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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...

They'll be maybe 120 degrees to each other, can't tell well from the photo but it's impossible to get them opposite sides.

Oh. I guess that makes sense. I can literally just undo the top nut and it'll come apart, danger-free?

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.

There is no surely to a frustrated newbie at 10pm. :smiley: It's perfectly round and didn't seem obviously movable. I'll try some PlusGas and mole grips tomorrow then.

I can't shift it for love nor money (assuming it isn't actually part of the construction) and the rubber will absolutely not fit over it. It's not in any other photos I've found of the job. Now what? :|

Magic, thank you! Starline it is, link arm isn't the only thing on the list unfortunately.

No difficulty finding the problem, for sure. Thanks!

So much for touching wood. The juddering engine and loss of power is back exactly as bad as it was before, and now the exhaust gas monitor warning light has joined in. Interestingly, the light came on after completely filling an almost empty fuel tank, which seems to have triggered the light for...

Indeed it was, thank you so much! Amazing what a sentence or two of help will do. Touch wood, it's been running smooth ever since.

The throttle body removal spiel in Haynes is *long*, only being 4 bolts in this engine hadn't occurred to me. I'll see if it comes off easy, thanks.

Hey, thanks for replying, appreciate it. The airbox is part of the engine cover, comes off with it. I had a look inside the airbox while I was there, seemed clean. Throttle body is just behind the white sticker, pull the cover off and there it is.

Sorry for the dull question, but I don't think I've had such a hard time with conflicting information from Google. I was intending to do a proper removal and clean as the car is frequently idling roughly and losing power, but my engine looks nothing like any internet guide or my Haynes and...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b3kxrrqr18bzha2/VID_20170603_110034066.mp4?dl=0 Not sure exactly where it's coming from, somewhere around the driver's side engine/timing belt area. Noise disappears after moving off. Possibly related information: - Just passed 70k miles, so timing belt/water pump is...

I forget the details, but the original code was something generic and a bunch of null results from the specifics. And there was no code at all last time.

Hi, I was hoping somebody could hand-hold a little while I delve into solving this problem. CAR: 2004 MkII 1.2 Dynamique PROBLEM: Event 1) Driving down the motorway a while ago and the engine power dropped, car limited itself to just under 60mph. Electric/coil & check engine lights came on...