Who is Tucked up for Winter vs running daily?!

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Kind of tucked up!

Will be venturing up to the body shop on Saturday to get the sill repairs priced up as well as finding a correct Renault Sport badge for the boot as it’s been removed.

Then off to Diamond Motors to pull together a plan of work to get it back to a very good standard. Need to source a wheel arch liner if possible for that initial trip as one is missing.

Out of interest for those storing their trophies do any of you keep them in/on;

- Carcoons
- Tyre cushions
 

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I’ve just had a new Genuine Renault badge turn up today - bought it from Ebay for £15.95 as the packaging was opened - Bargain

Clio badge I’ve bought new for £36.50 again from Ebay for a genuine one.

However the only place I can find the Sport badge from is Kam Racing (£64.33 plus delivery)




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Perfect thankyou for that Nick, will speak with Sam at Larklands and give him the link.

Turns out he’s a massive fan of the Trophy 182 so looking forward to seeing it worked on.

Can highly recommend them if anyone needs a body shop, they do modern, classics, aluminium repairs, all paints. Think they have a Facebook page as well.
 

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Turns out it’s tucked up and leaking oil! Moved it up to the body shop and back and noticed a decent sized pool of oil, think it’ll sit on the naughty step until the 10th of Feb when I see Mick!
 

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Turns out it’s tucked up and leaking oil! Moved it up to the body shop and back and noticed a decent sized pool of oil, think it’ll sit on the naughty step until the 10th of Feb when I see Mick!
Are you sure it's oil? The favoured liquid of expulsion on my Trophy is PAS fluid, has a habit of chucking it out, particularly after a session of spirited driving.
 
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The tyres take the paint up off the floor if parked in the same spot for a period. Im not arsed about the paint coming off the floor but it takes a while to wear off the tread. Decent paint and prepped well too cant win.

I have exactly the same issue, especially when putting the Porker in there having returned from a spirited drive with warm Cup2 tyres. If I forget to put wood/tiles down I then end up pulling the paint and having to scrub the tyres a bit to remove the cr4p from the tread!
 

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I had my garage floor done with a fiber resin mix and that’s help up quite well so far.
 
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Daily driving, just about to hit 103,000 miles. That makes for 5k in four months since purchase

However, given the state of our potholed roads these days, I am giving serious thought to purchasing a practical small estate on small alloys with plenty of sidewall. Volvo V50 currently tops the list
 
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