Daniels Blue 182

Dann2707 · 21 June, 2014

Picked this up yesterday down in High Wycombe and drove down from Leeds.

Anyway, this was in the petrol station just where I picked it up from. Love the colour so much.

Lovely and shiny in my drive!

Then today I started to crack on with some jobs and seeing what I have to play with

She's in excellent condition bar a few things as shown later below but here is her now.

Please excuse the mess in the background, having our windows done haha

That's not a scuff on the rear bumper, scared myself for a second when looking at this pic haha

Now the bad parts, the headlights desperately need restoring

There is a scuff here.

And the wheels need a refurb so badly.

Anyway, I removed the throttle body and gave it a clean up as it was ever so slightly carboned up.

The emissions were high on the MOT, apparently its running rich at around 2000rpm but okay at idle?

so I wanted to have a look at some of the sensors to see if they were dirty and also to inspect the spark plugs to see their condition so started removing everything to get to it.

Spark plugs looked fairly new, along with the air filter.

Started to wire in my dash cam

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I took a feed from the cigarette socket as it comes on with ignition.

Previous owner liked chocolate apparently.

I then fed the wire up along the B pillar

All in!

Need to sort the interior out and just ordered £40's worth of car detailing stuff including some more clay, iron and tar remover, wash and some pads and applicators so should be cleaning her up sometime next week inbetween graduate job interviews!!

Thanks for reading so far

Toxicvrs · 21 June, 2014

The 3m headlight kit has worked wonders on mine although it did take two passes per head lamp!

Are you on any of the Clio forums?

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faboka vrs · 21 June, 2014

Need to sort our headlights too :(

How's your steering wheel? Ours needs a refurb.

Toxicvrs · 21 June, 2014

Need to sort our headlights too :(

How's your steering wheel? Ours needs a refurb.

Has yours bubbled and got a distorted texture?

Dann2707 · 21 June, 2014

The 3m headlight kit has worked wonders on mine although it did take two passes per head lamp!

Are you on any of the Clio forums?

It's so expensive though, I thought just some wet and dry with some deep cutting compound might clear it up but i'd rather do it properly.

I'm on Cliosport but that's about it mate.

Need to sort our headlights too :(

How's your steering wheel? Ours needs a refurb.

My left thumb grip is perfect but the other looks like its been attacked by a hungry antelope :(

Toxicvrs · 22 June, 2014

Ahh nice one I joined but barely use it anymore to be honest!

Dann2707 · 25 June, 2014

It's nice to have another project to play with.

The other day I removed the seats to clean under them. They weren't too bad but anyway...

The car has quite a lot of dust build up, a bit neglected from the previous owner.

Found a pound.

Peekaboo.

I then removed the acoustic valve for a little more noise at the top end

Then went for a drive and took a few snaps. Photography isn't really my thing... haha

More interior cleaning, look at that dirty knob

Need to clean these seatbelts properly, any ideas what will remove the crud?

Then all done and took some more snaps in the drive. Came out really well. I'm giving it a proper exterior detail tomorrow, just got some new goodies in

Dann2707 · 27 June, 2014

Rinsed the car down initially.

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Then put the belts in washing powder.

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And washed the car with Chem guys glossworks

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Fitted a new number plate bulb, LED SMD!

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More random pics

Car was clayed with Bilt hamber medium, glazed with Prima amigo and waxed with Collinite #915

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It then rained today so I took some beading pics

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Here are the seatbelts, came up so well!!

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Edited 27 June, 2014 by Dann2707

Dann2707 · 28 June, 2014

Today when it stopped raining I tackled the horribly faded and green headlights. I was going to buy a headlight restoration kit but thought i'd try something else after a few searches.

Started with wet and dry 1200, then 2000 then finally 2500 until the green had gone. Then machine polished them on the slowest setting with megs #105 until they started getting clearer. Then glazed with prima amigo and put two layers of Collinite #915

Really happy with the results, they're not absolutely brand new perfect as I didn't want to overdue the machine polishing with it being plastic and me being a total noob with a machine polisher.

This is before. well foggy at mainly the top of the lens:

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Can barely see the orange indicator.

Then afterwards.

Still a little hazy so went over it again.

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And from the front before and after

Before.

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After.

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ChrisRs · 28 June, 2014

A great bit of work and a great write up

Thanks

Dark_Hero · 29 June, 2014

Great progress excellent job on the headlights. I've always liked these clios. How does it handle?

Dann2707 · 29 June, 2014

Great progress excellent job on the headlights. I've always liked these clios. How does it handle?

Thanks man.

Coming from the seat ibiza mk4, it's on another level. You can just throw it into the corners and it takes it with ease, the steering is so responsive and you feel like you're a part of the car.

It just makes me want to take the long way round to places all the time as it's so fun. Still trying to get used to the power band being at the top of the rev range though. Been driving it like a diesel haha

Dann2707 · 2 July, 2014

Tiny update, although hopefully if the postman is nice he'll deliver something today

Sprayed my upper grill black as before it looked like this - A kind of off grey which didn't match the fog surround or lower grill as shown.

Dann2707 · 2 July, 2014

Here's a slightly more interesting update. New number plates and lambda sensor

Starting with the old. Was awful to look at and had rusty screws etc.

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YUM

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Removed and cleaned behind it.

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And all on. I managed to accidentally stick it on prematurely and it's a little too much to the left :( Couldn't remove it easily too. Can you notice or is it just me being a bit anal?

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Then on to the front one. Opted for a smaller plate as the standard one hangs over the edge and looks a bit crap.

Before

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After. Nicely fills the recess

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I then went on to fitting the lambda sensor. Opted for a universal one, genuine bosch though. Was only £17!! Nice. Seems really decent quality. So removed my old one.

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And crimped them together. Not really a fan of soldering as it gets brittle and cracks easily.

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I did then tape them up nice and neatly afterwards

Okay so I plugged the lambda sensor in and fired up the Torque app on my phone to monitor the voltage levels. This was the old one.

Notice how the volts drop straight to zero on it's down cycle. This is baaaaaaad and should apparently read 0.1v for a working sensor. (should be between 0.1v - 0.8v)

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Now this is after the new one is fitted. Now notice the graph reads a tasty 0.1v!

Yet to go for a spin to try it but seems to idle a lot lot better now.

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faboka vrs · 2 July, 2014

That's a cheap 02 sensor. Did you not think about switching it with the post cat sensor as it's not used.

Dann2707 · 2 July, 2014

I already did mate, and that was dying too haha. Read a TINY bit over 0 volts but nowhere near 0.1.

Dann2707 · 4 July, 2014

I did take quite a few before and after pictures but they sadly got deleted from my camera. But i've done a few little niggly things that needed sorting.

First of all I wet sanded the rear number plate light as it was, like the headlights, all dull and faded. This is the best before pic I can get after them deleting...

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And afterwards!

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Then fitted a brighter boot light as the one in there was shocking. Luckily had a few lying around.

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This one fit nice and snug though (sort of)

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Ridiculously bright too!

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I then thoroughly cleaned the door and boot shuts as they were a little minging. Put down a layer of wax too just to be sure and make cleaning in the future easier.

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Then took a pic at night with the numberplate light after it being polished and waxed. The camera makes it look stupidly glaringly bright but it's not in real life

Then finally I took some pics today in my Dad's work car park.

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faboka vrs · 4 July, 2014

Never thought about sanding the number plate light. Hmm must try that.

You need the cup front splitter (bloody expensive) and the cup rear spoiler or even better v6 rear spoiler. Refurb the wheels gunmetal grey and fit some cup springs (dampers won't fit)