Hi all,
Thought I'd put a post up and have somewhere to document my progress on the car. I'm a Honda man but having owned an EP3 many years ago I thought I'd give something French a go, my first car was a Saxo Furio and it was great for making me laugh at all it's strange quirks. Before this Clio my daily driver history was:
Citroen Saxo Furio, first car and loved it.
Honda Civic Type R EP3, got me into modifying cars.
Honda S2000 (still own).
£300 Saab 9-3 2.0 Diesel with moon miles, purchased as a run around when I stated a business. Made a point never to wash it and put as many dents and dings into it as possible, was great run.
Alfa Romeo Guiletta 2.0 Diesel, as you can imagine this had catastrophic failure and went for spares and repairs
2015 Golf R, very capable car and a perfect daily driver, got pretty good MPG, shame mine had so many issues the dealer ended up buying it back after about 6 months. In this 6 months the car was in working order for 45 days.
The Clio is a daily driver, I purchased it around a month ago now. It's on about 123k miles, purchased for £5500. It was advertised as a cat d due to light damage which I have photos of, but running a carvertical check on the reg and vin it's come back as no record of damage, so I've potentially had a win there.
61 reg, LY, yellow dot Recaros, cruise control etc etc. When I got it, the H&R springs and 20mm spacers, Ktec spoiler and front lip were on the car, along with red front and rear RS badges. It's also had a very nice ceramic coating at some point in recent years.
In the last month I've done the following:
New pedals with grip tape, found the OEM pedals VERY slippy
Map sensor cable tied and new o-ring
Upper torque arm polybushed
Toyosport manifold
Middle silencer delete (will be putting a resonated full system on when I find one for sale locally 2nd hand)
Recaro bolster tear patched with an iron on tap, looks OK until I have it properly fixed
4x 225/45/17 Yokohama Advan AD07 LTS (4x rear Lotus Elise OEM tyres, uses the same compound as the old AD08R, bargain at £250 a set for 2018 last production run)
Tie rod boot replaced (thanks eurocarparts for sending me the wrong one initially)
Headlights replaced with black insert units and LED bulb upgrade
Brakes repainted and new decals
Bosch aerotwin wipers
A can of BG44K run though the fuel system (it's like Redex but actually works magic, fully recommend this on any older car, have a look at
some youtube videos of this stuff)
I've got an ITG Maxogen on the way but it's not arrived yet
Future plans:
Sprint booster or pedal box, I think the accelerator pedal feel on these is pretty crap to be honest. Had a pedal box on my 2015 Golf R and it made a huge improvement.
Full cat back
Retrim the steering wheel with red accents, have the seatbelts rewebbed to red too
Front bumper respray
I did say I'm a Honda man, here's my other car that I've owned and rebuild over the last 7/8 years. Full respray, subframe rebuild, fully polybushed, you name it it's been modified in some way. This is my forever car and will never be sold:
Thought I'd put a post up and have somewhere to document my progress on the car. I'm a Honda man but having owned an EP3 many years ago I thought I'd give something French a go, my first car was a Saxo Furio and it was great for making me laugh at all it's strange quirks. Before this Clio my daily driver history was:
Citroen Saxo Furio, first car and loved it.
Honda Civic Type R EP3, got me into modifying cars.
Honda S2000 (still own).
£300 Saab 9-3 2.0 Diesel with moon miles, purchased as a run around when I stated a business. Made a point never to wash it and put as many dents and dings into it as possible, was great run.
Alfa Romeo Guiletta 2.0 Diesel, as you can imagine this had catastrophic failure and went for spares and repairs
2015 Golf R, very capable car and a perfect daily driver, got pretty good MPG, shame mine had so many issues the dealer ended up buying it back after about 6 months. In this 6 months the car was in working order for 45 days.
The Clio is a daily driver, I purchased it around a month ago now. It's on about 123k miles, purchased for £5500. It was advertised as a cat d due to light damage which I have photos of, but running a carvertical check on the reg and vin it's come back as no record of damage, so I've potentially had a win there.
61 reg, LY, yellow dot Recaros, cruise control etc etc. When I got it, the H&R springs and 20mm spacers, Ktec spoiler and front lip were on the car, along with red front and rear RS badges. It's also had a very nice ceramic coating at some point in recent years.
In the last month I've done the following:
New pedals with grip tape, found the OEM pedals VERY slippy
Map sensor cable tied and new o-ring
Upper torque arm polybushed
Toyosport manifold
Middle silencer delete (will be putting a resonated full system on when I find one for sale locally 2nd hand)
Recaro bolster tear patched with an iron on tap, looks OK until I have it properly fixed
4x 225/45/17 Yokohama Advan AD07 LTS (4x rear Lotus Elise OEM tyres, uses the same compound as the old AD08R, bargain at £250 a set for 2018 last production run)
Tie rod boot replaced (thanks eurocarparts for sending me the wrong one initially)
Headlights replaced with black insert units and LED bulb upgrade
Brakes repainted and new decals
Bosch aerotwin wipers
A can of BG44K run though the fuel system (it's like Redex but actually works magic, fully recommend this on any older car, have a look at
some youtube videos of this stuff)
I've got an ITG Maxogen on the way but it's not arrived yet
Future plans:
Sprint booster or pedal box, I think the accelerator pedal feel on these is pretty crap to be honest. Had a pedal box on my 2015 Golf R and it made a huge improvement.
Full cat back
Retrim the steering wheel with red accents, have the seatbelts rewebbed to red too
Front bumper respray
I did say I'm a Honda man, here's my other car that I've owned and rebuild over the last 7/8 years. Full respray, subframe rebuild, fully polybushed, you name it it's been modified in some way. This is my forever car and will never be sold: