Hello fine folks of ClioSport,
Well this is my third sporty clio, going back maybe 5 years now I had a 172, I thought i'd bought a good one with the belts done etc but the receipt turned out to be a fraud and within a week of ownership the auxiliary belt snapped and took the rest of the head with it, it cost me 2k in maintenance and repairs in the 2 months I owned it and I eventually sold it on,demoralised. As an interesting aside the car ended up being a cast car on Coronation Street and my mum tells me it was involved in a crash as part of a storyline!
Since then I've gone through about a car every 3 months, I tend to get bored or my work changes(I'm a freelance videographer so sometimes only need to walk around the corner for work every day and sometimes I'll be driving 2000 miles a week), until recently when work settled down and my trusty highly modified MK1 Mx5 wasn't really the car to do 300 miles a week in.
So having had a ropey 306 gti6 for a little while I had the itch for a french hot hatch again and I started to look back at Clios. Within a week I'd bought a RB FF 182 that looked great, however having done a few jobs on it with the help of @MWright off here, I started to get the feeling it wasn't a goodun, there was nothing majorly wrong with it but every time I fixed a niggle I found another and it meant I never got attached or bonded with it, so after a few weeks it went up for sale and I started to look for a nicer example.
On Saturday I had a buyer for the RB car and within an hour I had seen one to replace it, 64,000 on the clock, belts done, custom remap from RStuning and from the pictures it looked very clean. I had the garage drive it over to my house for a look and couldn't believe how immaculate it was, the thing I had been most dubious about was the colour, I've never seen a Titanium RS in real life and in pictures it was my least favourite colour, however in person it looks stunning, the white fleck in the paint really pops and I actually prefer it to the RB.
Anyway, the exterior looked like it had just come from the factory, the interior the same and it went very very well on the test drive so cash was handed over and I now have what I believe to be a good clio sport at the 3rd time of trying.
I know it doesn't have the cup spoiler but in person I really do think it looks brilliant. I've already fitted the wind deflectors I had from the RB and it will be having the RS197 badge fitted to the back which I took off the RB too.
Plans are to put it back on standard springs for now, it's currently on Apex but I do too many miles to run on lowered suspension, my opinion might change once I've run it on standard springs for a while but I want to give the out of the box feel a try at least,if that doesn't work out then how much stiffer are cooksports? I have already bought a cat for it as it's just too noisy for a daily with the decat,power flow exhaust and KTR Induction. The induction is up for sale as is the decat, the exhaust I am undecided on, it's a lovely tip and its relatively new and very well made but until the cat is fitted I won't know if I like the sound.
I will be fitting some of the silver tech(think thats the name) bulbs to get rid of the fried egg look, maybe fitting Turinis or even some F1s in anthracite, I'm going to RStuning in the next few weeks to get the map tweaked again, it currently has some version of the pops and bangs(tweaked on the dyno) but I think it sounds ridiculous so it's going. The headlights need some treatment and I need to sort out the windscreen, its had a replacement but annoyingly they haven't put in a screen with the rain and light sensors in which means they don't work and the SERV light is on.
I'm hoping to get to some meets and I'll try and keep this thread updated as and when I change things.
Cheers!
Well this is my third sporty clio, going back maybe 5 years now I had a 172, I thought i'd bought a good one with the belts done etc but the receipt turned out to be a fraud and within a week of ownership the auxiliary belt snapped and took the rest of the head with it, it cost me 2k in maintenance and repairs in the 2 months I owned it and I eventually sold it on,demoralised. As an interesting aside the car ended up being a cast car on Coronation Street and my mum tells me it was involved in a crash as part of a storyline!
Since then I've gone through about a car every 3 months, I tend to get bored or my work changes(I'm a freelance videographer so sometimes only need to walk around the corner for work every day and sometimes I'll be driving 2000 miles a week), until recently when work settled down and my trusty highly modified MK1 Mx5 wasn't really the car to do 300 miles a week in.
So having had a ropey 306 gti6 for a little while I had the itch for a french hot hatch again and I started to look back at Clios. Within a week I'd bought a RB FF 182 that looked great, however having done a few jobs on it with the help of @MWright off here, I started to get the feeling it wasn't a goodun, there was nothing majorly wrong with it but every time I fixed a niggle I found another and it meant I never got attached or bonded with it, so after a few weeks it went up for sale and I started to look for a nicer example.
On Saturday I had a buyer for the RB car and within an hour I had seen one to replace it, 64,000 on the clock, belts done, custom remap from RStuning and from the pictures it looked very clean. I had the garage drive it over to my house for a look and couldn't believe how immaculate it was, the thing I had been most dubious about was the colour, I've never seen a Titanium RS in real life and in pictures it was my least favourite colour, however in person it looks stunning, the white fleck in the paint really pops and I actually prefer it to the RB.
Anyway, the exterior looked like it had just come from the factory, the interior the same and it went very very well on the test drive so cash was handed over and I now have what I believe to be a good clio sport at the 3rd time of trying.
I know it doesn't have the cup spoiler but in person I really do think it looks brilliant. I've already fitted the wind deflectors I had from the RB and it will be having the RS197 badge fitted to the back which I took off the RB too.
Plans are to put it back on standard springs for now, it's currently on Apex but I do too many miles to run on lowered suspension, my opinion might change once I've run it on standard springs for a while but I want to give the out of the box feel a try at least,if that doesn't work out then how much stiffer are cooksports? I have already bought a cat for it as it's just too noisy for a daily with the decat,power flow exhaust and KTR Induction. The induction is up for sale as is the decat, the exhaust I am undecided on, it's a lovely tip and its relatively new and very well made but until the cat is fitted I won't know if I like the sound.
I will be fitting some of the silver tech(think thats the name) bulbs to get rid of the fried egg look, maybe fitting Turinis or even some F1s in anthracite, I'm going to RStuning in the next few weeks to get the map tweaked again, it currently has some version of the pops and bangs(tweaked on the dyno) but I think it sounds ridiculous so it's going. The headlights need some treatment and I need to sort out the windscreen, its had a replacement but annoyingly they haven't put in a screen with the rain and light sensors in which means they don't work and the SERV light is on.
I'm hoping to get to some meets and I'll try and keep this thread updated as and when I change things.
Cheers!
