Hi guys and thanks for all the welcomes in my other post.
I thought I would start up a new thread as I have a few changes lined up for the Clio over the next few weeks.
First off here is a couple of pictures as she stands now. White with anthracite pack, cup chassis, and Recaros : ( sorry for the iphone pics )
The right spec and mileage car came up so although the anthracite pack was not on my want list it gave me a couple of ides what to do with it in the future as its not expensive to have sparayed ( i do alot of work with a body shop next door so will get a decent price ) This is why although I had the chance to take a set of black speedlines I decided to keep the orional wheels. More on this later as its booked into the body shop tomorrow.
First step was Bluetooth as the car did not come with it from the factory. I was going to look into just having a standard push button parrot installed but after hearing the standard stereo I realised that this would need to be changed as well. So I killed two birds with one stone. Originally I was looking at Alpine but then saw this :
Parrot Asteroid.
One with it turned on :
With the right connecters this was very quick and easy to install. Hands free is crystal clear with voice activated dialling which works with ease.
Music is through anything you wish to plug as it has connectors for USB, line in, iphone/ipod or stream over blue tooth connection. Quality of sound is a massive improvement over the standard. I have looked into steering controls but I am not sure if its worth the extra money yet, so I will wait a couple of weeks and see how I get on with it. You can search for music by voice as well so this makes it much easier than scrolling through the menu.
It uses my iphone as a tethering device so you can use all the apps such as goggle maps, speed and accident location, live internet radio. All of these are a good addition but I think in reality only the internet radio will get used for pod casts etc.
Fit in the car I am really pleased with and looks great in the flesh.
Next up was replacement speakers as one has blown. For now I have gone for the direct Phillips replacements route. I have pulled the cover off the existing tweeter to find that there is no speaker but the cables are there so these will be fitted tonight. There seems to be a mixed reaction on there quality so I will just see how it goes. For £80 front and rear its not a massive gamble. Rears have arrived and fronts are due this afternoon.
More to follow tomorrow and over the next few days as I have a little pile of bits gathering in my office !
Next update hopefully will be the body shop work and then the suspension and spacers when they arrive from Germany this week.
Cheers
I thought I would start up a new thread as I have a few changes lined up for the Clio over the next few weeks.
First off here is a couple of pictures as she stands now. White with anthracite pack, cup chassis, and Recaros : ( sorry for the iphone pics )
The right spec and mileage car came up so although the anthracite pack was not on my want list it gave me a couple of ides what to do with it in the future as its not expensive to have sparayed ( i do alot of work with a body shop next door so will get a decent price ) This is why although I had the chance to take a set of black speedlines I decided to keep the orional wheels. More on this later as its booked into the body shop tomorrow.
First step was Bluetooth as the car did not come with it from the factory. I was going to look into just having a standard push button parrot installed but after hearing the standard stereo I realised that this would need to be changed as well. So I killed two birds with one stone. Originally I was looking at Alpine but then saw this :
Parrot Asteroid.
One with it turned on :
With the right connecters this was very quick and easy to install. Hands free is crystal clear with voice activated dialling which works with ease.
Music is through anything you wish to plug as it has connectors for USB, line in, iphone/ipod or stream over blue tooth connection. Quality of sound is a massive improvement over the standard. I have looked into steering controls but I am not sure if its worth the extra money yet, so I will wait a couple of weeks and see how I get on with it. You can search for music by voice as well so this makes it much easier than scrolling through the menu.
It uses my iphone as a tethering device so you can use all the apps such as goggle maps, speed and accident location, live internet radio. All of these are a good addition but I think in reality only the internet radio will get used for pod casts etc.
Fit in the car I am really pleased with and looks great in the flesh.
Next up was replacement speakers as one has blown. For now I have gone for the direct Phillips replacements route. I have pulled the cover off the existing tweeter to find that there is no speaker but the cables are there so these will be fitted tonight. There seems to be a mixed reaction on there quality so I will just see how it goes. For £80 front and rear its not a massive gamble. Rears have arrived and fronts are due this afternoon.
More to follow tomorrow and over the next few days as I have a little pile of bits gathering in my office !
Next update hopefully will be the body shop work and then the suspension and spacers when they arrive from Germany this week.
Cheers
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