Recent content by dave williams

I thought this might be the case, aparently this chap owns his own garage and he said he would come 2 me and do it, im presuming he ment it was £150 labour and i pay for the parts seperatly. Im quite interested 2 see how he would manage to do the cambelt without the locking tool but dont think i...

Hi guys, my rocker cover on my 172 developed a leak the other day and iv been told that when the rocker seal is re-done you are ment to change the cam belt at the same time no matter how new it is, this chap is a friend of a friend and says he can do it for me and he doesnt need to use a cam...

Hi guys, my 172 developed another misfire the other day, iv already changed the coil pack, ht leads and spark plugs so i was a bit puzzled. I took the spark plugs out tonight just 2 check them and found that they had fresh oil on them but on the outside of the engine, so where the ht leads push...

Unfortunately iv had no choice in the matter, i use my van for work so mum thought that theres no point buyin another car so shes usin the clio, to be fair until now its bin runnin more reliably since shes used it everyday and its always got fuel in it, it was a shock 2 her when i said she could...

Hi Guys, my phase 2 172 has decided to stop starting. My mum has recently been using it regularly as my sister put her car through a hedge. She went to start it this morning and it started a couple of times but it would cut out, now the starter motor turns over for about 2-3 seconds and cuts out...

hi everyone, iv got a phase 2 clio 172, i did an auxillary belt change yesterday which was a right pain in the arse, its all back together now but the car wont start. All the ignition lights come on as normal but the engine wont turn over, from the sounds of things the throttle body and the fuel...

Its the belt on the left hand side of the engine underneith the upper engine mount? Just to let you know im not much of a mechanic, just saw a belt and thought, that could be the cam belt, iv heard all sorts of horror stories with the cam belts. Im pretty sure the timing isnt out cause the...

Nice one thanks, don't worry, as soon as i noticed it i turned the engine off and thats how its stayed for the past few days, im gonna try and borrow a flat bed and get it to my mechanics as soon as possible. many thanks.

Hi, i think i was a bit lucky the other day, i took the clio out for a blast down the motorway at the weekend and found that it had a bit of a misfire. I know im due some new spark plugs but i popped my bonnet up when i got back to have a look over it and as the engine was ticking over i could...

iv been suffering with limp mode for a few weeks now, then a friend of mine said he had a mechanic coming to put diagnostics on a car of his so we got him to have a look at the clio. Aparently there were a number of faults on it that he thought were caused by another mate using a VW diagnostics...

limp mode has come back and i must have pi**ed it off, for some reason i had limp mode a couple of weeks ago that gradually faded away after trying a new throttle pedal, cleaning the throttle body and spraying wd40 on as many electrical connections i could find. Last night it came back on and...

i took the tempramental little biatch out tonight and once the engine temperature was about 1/2 way up as it should be, i gave her some stick and it went straight through 7000rpm in 2nd and 3rd! I don't know what was happenin the other day but all seems fine now, i presume its just another...

I didn't notice the engine temperature or speedo being any different to what they normally are. The first time it hapened was in 2nd, i thought thats never right, so tried it in 3rd and it did the same. I will try and have another look later tonight and see if theres any more info i can give...

Yet another problem with my 172, i think iv just got rid of the dreded limp mode after replacing various parts. My girlfriend has had the car for the past week and says that it has worked absolutely fine. When i took it out yesterday i gave it a bit more beans than her and found that it seemed...

my girlfriend has just gone out in the clio and straight away it went into limp mode but after a couple of times turning it off and on it went, however i did notice it sounded like the exhaust might hav been blowing, when i first had the car the back box came off cause of rust but i had it...