Hi all,
Been lurking a while but finally decided to put together a progress thread, hopefully get some feedback and possibly some suggestions
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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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