1987 Renault 5 TC RIO: Progress of Renee the Renault 5

Nice wee car, can't beat a french hatch.
But then I am slightly biased

Hello,

and congratulations with your new car. I always liked the R5.
Great little cars.Yours looks in great condition and I hope you will
have lots of fun with it.
However I am not sure of the name....

Have a great day

Renee (yes, that's my name)

I thought I recognised the person driving the car from the Volvo forum !
One of my previous toys was a red Campus. I've put pictures on here before somewhere. I fitted an extra van rear beam and made it rather low. I've got a proper workshop manual for them on disc. I will try and sort out a copy.

A renault thread with a picture of my car towards the bottom.
retrorides.proboards.com/thread/151681/1989-renult-5-gt-turbo

Been making some more progress with Renee. Mainly body work, carrying on with the paint restoration to try get him back to his former shiny red self.


Ste had previously tried to buff the car but found that it was juat shining up the "dead" orangey paint, rather than cutting through it properly to the colour it was supposed to be. We decided to just wet flat the whole car to remove the dead paint then buff back up. The whole process took one whole weekend. 1200 grit wet flatted first, then trizact 3000 discs and then G3 followed by super resin polish.



You can see the dead orangey paint coming off to reveal the red underneath:




Starting to look the part now



I decided I wanted to add a sporty red stripe to the recess in the bumpers and side cladding




Ste repainted the sun faded scratched parcel shelf as that was the worst of the interior plastics, but it seems to have come out well so the plan is to strip out the door cards etc and do those at a later stage. I'm also thinking of putting in a turbo style red carpet so we might do that all as one job on the interior.



Ste found some rust in the battery tray which needed sorting before it started weakening the pedal box mountings, so it was all properly cut out and a new piece of metal let in (I swear he takes more pride in this car than his own ) Unfortunately no pic of the finished item as it came dark but you can see where its been cut out





Refurbished the badge (all the silver had worn off)



Replaced the rusty headlight



And last but not least, degreased, cleaned, and WD40d the engine bay 




Plans over the next month or so are 4 new tyres, and an alignment, a new radio and I might get a different colour matched grille with the offset renault badge 

Looking great Jess.

Now hurry up and pass your test, so you can collect me from the pub in Rennee

Nice, I've a R5 too, although I swapped the grilles the other way round from a newer red one to the older grey one! I'll have to get some pictures up.

Oh and a quick question, what wheels are they? Looking for some new ones to replace my steelies.

Monaco alloys. I've been told they're rare. I was lucky in that they came with the car. But i'm wanting something new for summer and keeping these as winter wheels.

Done in a jazzy grey and diamond cut colour scheme 'cos your boyf is an amazing wheel refurb technician....

Very nice find.