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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...

right, an update on what my clio is doing. It seems to run absolutely fine but every so often it will just go into limp mode, there is no pattern to it which makes me think its now a loose wire, it would appear that un-crimping the pipe that comes off the inlet manifold made it better but i do...

I haven't noticed anything like that come up on mine, sounds like its trying to ask you to re-calibrate ur dials, u do that by pressing a series of buttons when the ignition is on, however i don't know which ones sorry. Don't take my word for this as im definately no mechanic. I do have some bad...

think mine is doin the same, i have noticed a few odd noises coming from the throttle body just as u described but i didn't know if it was just me. iv found that when i put my foot flat down in neutral it goes straight into limp mode but if i rev it slowly it doesn't. I might just buy a throttle...

Iv done exactly the same as scootyman-2008 today, put a different throttle pedal on it and had no luck! This fault is getting right on my bits now, there seems to be no deffinate answer anywhere, its just trial and bloody error! if anyone has any joy please keep me updated. cheers.

The gearbox idea interests me, iv had the exact same problem with my 172 and it happened imediately after i put a new upper gearbox mount on due to it snapping. obviously i had to move a load of wires and things around to sort the mount and i might have undone a sensor or something? Iv tried a...

Mine came on when one of my injectors stopped working, I repleced the injector and my mate who works at a renault garage said it will either go off on its own after driving it a bit or i would have to take it to him to turn it off on a diognostics machine. After about 10 miles it went off on its...

Iv just had to replace the upper gearbox mount as that had snapped, took it out for a spin last night and it ran perfectly, however when i started it up today it ran ok for about 20 seconds but then the engine went into a safe mode so now the engine will only rev to 3000rpm. It does this every...

My girlfriend has a clio dci that is a bit tempramental, it has developed an intermitant fault on the accelerator. The pedal moves normally but it just stays on tickover, she turns it off and on a few times then it starts working, she reckons this happens more often when she starts and stops a...

just whipped the battey and the gearbox mount out, the main bolt going through the mount is completely sheered! The rest of the bolt is still in the hole loose but i can't get the bugger out! it wont come up through the hole cause theres a nut on the end and it won't go down cause something else...

looks like it might be uprated cause it doesn't look standard, i'll keep my eye on it anyway, cheers.

Thanks Hutchie, I will have the battery out asap and let u know how i get on, any mounts you would recomend to replace the old one with and would it be worth replacing any of the others? thanks again.

perfect cheers!

Thanks for the reply, Iv just had a good look around, the dog bone mount and what i think is the lower gearbox mount look in one peace but when i rock the engine theres a nocking from under the battery as if there are lose bolts, im presuming theres another mount under there somewhere that could...

Hi guys, i was possibly driving a bit enthusiastically from 1st up through 3rd to show a mate what a 172 was like as he is after one when i noticed something wasn't quite right. There is now a nocking sound every time i touch the accelerator and there is a lot more vibration when pulling off...

Ouch, hard luck mate. Fortunately mine was only the injector, i put the new one in tonight and its running as it should now. The new one did cost me £69 incdluding VAT from a renault garage up the road.