Golf GTD
Before you assume things, no I haven't written it off, i've px'd it in for a 197 
Right, where to begin.
Just before I passed my test in December 2007, I was looking for a Clio as my first car (always wanted one, never really knew why). Anyway, this one came up on eBay as an auction, not too far from me, but not much time left on it.
Here's a few pics from the eBay ad:
So my dad just went for it and put a bid on it and won!
2003 (53) Renault Clio 1.2 16V Extreme 2 for £2056.... bargain.
Off we went to go and collect it and it wasn't as clean as I had hoped. When selling a car, you would have thought that you would take your stuff out of the car, and give it a quick hoover on the inside. But not this guy, he had left a blanket over the rear seats, £4 on the floor on the passenger's side and the latest boyzone CD in the Ripspeed DVD player
Also there was a sizable scratch across the front of the bonnet where it had a little nudge at some point in it's life. This little bump had also broken the clips of the Renault diamond at the front, leading to people finding it funny to steal it and hide it when i wasnt looking...
Got the car home and put it straight onto the steels that came with it, as being 17, couldn't get insured with them on. Didn't matter though, it was a clio, and it was mine!
Gave it a clean and put some halfords wheel trims on it (with the diamonds from the old trims superglued to them).
It stayed like this for a while, then I decided to start doing some mods to it, after seeing many of the non-sport examples here on CS. Starting with a set of silver bullets, a dynamique spoiler and a new head unit, as the crappy ripspeed one was starting to annoy me.
And then the usual RS Grill
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After this I attended my second meet with cs people (not got pics of the first), which was a trip down to Haynes Motor Museum.
I then bought my induction kit... known to many as my great silver schlong.
(unfortunately i cannot find any pics of it at the moment, there should be 1 or 2 around somewhere.
I wanted to get into taking nicer pictures of my car, so i went on a drive to Cheddar Gorge on a nice sunny day to get some pictures, here's one of the pics, my fav:
I went on a little photoshoot to an industrial estate with RIXPH (after getting the little Renault F1 Team sticker on the bonnet) to try and get some more pictures too. But the car still wasnt a good enough standard to try and show off, especially with the fat wheel trims.
I then got hold of some sprayed side strips from a guy on here and put them on the car, which was definately and improvement.
The Clio stayed like this for quite a while, until it came to December, and I got my 1 years ncb. This meant I could finally do some proper mods to it.
I put the alloys back on to start with:
Then I just went for it and bought 40mm lowering springs and shocks from KTEC, a 172 steering wheel and full 172 interior, pearl black spoiler and silvervisions.
It has since stayed like this and i've loved it. In April it did give me a scare when the clutch decided to die on me when i was coming home from work. The car moved, but could not pull itself up hills from a standstill and was very slow. Not very useful during rush hour traffic in the centre of Bristol, about 25 miles from my house.
Despite this, it soldiered on and managed to get me home, I was so proud of it :approve:
So out came the old clutch.
In went a new upgrade (some of you might remember)
This didn't work out well though, so that got binned and it went back to how it was before.
This is how the car has stayed and it's been fantastic to own. It's a real shame to be moving on, the car felt like a go kart and i even managed to pull a lot of birds with itUnfortunately, this was just after I had cleaned it...
I've had so many fun times with the car and as I said, it will be a shame to see it go.
Yes it has over 100k miles on it, it rattles, the brakes squeak a bit, theres a wheel wobble at high speeds and the sunroof leaks a little, but it's been a fantastic 2 years. I'll do my best not to cry when i drop it off at the dealers on Monday.
Goodbye Clio! You've been awesome! I hope that it's next owner will treat it as it deserves.
The replacement 197:
Right, where to begin.
Just before I passed my test in December 2007, I was looking for a Clio as my first car (always wanted one, never really knew why). Anyway, this one came up on eBay as an auction, not too far from me, but not much time left on it.
Here's a few pics from the eBay ad:
So my dad just went for it and put a bid on it and won!
2003 (53) Renault Clio 1.2 16V Extreme 2 for £2056.... bargain.
Off we went to go and collect it and it wasn't as clean as I had hoped. When selling a car, you would have thought that you would take your stuff out of the car, and give it a quick hoover on the inside. But not this guy, he had left a blanket over the rear seats, £4 on the floor on the passenger's side and the latest boyzone CD in the Ripspeed DVD player
Also there was a sizable scratch across the front of the bonnet where it had a little nudge at some point in it's life. This little bump had also broken the clips of the Renault diamond at the front, leading to people finding it funny to steal it and hide it when i wasnt looking...
Got the car home and put it straight onto the steels that came with it, as being 17, couldn't get insured with them on. Didn't matter though, it was a clio, and it was mine!
Gave it a clean and put some halfords wheel trims on it (with the diamonds from the old trims superglued to them).
It stayed like this for a while, then I decided to start doing some mods to it, after seeing many of the non-sport examples here on CS. Starting with a set of silver bullets, a dynamique spoiler and a new head unit, as the crappy ripspeed one was starting to annoy me.
And then the usual RS Grill
[/img]http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7398/22052009455.jpg[/img]
After this I attended my second meet with cs people (not got pics of the first), which was a trip down to Haynes Motor Museum.
I then bought my induction kit... known to many as my great silver schlong.
(unfortunately i cannot find any pics of it at the moment, there should be 1 or 2 around somewhere.
I wanted to get into taking nicer pictures of my car, so i went on a drive to Cheddar Gorge on a nice sunny day to get some pictures, here's one of the pics, my fav:
I went on a little photoshoot to an industrial estate with RIXPH (after getting the little Renault F1 Team sticker on the bonnet) to try and get some more pictures too. But the car still wasnt a good enough standard to try and show off, especially with the fat wheel trims.
I then got hold of some sprayed side strips from a guy on here and put them on the car, which was definately and improvement.
The Clio stayed like this for quite a while, until it came to December, and I got my 1 years ncb. This meant I could finally do some proper mods to it.
I put the alloys back on to start with:
Then I just went for it and bought 40mm lowering springs and shocks from KTEC, a 172 steering wheel and full 172 interior, pearl black spoiler and silvervisions.
It has since stayed like this and i've loved it. In April it did give me a scare when the clutch decided to die on me when i was coming home from work. The car moved, but could not pull itself up hills from a standstill and was very slow. Not very useful during rush hour traffic in the centre of Bristol, about 25 miles from my house.
Despite this, it soldiered on and managed to get me home, I was so proud of it :approve:
So out came the old clutch.
In went a new upgrade (some of you might remember)
This didn't work out well though, so that got binned and it went back to how it was before.
This is how the car has stayed and it's been fantastic to own. It's a real shame to be moving on, the car felt like a go kart and i even managed to pull a lot of birds with it
Unfortunately, this was just after I had cleaned it...I've had so many fun times with the car and as I said, it will be a shame to see it go.
Yes it has over 100k miles on it, it rattles, the brakes squeak a bit, theres a wheel wobble at high speeds and the sunroof leaks a little, but it's been a fantastic 2 years. I'll do my best not to cry when i drop it off at the dealers on Monday.
Goodbye Clio! You've been awesome! I hope that it's next owner will treat it as it deserves.
The replacement 197:
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