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What have you done to your car today ???
- Thread starter pastieman
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VenomUK
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 172
@RuskiWeldShit thats awesome!!
Bus Winker
Removed the seats and gave the carpet a much needed clean.
182
Polished the headlights, fitted door speakers, hoovered it out, fitted new mats, bought four new tyres. In with RS Tuners in Leeds first thing Monday morning for new brakes all round, a full service and re-map. Expecting a different animal back 
Clio182
Wow! That’s an exciting lot of work!Polished the headlights, fitted door speakers, hoovered it out, fitted new mats, bought four new tyres. In with RS Tuners in Leeds first thing Monday morning for new brakes all round, a full service and re-map. Expecting a different animal back
182
@AndyPembs182 Yeah I am greatly looking forward to getting it back with new tyres, brakes and map. I've been reading nothing but good things about RS Tuning. The tyres that were on it were shocking, bald and down to the cord on the inner edges of the front two! When I took it to ATS for air-con service they refused to put it on their ramp they were that bad. I immediately went and bought part worn ones to see me by until I got new. Can't wait!
15 year old car. What power do you reckon it is making now? And what do you reckon I can expect from a map? De-cat Milltek and pipercross filter. Massive powerband at 4500-5000rpm but nothing much below. I hope it makes at least 182bhp at the end of it all.
15 year old car. What power do you reckon it is making now? And what do you reckon I can expect from a map? De-cat Milltek and pipercross filter. Massive powerband at 4500-5000rpm but nothing much below. I hope it makes at least 182bhp at the end of it all.
jameswrx
ClioSport Club Member
Big day for my old girl tomorrow as I’ll be doing...
Timing belt & dephaser (OE)
Water pump
Aux tensioner & belt (OE)
Oil (millers CFS) and filter
CV boot
And depending on how much time I’ve got... fitting my new steering wheel boss and my Momo wheel (for the track)
And also gonna remove the seat spacers to lower that.
Sucks working on cars on your day out the garage but hopefully I can find the motivation to get it all done. I remember the days when I’d love working on my own cars!
All in the name of some track action hopefully!
Timing belt & dephaser (OE)
Water pump
Aux tensioner & belt (OE)
Oil (millers CFS) and filter
CV boot
And depending on how much time I’ve got... fitting my new steering wheel boss and my Momo wheel (for the track)
And also gonna remove the seat spacers to lower that.
Sucks working on cars on your day out the garage but hopefully I can find the motivation to get it all done. I remember the days when I’d love working on my own cars!
All in the name of some track action hopefully!
jameswrx
ClioSport Club Member
Definitely a PITA doing the belts on these.
Wasn’t happy with my crank pulley’s rubber being perished so ordered a new one, that stopped job completion but should be there tomorrow so will get it finished Friday.
Some numpty had also destroyed the lower plastic timing cover (mind you it’s blumin tight!) and also siliconed the holes in the cam end plugs rather than replacing them.
Timing wasn’t right from prev belt change either as the cam locking tools were certainly not going in.
Lots of noisy bearings on all the idlers and tensioner. Never have known it as car was pretty quiet.
Think I spent more time than anything else trying to remove all the original water pump gasket! Seemed like it was part of the block it was so well on there.
Wasn’t happy with my crank pulley’s rubber being perished so ordered a new one, that stopped job completion but should be there tomorrow so will get it finished Friday.
Some numpty had also destroyed the lower plastic timing cover (mind you it’s blumin tight!) and also siliconed the holes in the cam end plugs rather than replacing them.
Timing wasn’t right from prev belt change either as the cam locking tools were certainly not going in.
Lots of noisy bearings on all the idlers and tensioner. Never have known it as car was pretty quiet.
Think I spent more time than anything else trying to remove all the original water pump gasket! Seemed like it was part of the block it was so well on there.
grmatthews87
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 182
What did you use? I've just picked up a 2004 182 and they are manky!
DomP182
ClioSport Club Member
ph1 172, Arctic182
Remove the lower belt fixing bar (T30 torx from memory) pull the belt to it's full extent then use a bulldog clip or similar to stop it retracting. Use a bucket of water with a few scoops of Coop stain remover powder and get as much of the belt in there as you can by putting the bucket up on something. Leave a few hours and rinse, mine came up great and the bucket of water was grim afterwards.
R3k1355
ClioSport Club Member
It'll fly with the correct timing in, can lose upto 40hp or so with it wrong.
joe hk&uk
ClioSport Club Member
182 cup
I think today is quite a special day for my French babe as it got a new Orbisoud exhaust system on to replace the scorpion RS and also replaced the recaro frame with Jon lower adaptor for the driving position improvement. Both new equipments have made me smile all the way home
Although only 30mm lower but after fitted the lower adaptor it really makes noticable difference and great improvement
need to add a new hole to bolt it on
keeping the second world war bomb just in case...
Thx again to Jon and Frayz for all assistance and the great parts and they are nice folks to deal with!!
Although only 30mm lower but after fitted the lower adaptor it really makes noticable difference and great improvement
need to add a new hole to bolt it on
keeping the second world war bomb just in case...
Thx again to Jon and Frayz for all assistance and the great parts and they are nice folks to deal with!!
jameswrx
ClioSport Club Member
I couldn’t lose the cruise control as it’s my favourite of any car.
Bit of an annoying position compared to standard but being as they’re rocker action you can reach behind with your middle finger and operate them.
Has anyone made a plate up with aftermarket push buttons? Was thinking a sheet of carbon sandwiched between wheel & boss and buttons.
I may even scrap the cancel/reset buttons and have just down on left and up on right as it’s so easy to just use up n down speed to set.
Matt e
ClioSport Club Member
Renaultsport 4 Button Cruise Control Panel
A 4 button carbon fiber panel to retain the OEM cruise control functions in Renaultsport Clio, Megane & Twingo for aftermarket 6x70pcd steering wheels with fully plug & play wiring made and sold by Volantech
volantech.co.uk
jameswrx
ClioSport Club Member
Renaultsport 4 Button Cruise Control Panel
A 4 button carbon fiber panel to retain the OEM cruise control functions in Renaultsport Clio, Megane & Twingo for aftermarket 6x70pcd steering wheels with fully plug & play wiring made and sold by Volantech
huh, that’s great thanks. Thought I’d be the only nutter keeping cruise on a track wheel!
Daz...
ClioSport Club Member
Inferno 182 Cup
I’ve got one of the early Volantech panels and it’s much better being able to keep CC tbh.
Washed it and also revealed the bad scratch (only one on the body through the paint) that my neighbour kindly done with a bed frame
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I’m really gutted about it, worse than I would be if it’d been either of my imprezas.
Is it the angle or is your front tyre flat?
jameswrx
ClioSport Club Member
Flat
jameswrx
ClioSport Club Member
Unfortunately ‘mint’ nowadays means a different thing thing than it used to. “It’s mint mate” is a statement that usually means avoid as it’s knackered.
You need to take the front of the radio off and remove the buttons mate! It’s easy enough to do you just loose the logo
DomP182
ClioSport Club Member
ph1 172, Arctic182
Yeah I've done that but the text comes off with the sticky s***
Rob
ClioSport Moderator
Get little stickers knocked up.
Bus Winker
Replaced the rear discs and pads and painted the calipers. Long overdue
gambit
ClioSport Club Member
182 Trophy
Oh damn! hope its ok?!
MarcB
ClioSport Club Member
182 Trophy & 197 F1
jameswrx
ClioSport Club Member
Changed a couple of bulbs which meant
this...
To get to these...
to be able to see this...
which lead on to be removing what was left of the sticky crap on the top surround. Painted it ‘hard hat’ black, came out well (dust is post hardened dust) so just got to do the rest of the nasty stuff now!
I also removed the seat spacers.
this...
To get to these...
to be able to see this...
which lead on to be removing what was left of the sticky crap on the top surround. Painted it ‘hard hat’ black, came out well (dust is post hardened dust) so just got to do the rest of the nasty stuff now!
I also removed the seat spacers.
RuskiWeldFab
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 172, RS4 B7
Got it washed today! 3rd time in 3 years [emoji23]
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leeds2592
ClioSport Club Member
Bean 182 + E70 X5
Technically this was yesterday but took this out for the first proper quick blast since it passed the MOT a few weeks ago.
It's been over 2 years since it's been on the road and driving it again makes me realise just how much I've missed it. It's taken a while but I'm so glad I persevered with it.
Came back with such a massive grin on my face!
It's been over 2 years since it's been on the road and driving it again makes me realise just how much I've missed it. It's taken a while but I'm so glad I persevered with it.
Came back with such a massive grin on my face!
