I also washed the car to get rid of the salt from the run back from the bodyshop and all the bodyshop dust etc.
Its a very photgenic car but dont be under any illusion. There are marks on a lot of the panels. Its not perfect by a long way
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I noticed when I purchased the car my knob was worn.
Thanks to a very helpful man over at https://diamond-performance.co.uk/ I recieved a new knob sticker.
I then put it into the very new, very high tech paint booth and lacquered it. Its currently in there drying now
Before
Decal applied
Top removed to apply lacquer in new paint booth
Finally the nearside light was frustrating me. It was cloudy as heck. I purchased a cheap “wipe” kit on Amazon and had a go. Nothing to lose really!
Its only gone and worked!
Before
What it should look like
After
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The third brake light didnt work and looking at previous MOT hadnt for some time
I removed the cup spoiler via the 6 torx screws and then measured with the multimeter across the now disconnected connector - 12V.
Must be the light then. Fortunately I had pre-empted this and bought a new LCD strip. I ever so carefully removed the top light and went about changing over the LCD strip. Fairly straightfoward TBH but I took extreme car not to crack the plastic light. These are NLA and I have seen upwards of £100 for them on ebay. Sod that!
Before
During
Some corrosion here but cleaned it up and it made absolutely zero difference
After. It didnt actually take me that long but I went out and forgot to get a pic!
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My wiper pump has stopped working.
First things first I’ll check the fuse. I have grabbed some Renault documentation and …
The fuse box is located in the passenger compartment on the drivers side.
You what now?
Ah , it means on the passenger side end of dash!
Just been out and flicked a known working fuse over ( F3 with F7 ) and no joy. Must be a dead pump.
Almost too easy
Don’t worry , car karma is in full swing. Now need new rear wiper blade.
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Next up on the to do list - clock / radio cluster.
The one I had was failing. The digits weren’t working never mind the backlight.
Paul from Diamond-Performance donated a cluster to the cause and I purchased a pack of 10 bulbs. Of the first 6 , 4 did not fit too well. Awesome quality control there.
So, I took the dash apart and what a simple yet painful in terms of what you are trying to achieve job that is.
Dash back together
Sadly this picture highlights the soft to touch plastic thats now tacky and will be ace in summer to double up as a fly trap.
Lastly , is this a OE radio? I dont get any display on the cluster when powered on if it is …
Rear wiper blade also changed
Jobs to do list
Validate if radio is OE or not
Checkstraps - replace
Interior clean
Soft touch plastic de fly trap
Touch up the exterior plastics that have gone grey
Bodywork - few dents
Bodywork - few scratches
Near side front wheel has gone milky in places.
Offside driveshaft swap
O2 sensor change but mysteriously car has been running fine.
What’s with the tacky plastic, my ex GF had a Clio and her car was like that? 
. Can it be treated/ rectified?
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I had an Alfa 156 with similar ‘soft touch’ switches which lost their soft touch material and became tacky. Solution was to remove the switches and clean off the sticky material then paint with a suitable finish.
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As @Evoman said. It’s the soft touch stuff that melts and UV degrades
I’ll be using elbow grease ( product ) to remove the tackiness
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Having had a think about this. On the latest series of The Smallest Cog, they had Jonny Vaughan’s Maserati in with various problems one of which were sticky buttons.
The chap (I can’t remember his name) used a house hold cleaning product to address the issue and resolved it. They blurred out part of the product in question, it maybe worth a watch and try to see what it is. It may save a lot of elbow grease! 
Apparently, Ferraris have a similar problem, who knew!
Its well known in the Renault worlds that elbow grease works wonders on the tacky products :
Ill see if I can find the video you mentioned
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They certainly do. The acetone-esque solutions get rid of the coating and “fix” the problem but in most cases leave behind a very cheap looking/feeling plastic that was never intended to be exposed. The sticky stuff when new added the facade of something quality.
There’s a guy who “restores” it properly who can be found online, had a quote for a few FF bits but it ran into £2k+
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You had me interested at the restore bit but then the £2k
Well that deflated me a bit