🚨L1's♦️ shenanigans 🍷🚨 All Renault fleet, mostly moderns.

[loserone]

Aye, I am going to pull it out in daylight tomorrow.

[Sunny Jim]

How will that help?

Oh, you're referring the pollen filter. As you were. 

[loserone]

Pollen filter swapped out, better but still damp.

Judging by the mud up the sides it's an ok rally car.

Quite irresponsible 

[loserone]

[chaseracer]

@320touring, is this one of the West Mids-sourced cars?  I lose track... 😉

[loserone]

I don't think so, it's one Clio Stu at Renomotive bought as a breaker but turned out to be better than expected.  Last owner 14 years.

[320touring]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

@320touring, is this one of the West Mids-sourced cars?  I lose track... 😉

As @loserone says, it came from a pedigree hame.

 

the Dudley fleet are scattered to the 4 corners of the earth

[loserone]

Just now, 320touring said:

pedigree hame.

The kind to put a driveway mot on, aye

[sporty-shite]

On 2/26/2023 at 5:01 PM, 320touring said:

As @loserone says, it came from a pedigree hame.

 

the Dudley fleet are scattered to the 4 corners of the earth

I'm sure @320touring is on commission from Clio Stu!

 

Wasn't the first one I had (VUL) sourced from the Midlands somewhere?

[loserone]

Visibility has been an issue since I got the Clio.  It's shit.

Now slightly* better.  

 

Best £75 I've spent in a while.

[320touring]

Smashing

Hopefully not...

 

 

 

[wuvvum]

I'm impressed you manage to fit three child seats in the back of a Mk2 Clio.

[320touring]

19 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I'm impressed you manage to fit three child seats in the back of a Mk2 Clio.

It's a duster sprots m9

[loserone]

On 07/03/2023 at 18:52, 320touring said:

It's a duster sprots m9

We'll see about that in the morning

 

[loserone]

I did a shit job of pictures in the usual spot at Killhope Cross, and overtook a golf like it was standing still on the way home.

[loserone]

OMGSNOCHAOS

[tonedepear]

Renaults in the snow you say?

[loserone]

School run completed

Seems like a perfect all rounder really 

[loserone]

Three tanks down, I only did short sprints on the last one and still managed 30 mpg.

I got a new rubber grip for the steering wheel.  It was cheap thankfully as it felt like it was slightly degraded as I took it out of the packet.

Had it up on the lift and slightly concerned that if the car is airborne there's literally nothing stopping the rear springs from falling out as they're so short.  Ive ordered some OEM springs and am going to try to get new shocks to freshen the back up a bit.  @320touring points out that the back wheels are just to hold the bumper off the ground, but I figure whilst the bumper is off the ground it would be good if it could stay that high. 

Otherwise I have found a screw in one of the good tyres

 

Plan is to get two new tyres for the back, that screw pulled and plugged, all four wheels balanced and the tracking done tomorrow morning.

[320touring]

@loserone it's great that you have gone from

 

"I'll never drive it as hard as Stu did"

To

"I need longer rear springs so they don't fall out whilst airborne "

#CLIOLYFE

[loserone]

Being airborne at 40 is a distinct possibility around here.  

 

You don't have to go fast to get high.

 

#quiteirresponsible

[320touring]

6 minutes ago, loserone said:

Being airborne at 40 is a distinct possibility around here.  

 

You don't have to go fast to get high.

 

#quiteirresponsible

"Make it go BRUMMM WEEEEE dad!"

 

[loserone]

Poorly staged rainbow picture 

[Sunny Jim]

Fixed* that for you with my fotoshop skilzzz.

[loserone]

The smollest gave me a hand with the van

Fixed!

 

[loserone]

Meanwhile the Clio got two new rainsports on the back, the screw removed and puncture fixed on the front, and a front wheel alignment yesterday.

 

Slight escapade as it's a 45 minute drive away, and once they had the old tyres off they realised they didn't have the new ones they'd ordered in.  At 930 on a Saturday.  

 

Despite this they managed to get it all done and ready for pick up at 12 when they finished.  Or I assume they did, I got there an hour later to pick it up.

 

It rides a little better now but mostly it's improved by not tramlining everywhere.

[loserone]

The lights seemed to be yellow on one side and blue on the other.  

 

I've pulled out both the sidelight bulbs and that seems to have been the difference.  Hopefully they will now dry out before I put new yellow bulbs back in both sides.

[loserone]

Bonus headlight pic

[loserone]

Genuine new rear shocks and OEM spec springs arrived last week, so tonight @Jimbob McGregor very kindly fitted them for me.  

It's sitting a little higher but the ride is comparatively superb, I can't believe how much better it is to drive.  The old shocks were fucked.

Took it home via lying on the road for some four minute exposure shots.

[DSdriver]

Lying in the road is not advised where I live for any amount of time but you live in the country that God designed with the idea of buying shares in Kodak. His mother thought this investment was unwise and so it proved to be. 😑