In the future I'll be posting any new mods under this subject, but first a quick(?) recap of what's happened so far:
I first fitted a Pioneer DEH-P55BT headunit with an iPod adapter, but the steering wheel control adapter reacted too sluggish to my taste so swapped back to the original Tunerlist headunit. With the addition of the Renault Tunepoint that adds aux/usb/iPod connectivity. Here's the Tunepoint box fitted inside the glovebox:
The Tunerlist seems to have a very poor radio reception even with the standard long aerial, so I thought I'd finish off the misery with an even worse aerial. Who gives an F about the quality of reception as long as it looks good....
Right after buying the car I swapped the H7 halogen headlight bulbs for an aftermarket HID kit. They gave very good lighting but there was a lot of glare. So I decided to bite the bullet and fitted a complete OE factory system with proper xenon projector headlights, ballasts with automatic beam height control, axle height sensors, modified wiring loom, the lot!
From this mess....
...became a decent wiring loom after all!
Chrystal clear rear lights (original Renault/Valeo items) were added, together with an aftermarket LED clear 3. brake light:
Come spring 2008 and it was time for a height-adjustable H&R coilover kit:
Here the car is freshly lowered and on the original 17" Nervasport alloys:
Looked well nice already, but some proper oversize wheels were called for:
I find front foglights quite useless since we're not allowed to have them on unless it really is foggy (which it rarely is over here). So I binned the fogs and fitted some LED daytime running lights instead. They come on automatically when the car is started, as an added bonus having them on instead of the headlights' dipped beam saves the xenon bulbs at daytime. This mod required some fabricating, the foglight openings in the bumper had to be enlarged and adapter plates had to be made of 3mm aluminium:
I've also added some wheel spacers to bring out the wheels closer to the arches. Eight mils per side at front, 15mm per side at rear:
Also added some bling to the sides. There are polished stainless steel caps over the door handles and the lower side window rubber mouldings. Not to have too much clutter on the sides, however, the original white side repeaters were replaced with smoked ones:
Not wanting to ruin the clear rear lights in the winter I've decided to tint the original red rear lights to use during the winter months. The red reflectors were left untinted for safety reasons:
In the picture above the car's ready for winter on 16" steelies. The winter tyres however are already quite old so I've bought some new Continentals fitted on the Nervasport alloys:
I'll be giving the Nervasports a couple of layers of wax later today to try and protect from the road salt. Tomorrow I'll try to get inspired enough to swap them, armed with my new floor jack especially designed for lowered vehicles. I finally got tired of always having to drive each corner on a piece of 2x4 to be able to get the jack under the car...
The original 49mm offset Nervasport would be left sitting too deep in the wheelwells so I'll be fitting my existing 15mm spacers to the front axle to achieve an offset of 34mm. For the rear axle I ordered new 25mm spacers from H&R, that'll make an "effective" offset of 24mm for the rear wheels. These H&R Trak+ spacers are first bolted to the hub using their own bolts and then the wheels are bolted to the spacer using the cars original wheel bolts:
Wheel spacers are strictly taken not legal in Finland, so I've since painted them in matt black so they're less obvious from between the spokes....
Here's the "setup" so far:
- front mud flaps
- pure white LED bulbs for all interior lights: ceiling, glovebox, doors, boot
- pure white LED bulbs for license plate light
- Philips Silvervision indicator bulbs
- Valeo flat blade windscreen wipers
- Renault Tunepoint iPod/AUX adapter
- Pioneer TS-Q131C "plug-in" replacement front loudspeakers
- Helix dB5.1 rear door loudspeakers
- shark fin antenna
- chrystal clear Renault/Valeo rear lights (summer)
- tinted original rear lights (winter)
- clear LED 3. brake light
- full OE xenon conversion
- black side repeaters
- door handle covers in polished stainless steel
- side window lower moulding covers in stainless steel
- H&R height-adjustable coilover kit
- S-Line replica alloys in 8.5x19" with ET43mm front / ET38mm rear (summer)
- Continental ContiSportContact3 225/35R19 (summer)
- FK wheel spacers 8mm/side front + 15mm/side rear (summer)
- original Nervasport alloys in 6.5x17" ET49mm (winter)
- Continental ContiVikingContact5 205/50R17 (winter)
- FK wheel spacers 15mm/side front + H&R Trak+ wheel spacers 25mm/side rear (winter)
To come:
- smoothed engine cover (in the making for over a year now....)
- 225 replica bumpers (already have these but not happy with the quality, might sell on)
- Bastuck stainless steel 225 rear silencer (already have this but will sell on if 225 bumpers not fitted)
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The French CC forum, maybe?
Never before heard of a 2.0 petrol non-turbo being 5-stud! 
A friend of mine had a 2.0 16V saloon (MY 2004 iirc) until recently and that was 4-stud, too. Maybe it's an age thing, what MY is yours?
