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Megane Artic blue 225
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Brigsy
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I bet the originals are made of unobtanium. This had dynamique ones in when we bought it iirc, light grey and bizarrely moulded/covered the footrest. Get some pics of yours next time your in it so can have a look. We also have an almost mint set of r26 mats here with silver trim and silver renaultsport badge out of that red r26 i broke.Mats are too new
Ph1 225 mats where plain. If it had the āorangeā pack the mats would of had orange stitching and if not, black
Brigsy
Media Mogul. Instagram legend.
Updates.
225 has barely moved for last few years sadly. Its been for mot every year and i done a big service on it in 2023 changing oil, filter, gear oil, brake fluid etc with plans to use it, but done around 100ish miles
Sitting around not doing any favours sadly and when took for mot last year it was not running as good as it should and misfiring a bit when boost built. Extremely old fuel was not helping, i stuck some fresh fuel in but just added to the issue as its sat since last october with a half a tank of basically crap fuel with newest being 9 month old.
As long term sitting around is not doing it any favours, but not to the point of needing loads of work i had made a promise to get the little niggles sorted, serviced and back on the road. It had been turfed out the garage temporarily whilst the trophy was being worked on and given a clean up.
Cleaned up and needing small jobs doing.
The drivers side front tyre kept losing air and needed resealing on the bead. As off work whipped wheel off and took it in the extra to get sorted whilst disposing of other accumulated rubbish (70ltrs of waste oil)
Speedline turini amongst fuck loads of used oil
My mate popped the bead off the tyre to reseal. This highlighted the pilotsport 4 that were fitted had gone hard as fcuk with age (2018 datestamp) and were well past their best even though loads of tread.
Michelin usually easy to get off but yeah its just folded.
With it being quiet and early afternoon, the decision was made to fit a new set of michelin ps5 on all corners. My mate ordered a new set in from the warehouse and fitted one to the wheel, said go home and tax the car and bring it over and can fit the rest and use lift to service it whilst there. Sounded like a good idea to me and a bit of a push to get it sorted after limited use for last few years.
New PS5
Went home and fitted the wheel and taxed. This was a bit risky as half a tank of 1- 2 year old mixed fuel in and apart from a quick start up to move out of the garage its not been driven since last mot. It starts and runs fine, but on last run out to mot station it was misfiring its tits off on boost which had not been looked at. Risk it as servicing anyway keeping it off boost.
Had all the service items in stock so filled the Extra with essential bits and set off. Shez was following me and 3 miles from the house on the dual carriageway she's flashing me to stop. Pull in a layby and she says its misfiring like fcuk as soon as a little bit of boost builds. We swap vehicles and i drive it off boost for the next 6 miles to the garage and it clears its throat after 70mph cruising - i assumed the plugs were fouled a little from short runs.
Straight in the tyre bay. Other 3 wheels off
Dropped oil out whilst hot and noted the oil is super clean as it had only done around 100 miles since changing, but absolutely stinks of fuel. I rarely start the cars up without driving but this has had a bit of time idling/moving in and out of the garage over last couple of years so needed changing badly.
If you have a car in long term storage then dont run it up to temp unless driving as not good.
Action shot changing oil.
Filled up with Valvoline synthpower 5/40 and purflux filter.
With that done i moved onto the spark plugs. I changed the plugs in this when we first got it, 13 years ago!! The car had 46k on the clock, and it is now on 70,700. Thats loads of trackdays, mapped for all of that time.
As soon as i took number 4 out i noted that you could walk through the plug gap and you could see where the base was fouled.
Cyl 4,3,2,1.
As you can see they were totally finished. I stuck a set of Ngk Bcr8es that i run in all of my meg engines gapped to 0.6mm.
Done.
A rare pic of the Extra and 225 out away from home.
Its running great with new plugs in and new ps5 are loads better than the ps4 which were quite noisy on the way to the garage.
225 has barely moved for last few years sadly. Its been for mot every year and i done a big service on it in 2023 changing oil, filter, gear oil, brake fluid etc with plans to use it, but done around 100ish miles
Sitting around not doing any favours sadly and when took for mot last year it was not running as good as it should and misfiring a bit when boost built. Extremely old fuel was not helping, i stuck some fresh fuel in but just added to the issue as its sat since last october with a half a tank of basically crap fuel with newest being 9 month old.
As long term sitting around is not doing it any favours, but not to the point of needing loads of work i had made a promise to get the little niggles sorted, serviced and back on the road. It had been turfed out the garage temporarily whilst the trophy was being worked on and given a clean up.
Cleaned up and needing small jobs doing.
The drivers side front tyre kept losing air and needed resealing on the bead. As off work whipped wheel off and took it in the extra to get sorted whilst disposing of other accumulated rubbish (70ltrs of waste oil
)Speedline turini amongst fuck loads of used oil
My mate popped the bead off the tyre to reseal. This highlighted the pilotsport 4 that were fitted had gone hard as fcuk with age (2018 datestamp) and were well past their best even though loads of tread.
Michelin usually easy to get off but yeah its just folded.
With it being quiet and early afternoon, the decision was made to fit a new set of michelin ps5 on all corners. My mate ordered a new set in from the warehouse and fitted one to the wheel, said go home and tax the car and bring it over and can fit the rest and use lift to service it whilst there. Sounded like a good idea to me and a bit of a push to get it sorted after limited use for last few years.
New PS5
Went home and fitted the wheel and taxed. This was a bit risky as half a tank of 1- 2 year old mixed fuel in and apart from a quick start up to move out of the garage its not been driven since last mot. It starts and runs fine, but on last run out to mot station it was misfiring its tits off on boost which had not been looked at. Risk it as servicing anyway keeping it off boost.
Had all the service items in stock so filled the Extra with essential bits and set off. Shez was following me and 3 miles from the house on the dual carriageway she's flashing me to stop. Pull in a layby and she says its misfiring like fcuk as soon as a little bit of boost builds. We swap vehicles and i drive it off boost for the next 6 miles to the garage and it clears its throat after 70mph cruising - i assumed the plugs were fouled a little from short runs.
Straight in the tyre bay. Other 3 wheels off
Dropped oil out whilst hot and noted the oil is super clean as it had only done around 100 miles since changing, but absolutely stinks of fuel. I rarely start the cars up without driving but this has had a bit of time idling/moving in and out of the garage over last couple of years so needed changing badly.
If you have a car in long term storage then dont run it up to temp unless driving as not good.
Action shot changing oil.
Filled up with Valvoline synthpower 5/40 and purflux filter.
With that done i moved onto the spark plugs. I changed the plugs in this when we first got it, 13 years ago!! The car had 46k on the clock, and it is now on 70,700. Thats loads of trackdays, mapped for all of that time.
As soon as i took number 4 out i noted that you could walk through the plug gap and you could see where the base was fouled.
Cyl 4,3,2,1.
As you can see they were totally finished. I stuck a set of Ngk Bcr8es that i run in all of my meg engines gapped to 0.6mm.
Done.
A rare pic of the Extra and 225 out away from home.
Its running great with new plugs in and new ps5 are loads better than the ps4 which were quite noisy on the way to the garage.
Brigsy
Media Mogul. Instagram legend.
Changed pollen filter too.
Discusting as expected.
With the tyres, oil and plugs done took the extra home and took it out for a drive round locally, steady away to use this old fuel up. No more misfiring or nothing and done approx 50 miles. Mpg has gone up into the 30s with new plugs so its taking a while to use the fuel, its still got 1/4 of a tank in.
Overall it drives great as all suspension was renewed 4 years ago, and a couple of years ago i done brakes, fluid, gear oil etc.
Still love this 13 years on.
Small list of things to do.
Ac needs a regas - compressor is kicking in but gas is low.
Change aux belt. Aux belt looks fine as done hardly no miles since change approx 2k at best but will stick one on. Its due a cambelt on age this year, will do that at xmas and renew aux kit at same time.
Fresh fuel and datalog with rstuner and afr gauge. I dont think there is any issues but it doesnt hurt to health check it.
So bit of progress made and back legal again.
Thanks for reading!!
Discusting as expected.
With the tyres, oil and plugs done took the extra home and took it out for a drive round locally, steady away to use this old fuel up. No more misfiring or nothing and done approx 50 miles. Mpg has gone up into the 30s with new plugs so its taking a while to use the fuel, its still got 1/4 of a tank in.
Overall it drives great as all suspension was renewed 4 years ago, and a couple of years ago i done brakes, fluid, gear oil etc.
Still love this 13 years on.
Small list of things to do.
Ac needs a regas - compressor is kicking in but gas is low.
Change aux belt. Aux belt looks fine as done hardly no miles since change approx 2k at best but will stick one on. Its due a cambelt on age this year, will do that at xmas and renew aux kit at same time.
Fresh fuel and datalog with rstuner and afr gauge. I dont think there is any issues but it doesnt hurt to health check it.
So bit of progress made and back legal again.
Thanks for reading!!
Brigsy
Media Mogul. Instagram legend.
Updates.
Great weather on Saturday so got 225 out to rinse the rest of the old fuel off as still had quarter of a tank in.
Big fish riding up front.
This took ages with normal driving which was giving suprisingly good mpg's for once in the low 30s. Finally got it to reserve and filled up with fresh 99. Found receipts for old fuel in glovebox.
7/23 & 10/24 fill resulted in half a tank of shite fuel this year. Todays fuel was cheaper than last 2 years
It wasnt running bad with the old fuel in at low rpm but could tell it was running better with fresh fuel in, idling better etc. With fresh fuel give it a couple of pulls in lower gears, no misfires, its still fast with 308hp/300ft/lb. The map is great, its smooth and lays the power down well.
Torque aside, id say it currently pulls better than our meg 250, feels stronger up top. It would be interesting to have race between them as is.
Old blue still got it
Great to have it back out, love driving it.
Thanks for reading!!
Great weather on Saturday so got 225 out to rinse the rest of the old fuel off as still had quarter of a tank in.
Big fish riding up front.
This took ages with normal driving which was giving suprisingly good mpg's for once in the low 30s. Finally got it to reserve and filled up with fresh 99. Found receipts for old fuel in glovebox.
7/23 & 10/24 fill resulted in half a tank of shite fuel this year. Todays fuel was cheaper than last 2 years
It wasnt running bad with the old fuel in at low rpm but could tell it was running better with fresh fuel in, idling better etc. With fresh fuel give it a couple of pulls in lower gears, no misfires, its still fast with 308hp/300ft/lb. The map is great, its smooth and lays the power down well.
Torque aside, id say it currently pulls better than our meg 250, feels stronger up top. It would be interesting to have race between them as is.
Old blue still got it
Great to have it back out, love driving it.
Thanks for reading!!
