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bach 172
i took my car 2 have a diagnostics 2 find y it had a miss and they sed it was not a proper miss and told me my rear pads were low then charged me £50 as a mug i paid and still dont no wot up with my car.
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ripped off at renault
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iimushroomzii
Toilet roll king
Transit Connect.
Oh no,
The Chubby Pirate
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
Independant reputible Renault dealer ftw.
Seriously though, is it misfiring? Because if it is itll be one of 3 things >
1.Faulty Coil Pack (possibly spark plugs aswell)
2.Faulty HT Lead
3.Faulty Injector
Seriously though, is it misfiring? Because if it is itll be one of 3 things >
1.Faulty Coil Pack (possibly spark plugs aswell)
2.Faulty HT Lead
3.Faulty Injector
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bach 172
havent checked the injectors will give it a go thanks
Evo 6, E92 320d
Only on idle i think
Alex forgot to mention today, if you mentioned the club you could of got a 5% discount.
ITB'd MK1
probably just needs a set of plugs. they dont last even close to the milage renault put them on the service interval
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bach 172
they sed bring it bk when it was missin i think if they turned there radio down they would of heard it.
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bach 172
they just been changed
The Chubby Pirate
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
IS the engine management light on per chance?
Did they give you the clip test printout? Prob isn't missing at all, they run like a bag of s**t at idle.
So you've had a diagnostic done and it turns out that theres nothing wrong with it, I don't understand why your pissed off? Obviously they could of flogged you a new set of plugs or a coil pack or too...
Did you know your rear pads were low? So they've done a full 25 point check over the vehicle and all they could find was low rear pads, sounds good to me, £50 well spent tbh.
So you've had a diagnostic done and it turns out that theres nothing wrong with it, I don't understand why your pissed off? Obviously they could of flogged you a new set of plugs or a coil pack or too...
Did you know your rear pads were low? So they've done a full 25 point check over the vehicle and all they could find was low rear pads, sounds good to me, £50 well spent tbh.
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bach 172
didnt think of that
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bach 172
no lights up on the dash
The Chubby Pirate
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
Or tried to rip you off by chancing there arm at seeing how many things "need doing" to your car.
There a bunch of chancers! Mines was in getting the bonnet catch getting done and the b**ch from the service dept tried to hit me with "your front pads and discs need changed...."
No b**ch, the pads and discs were done last month, know you limits you tosser!
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bach 172
no wot u mean my pads r ok cos it went through a mot bout 3 day b4
The Chubby Pirate
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
for future reference mate, use www.eurocarparts.com i use them, have saved a fortune thus far!
I very much doubt they would advise on changing something that didn't need doing.
MOT's aren't very strict at all now tbh, as long as the brakes are above minimum thickness and it passes the brake test it will fly through.
The reason behind the 25 point check system is as follows: If your vehicle went in for any work to be done, however minor and something dropped off up the road or you got pulled for a bulb out the first thing you would do is head back to the garage and kick off. Hence why a copy of the checklist is given to the customer and the carbon copy is kept.
MOT's aren't very strict at all now tbh, as long as the brakes are above minimum thickness and it passes the brake test it will fly through.
The reason behind the 25 point check system is as follows: If your vehicle went in for any work to be done, however minor and something dropped off up the road or you got pulled for a bulb out the first thing you would do is head back to the garage and kick off. Hence why a copy of the checklist is given to the customer and the carbon copy is kept.
The Chubby Pirate
ClioSport Club Member
Golf R
Yes i quite agree, and heres why...
Window regulator failed on my car (this as you probaly know is a common fault amongst Renaults.
Renault Charge £ 174.81
Euro Car Parts charge £83.45
For the same part? Where is it not simple to understand that Renault's prices are over inflated!
And by the by, do you honestly think for a minute that Renault wouldnt jump at the chance to sell an unsuspecting customer parts they dont need? Wake up mate!
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bach 172
i told them i had new plugs. i can say i dont think i will b goin bk there again
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bach 172
ill try them in future there is sumthin like that near me called colchester motor factors
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I think we're missing the point here chaps.
The OP seems pissed off that Renault charged £50 for a diagnostics that didn't show anything. Hardly the dealers fault that though is it? If the OP believed there was an issue and the computer doesn't show any faults then what, exactly, can Reanult do about it?
Zilch.
Calling them rip-off merchants (or whatever derogatory term you wish) is uncalled for in my opinion. You asked for a service to be carried out (diag) and it was. £50 is actually quite cheap as I've heard anything upto £80 be charged for the same thing.
This is all ignoring the brake comment, but as correctly stated they didn't exactly try and get you to buy a new set so what's the issue??
People are far far too eager to **** dealers off on here when all they've done is perform the service you requested.
:S
Oh and anyone who doesn't understand why a main dealer charges double what a back street garage does, is quite frankly deluded.
The OP seems pissed off that Renault charged £50 for a diagnostics that didn't show anything. Hardly the dealers fault that though is it? If the OP believed there was an issue and the computer doesn't show any faults then what, exactly, can Reanult do about it?
Zilch.
Calling them rip-off merchants (or whatever derogatory term you wish) is uncalled for in my opinion. You asked for a service to be carried out (diag) and it was. £50 is actually quite cheap as I've heard anything upto £80 be charged for the same thing.
This is all ignoring the brake comment, but as correctly stated they didn't exactly try and get you to buy a new set so what's the issue??
People are far far too eager to **** dealers off on here when all they've done is perform the service you requested.
:S
Oh and anyone who doesn't understand why a main dealer charges double what a back street garage does, is quite frankly deluded.
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i took my car 2 have a diagnostics 2 find y it had a miss and they sed it was not a proper miss and told me my rear pads were low then charged me £50 as a mug i paid and still dont no wot up with my car.
Pitty your not closer to me, I may have been able to help.
Seeing as I used to be a motorcar engineer and do all my own work, the only tool I was really missing was a good diagnostic setup. So I invested in a decent laptop and OBDII diagnostic apps/conectors a few months back.
Recently just been helping people for free to get more experience. Dealers/garages charge a fortune, and some small garages just have crap cheap plug in conectors that just turn the engine light off and don't even give a report. Atleast with the laptop I have around 10 apps to chose from. Some even have full remapping capabilities etc.
Interesting reading earlier in the thread, where by you can check the usual components such as injectors, sparks, HT leads, coil etc if you have a misfire, like we all do. The beauty of diagnostics though, if done right, is like last week when I plugged in my diagnostics and it even told me which cylinder had the misfire!, eliminating the search through components that are working fine.
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Polo Bluemotion
Totally agree. I guess my experience last week sums it up.
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=388483&highlight=marshallahsram
I was lead to believe that its £87 for a diagnostic check, but that gets wiped off if you have the work done with them. Thats what Renault Bolton, Manchester and Oldham charge
09 GIXXER 750!!!
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Spot on Marshall.
No I do not own Renault, I wish I did! I simply have a more mature attitude than to simply think "I was ripped off" because perhaps a Renault dealer charged me considerably more than a back street garage would have done. Peoples logic in this respect just fails me, it really does.
Now if Renault had said "You're rear brakes are low and we're going to charge you £200 to replace them" then I could kind of understand the frustrations, but £50 for a diagnostics which the customer actually requested...?
No I do not own Renault, I wish I did! I simply have a more mature attitude than to simply think "I was ripped off" because perhaps a Renault dealer charged me considerably more than a back street garage would have done. Peoples logic in this respect just fails me, it really does.
Now if Renault had said "You're rear brakes are low and we're going to charge you £200 to replace them" then I could kind of understand the frustrations, but £50 for a diagnostics which the customer actually requested...?
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Not this again, how many times. You took your car to renault with a fault, and they charged you half hours labour which IMO is perfectly acceptable. They would've plugged it into clip and found nothing ( which doesnt mean theres nothing wrong ) and thought it was another paranoid customer. If they wanted to rip you off they wouldve tried to sell you a coilpack / TDC sensor etc as mentioned earlier.
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Tbf, when mine went in for the bonnet catch swap and had the multi-point check, I was keen to see what Reno would say.
There were three issues on the car that I knew about and they spotted all three. They mentioned two more, which I then addressed myself afterwards.
I'm far from being a mechanic, but if I knew jack s**t, it was good to know that these guys spotted these faults. Changed my view of Reno tbh...... only slightly however!
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some people make me laugh ! 50.00 for a diagnostic check and no fault found did you explain when it was missing ? under load on tick over hot or cold ? ? or offer to show them it missing or what you think is a missfire ? a missfire usually show's on the dash as the eng mil light flashing on most cars, where i work it's 115.00 plus vat for a diag check so you got let off lightly ! renault and most main dealers charge high prices because of the over heads and training facilties they have to put technician's through, fred in the shed doesn't have all these to pay for thats why he can charge 25.00 for a diagnostic check and 8 times out of ten he could cure the fault as it's a regular fault with some car's the bigger faults or technical stuff is when its dealer, it's my job and a few others on here to check a car over and REPORT the findings if i think pads etc are low i will report its my job. mot laws are different read the document it says it was ok at the time of the test, us fool's as called by some people on here are good at there job's and are well respected in the job by customers.
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also by the way what plug's did you fit genuine renault one's or cheaper plug's ? most people no the non gen plug's play havoc with the car and did it miss before the plug's were fitted ? did they use new gaskets where required ? if there isn't a fault code in the ecu it's more than likely a mechanical fault or something that was not done correctly
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