Hi cord-172: A few weird things including cutting out when i was crossing a dual carriage way and then stalling on the other side - i could smell strong CAT smell (not animal) and then it started fine. Lately (but not at the mo and therefore to the disapointment of the renault garage!) the revs have taken AGES in coming down after a rev. Say you rev it to 5 k in neutral, the revs would take about 5 seconds to return to 1k rpm, very weird. Sometimes the revs would stick around 2 k rpm, or the car would feel under powered or gutless.
Havent had a fan belt go yet (touch wood) so watch this space eh? ahh the joys of owning a renault. Dont get me wrong, i love the car, but it gets frustrating when these things happen. I suppose its inevitable really. It is a very powerful engine in a small car and theres bound to be loads problems. I think they mustve used baguettes to build it instead of torque wrenches.