Clio Clio dci bargain daily driver

[DaveL485]

Local tip charge £45 for a permit to take a private van in up to 6x a year, sod paying that so loaded the clio up with old fence gear. Makes a good little vanView attachment 90286

I do this with my Clio too hahahaha sod paying the van rates when the little RS swallows up a shitload of stuff!

 

[Brigsy]

Dci has only done mostly short journeys on evenings for last few weeks and not used it for a week. Went to start it up today to find the battery was flat, enough power to open the doors and crack the ign on but not enough to crank. I thought it was starting to crank slow on startup so maybe the battery is about shot. Stuck it on charge so will see how that goes, drag a few more weeks out of it hopefully as skint after xmas. Anyway no update is complete without a pic so here it is sat on the drive looking nice and clean as give it a good clean up last week.

 

[Brigsy]

Small update

Battery seems to be holding out at the moment - seems a little bit slow cranking this week will see if the cold spell 'beast from the east" finishes it off.

The parada spec2 tyres were getting down on tread 4mm ish and a little worn on the inside/trackday wear so treated it to a part worn set of Michelin Pilot Sport3 in 195/50/15. I have seen tons of sets of these part worn for nothing on ebay - used as wets by some race series so a slight bit of pickup on them but 7mm of tread and 2016 date stamp - £100 of your finest sterling delivered to the door. Fitted and pickup worn off in a few road miles.

Great road tyre good dry/wet grip. Why have budget new when premium are available barely used.

Kangoo doing the honours

Fitted and quick winter wash


Also had a nice find at the weekend. U pull it had a dci 100 breaking so grabbed the intercooler and associated pipework for £20. Dci 100 is quite rare so hard to find. I would have took the injectors but sadly already gone. The plan is come good weather get it bolted up and see if i can get a map on to suit. Stock 80/100 map would be fine - a little bit more hp without dropping mpg. Will see whats about once fitted - prob need a clutch too as im sure its almost down to the rivets but no slipping yet !?



Last total £1549

Ps3 x4 £100
Dci100 intercooler £20

New total £1669 - to be continued

 

[andybond]

Core ( no pun intended ) thats a baby intercooler!

Is it just a case of wacking it in and job done ? All associated outlets for pipework is there already ?

 

[Brigsy]

Size wise its better than no intercooler its roughly 100mm high - 70mm or thicker core and full width of the rad. It looks like it will pretty much go straight on apart from fabrication of a couple of brackets to hold the intercooler in place. On the dci 100 the intercooler brackets are bolted to the rad and cant be arsed changing rad unless 100% necessary.

 

[Brigsy]

Still delivering the goods, 148k & 68 mpg all day every day. Thats 30'000 miles mostly trouble free out of an £80 car.

A little tickle with the DA earlier on this year



Turn your back for one second and they multiply



Tbc..

 

[andybond]

I have an irrational want for one of these.

 

[Chris Smith]

I have an irrational want for one of these.

Do it... you won’t regret it

 

[DaveL485]

I desperately want those wheels for my 9 Turbo.

 

[Brigsy]

I have an irrational want for one of these.

Great cars for the money. It owes me absolutely nothing

 

[Brigsy]

Epic road trip in the orange dci a couple of weekends ago

Day 1 Thursday

Started with brimming the tank with posh Vpower diesel in prep for the trip, range of 722 miles.


First stop in Kent for a nice airBnB we had booked right near the eurotunnel. s**t drive down in the rain, but nice place made up for it. Clocked up the big 150k on route


Day 2 Friday

Meet up with the lads 7:50 am tunnel

Steady drive through France and Belgium, weather was great, 9deg and sunny.

1st stop Bitburger museum, €9 euro for the tour which included 5 drinks from memory. Could only sample the alcohol free Bitburger as driving, but still well worth a visit

After the tour was done, continued onto the autobahns, first thing you do on the unrestricted is vmaxx. Just shy of 110mph downhill (103mph) and an Opel work van flashes me out of the way:LOL:

Check out 1bar of fuel remaining since Middlesbrough fill up.



Next stop Adenau, check into the hotel, then to the PistenKlaus for fillet steak on the stone

Then Strudel


Then Bitburger

Sign the PK ceiling (#Jongard) after my last trip resulting in a free lap of the Nordschliefe in the Bongard car:whistle:

 

[Brigsy]

Walked some of the Steak off









Walk back to the Pistenklaus for more Bitburgers as it was getting a bit chilly

Day 3 (Sat), wake up fresh "Bit(burger) in the evening, Fit in the morning" nice weather 8deg. Reverse rally was on so watched that, spotted a R5gte



Nurburgring castle





Quick blast over to the ticket booth, 9 mins until track closure, so paid my €30 euros and ran back to the car.

Garland Gforce meter working well



PK again on the evening (epic) More Bit

 

[Brigsy]

Day 4 Sunday, wake up to a fresh Adenau, first dusting of snow overnight, and hard frost -3deg at 9am. -3 cold start no bother at all.



Quick stop at the complex on the way back, Suns out but its mega cold, and track is closed due to ice.




Weather picks up through France to around 12deg mid day, suns out, make good progress, and wait to be loaded onto the euro. Return home approx 10pm.



Quick fluid check on Monday and all levels still on max. Pagid pads giving all the brake dust off:cautious:



1350 miles, 64.3mpg, 2 tanks of diesel £120 ish. Epic craic with great friends all weekend, really enjoyed it and the clio done the journey no problem at all.

151k on the clock on return & pretty f**king epic for an £80 car.

 

[Brigsy]

Well deserved clean for both dci's on the Monday. Roll on the next road trip !! Thanks for reading.

 

[Ricardo]

So much love for this cheeky little smoker, and brilliant spending time with you and Shez over the 3 days.

Bit in the evening, fit in the morning it's one crisp beer

 

[andybond]

I have looked at the DCi for my sons first car but the insurance is crazy for some reason.

 

[DaveL485]

An odd choice for the trip given the cars available but still, great little car haha

 

[DaveL485]

I have looked at the DCi for my sons first car but the insurance is crazy for some reason.

Twingo GT's seem pretty cheap mate.

 

[andybond]

Twingo GT's seem pretty cheap mate.

Its higher than the DCi for some reason.

 

[Adey]

epic little car man

@andybond i think all young drivers get but raped these days, saying that my first 1.1 r5 used to cost 1200ish third party when i first insured it all them years ago.