"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian)
02/22/2019 at 15:20 • Filed to: merci twingo, twingo
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"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian)
02/22/2019 at 15:20 • Filed to: merci twingo, twingo | 11
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Have the pics I promised. The wheels are now very gold indeed. Here are a few lists with the Twingo plans. All your advice and ideas are welcome, of course!
Long-term goals
Lower it
Get bigger and wider wheels. Maybe a tiny bit of stretch and poke.
JDM YO! plastic arches
Engine bay thorough clean and repaint
Add more speakers (currently has just 2 in the dash. A higher trim Twingo could have 2 more in the doors. I think I’ll add a sub, as well. If I can make it look tasteful) and replace the head unit. I need either bluetooth or an AUX or usb jack. This one has neither, just a CD player which skips on the tinyest (tiniest? Smallest.) of bumps.
huge mthrfcking cannon exhaust, IDGAF.
make it fast
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Cosmetic plans :
Engine bay bits and pieces to gold or back to clean black
Badges to gold. The cool front one black/gold
The plastic grey bumpers sprayed with a bedliner-type material, if I can find something cheap and similar. Any ideas Europpos for a cheap solution?
Yellow plastic wrap on the foglights. FDM, YO!
Find EITHER a smaller antenna, OR a huge one, like a 70s US cop car would have, all the way across the roof to the back. Gold, whichever one it is.
Lose the license plate plastic holder and do the stick-on method. Or find nicer holders
some more gold trim, not sure what, where and when
add !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! from the sport models
add front chin spoiler, or make my own using the garden rubber thing
custom metal mesh on the headlights. Like old Land Rovers had.
new steering wheel. a vintage Momo or Nardi. A fake one, obvs
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The badge is the old-school 80s Renault logo. I glued the pins from the new badge over to this one and popped it in. It’ll become gold, too, once I figure out a reliable way to paint the inner stripes back to black after the gold.
List of faults, to be fixed soon, in no order:
Missing rear shelf
Front right fog light
Right speaker blown out and dead
Left speaker kinda working, but crinkly
rust on the left rocker panel(?) - the piece of structural bodywork/frame in front of the rear wheel. It can be pretty cheaply replaced with a new one and is a common problem on Twingos
right door can’t be opened from the inside
worn out CO2 sensor (
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), which is currently making the car less fuel efficient.
worn out suspension bushings
needs a new oil pan. Previous owner welded the plug :/
license plate light dead
third brake light dead
interior light dead
turn signal indicator light dead
oh, the turn signals aren’t self canceling. Not sure if this is a Twingo default thing or jus
t broken. This problem has become annoying when driving
OTHER cars, because I’m now so used to canceling it myself
broken windshield washer fluid pump, or blocked pipes
broken electric left mirror
flaking rearview mirror
seatbelts retract super slowly
needs longer handbrake cable or tuning done to this one
fan on the front has bad bearings, it makes a terrifying sound when it turns on after some time in traffic
broken heater vent plastic
Stuff I’ve done to it since I got it last June:
new seat handles and pulls
fixed the trunk gas strut
repainted the 3 iconic vents a million times over. They were grey, black, french, black, and are now gold
refreshed the hubcaps while they were still on
repainted the steelies
added the missing rear wiper
changed air and fuel filter
loved it
and cared for it
sprayed some underbody rust with a coating which should help stop it spreading
new tires, both winter and summer
fixed handbrake
resprayed rust spots all over
changed rear right drum brake cylinder
new old
front badge
repainted and refreshed steelies and lug nuts
added blinker fluid
new floor mats
First to come, though, is a minor service. The fluids need to be changed, battery cleaned up or even replaced. Oh, and the gold logo on the bumper is to my friend and mine’s newly-opened graphic design practice. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! We’ll be cheap, remember the exchange rate ;D
More crappy phone pics inbound. I’ll make a proper photoshoot once I wash it.
dicey. I did the best I could when prepping the rusty wheels. I had a few friends over to help. We couldn’t be bothered to clean up ALL the rust bubbles from the outer rings, it was too much work.
Before
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do when you don’t have a breaker bar or a pipe wide enough...
The tow hooks got painted, too.
Blurry night shot.
Thanks for your support guys. Oppo means the world to me.
Better pics after the photoshoot.
AuthiCooper1300
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
02/22/2019 at 16:15 |
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Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
> AuthiCooper1300
02/22/2019 at 16:19 |
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Oui.
farscythe - makin da cawfee!
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
02/22/2019 at 16:41 |
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hmmm
bigger wider wheels
adding speakers and a sub
huge cannon exhaust
make it fast
you sir... are no colin chapman.
but hey you do you i dont mind the gold looks pretty good :)
Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
02/22/2019 at 16:41 |
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I am beginning to like the Twingo entirely too much. Such a happy little car.
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AuthiCooper1300
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
02/22/2019 at 16:52 |
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May I suggest a l o n g like t h e s e l i n es ? Although this one in particular is a bit “busy”:
Your car is looking lovely, by the way.
I only drove a Twingo once... some 20 years ago in a mad dash of 200 km and back (long story). I don’t recall the blinker not cancelling.
Old-style Citroëns - and Bentleys and Royces, IIRC, until surprisingly recently - did not have self-cancelling blinker stalks. The idea (at least for B & RR) was that the driver has to be aware of his/her environment at all times. And that includes knowing exactly whether he or she is using the blinkers.
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> AuthiCooper1300
02/22/2019 at 17:20 |
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Hahahha, that idea to the non-canceling blinkers just sounds like a last-minute excuse, doesn’t it? When looking for a car, I was also looking at Unos, oddly enough. I couldn’t find any in good enough shape which I had confidence in.
And I do like that JPS sticker, I might mock up something in the future...
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AuthiCooper1300
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
02/22/2019 at 17:38 |
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Well, I am now completely used to it and I don’t mind it at all.
Regarding the JPS theme: a mate of mine went to Brands, back in the day, and saw a Renault Fuego in full Team Lotus/JPS livery - probably a courtesy car for VIPs or whatever. He said it looked gorgeous. Unfortunately I have never seen any pictures.
A world of caution: the thing with stickers is not to overdo it. Maybe three max, at most, per car! Just choose wisely w h i c h o n e s a n d where you display them .
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