Hi all,
Decided on making a project thread on here finally, partly out of pure late night boredom.
I bought my dci 100 back in December last year after a lot of searching for the right one. Finally found one and decided on travelling about 200 miles to go get it, with only pictures to go on! Luckily it paid off and I drove away with a car I was pretty happy with overall. It had a few niggles, mainly a couple of small dents in the roof at the rear on the drivers side. The brakes were needing new discs and pads too but since I had a set from my previous clio (wont go into that...wrote it off :dapprove
those weren't a problem. Besides that though the car ran well and got me about 60mpg on the drive home sitting at around 70mph most of the way.
Don't have any pictures of the car back when I first got it, but this picture shows essentially how she looked back in December:
I started out with a list of mods as long as my arm, and first on this list was a set of xenons and an RS grille. Got a set of xenons cheap off of ebay not long after buying the car, which turned out to be a nightmare to fit because the mounts had broken inside of them. So I decided the best bet was to rip them open, butcher my old reflector headlights and have a bash at fixing them!
After a lot of work, this was the outcome:
Before
After
Not long after this I got myself an RS grille and some alloys from someone breaking a 172. Ended up getting another set of lights too for only £40 which recently came in handy when one of my ballasts decided to give up. Originally planned on refurbing the 172 alloys and getting them on for summer, but that got sidetracked and will have to wait after winter now.
RS grille fitted
Trial fitting of the 172 alloys
With summer in full swing, I decided to make the most of the rare occurrence that's known as dry weather up here in Scotland, and give my car a good clean. Spent a whole day cleaning, claying, polishing and waxing the car. Was quite pleased with the outcome, loved how smooth the paintwork was!
Recently purchased everything required to retrofit cruise control to my car, so I now have a much easier commute to and from work every day!
Couple of other little things I did to the car along the way were:
Finally, I've wanted to lower ever since I got it. Picked up a set of Eibach Sportlines and got these fitted along with new front dampers and top mounts. Makes an unbelievable difference to the look of the car and it handles so much better now.
Rear done
Fully lowered
So that's my car pretty much up to date. Future plans are (hopefully) as follows:
I'm going to try and keep this thread updated as much as possible for anyone that's interested.
Thanks for looking!
Decided on making a project thread on here finally, partly out of pure late night boredom.
I bought my dci 100 back in December last year after a lot of searching for the right one. Finally found one and decided on travelling about 200 miles to go get it, with only pictures to go on! Luckily it paid off and I drove away with a car I was pretty happy with overall. It had a few niggles, mainly a couple of small dents in the roof at the rear on the drivers side. The brakes were needing new discs and pads too but since I had a set from my previous clio (wont go into that...wrote it off :dapprove
those weren't a problem. Besides that though the car ran well and got me about 60mpg on the drive home sitting at around 70mph most of the way.Don't have any pictures of the car back when I first got it, but this picture shows essentially how she looked back in December:
I started out with a list of mods as long as my arm, and first on this list was a set of xenons and an RS grille. Got a set of xenons cheap off of ebay not long after buying the car, which turned out to be a nightmare to fit because the mounts had broken inside of them. So I decided the best bet was to rip them open, butcher my old reflector headlights and have a bash at fixing them!
After a lot of work, this was the outcome:
Before
After
Not long after this I got myself an RS grille and some alloys from someone breaking a 172. Ended up getting another set of lights too for only £40 which recently came in handy when one of my ballasts decided to give up. Originally planned on refurbing the 172 alloys and getting them on for summer, but that got sidetracked and will have to wait after winter now.
RS grille fitted
Trial fitting of the 172 alloys
With summer in full swing, I decided to make the most of the rare occurrence that's known as dry weather up here in Scotland, and give my car a good clean. Spent a whole day cleaning, claying, polishing and waxing the car. Was quite pleased with the outcome, loved how smooth the paintwork was!
Recently purchased everything required to retrofit cruise control to my car, so I now have a much easier commute to and from work every day!
Couple of other little things I did to the car along the way were:
- Fitting LED interior, boot, number plate and sidelights
- Mist washer jets off of ebay, 100 times better than the original washer jets
- Fitted colour coded side strips
- Fitted headlight washers to pass an MOT (only to find out I also need auto levelling...)
Finally, I've wanted to lower ever since I got it. Picked up a set of Eibach Sportlines and got these fitted along with new front dampers and top mounts. Makes an unbelievable difference to the look of the car and it handles so much better now.
Rear done
Fully lowered
So that's my car pretty much up to date. Future plans are (hopefully) as follows:
- Replace timing belt
- Remap
- De-cat
- New exhaust
- 172 Rear Bumper
- Respray front bumper and maybe bonnet too
- Colour code door handles and front bumper plastics
- Paint upper and lower Grille satin black? (opinions welcome on this)
- Possibly a cup spoiler
- Refurb and fit 172 alloys
- Spacers (25mm front/10-15mm rear)
- Some Alcantara interior parts
I'm going to try and keep this thread updated as much as possible for anyone that's interested.
Thanks for looking!
