My New Renaultsport Clio 182 Trophy

[David87]

This is my second one (always regretted selling my first!) and I'm really pleased with it so far. My aim was to have one that's 100% as-new and I think I'm almost there! Bought it off a lady oop North who'd had it from new and it's only covered 12k miles, so should be one of the least used ones in existence. It was nice when I got it in July, but so far I have done the following to it:

• Fitted Philips Silver Vision indicator bulbs all round;
• Replaced the sidelight and brake light bulbs with new ones;
• Fitted official Renault Bosch Aerotwin wipers;
• Got a couple of small scuff marks off the underside of the front splitter;
• Replaced the passenger-side rear seatbelt clip as this was broken (well, Ren-O-Tec of Chelmsford did it - I'd have messed it up!);
• Touched-up the odd small stone chip;
• Fitted new dust caps to the wheels (old ones were a mish mash!);
• Fitted an ITG panel filter;
• Had five small parking dings removed (two on the offside door, one on the offside quarter, two on the offside quarter) by Diamond Dents;
• Fitted new Speedline decals to each alloy;
• Damper refurbishment by BG Motorsport (the nitrogen had escaped out of the nearside unit, meaning no damping!);
• Full service and cam belt change;
• Geometry setup and general mechanical health-check (as part of this the exhaust mounts were changed as they had perished and a small exhaust blow sorted);
• Had a small damaged area on the front bumper painted; and
• Fitted the official Renaultsport mat set.

Edited by David87 on Sunday 26th September 19:03

[Defcon5]

Absolutely fantastic car.

[jsg612]

Looks like one from Holdcroft in Crewe or Staffordshire. Very nice, one of my all time favourite Clio's, along with the 172 Cup.

[David87]

Yep, Holdcroft. How'd ya know that, out of interest?!

[jsg612]

David87 said:

Yep, Holdcroft. How'd ya know that, out of interest?!

My old man works there, also DY/DU/DX/DN etc. are all Staffordshire based reg prefixes.

[keo]

I have got a trophy too. They are good fun for the money arent they. Think i will be keeping mine for a while

[Hitch78]

David87 said:

• Fitted Philips Silver Vision indicator bulbs all round;
• Replaced the sidelight and brake light bulbs with new ones;
• Fitted official Renault Bosch Aerotwin wipers;
• Got a couple of small scuff marks off the underside of the front splitter;
• Replaced the passenger-side rear seatbelt clip as this was broken (well, Ren-O-Tec of Chelmsford did it - I'd have messed it up!);
• Touched-up the odd small stone chip;
• Fitted new dust caps to the wheels (old ones were a mish mash!);
• Fitted an ITG panel filter;
• Had five small parking dings removed (two on the offside door, one on the offside quarter, two on the offside quarter) by Diamond Dents;
• Fitted new Speedline decals to each alloy;
• Damper refurbishment by BG Motorsport (the nitrogen had escaped out of the nearside unit, meaning no damping!);
• Full service and cam belt change;
• Geometry setup and general mechanical health-check (as part of this the exhaust mounts were changed as they had perished and a small exhaust blow sorted);
• Had a small damaged area on the front bumper painted; and
• Fitted the official Renaultsport mat set.

Edited by David87 on Sunday 26th September 19:03

I really like your car, but your post made me laugh - that is the gayest set of 'mods' I have ever seen!

Hope you enjoy it.

Edited by Hitch78 on Monday 27th September 14:53

[Stedman]

Nice! I'm REALLY tempted to chop my car and get one.

[MattyB_]

I noticed one of these for sale on PH a while back, the guy had removed the Sach's dampers and replaced them with coilovers as they were "marginally better".

[philmots]

Excellent