Righty then, I've not done one of these for a few years now so be kind 
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My names Steve and I've been lurking on here since buying my 197 in the summer. I had wanted a 197 since before buying my 182 but coming from a moderately tuned Focus ST I didn't want to commit to much to something "French", anyway I got hooked on the 182 but it wasn't big enough(the baby buggy didn't fit in it properly etc etc). So the plan was to keep the 182 until after my trip to the ring with a couple of friends, sell it and buy a 197. However! The 182 decided it wanted to stay in Adenau and developed a missfire while trying to leave.
That would be the last time I would see the poor thing for 52 days courtesy of the RAC's incompetence.
Now this forced my hand somewhat as we needed 2 cars at home so I set about looking for a 197. I wanted either a Nimbus or Deep Black. I had planned to go view a DB however the night before the guy text to say he had had an accident in it. (You can see where this is going) So PANIC MODE now in full force I spotted this UR on Autotrader at a dealership up north, persuaded my friend(who is also on here & a 197 owner now himself!) to drive me up and have a look around it.
Upon arrival it was clear to see the body wasn't as clean as in the pictures(of course) but it had stacks of history, a few mods and print outs for a Remap. I bit the bullet and bought it.
I picked it up a week later after, being promised a set of mats, paintwork touched up around the bumper and a fresh MOT. All I ended up with was the MOT.
Heyho, I had bodywork planned anyway and a set of mats its neither here nor there. I took a couple of pictures the next day after getting it home.
The first job I wanted to check out was the drain holes under the scuttle after reading about them becoming blocked. It's a good job I did.
Equipped with my trusty "pokey stick", the hose pipe and cleaning products they were swiftly unblocked and shiny again.
I kinda left it alone then, just getting to grips with the awful cold start kangarooing and hopeing it wasn't going to fall apart.
Time passed, I got the 182 back! HURRAH!
Yup, Covered in oil... Cheers.
Again with my efforts now all on stripping the goodies off the 182 and getting it ready for sale the 197 stayed as it was. I did however take it for a drive around Wales with some friends.
I managed to sell the 182 without much hassle, a friend bought it off me for what I wanted from it & all the bits sold quicker than I managed to write for sale ad's.
So with that gone & her indoors of my back(she's not that bad, honest). I purchased some goodies and fitted them. 2 pairs of 25mm H&R Spacers, a pair of Black surround projectors as I hated the silver reflector type headlights and a cup splitter as my original one was hanging off anyway .
If your still paying attention and haven't clicked the back button yet you'll notice I also tinted the fogs yellow. I'm still unsure on this but they are pretty badly marked underneath so it was to just try and hide that a little really.
Time for another drive out round Wales, it's now November(ish) so poor weather and a nice bit of snow around the Elan Valley.
TBC...
. My names Steve and I've been lurking on here since buying my 197 in the summer. I had wanted a 197 since before buying my 182 but coming from a moderately tuned Focus ST I didn't want to commit to much to something "French"
, anyway I got hooked on the 182 but it wasn't big enough(the baby buggy didn't fit in it properly etc etc). So the plan was to keep the 182 until after my trip to the ring with a couple of friends, sell it and buy a 197. However! The 182 decided it wanted to stay in Adenau and developed a missfire while trying to leave.That would be the last time I would see the poor thing for 52 days courtesy of the RAC's incompetence.
Now this forced my hand somewhat as we needed 2 cars at home so I set about looking for a 197. I wanted either a Nimbus or Deep Black. I had planned to go view a DB however the night before the guy text to say he had had an accident in it. (You can see where this is going
) So PANIC MODE now in full force I spotted this UR on Autotrader at a dealership up north, persuaded my friend(who is also on here & a 197 owner now himself!) to drive me up and have a look around it.Upon arrival it was clear to see the body wasn't as clean as in the pictures(of course) but it had stacks of history, a few mods and print outs for a Remap. I bit the bullet and bought it
.I picked it up a week later after, being promised a set of mats, paintwork touched up around the bumper and a fresh MOT. All I ended up with was the MOT
. Heyho, I had bodywork planned anyway and a set of mats its neither here nor there. I took a couple of pictures the next day after getting it home.
The first job I wanted to check out was the drain holes under the scuttle after reading about them becoming blocked. It's a good job I did.
Equipped with my trusty "pokey stick", the hose pipe and cleaning products they were swiftly unblocked and shiny again.
I kinda left it alone then, just getting to grips with the awful cold start kangarooing and hopeing it wasn't going to fall apart
.Time passed, I got the 182 back! HURRAH!
Yup, Covered in oil... Cheers
.Again with my efforts now all on stripping the goodies off the 182 and getting it ready for sale the 197 stayed as it was. I did however take it for a drive around Wales with some friends.
I managed to sell the 182 without much hassle, a friend bought it off me for what I wanted from it & all the bits sold quicker than I managed to write for sale ad's
.So with that gone & her indoors of my back(she's not that bad, honest
). I purchased some goodies and fitted them. 2 pairs of 25mm H&R Spacers, a pair of Black surround projectors as I hated the silver reflector type headlights and a cup splitter as my original one was hanging off anyway .If your still paying attention and haven't clicked the back button yet you'll notice I also tinted the fogs yellow. I'm still unsure on this but they are pretty badly marked underneath so it was to just try and hide that a little really
.Time for another drive out round Wales, it's now November(ish) so poor weather and a nice bit of snow around the Elan Valley
.TBC...
