With the knob and gaiter now off I knew it would be about a week before they would be back with me.
Unfortunately about an hour after I had posted them I received an email from Jack informing me that he would be away on two weeks holiday, so my wheel without the knob was now looking more like a month.
This didn’t stop me giving the car its usual tlc.
I know this is a bit of a long shot, but does anyone know if these stickers at the front of the engine bay can be reordered from Renault? As mine are slowly starting to peel off.
The noise maker lol.
With the great spell of good weather we’ve been having I decided it was the perfect time to clear out my scuttle drains, as I hadn’t done them since I got the car.
Everything now back the way it should be.
With the scuttle drains now cleaned I moved the car over to the garage to do my next bit of work.
Another of my spare of the moment purchases, some yellow lamin-x. I don’t know why but I had recently gotten a real notion do change my fog lights to yellow.
Thankfully I didn’t have to remove the bumper to apply it.
I think it looks great, and I suppose the bonus is that if I get bored of it I can simply peel it off.
I’ve been playing about with the car recently over a few nice stretches of road to see how high I can get the average mpg.
Yea that’s right it reads 46.2mpg. I did actually have it showing 51mpg but I was unable to photograph it before it started dropping, but if you watch this space I’m sure I’ll be back there soon enough.
Yea I know, I shouldn’t be trying to get a high mpg in a car like the Clio, but it keeps me entertained.
Then yesterday morning my gear knob and gaiter finally arrived back from
Royal Steering Wheels.
Upon first inspection the gear knob was trimmed perfectly, again like the steering wheel its slightly thicker than the standard one. I guess this is because he trims over the original material instead of removing it.
The gaiter I was less happy with as I had requested that it be fixed back into the silver surround the way the original one had. However Jack had tried to glue it back in place, but this didn’t work so he the tried to staple it in place using staples that weren’t up to the job.
Thankfully I had staples that I knew were bit longer in the legs, so they would hopefully be able to fit in where the original ones had been removed. So after about an hour trying to get everything back in place I was able to try and place the gaiter back into the car.
At this point I met another problem, Jack hadn’t let a large enough hole at the top of the gaiter to fit back over the plastic shaft. This was easily solved however and I simply picked away the first couple of stitched to make the hole large enough.