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It's a long time I know, but I assume you found out what the problem was? I can certainly find references to this problem but the specific cause seems to be a crap shoot.
Thanks all for your help.
Garage helped me out, rest wenta OK. The other spring had cleanly lost a piece and was no longer sitting in the right place in the cup. Ridiculous ride height difference now gone. Nothing more amusing than pulling out for a test drive onto roads with pot holes... not...
I did, and I'm probably treating it more like a bomb than is necessary but it's not worth risking doing improperly for the sake of literally a few minutes of a mechanic's time. I'd rather be a wimp. The nut did fly across the room a bit dramatically.
Besides, its taking longer than I thought; I...
Plain old MK2, probably should have remembered to say.
Anyway, I braced the coil at somewhat-opposite points and then undid the top, which did ping across the room a bit but nothing too drastic. Safety goggles were on, end was pointed elsewhere, pets locked out, etc.
I think I'll just get a...
I assume so, I don't know the history but it's not a well-worn car so originals are possible.
The replacements I bought can be compressed, but it seems I have no way of getting the old ones off to make the change?
On the right, you will see that I am unable to attach a compressor on opposite sides because there aren't enough twists and no space with what's there, so presumably death or injury would be imminent.
On the left, you will see that if I only reach the hooks across one twist, they won't go any...
Oh, Lord save me.
Battery was stone dead 24 hours later undriven. Charged it up again, looked for parasitic drain, measured 0.005a. Plugged my ELM327 OBDII back in and drain shot up to *0.075a*. About the same as a interior lightbulb?
I don't know if it's constantly scanning for receivers or...
What's with this forum and editing limits? Now I gotta spam the place up.
Battery jumped high enough for the car to start as normal first time, now reads around 12.6v and then 14.3v while revving at 2k.
So I guess I'm looking at corroding or fraying, somewhere. I've already cleaned the...
No wonder it wouldn't start, down to 10v after a whole bunch of fault-finding cranking.
The car starts absolutely fine with a running car attached to the battery, so I guess either the battery is borked or an earth is dodgy and the jump cables are a working substitute? I don't think the battery...
Oh, important detail perhaps! The first time it happened, I was sitting in the car with the blowers on max to demist the windscreen when the power suddenly dropped - the blowers audibly went quiet - but didn't cut out. I turned the key to see what was going on and the car wouldn't start.
SYMPTOMS
Ignition turns once and then dead. There's sometimes a kind of buzzing but it was already doing that.
VIDEO:
Sound is there but quiet:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y6p16h9x9k1t3wq/VID_20180115_170637.mp4?dl=0
RELEVANT INFORMATION(?):
Top left of the windscreen interior is damp. No faults...
Cause of the symptoms turned out to be a bad pre-cat lambda.
Since I didn't find any clear information about the location, I've attached a photo. On my Clio Mk2 Dynamiuqe, you lean right over the engine, it's at the back near the bottom of the car. Can change it without having to jack the car.
Less magically, Starline, what I don't want is a bolt that doesn't come with a nut, doesn't warn you it doesn't come with a nut, and doesn't tell you what nut you need.
M8 nyloc, for any Googlers out there.
Job done, don't know about over-tightness though. Just seemed to keep going and going.