Clio Clio dci bargain daily driver

[andybond]

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.

The prices are coming down but as soon as you get anything slightly spicy it shoots right back up.

 

[Turbell]

Clocking on 2500 when my Lad got quote for Camprust when he was seventeen, he's just gone eighteen, and had about fifteen lessons, theory is passed.
I thought perhaps lack of safety shizzle on 5 may make it expensive to insure...perhaps I'm wrong?
Trip looks great, can't beat a dirty diesel for Eurotrips, sometimes it's not what you drive , but where you've been

 

[Brigsy]

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

Had an epic time mate, roll on the next one

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

Dci is high insurance for what it is for some reason, but still any car is always fecking dear for first ins sadly !

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

Weather not great this time of the year so did not plan on any laps, and any of the other cars would be 3x the fuel so seemed the sensible choice (did i really just turn sensible!). Had epic fun in it, would defo take it again though.

epic little car man

Cheers mate, its been far better car than i ever expected it to be, and still looks clean. Prob get a few more years out of it at this rate !

 

[Ricardo]

As per text I'll have to bring up the latest Clio RS Line when they let me have it for 48hrs

 

[DaveL485]

(did i really just turn sensible!)

OK so someone has kidnapped the real Brigsy and replaced him with an ecowarrior to subvert our small but not-so-eco-friendly little club

 

[Ricardo]

Going through the box of brochures I have and look what I found published July 2003 so it's a year before yours which I assume is when I first came out. Looks like the decals are different?

 

[Brigsy]

Epic @Ricardo i believe the model in the brochure is Extreme 2, and mine is the Extreme 3 (extremely povo spec)

Im interested in the brochure if its going for sale

 

[Ricardo]

Epic @Ricardo i believe the model in the brochure is Extreme 2, and mine is the Extreme 3 (extremely povo spec)

Im interested in the brochure if its going for sale

I can send it along with the Extra Van brochure

 

[Haz]

Good thread, just tweaking and keeping it how it should be. Nice colour, wheels set it off nice and I'm into the barcode decals too. Seatbelts would look nicer in black though?
Great little run about!

 

[Brigsy]

I can send it along with the Extra Van brochure

Spot on cheers mate be good to have it in the collection, man cave needs a good tidy out and some additions on the wall

Good thread, just tweaking and keeping it how it should be. Nice colour, wheels set it off nice and I'm into the barcode decals too. Seatbelts would look nicer in black though?
Great little run about!

Cheers mate, agreed about the seatbelts, nightmare to keep them clean. My other blue diesel has black belts, could change them for a set. Orange seatbelts to match the paint would prob look alright like the inferno ph1 meg 225’s had, but not spending the dollar on them lol.

Once ive sorted all the other cars, might go full monty and upgrade the wiring to auto lights and air con, whack some dci 80/100 bits on for a little bit more power, but retaining good economy. Also 1.9 conversion with ndo box is tempting too, but quite a big job.

 

[Brigsy]

Long time no update!!

Still running well and passed last couple of mots without any real drama. Give it a good clean up yesterday, Its been neglected a bit in the cleaning department recently, been used for tip runs and allsorts so was looking a bit sad.

Headlamps needed a polish as had went yellow, good 2 bucket wash, coat of oldskool collinite 476s wax, AG trim gel and cleaned the glass.






Still looks mega when cleaned up, especially for 157'000 miles and £80 purchase price several years ago. Brilliant little runabout.

Thanks for reading!!

 

[andybond]

I have one of these on my shortlist for a runabout.

 

[DaveL485]

Its a great colour. Funky little car, especially funny when the Teeside version of the Terminator unfolds from behind the wheel

 

[Big Steve - Raider]

Hey Jon, any updates on this?

 

[Brigsy]

Hey Jon, any updates on this?

Must have read my mind as i have been underneath it today giving it a pre mot check as its expired today. It all looks OK so going to book it in for test next week.

Apart from that, it just plods on without any real hassle, not had to lay a spanner on it this year.

A few pics in no particular order from the last year or so. Had the wheels refurbed last xmas.
Needs service and cambelt after mot and polish headlamps up.

Have loads of upgrades planned. I have 182 widetrack for the front and a few other bits but not had chance. Maybe this year, we will see.

 

[Brigsy]

Went straight through its mot. Drivers side caliper a little sticky so need to look at that, but apart from that business as usual

 

[Brigsy]

Updates.

Half day fixing a few issues on the dci's today.

Orange dci had a sticky caliper on drivers side. I resucitated this caliper a few years back when it was sticking after 2020 covid layup, but it was pretty tight this time and mega rusty so opted for a new one. £35 for febi bilstein, parts are still mega cheap if you shop round.

All went smoothly. Had to undo the flexi pipe at the join as it was slightly twisted when attatched to new caliper. Renewed the clip that holds the flexi to the bracket as pretty rotten, and as old paint had fell off slapped some bilt hamber hydrate 80 on a quick top coat of chassis black. Pressure bled all 4 corners with typ200.

Tools all over.



Shiney.



Quick coat of black to match passenger side.



Passenger caliper was a little sticky but not bad, probably acceptable for most people. Its easy to fix them when slightly sticky though and with 65hp a bit of resistance kills the economy and little power it has.

Popped piston out as far as i dared and peeled rubber back. This revealed slight surface rust on the piston, which simply needs a drop of wd40 and a bit of 1500 wet and dry to polish. Cleaned it up, red rubber grease and worked it in and out and moves great. Brake pedal feels great, happy little clio again.

Onto Blue clio next.

Doing a few miles again and rear drums needed adjusting as the brake pedal was a bit long, and handbrake was crap. This was quite annoying in Sheffield the other day as its all hills. I must have done this 10x on this over the last few years, the self adjuster mech is crap and does not take the slack up. Theres nothing wrong with it, all renault drum brakes are the same and require regular maintenance.

15min job to do anyway. As usual set adjuster as tight as poss so drums go on tight ish. Loads of brake dust as usual so cleaned that up.

Shoes a little low but not worn out.



Very dusty as usual.



Rear shoes are about 50% worn. Ill stick a new set in next time. Rear cylinders seem ok, and brake pedal and handbrake travel restored.

Next job was time clock bulbs. One bulb popped about a year ago and the remaining one popped Friday. I have tons of bulbs in stock so easy fix.

Dash top off.



Testing before refitting dash top.



Working again.



Also wired in a hardwire kit for my dash cam whilst in the area. No pics of that as was up against the light at this point. All back together and boxed off.

Not a bad shift for 12pm-40pm.

 

[Brigsy]

Orange dci was well overdue a cambelt and aux kit. 8 years since last one so dropped into the 24-25 cyclical maintenance program as urgent job.

I ordered the parts January last year from autodoc but failed to fit them. Gates cambelt kit including water pump, febi aux belt (no tensioner as manual), febi crank pulley, elring cam/crank seals & elring oil pump gasket. Was not expensive from memory around £140.

Goodies.



Got to business. I knew it needed a bit of work and had a nice trail of oil down the sump.from cambelt area. Covers off and noted cam seal leaking quite bad.

Belt getting there, aux belt was cracked too.



Chinese seal kit ftw.

Makes fitting easy.



Refit cam pulley and torque to spec, moving onto crank area. Cleaned off surrounding area around oil pump cover as gasket is leaking and crank seal is also leaking. Remove oil pump cover and a load of s**t falls into the sump from behind the plate (Of course it fcucking does making job longer now sump needs to come off to clean).

Anyway crack on and all sump etorx bolts fly out which is good, unlike previous sump job on the r26.

Gasket offered up.



Cleaned up and gasket fitted, new water pump fitted.



Oil pump cover fitted and torqued - ptfe seal fitted dry and left to 'set' as per instructions.



Had to order a sump gasket so left it a few days with sump temp fitted. Gasket arrived, and today was the day to fully remove the sump. Dropped drivers side of subframe down and got it out, bit of a ballache on these to be fair. Sump gasket was leaking a little so not wasted job though.

Was quite a bit of s**t and sludge in sump to be expected at 160k. Baffle is fixed in place with some one use fixings so got a full can of brake cleaner and high pressure rinse.

Clean.



That takes a little time to refit but get it back on and subframe etc back in place. Onto the main job, cambelt fitting. These k9k are a doddle, even though its floating crank as its an old one. Simply pin crank and cam pulleys, set tensioner and fit crank pulley and torque, reset tensioner after 2 revolutions.

30 mins job, easy. Note diesel pump mark lined up with bolt as per workshop manual.



New crank pulley on and aux belt fitted.



Aux tensioner is a bit of a carry on to set as cant get a lever on the tensioner. I made a tool up to pull the tensioner years ago to replicate the oem ren tool, stuck that on and had it set it 2 mins.

 

[Brigsy]

Next job was radiator replacement whilst coolant was out. Rad had seen better days and damp in a few places/smelling of coolant after last use. Pull old rad out, bolts snap on top mounting brackets as expected, however was not expecting the oem spring type hose clips snap due to rust! Basically no tension at all, suprised not popped a hose off.

Not the best






Nrf radiator was £35 new so was worth doing as coolant is a fortune now so nice to keep it all in. Changed all the hose clips as all on last legs, some had lost spring and generally rotten.

Neww



Brackets i refurbed ages ago.



Changed air filter and diesel filter. Filled it up with fresh type d, elf sxr900 5/40 oil.

Dirty d



Airfilter seen better days.



Hit the switch and it fires right up. Same old chuggy diesel from cold..been the same forever. No chirping aux belt from cold so improvements.

Appears to be leak free, just a few daft bits to refit and done. Should be good for a few miles again and most importantly reliable. The mrs might be doing a bit of commuting for work so wont be sat about as much.

 

[Brigsy]

Sunday update.

Orange dci back together and done a few miles in it, all seems fine no issues so job jobbed.

Blue clio needed some tlc next. Brakes have been making an annoying ticking due to rust and discs were worn on inside quite bad with pads down to 30%. I was given a new set of discs and pads ages ago for free, discs had surface rust on from sitting but unworn. I dumped the discs in a weak citric acid mix which cleaned the rust off fast and washed them down/give the centres a blast in silver to keep the flash rust off.

Assume position

Clean it well

Done ish


Daft 45 mins. Lower passenger slider was seized so spun it out with the impact and wire brushed it clean and regreased. Always sesms to be this one that gives issues for some reason!?

Took it out for test run discs cleaned up in no time and all good again.

Thanks for reading!!