My AG 200 Progress thread

M

Martin

Seen as i have done a few bits to the car since i've had it i thought i'd start a thread about it. Not planning on doing too much because I'm not made of money and i love how most of the the exterior and interior looks at the moment.

I had a R27 for 3 weeks before somebody thought it'd be a good idea to drive straight into the back of me..
R273.jpg

R272.jpg

R271.jpg

I then came into a bit of money so thought i would treat myself to an impreza, bad idea as it emptied my bank account faster than i could empty my bladder, got rid after a year, but if i'm honest it was 1 hell of a car and i do miss it
n517737210_985497_5078.jpg

When i first got it home in August 2009
Sideveiw.jpg

DSCF0107.jpg
Good old AG paint been ultra photogenic as usual...

1st mod was a small stubby arial that i bought off ebay, havent got a picture of this but we all know what a stubby arial looks like lol

2nd mod, well i couldnt believe my luck with this. Ktec put an advert up on there website asking for the loan of a donor car for a week so they could develop their new exhaust for the 200, so i emailed them, and they asked for my car, a 700 mile roundtrip 1 friday morning and my car was left with them for a week, a week later another 700 mile roundtrip and i collected it with a free decat ktec exhaust system on.

3rd was the wheels, i was never a fan of the 5 spoke alloys, so i was on the lookout for another set when John on the renaultsport.co.uk forum was wanting to swap his raiders on his 200 for the standard 200 wheels, so i bit his hand off and swapped them over.
IMG00001-20100117-1458.jpg

They didnt stay anthracite very long because my dad decided he would drive my car up against the curb and scuff the hell out of the front wheel. I decided to get all 4 refurbed in satin black. Had them done at LSN coatings in cas, £40 a wheel and for that they stripped, repaired and powder coated each wheel. Bargain
Green3.jpg

Green2.jpg

And then i came across some H&R 25mm spacers so i snapped them up and fitted them all round. I havent noticed any handling difference but i much prefer the stance of it, could do to be a tad lower but unfortunatly i havent got a money tree in my garden.
DSCF0155.jpg

Thats it so far. Plans for the future:
Black door handles and side bullets (not too sure about this)
Carbon tail pipe trims
Bride/recaro seats
Remap
KW V1's

Maybe: Half cage, strip the rear seats out, carpet the rear, harness's (R26R style)

I will try keep this updated, but considering i've had the car 2 years now and have only done 4 things, dont hold your breath lol

A few more pics
ClioRibblehead.jpg

ClioRibblehead2.jpg

Meclio.jpg
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Looking good mate, Im looking into getting new wheels for mine too, you got lucky with that swap!

What else you planning to do with the car? Spoiler?

Shame about the R27 though!
 
Looking good mate, Im looking into getting new wheels for mine too, you got lucky with that swap!

What else you planning to do with the car? Spoiler?

Shame about the R27 though!

Cheers mate, i fell really lucky with the wheels :smile:

I dont know about a spoiler because i quite like how the car looks at the back, if any i would probably go for the gt as its more discreet than the Cup spoiler.

Yea i was absolutely gutted about the r27, the 1st payment for it hadnt even come out of my account when it was wrote off. it was my 1st really nice car aswell.
 
Nice work mate and nice write up! Pretty much in the same boat as you and it looks like our 200's are almost identically specced from what i can see! My plans are very similar too :smile:

Scoob looked like fun, had plenty of experience with them!
 
I prefer the raider wheels to the 5 spoke too. Not keen the spacers though, look too far out for my taste, but good luck with the future plans.
 
Cheers mate, i fell really lucky with the wheels :smile:

I dont know about a spoiler because i quite like how the car looks at the back, if any i would probably go for the gt as its more discreet than the Cup spoiler.

Yea i was absolutely gutted about the r27, the 1st payment for it hadnt even come out of my account when it was wrote off. it was my 1st really nice car aswell.

I have the GT spoiler on my Black 200 atm, Im trying to get rid of it lol and get a cup spoiler!

That is very unlucky with the R27! Did you still have to pay the payments for the car?
 
Looks amazing Martin, seeing Lee's AG this evening has made me fall in love with the colour again!

Oh and a few more piccys of your car....

P10508212.jpg

P10508273.jpg
 
Love the car dude. Best colour by a country mile for the 200s.

Thanks mate, Oh yes, looks stunning in the sun. its just a shame its horrible to photograph

looks good mate :jase2:

Cheers Si

Looking good, how hard did the Audi hit u?

Cheers, It's a 30mph road, and he said..."I was only doing 40, it is a 40 limit isnt it?" so god knows how fast he was going, the impact was that hard the taxdisc was lying on the floor of the passenger footwell and the car had been shoved up the road a good 8m. Good old pigs did f@$% all tho when they turned up.

Very good with the black wheels...

Ta, I think it ties in well with the porno tash, diffuser and mirrors with black, when they were anthracite they were the only things that colour on the car.

looking good mate,

nice pics as well.

Cheers, i cant take praise for the last 3, they were all either Paul, Gaz or Si.

Car is looking spanking mate! I love the wheels too. £40 a wheel for the refurb is a bargain!

thanks pal, yea it was a top job aswell.
 
Looks well mate, how loud is the exhaust? Im fitting the Ktec system this weekend and it's got the Decat pipe on it but I'm debating whether it's going to be too loud or not?

Craig :smile:
 
Looks well mate, how loud is the exhaust? Im fitting the Ktec system this weekend and it's got the Decat pipe on it but I'm debating whether it's going to be too loud or not?

Craig :smile:

Its loud, but yours may not be as loud as they might have changed it from when i got mine fitted.

Why dont you fit it, and if its too loud you can put the cat back in.

Here's a video of mine when it was a few months old. skip to 50 seconds and thats mine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyxsz6pguPg
 
Quick update.
Getting 4 new tyres fitted tomorrow morning and my stereo sorted on thursday.
Next on the list is a remap cos its running rough as hell atm.