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Renault 11 TL - la boîte à merde rouge


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Well bought.

I'd love an 11, pre facelift though.

My folks had a Broadway edition in metallic beige with beige interior, that would be the holy grail for me - it's the first family car I really have many memories of (had and R14 and BMW 2002tii prior to that but I was too young to remember much).

I still have the Haynes manual and original dealer front number plate.

1 on the road and 9 on SORN according to howmanyleft so there's a small chance I might find one one day.

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Liking the love for this one so here's progress report #1

This was all mainly done over the last weekend in October and early November

As the interior was so grubby I decided to give that a clean up first, here are some images to show what I was up against;

Some filth...

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That seatbelt, that grime...

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The debris...

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So it all came out and much to my joy it revealed a lovely solid floor

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Oh, I forgot to mention I caught the 'rona picking it up - 4 days after my trip down sowf I tested positive. The upside of this was I had to isolate which meant I locked myself away in the conservatory and took most of the interior in there with me along with lots of cleaning products. After some scrubbing and refitting it started to look a lot better...

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I jet washed the carpet, came up much better than expected. The rest was tackled with a cocktail of random cleaning products until it was as clean as I could get it. Really please with most of it other than some of the tan coloured panels, these are very fragile so had to go carefully.

That's it for update #1, watch this space

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22 minutes ago, Tartan58 said:

Shit - now look what you've made me do...

https://www.theparking-cars.co.uk/used-cars-detail/renault-11/renault-11-1-4l-68cv/ZC8988F4.html

Rubbish photo and no information but I could easily live with that price and Normandie to Edinburgh isn't too far is it?

Nice, go for it and pick me up some parts whilst your over there 😉

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Ace purchase! To be fair these weren’t too thick on the ground back when the PO bought it, most Renner 11s didn’t live anything like as long as their fifteenth birthdays (in the U.K. at least) so this must have been in pretty decent nick at that point. 

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That looks great. Good colour, and pretty rust free by the looks of it. 

It also looks like TL was very base spec by this point -  with the minimal door trims,  all the blanking plates instead of buttons etc. I assume TLs were the bottom of the range by ‘87? In the 1970s TLs seemed to be mid-range for Renault. 

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47 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I think the TC was the base spec on that year.  That had no rear wiper, a 4-speed 'box and the 1237cc engine off of the R12 (albeit turned through 90°).

I don't generally associate with TC owners, what with me having a rear wiper, 5 speed box and a 1.4 engine 

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