“It's just a daily” - Renaultsport Clio 182

“It's just a daily” - Renaultsport Clio 182

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B'stard Child

28,282 posts

245 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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wow you don't much about getting it back to A1 - much credit

PhillipM

6,507 posts

188 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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frayz said:
Shhh!
I haven’t got to your bit yet. biggrin
hehe

That reminds me, I need a new numberplate lamp...

frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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The next small update on the 182, was a bit of poor show on my part really as I forgot to take any before pics. However I had all the little dings I found on it taken out.
2 on the drivers door that were visable. One on the passenger door and 3 on the bonnet that were barely visable, but I’m fussy. Used a guy I usually use for this and his work is superb.
She’s now arrow straight again.

Also saw how poor the OEM earthing setup is, so I made up a much thicker earth strap to the chassis ground and I’m going to make up another from engine/gearbox to the chassis ground. It may be placebo that it feels smoother to drive but I’m 100% it idles much nicer.



I collected some small bits from the dealers in the way of some blanks for the bottom of the tailgate to finish the holes.
Also collected new rivets for the skirts as I want to have them off to clean/underseal and refit.
The OEM Black rivets are no longer available and have been replaced with these silver ones. Not too happy about that to be honest, so I ordered a box of black peel rivets which will be more in keeping with the OEM finish.

I’ve also contacted Renault UK to see if I can track down replacements of the vehicle ID stickers inside the drivers door shut and the under bonnet decal. They’re coming back to me, so hopefully with a favourable reply.
If not I’ll find another way to get the OEM decals replicated.






frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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Next arrival was in the shape of a new OEM Centre mount for the exhaust and managed to track down a pair of genuine Cup washer blanks.
These are notorious for breaking so I filled the thread centres with resin and internally sleeved them.

Just need to decide if I paint these satin black or body colour. I’m thinking body colour but I may end up attempting to paint them myself as they’re so small and would cost a fortune to have done professionally.






frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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The next job I was dreading, purely out of fear of what I might find. This was to get the rear panels off to check the state of the sills from inside.
Happy to report there is no corrosion in here at all. So just a quick hoover round, clear the drainage holes and a liberal coat of Waxoil.
I will however I ordered some Bilt Hamber and will revisit these areas to get them properly protected.
I’ll probably come back to these when I Bilt Hamber the sills when the skirts come off.






iacabu

1,348 posts

148 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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Looks great!

Makes me jealous though, I really miss my 172 cup.. Don't know what I was thinking selling it

Jonnny

29,385 posts

188 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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What condition is the steering wheel thumb hold sections? That seemed a very weak bit on them.

Great thread so far, please keep it up!

jonnyconnor

164 posts

142 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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Love the history this car has and look forward to following your next chapter

frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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Jonnny said:
What condition is the steering wheel thumb hold sections? That seemed a very weak bit on them.

Great thread so far, please keep it up!
In my first tenure of the car I had the wheel fully retrimmed by Snappy. It’s still as mint today as the day I first fitted it.

Old pic, but hopefully you can see it. I know I have a better one somewhere.




frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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iacabu said:
Looks great!

Makes me jealous though, I really miss my 172 cup.. Don't know what I was thinking selling it
That’s how I felt about this.
Its the only car I’ve ever regretted selling. I guess I’ve put my money where my mouth is for bleating on to anyone and everyone about how good they are to drive. I always said I’d have my old car back in a heartbeat.
Lucky for me I was able to reacquire it. smile

PhillipM

6,507 posts

188 months

Sunday 14th July 2019
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I wish I could do that with my old 306. Well, technically I could, as it's sat outside, but it's also in a skip with a washing machine and a tonne of scrap on it hehe

G111MDS

314 posts

90 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Nice to have it back. I had a GP too and really liked it, but sold it back in November after 3.5 years. Thought I’d miss it, but haven’t.

frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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PhillipM said:
I wish I could do that with my old 306. Well, technically I could, as it's sat outside, but it's also in a skip with a washing machine and a tonne of scrap on it hehe
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a full resto, not even close. It’s my daily car that I want to keep alive and well as long as possible.
I don’t care how many miles she does, I just want it to be in tip top condition.
If money were no object, I’d love to do a bare metal, nut & bolt job on it. Haha.

Krikkit

26,494 posts

180 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Darren93 said:
I like these 182s, hard to find a decent one these days. I was very tempted by one for my first hot hatch but was scared away by the belt/exhaust replacement costs as a 19 year old student and got an FN2 type r instead but I still like the look of the clios, especially with the speedline turini's on!

I also love Caymans... And GP1/2 minis... Nice garage laugh
Don't let it put you off - not sure if you're a spanner jockey, but it wouldn't be a bad job if you bit the bullet and dropped the front end out.

Such great cars, I'm determined to have another at some point.

frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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frayz said:
G111MDS said:
Nice to have it back. I had a GP too and really liked it, but sold it back in November after 3.5 years. Thought I’d miss it, but haven’t.
I thought the GP was a huge disappointment to me. I was s bit quicker, torque was great and the diff worked well. But it’s build quality was awful and bits fell off it on a weekly basis.
I was supposed to be a lightweight track special, but then had huge heated/folding leather Recaros?
Deleted rear wiper but then put on massive 18” wheels?
The doors weighed a ton, as did the bonnet. I genuinely thought it would be a big upgrade from the “crap French Renault”. However in my experience, quite the opposite. I attempted to make it better with Bilstein PSS10s, AP racing brakes, Pole positions and smaller 17” OZ wheels. But even then it just never impressed.
Even took it to 1320 Mini for cam, pulley, injectors and tune to try and make me love it. Then came away from there with a car that wouldn’t cold start properly, cut out at traffic lights etc. Despite multiple attempts to map it better to make it drive like OEM they were honest with me and said that’s how they all are and the best it would be.
I took all that crap off and sold it.

The Clio is cheap and cheerful
The Mini was expensive and nasty.

I took it to the NC500 in 2016 and remember the trip well, however have no lasting memories of enjoyment in the car. It looked cool, but hugely overrated imo and doesn’t deserve to be compared to the likes of an R26-R or M3GTS as EVO did a few months back.







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trails

3,557 posts

148 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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This reminded me of two things; an old Evo article and your engine crane sitting in my back garden...glad you got the little orange thing back, What's App incoming <embarrassed face>.

frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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trails said:
This reminded me of two things; an old Evo article and your engine crane sitting in my back garden...glad you got the little orange thing back, What's App incoming <embarrassed face>.
Haha. No worries bro, i know its in your hands now. So no drama smile

DevonLad

770 posts

181 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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This is utterly fantastic.......Top work, hats off to you.

frayz

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2,629 posts

158 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Not much to update but a few more odds and sods.

Wen I first owned the car I fitted what was at the time a pretty high spec Alpine HU. FFwd to now and I wanted one that would stream from my phone as well as have a full high speed iPod connection.
So swapped out the CDE-113BT for a CDE-178BT.
Also fitted a new prototype poly dogbone from Phillip M. This is really quite impressive, much improved gear selection and control of the engines torque reaction. However absolutely zero increase in NVH... it’s wizardry I’m sure.
Swapped out my OEM aerial from that of a latest gen Fiesta to keep the OEM+ type finish and finally swapped my orange Speedline decals for some white ones.
I really liked the idea of them in orange but wasn’t quite convinced once fitted. Personally I like the white better as it looks more OEM to the Speedline wheel.

Big service to come this week from Alex at AW Motorworks so looking forward to getting that done too.


Alpine 113BT out
Alpine 178BT in

I prefer the appearance of the original if im honest, but function over form in this case



New aerial fitted (not sure why PH has put this image on its side?)



New poly dogbone fitted, developed by PhillipM. This isn't your usual solid bush setup, this had been designed and developed with an internal honeycomb structure to actually firm up as its loaded up but without increasing NVH. Its wizardry and genuinely impressive.



White SpeedlineCorse decals



Hard to see in the lighting but enjoying a driveway of "handling" nirvana biggrin



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Edited by frayz on Monday 15th July 19:53

mr shoddy

107 posts

123 months

Monday 15th July 2019
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Could you please share more details of how to clean the grotty seat belts? I'm just thinking about doing mine.