Chris H enters the dark side with his 1.4 Executive!

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Jokes aside, you like a challange don't ya? As if rescuing a valver from a scrapyard wasn't enough you get one thats been hacked to bits! And you get it running!

How much was this one, Â£5? Wink

Whats the plan, to repair or break for parts? How many miles etc?

http://www.retro-renault.com/viewtopic.php?t=6447

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read it.

Puppy should come on and he can tell you what state the thing was in, he would be mighty impressed with it now.

This is actually the 1st phase 2 I have owned.

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You've edited the second post since I last looke to include pics, looks good.

Whats the reason for that some R19's have Veglia dials and some have Sagem ones?

That headunit brings back memories, nice little 3.5mm input for my Minidisc player, ah they were the days.

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Hmm, is that the origional stereo? I thought the m/n plate 19's came with the blaupunkt stereo's. Seen a few K/L platers with the phillips ones in though

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thats the same stereo as my phase 2 executive,or at least till i changed it

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ther dial thing, they used whichever was handy at the time!

All 19's I have seen used the phillips radio.

The remopte for it doesn't work though.

Get this, my sister was checkign for insurance on it out of curiousity, its 65 quid cheaper to insure the exec than any of the ph1's! Mention the ren cat 2 immob and its another Â£0 - 10 off it.

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how come it hasnt got a onboard computer, nt very exec 2 me lol

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no execs got them.

Only the ph1's all had them and some of the poh2's. No exec came with them though.

So far today,

pass seat fitted
fusebox screws fitted
radiator brackets fitted
oil pressure gauge working
TB cleaned and idle now sorted (950 instea dof 1300rpm)

I still have to get the starter bracket bolted up as its jangling against the block when running, thing is it doesn't look like it will fit with the starter thats there which is why it was loose as its a recon (black peeling dodgy paint) starter from the looks of it.

Retroholic Joined: 23 Dec 2005 Posts: 3315

yea they do my old mans gota 5r exec hatch n reg, with ABS, air bag, leather and computer

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and it is a proper exec it got stupid plates under the indicator on the wings... totally unmoddified

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I have not seen an exec with a trip in it. Maybe it was an option, they stopped doing them cos they kept going blotchy etc.

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bbracer16valver wrote:

yea they do my old mans gota 5r exec hatch n reg, with ABS, air bag, leather and computer

Some of the execs do, but most don't. Think they probably ran out towards the end. I think a lot of people put them in themselves though afterwards.

JB's Chammy isn't an exec but it doesn't have a trip.

I've often found in the past (and forgive me if I'm about to talk bollocks) that if an Exec has yellow fogs it won't have a trip computer - however since so many people have swapped yellow for clear fogs its probably impossible to tell these days. Wern't the 19's with Yellow fogs from a different factory to the 19's with white? (PH2s that is) - something to do with French laws at the time?

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hummmm? i dnt think it was a option either, airbag and ABS and leather were the only ops on the 19 i think,

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airbag and leather were stock on the execs' ABS wes an option though.

Dunno where thery were made Addie you know more than me about that!

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must have got it as an optional extra mines not even got ABS on it

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bbracer16valver wrote:

hummmm? i dnt think it was a option either, airbag and ABS and leather were the only ops on the 19 i think,

I think between Chris and I, we've seen enough 19 execs to tell you that its rare to find one with a trip Wink

Its also rare to find a none-16v with a trip, but there are some out there.

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humm, if u want a comp i got 1, ne ne otha black its u myte ned inc, nice door panels with the stripe...

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only non 16V I have seen with a trip was a G plate 1.7 carbed effort.

In the manual theres 1.4's with them etc. Yet to see one.

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Chris H wrote:

only non 16V I have seen with a trip was a G plate 1.7 carbed effort.

In the manual theres 1.4's with them etc. Yet to see one.

There was a TD 'executive' on eBay a while ago with leather and a trip - although if it was just the exectutive door cards / leather / dials nicked from a valver we'll never know.

We need to formulate a load of questions and send them to Renault. Like, did they ever manufactured a RHD swoopy dash!

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i find this strange lol least u dont watch the fuel vanish so quick lol

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i seen that swoppy dash y'day in lhd yea...

they look the bollocks