which is becoming almost unheard of now.

it’s been parked up since 2016 and hasn’t turned a wheel since. Was being sold as a non runner.

I quickly messaged the seller and said I’ll have it. Arranged delivery from Essex to Wiltshire for £170 which was pretty good.

The car arrived today, pleasantly surprised at how good it actually is.

 

[Alastair.]

Checked all the levels and made sure the aux belt wasn’t about to snap!

Pumped all the flat tyres up.

Popped a battery on and after some cranking it fired up 😍. No warning lights!

 

[Alastair.]

Cracked on with the cleaning, a lot of jet washing all the crud and moss off.

Ill grab some pics of the wheel arches tomorrow, went to town on them.

 

[RustyMojo]

Looking forward to seeing you breathe life back into Theo’s one Alastair

 

[Alastair.]

Came up alright, body work is surprisingly good.

 

[Alastair.]

Overnight oil drain, that’ll do for today.
Will be refilled with 5w40 elf and a genuine Renault oil filter tomorrow.

No oil leaks either, result!

 

[Alastair.]

Looking forward to seeing you breathe life back into Theo’s one Alastair

Whos Theo? 😂

 

[Rob]

Bloody hell chap, what a find! Looks great. Wheel refurb will have it transformed!

 

[Tedly2447]

Looks great mate, keep us updated with your progress

tedly

 

[Stefan.]

Love a flamer!!

Nice work so far 👍

 

[Brigsy]

Looks great, keep us updated

 

[Adey.]

awesome find that well done

 

[jay.1983]

Great find that, looks great

 

[yeecup]

love it.

 

[Daz.]

Want!

My old 172 was a PN02, it belongs back here 😁

 

[Martin_172]

Good find, still has the boot net, jesus not seen one of those in years lol

 

[172PH1]

Flamers look so so cool

 

[alistairolsen]

Wow, don't find them like that often! Looking forward to more

 

[Alastair.]

Oil and filter change done.

Arches cleaned up and engine bay

interior and headlights next.

 

[PP200t]

Awesome find and good work so far. This will be perfect when you’ve finished with it.

 

[Rob]

Oil and filter change done.

Arches cleaned up and engine bay

interior and headlights next.
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Screaming out for header tank replacement!

 

[DomP182]

Well, I'm not sure if I'm happy for you or pissed that I've spent the last two years trying to tidy my flamer up, I'm not sure it will ever be as tidy as this one. Fancy a swap?

It doesnt even look faded like mine😫

 

[DomP182]

I've just noticed the weird Clifford alarm and the lack of a standard alarm bonnet switch, did some 172s not get them fitted at the docks then?

What that car is screaming out for is a selector leak, I'm sure it's in its plans at some point! Not bitter here...not one bit!😆

 

[RustyMojo]

Interesting spot Dom, remember these were new at the height of parallel imports from mainland Europe. We used to sell hundreds of new U.K. ‘spec’ cars through the back door. They wouldn’t of come through the U.K. import centre managed by ‘CAT’ as such wouldn’t have had the port side upgrades such as U.K. alarm. You can usually tell by the front page of the service book.

 

[Alastair.]

Screaming out for header tank replacement!

yeah, it’s filthy, I’ll get one. I’m not spending much on this one though.

 

[DomP182]

Come on the @Alastair. how much did you steal this for?

 

[Alastair.]

Couple more for you guys, quick going over with some auto glym super resin, and an hour spent on the headlight, not perfect but a million times better.

Headlight before and after

bet my phase 1 is getting jealous

 

[Alastair.]

Come on the @Alastair. how much did you steal this for?

You’ll have to private message me, don’t wanna say just in case I sell it 😂

 

[Ant1]

Looks good for what I assume is not a lot of outlay!

 

[andy_coops]

If/when you decide to move this on, can I join the inevitable interested list? I’d love a standard car. My wife wouldn’t. But I would.

 

[Darren61]

Looks great! Top work rescuing this!

 

[Rob]

yeah, it’s filthy, I’ll get one. I’m not spending much on this one though.

Lol! Yeah. Right.

Headlights have come up well.

 

[RustyMojo]

@DomP182 mate this has your name all over it! I think you need to schmoozing Alastair! 😂

 

[Colin-S]

Fantastic work so far!

Paint the wiper arms & plastic covers satin black. I used Gtechniq C4 on my front grille which was badly faded and brought it back to black.

Looking forward to the next update.

 

[DomP182]

@DomP182 mate this has your name all over it! I think you need to schmoozing Alastair! 😂

Yeah if I could stick my underside on it would be a winner! Would actually be interested if your not wanting 'detailed' prices though

 

[Daz.]

I sooooo want this car! I also sooooo want to know how much you paid!

 

[Alastair.]

Made a start on the interior, boot first. Nice to see the original spare and continental tyre dated 2001.

 

[Alastair.]

Spent an hour or so on the interior, looking presentable now. Steering whee is in very good condition for the age/mileage.

 

[cliocollins]

Looks really clean mate. I'd be tempted to have the wheel retrimmed by Snappy? What's your plans for the interior? Following with interest!

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[RustyMojo]

What a lovely job! Flame red is such a fantastic colour! Making me want to chop the 182 in for one now!!