Hi all,
Been lurking a while but finally decided to put together a progress thread, hopefully get some feedback and possibly some suggestions .
So here's a few pictures of the car when I first got her:
I don't really have any plans to do any power mods I'm fairly happy with the power of the car, and from what I can piece together reading posts on here you have to spend a small fortune to see any real performance gains.
So my first mod was to sort out the interior a little bit, got myself some custom made floor mats with the renault sport logo (messaged the ebay seller with a picture of the logo I wanted on and he happily did it for me), and purchased some white carbon vinyl to wrap the dash trim as the plain grey was a little dull for my liking (this needs redoing though as it's started to bubble up on the edges )
Next on the list was to get rid of those horrible grey wheel caps which Renault decided was a good idea to supply with black alloys. After looking on Fleabay and seeing the black RS ones at £40 odd for a set, I just decided to spray them black, so nipped to halfrauds and got some plastic primer and satin black spray.
Took about 2 days sanding down, priming, waiting to dry then spraying black then waiting to dry, but I think they turned out really well, and the Halfrauds satin black spray is a pretty damn close colour match.
After the car being in and out of the garage for 4/5 weeks the mechanics went to town on my seatbelts and the once pearl white was now a musky brown, so they had to be cleaned. I got a nail brush from Tesco and some generic upholstery cleaner and gave em a good scrub they cleaned quite nicely but I reckon I could have done a better job with a bit more elbow grease.
Before:
After:
By this point I was getting sick of the fried egg indicator look on the front and back, so invested in some osram daidem indicator bulbs. I was tempted to go with the daidem chrome so they blended in, but I really like the blue hint the standard daidem ones have.
Done
To-Do
That's all for now, thanks for reading and any suggestions are welcome
Been lurking a while but finally decided to put together a progress thread, hopefully get some feedback and possibly some suggestions .
So here's a few pictures of the car when I first got her:
I don't really have any plans to do any power mods I'm fairly happy with the power of the car, and from what I can piece together reading posts on here you have to spend a small fortune to see any real performance gains.
So my first mod was to sort out the interior a little bit, got myself some custom made floor mats with the renault sport logo (messaged the ebay seller with a picture of the logo I wanted on and he happily did it for me), and purchased some white carbon vinyl to wrap the dash trim as the plain grey was a little dull for my liking (this needs redoing though as it's started to bubble up on the edges )
Next on the list was to get rid of those horrible grey wheel caps which Renault decided was a good idea to supply with black alloys. After looking on Fleabay and seeing the black RS ones at £40 odd for a set, I just decided to spray them black, so nipped to halfrauds and got some plastic primer and satin black spray.
Took about 2 days sanding down, priming, waiting to dry then spraying black then waiting to dry, but I think they turned out really well, and the Halfrauds satin black spray is a pretty damn close colour match.
After the car being in and out of the garage for 4/5 weeks the mechanics went to town on my seatbelts and the once pearl white was now a musky brown, so they had to be cleaned. I got a nail brush from Tesco and some generic upholstery cleaner and gave em a good scrub they cleaned quite nicely but I reckon I could have done a better job with a bit more elbow grease.
Before:
After:
By this point I was getting sick of the fried egg indicator look on the front and back, so invested in some osram daidem indicator bulbs. I was tempted to go with the daidem chrome so they blended in, but I really like the blue hint the standard daidem ones have.
Done
- Osram Daidem indicator bulbs
- Spray wheel centre caps black
- RS matts
- Wrap dash trim
To-Do
- Recaro seats (probably way in the future as they're pretty expensive)
- Projector headlights
- 3D Gel resin number plates
- Replace headlight bulbs with whiter/bluer ones, not decided yet
- Powerflex lower engine mounts and upper torque arm brush
- Match wing mirrors (last owner must have knocked one off and decided it would be awesome to replace it with the one off a clio197, so they don't match (this bugs me a lot, but they're like £40 to replace))
- Spray wing mirrors once matching gloss black
- Replace all wheel nuts with black ones (currently got some cheap covers on them as they were starting to show rust)
- Grooved brake discs
- Ceramic brake pads possibly... constant brake dust is driving me mad
- Reacquire two cold air feed pipes as the last owner removed them completely when he added the K&N cone filter
- Spray centre console and vent inserts satin black
- RS Gearknob (probably way in the future as £90 is a bit OTT for a gearknob ... but it does look nice)
- Get wheel refurbed/resprayed, last owner scuffed them quite a bit and painted over them with what looks like black nail varnish
That's all for now, thanks for reading and any suggestions are welcome
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