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[quote][i]Originally posted by pow[/i] ...just couldn't say no! [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/img20160206wa0000.jpg[/img] Husband of a girl I know wanted to get rid of his Clio. 2002, he's had it a while, been used as a work (he's a chippy) and dog car for the past few years, no real love in terms of clean but mechanically well looked after. So well that he shredded a cambelt when he changed it by putting a tensioner on the wrong way round he bought a whole 40k engine and fitted that along with a new cambelt/waterpump/clutch and anything else that needed changing at the time. I asked her how much she wanted out of interest and she just said buy us a drink for it and you can have it. So in exchange for a large glass of white wine and a pint of Stella I owned a 2002 Clio Expression Plus :lol: It's covered 100k but had a 40k engine fitted 30k ago so the engine has acutally done 70. Has electric windows and AC. Dog hair and sawdust covered interior that looked like this but 100 times worse: [img]https://ssli.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/z/H44AAOSwX~dWrUcY/$_86.JPG[/img] She told me the sunroof was leaking, it needed a new coilpack, needed a deep clean, the speedo display wasn't working properly and some TLC. Quite timely as the missus car is playing up and she doesn't a CS millionaire and I like a little tinker project to keep my mind off work as it's turn all a bit mental at the moment. Drove it home and decided the interior needed to go. It was dirty, stank and full of dog hair. The headlining was stained from the leaking sunroof which was dripping onto the passenger side carpet and soaking it. First thing I did was rip the sunroof out and reseal it with £3.99 worth of Wickes roof and gutter seal: [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image0012.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image0024.jpg[/img] Hopped onto ClioSport.net and bought an entire 182 interior (seats, doorcards, carpets and a cluster) for £60. Stripped the old seats (except the rear backrests, just can't get the bolt to budge :( ) and took them all down the tip. Bolted the 182 interior in today and it looks a treat: [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image01.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image0051.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image0061.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image0071.jpg[/img] Also swapped the clocks out, got some that had white and red LEDs instead of the Renauit orange, look quite sweet: [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image0032.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/5874/image0042.jpg[/img] Steering column surround is off still as I have a £3 indicator stalk arriving as this doesn't want to self cancel going one way at the moment. It's MOTd until December, needs another clean and an exhaust clamp tightening up but apart from that the missus can run around in it until she buys another car. The other thing is that it has a towbar which will be handy. God knows what I'll do with it then, shift it on to someone at work probably, but it owes me nearly nothing and it's kept me busy for a few weekends, I enjoy a tinker :) [/quote]
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