Some of you may have noticed that I'd removed the Clio badge from the boot. I thought this made it look much cleaner.
Now the next thing off the list was an exhaust. I decided to go for a Scorpion non res system with decat. I know a few people who worked there so arranged a time and date, had a steady drive up to their headquarters and picked it up.
It was fairly straight forward to fit. The hardest part was trying to remove the old system without cutting it, then realising I had to cut it in half as it wouldn't fit over the back axle lol.
A few days later I spotted a tunnel up ahead when driving to Chester zoo so chucked my phone at my girlfriend and asked her to video it
(I can't upload or embed the video for some reason)
I also managed to grab an absolute bargain on ebay for another set of speedlines with brand new ns2r's. I was planning to use these on track or over winter. It's always good to have another set of wheels right??
Well it's actually a very good job I bought these, because two days later (not even exaggerating) I ended up destroying one of my own wheels...
I was on my way to work and a cat decided to run out in front of my car. Instead of just running the bugger over, for whatever reason I decided to swerve and hit the kerb on a central reservation. I suppose I got lucky in the end because if I had lowered my car at this point the bumper would have been a mess as well.
To say I was pissed off at the time though was an understatement. I gently drove back home with the tracking slightly out and went about swapping the front two wheels over for the new ones with ns2r's.
Because my head was a mess and wasn't thinking straight I managed to drop one of the new wheels face down on the decking. So from 8 speedlines in mint condition I was now down to 6 in a matter of hours.
Luckily my Dad's mate owns a garage locally so I rang him up and he very kindly had a good look over the car. Thankfully it was only the tracking which was out and no other major damage like I was worried about!
Definitely one of those days I'm not going to forget for a long time!
