Renault 5 GT Turbo
I sold my last phase 1 after FCS last year and have regretted it ever since. So today I managed to save an early phase 1 from a scrapyard on the other side of Manchester.
To be fair, it's really not too bad although at some point in its life has been owned by an arse clown who badly fitted shiney trinkets to it such as a chromed ecu battery cover and ecu cover, cheap mesh airfilter and tastefull yellow silicone hoses.
On the plus side, there's half a tank of fuel in it and it's only done 89k. The engine sounds sweet enough but there's the old phase 1 sticky throttle body.
The rear wiper arm and trim is missing, front fogs are gone, no stereo or parcel shelf. Probably no speakers either.
Central locking doesn't work, exhaust is blowing by the front. Needs a cv joint and ball joint.
Came on steel wheels but I've got some 8x15 schmidts to stick on it until I can find a cheap set of OZ F1s.
Rear arches are rusting and it's dented all over.
It is however perfect for my needs. With a bit of TLC, she should be a good car and if I decide to sell one of my GT Turbos later in the year, I'll be sending it to clioturbo.co.uk for a stage 1 or 2 turbo conversion.
I'll update the thread as I go along but don't expect progress to be too quick :smile:
One final thing, anyone know the common cause for non working central locking? The fuse is fine.
Thanks.
Ross
To be fair, it's really not too bad although at some point in its life has been owned by an arse clown who badly fitted shiney trinkets to it such as a chromed ecu battery cover and ecu cover, cheap mesh airfilter and tastefull yellow silicone hoses.
On the plus side, there's half a tank of fuel in it and it's only done 89k. The engine sounds sweet enough but there's the old phase 1 sticky throttle body.
The rear wiper arm and trim is missing, front fogs are gone, no stereo or parcel shelf. Probably no speakers either.
Central locking doesn't work, exhaust is blowing by the front. Needs a cv joint and ball joint.
Came on steel wheels but I've got some 8x15 schmidts to stick on it until I can find a cheap set of OZ F1s.
Rear arches are rusting and it's dented all over.
It is however perfect for my needs. With a bit of TLC, she should be a good car and if I decide to sell one of my GT Turbos later in the year, I'll be sending it to clioturbo.co.uk for a stage 1 or 2 turbo conversion.
I'll update the thread as I go along but don't expect progress to be too quick :smile:
One final thing, anyone know the common cause for non working central locking? The fuse is fine.
Thanks.
Ross
