What have you done to your car today ???

[CrippsCorner]

I got a M3 headlight kit

You've got a Clio though.

 

[Mikeyjp]

doh! haha lol,, oops, i know what i mean

 

[M.A.C]

I got a M3 headlight kit and finished off the headlights today

and used the left over disks and compound to polish the top inlet

They look brand new... How bad did they look at the beginning? I've been meaning to use my m3 kit had it kicking around the house for the last 6 months!!

 

[Mikeyjp]

They look brand new... How bad did they look at the beginning? I've been meaning to use my m3 kit had it kicking around the house for the last 6 months!!

this is before i sanded them or anything

 

[burtt]

Fitted Apex lowering springs, Changed rear discs/bearings and pads, full service and a good wash.

 

[JelriK]

Put a new splitter on my RS172, took of the old one ( Laguna splitter ) and mounted a Megané splitter ( Year: 2000 )

 

[MartinR]

Fitted refurbed gearbox( agency transmissions) clutch, gear oil, new shafts, coolant, cts and thermostat.

On satutday just gone

And have now done

shocks
Top mounts
wishbones
4 yoko s-drives

 

[MarkX]

Messing around with door cards, work in progress, may yet make it to the bin lmao

 

[Chris V6 255]

De bobbled the seats

Before

After

 

[Daniel]

De bobbled the seats

Before

After

What is this debobbling machine you have??

 

[Chris V6 255]

What is this debobbling machine you have??

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0038RXSIS/?tag=cliospnet01-21

Took 10 minutes to make the seats look 5 years newer

 

[Loz H]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0038RXSIS/?tag=cliospnet01-21

Took 10 minutes to make the seats look 5 years newer

For that price you can't say no! Well, atleast I didn't

 

[Alan]

Fitted Apex lowering springs, Changed rear discs/bearings and pads, full service and a good wash.

There's goes the handling, and they'll shag your rear shocks into next week.

OT - Fitted some Heko wind deflectors to the Abarth.

 

[burtt]

There's goes the handling, and they'll shag your rear shocks into next week.

OT - Fitted some Heko wind deflectors to the Abarth.

They seem fine to me. Everybody moans about them but I don't drive mental anyways so notice any change. I can understand your view if I was on a track but if I was gona do that I wouldn't even consider lowering springs lol

 

[Alan]

They seem fine to me. Everybody moans about them but I don't drive mental anyways so notice any change. I can understand your view if I was on a track but if I was gona do that I wouldn't even consider lowering springs lol

Eibach Sportlines is what i had on my 182.. 9 years go now mind lol

 

[M.A.C]

Eibach Sportlines is what i had on my 182.. 9 years go now mind lol

+1

With a rear arb they are one of the great suspension setups recommend on here.

 

[Alan]

+1

With a rear arb they are one of the great suspension setups recommend on here.

Back then ARB's on Clio's were a rarity, I didn't feel the car needed much more tho, as it was brand new, at 20 years old I was so scared of binning it, I didn't drive it hard enough to merit an ARB either lol.

 

[hdsn555]

Started to refurb my headlights! makes such a difference!

 

[Mikeyjp]

yeah, its good having nice shiny headlights

 

[dann2707]

Started to refurb my headlights! makes such a difference!

What did you use? Mine need doing asap.

 

[kieren17389]

Wrapped the badge and added the french flag in carbon colours. Nothing new just the first things I've done to it haha.

IMG_9214 by kieren_douglas, on Flickr

 

[marinemackay2003]

cleaned it first time in about 9 months

 

[hdsn555]

What did you use? Mine need doing asap.

bucket of warm soapy water, 1200, 1500 and 2000 grade wet and dry, a tub of rubbing compound (tcut, meguires scratch-x etc)

Went through the grades, and then used a basic rotary buffer to apply the rubbing compound. I'm not 100% happy with them so I'll likely go back to the 1500, and work up again.

 

[dann2707]

bucket of warm soapy water, 1200, 1500 and 2000 grade wet and dry, a tub of rubbing compound (tcut, meguires scratch-x etc)

Went through the grades, and then used a basic rotary buffer to apply the rubbing compound. I'm not 100% happy with them so I'll likely go back to the 1500, and work up again.

Thanks for that. Wonder if some megs 105 or 205 (the harsh one, can't remember the number) would work too. Gonna give it a shot later.

 

[hdsn555]

Thanks for that. Wonder if some megs 105 or 205 (the harsh one, can't remember the number) would work too. Gonna give it a shot later.

Should work, to be honest, I've used megs scratch x, but I could do with some standard t-cut, as the scratch-x is not quite harsh enough.

I looked a few places for wet and dry, but halfords was the only place I could find with the finer grades of wet/dry.

 

[dann2707]

Should work, to be honest, I've used megs scratch x, but I could do with some standard t-cut, as the scratch-x is not quite harsh enough.

I looked a few places for wet and dry, but halfords was the only place I could find with the finer grades of wet/dry.

Took your advice and really happy with the results, thanks for the tips mate.

Before:

After:

 

[Big Spence]

I seriously need to do my headlights, compared to some of the pics I see on here mine are ten times worse just brings the whole car down tbh, gonna have to set a few hours aside next week I think, I'll post pics

 

[hdsn555]

Took your advice and really happy with the results, thanks for the tips mate.

Looking great, I've nipped to my folks to grab a bottle of tcut so will be running over mine again with 2000 and then cutting compound.

yours have come out great! Make sure you coat them in something with uv protection and keep maintaining the covering to stop them clouding again.

 

[dann2707]

I've sealed them with collinite #915 with a few layers.

Someone suggested laminxing them (clear obviously) to stop it happening again. Has anyone done that on here before and did it work?

 

[Filters]

Looked at it, swore at it. Considered punching it. Thought best option would be to leave it alone.
Back to SJM it goes this week...

 

[Tommo.]

Started sorting some of the stone chips on my bonnet. I filled them with paint (using a cocktail stick, lol), sanded them down and then machine polished. I'm amazed how well it has worked actually, you can't really tell it has been done!

 

[BoatNonce]

Changed the AC condenser.

 

[Alan]

Started sorting some of the stone chips on my bonnet. I filled them with paint (using a cocktail stick, lol), sanded them down and then machine polished. I'm amazed how well it has worked actually, you can't really tell it has been done!

Cocktail stick/sharpened end of a match, guy I know has a Chips-Away franchise and he's often told me that's what he uses for smaller chips where a brush would stroke would cover more of the area than required.

 

[hdsn555]

Yesterday I removed the centre bracket and firegummed the join as it was blowing really badly.

Today I've cleaned my pipes, this decat malarky leads to extremely sooty pipes!

Before:

After:

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Shame the rest of the car is filthy... I'll wash it tomorrow after work!

 

[Addicted]

Dropped it in for MOT, passed with no advisories.

Now to sell... :'( really don't want to, but have no where to store it while I have the Golf.

 

[dann2707]

Fixed, hopefully, my high emissions and smell of fuel when starting problem. Used Torque to diagnose the lambda sensor being crap.

Before (voltage drops to 0):

Screenshot_2014-07-02-17-33-19 by dann2707, on Flickr



After (voltage now drops to 0.1v - healthy!):

Screenshot_2014-07-02-17-32-57 by dann2707, on Flickr

 

[CrippsCorner]

Choc blocked one side of my seat aribag wiring things! So far lights are off... will probably do the other side tomorrow. God damn it's made me realise I need some decent wire cutters!

 

[182jwilliams]

Federal 595 RSR turned up this morning. Went and got them balanced up with the OZF1's I refurbed..

 

[Perry]

Been crawling under it for around an hour trying to find a God damn rattle. Finally found it where the weld on washer on the top of the rear strut (where the bumpstop hits) had given up.

 

[1812lsd]

Sorted the rattling engine cover, fixed the leaking headlight washers with some non return valves, fixed the adjusters on the headlights & replaced both washer motors.