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Im in the army and won't be able to strip it back , and have a look until the weekend ! thanks for all this help guys, it' will come in handy when I take a look under the hood ;-)
The way the car is running now ( like a scooby) , surely if it was a broken lead , would the EML come on , or do they only come on when a lead is completely f^#%ed
Andyrg , this sounds helpful , going to take the inlet off today and check the leads out , is it possible to do this and not fetch the engine management light on though ?
I've done around 100miles . And it sounded like this as soon as I drove off ! I know he wouldn't have used top notch renault tools , as he is a kind of back street garage , he told me he would have it pucka :-(
Weird thing is , is that it's not FEELING as if it's miss firing ! you would feel a misfire . But this is quite smooth when driven :-/ it's puzzling my head and now it's starting to hurt a little :-s
The garage was doing me favour in all honesty by keeping the price down , and he is also a mate !
ive looked up on timing issues , and I'm thinking the timing must be out ! I know the car ain't right .
No I didn't have new rings , but I'm now thinking that I don't think he understands these...
Would it still run fine ?
the engine sounds smooth on light throttle , when I give a little more acceleration it sounds like a boxer engine . And no weren't genuine parts unfortunately .
would it idle fine even if the ht leads are in the wrong order ,
cheers for your help guys . As this is...
parts come to around £350 ' and a garage charged £490
on idle it doesn't sound like a Subaru , but at low revs and whilst accelerating it's really sounding like a boxer engine !
Will get video now
My power steering belt shredded and then sent it's self into the timing belt , bending all 16v's
ive had it rebuilt and it idles perfectly , and it's pulling fine , ( haven't booted it as I'm still running it in )
what's throwing me , is the fact it never sounded like this before it bent the...
Hi sport.net , I'm Arfon Been on here for a few months now ,
just Didn't know how to post :-/
Happy owner of a Clio sport 182 titanium !
from Mountain Ash South Wales :-)
Hi guys , one very proud owner of a clio 172 , brilliant bit of fun ;-)
I have always had French cars in the past ( saxo Vts's) but not a Renault , very pleased with my new toy , will e looking to do some meets very soon ;-)