Juk3sy
Paid Member
Well I have had my 200 for just over a year now so I thought I would make a short post regarding her progress.
I didn't really have any plans when the car was purchased and in reality didn't know as much about Clio's as I should have before buying (apart from the rave reviews)
So when I picked her up she was a low spec deep black FF with cup chassis.
Such a happy new owner!
If I had to admit to one failing it would be that I struggle to leave things alone, so the first thing I did after getting her home was to start hunting for Recaro's
I sourced a set from a forum member who was trading his car in, who very generously met me at work and swapped the seats over! He even threw in a sunglasses holder! Top Man! That was probably the best decision I have ever made, they improve the car so much in my opinion.
Since purchase the car had a few little niggles, minor stuff really, one being a non standard head unit. Long story short (long version here) I eventually got hold of an original item which included the RS Monitor, a nice little upgrade.
Most of the maintenance work that has been required has been fairly standard, I had the NS Hub lower ball joint replaced, at the same time I replaced both front dampers (one had a weeping seal) and as luck would have it I purchased some eibach springs, which was good because it turned out I had been rolling around on a broken front spring! I replaced the front discs with Brembo High Carbon's, fitted Hel braided lines and Mintex 1144 pads, which are a bit squeely but stop extremely well. At this time the fantastic spacers I purchased from Raptor went on and I was happy with the way she sat.
There was one piece of work I had not expected to have to deal with, I purchased the car having had its cambelt etc done so was very unhappy to find the non oem water pump was leaking and I would require the lot doing again. I was less than impressed!
Clouds and Silver linings and all that, when I had the work done by a Renault Specialist he found my timing was a little out so with this adjusted she ran a little better after the work. I took the opportunity to get some powerflex mounts fitted while this was being done. With this complete I was mostly happy again. Mostly.
I had always liked the look of Speedlines but was not a huge fan of the black wheels black car look, I think Clio's need some contrast to look their best. I spent some time hunting for Megane F1 18's with the intention of fitting those when tyres were due (Still have them in the garage in need of a refurb) I didn't do much more about wheels until as luck would have it a set of Soeedlines finished in anthracite appeared on the forums! It was fate!
So these were promptly purchased and after a bit of messing around and a full refurb (Looked like Parcel Force rolled them to my address, worst delivery ever) I had them fitted with some new Goodyear Eagle F1 AS3's all round.
So I'm quite happy at the moment but as I said I can't leave things alone, so maybe a sprint spoiler, maybe some anthracite paint on the door handles and bullets, maybe an Akrapovic or maybe a megane turbo engine... who knows.
Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated.
I didn't really have any plans when the car was purchased and in reality didn't know as much about Clio's as I should have before buying (apart from the rave reviews)
So when I picked her up she was a low spec deep black FF with cup chassis.
Such a happy new owner!
If I had to admit to one failing it would be that I struggle to leave things alone, so the first thing I did after getting her home was to start hunting for Recaro's
I sourced a set from a forum member who was trading his car in, who very generously met me at work and swapped the seats over! He even threw in a sunglasses holder! Top Man! That was probably the best decision I have ever made, they improve the car so much in my opinion.
Since purchase the car had a few little niggles, minor stuff really, one being a non standard head unit. Long story short (long version here) I eventually got hold of an original item which included the RS Monitor, a nice little upgrade.
Most of the maintenance work that has been required has been fairly standard, I had the NS Hub lower ball joint replaced, at the same time I replaced both front dampers (one had a weeping seal) and as luck would have it I purchased some eibach springs, which was good because it turned out I had been rolling around on a broken front spring! I replaced the front discs with Brembo High Carbon's, fitted Hel braided lines and Mintex 1144 pads, which are a bit squeely but stop extremely well. At this time the fantastic spacers I purchased from Raptor went on and I was happy with the way she sat.
There was one piece of work I had not expected to have to deal with, I purchased the car having had its cambelt etc done so was very unhappy to find the non oem water pump was leaking and I would require the lot doing again. I was less than impressed!
Clouds and Silver linings and all that, when I had the work done by a Renault Specialist he found my timing was a little out so with this adjusted she ran a little better after the work. I took the opportunity to get some powerflex mounts fitted while this was being done. With this complete I was mostly happy again. Mostly.
I had always liked the look of Speedlines but was not a huge fan of the black wheels black car look, I think Clio's need some contrast to look their best. I spent some time hunting for Megane F1 18's with the intention of fitting those when tyres were due (Still have them in the garage in need of a refurb) I didn't do much more about wheels until as luck would have it a set of Soeedlines finished in anthracite appeared on the forums! It was fate!
So these were promptly purchased and after a bit of messing around and a full refurb (Looked like Parcel Force rolled them to my address, worst delivery ever) I had them fitted with some new Goodyear Eagle F1 AS3's all round.
So I'm quite happy at the moment but as I said I can't leave things alone, so maybe a sprint spoiler, maybe some anthracite paint on the door handles and bullets, maybe an Akrapovic or maybe a megane turbo engine... who knows.
Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated.
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