petercronin
Paid Member
I've been on here quite a while now and thought it's about time I get round to doing this, so here goes and you'll have to excuse the lack of pics as I haven't thought to take many...
My current 200 is my second one, I owned one from new and sold it for an M135 which was a big mistake which I regretted within a few weeks (nice car don’t get me wrong but nowhere near as fun). I didn't do anything to it other than an ITG panel filter and de-badge it. This was it (FF, cup chassis, Recaro's):
![12c3980593016c1f6ca78ddc53ff7793.jpg 12c3980593016c1f6ca78ddc53ff7793.jpg](https://clio197.net/data/attachments/119/119936-ae7bc00ddeeea7398814481da1fb2876.jpg)
![0f362a4fca029d1a3fecbcaf632131d3.jpg 0f362a4fca029d1a3fecbcaf632131d3.jpg](https://clio197.net/data/attachments/119/119937-3579e14b3dcb9e6ab941c0c4705eba3a.jpg)
I actually ran into my old car when on holiday at Centre Parks and left a note on the windscreen asking to buy it back but whoever owned it contacted me saying they weren't wanting to sell just yet. So after a bit of a search I found a replacement one in a spec I was happy with. Liquid Yellow, full fat with cup chassis, Recaro's, GT spoiler, tinted windows, braided brake lines, H&R springs, centre silencer delete, full history and best of all at a garage 10 mins from my house.
![1ffb0c490f19e84be153aabceeec6870.jpg 1ffb0c490f19e84be153aabceeec6870.jpg](https://clio197.net/data/attachments/119/119938-eed2dbffabb40949b574c17481a1fb4b.jpg)
So price agreed along with a full service/belts and a bit of paint work I bought it in April 2015. I haven't done much with it (yet) other than a few small mods and maintenance.
Mods in my ownership in no particular order up to now have been:
Powerflex torque mount and gear box mount bushes.
Superpro adjustable drop links.
Shuv’s shiny bonnet alarm bracket (not so shiny now as I painted mine black.
B pillars trim was removed and replaced with 3m gloss black vinyl.
Spoon front and rear rigid subframe collars.
As for maintenance other than scheduled serving in the last few years. It’s had:
Thermostat replaced that was stuck open.
Front and rear brakes. Fronts a couple of times thanks to o DS2500’s ruining them!!
Full belt kit changed early after some concern over the aux belt as mentioned in a different thread.
Which brings me to now where it’s running like a sack of s**t when cold / no throttle response and stuttering a lot. Thinking it’s a lambda issue, so as I write this is sat at a local specialist about to be plugged in to see if there’s any codes.
As for future plans I’ve got lots of ideas some of which will depend on how the car gets used (at the moment it’s a toy mainly but I do commute to work in it but that only involves a mile or so of housing estates and then a well surfaced B road) but these are the definite ones:
Coilovers (undecided on what)
Diff (again undecided)
Oz Alleggerita’s
Akra
Thanks for reading
My current 200 is my second one, I owned one from new and sold it for an M135 which was a big mistake which I regretted within a few weeks (nice car don’t get me wrong but nowhere near as fun). I didn't do anything to it other than an ITG panel filter and de-badge it. This was it (FF, cup chassis, Recaro's):
![12c3980593016c1f6ca78ddc53ff7793.jpg 12c3980593016c1f6ca78ddc53ff7793.jpg](https://clio197.net/data/attachments/119/119936-ae7bc00ddeeea7398814481da1fb2876.jpg)
![0f362a4fca029d1a3fecbcaf632131d3.jpg 0f362a4fca029d1a3fecbcaf632131d3.jpg](https://clio197.net/data/attachments/119/119937-3579e14b3dcb9e6ab941c0c4705eba3a.jpg)
I actually ran into my old car when on holiday at Centre Parks and left a note on the windscreen asking to buy it back but whoever owned it contacted me saying they weren't wanting to sell just yet. So after a bit of a search I found a replacement one in a spec I was happy with. Liquid Yellow, full fat with cup chassis, Recaro's, GT spoiler, tinted windows, braided brake lines, H&R springs, centre silencer delete, full history and best of all at a garage 10 mins from my house.
![1ffb0c490f19e84be153aabceeec6870.jpg 1ffb0c490f19e84be153aabceeec6870.jpg](https://clio197.net/data/attachments/119/119938-eed2dbffabb40949b574c17481a1fb4b.jpg)
So price agreed along with a full service/belts and a bit of paint work I bought it in April 2015. I haven't done much with it (yet) other than a few small mods and maintenance.
Mods in my ownership in no particular order up to now have been:
Powerflex torque mount and gear box mount bushes.
Superpro adjustable drop links.
Shuv’s shiny bonnet alarm bracket (not so shiny now as I painted mine black.
B pillars trim was removed and replaced with 3m gloss black vinyl.
Spoon front and rear rigid subframe collars.
As for maintenance other than scheduled serving in the last few years. It’s had:
Thermostat replaced that was stuck open.
Front and rear brakes. Fronts a couple of times thanks to o DS2500’s ruining them!!
Full belt kit changed early after some concern over the aux belt as mentioned in a different thread.
Which brings me to now where it’s running like a sack of s**t when cold / no throttle response and stuttering a lot. Thinking it’s a lambda issue, so as I write this is sat at a local specialist about to be plugged in to see if there’s any codes.
As for future plans I’ve got lots of ideas some of which will depend on how the car gets used (at the moment it’s a toy mainly but I do commute to work in it but that only involves a mile or so of housing estates and then a well surfaced B road) but these are the definite ones:
Coilovers (undecided on what)
Diff (again undecided)
Oz Alleggerita’s
Akra
Thanks for reading