David,

Have been on holiday but I would be grateful if you would please fax me a copy of the TSB on water ingress into the front footwells of Rover 4oo series cars. My fax number is 01279 843699.

Best regards

Mike Lennon

Brian

My thoughts too. Given the relatively minor differences in operation compared to a conventional IC engine, I have to say I doubt an overall 40% reduction in fuel consumption, as that indicates something like an efficiency improvement of 67%! I suspect this may be a figure for one specific operating mode or similar on a test engine. Given the extra bearings etc, internal friction and losses will be increased, which won't help.

One other thought - what is the balance like with that extra lever flailing about - no mention on the web site. I imagine it will need some sort of balancer shaft system.

Regards

john

I've owned two Mk11's ( Jettas ) an 'F' and a 'G', 1.3 and 1.6 respectively - in terms of build quality and components they were worlds apart - the 'F' 1.3 has far superior paint and metal together with Bosch electrics, whilst the 'G' big bumper 1.6 had dodgy interior welds in the boot at the bottom of the rear window sections, an Hitachi starter motor and the rest of the electrics courtesy of Valeo (ugh)! The 1.6 hydraulic tappets also seemed to wear out faster, even though fully synthetic oil was used and changed regularly ( 6000 miles ). I still have the 1.3 with 155,000 on the clock and using no oil between changes - its been run on fully synth. since birth. But the hydraulic tappet 1.3 does have a design weakness - due to the changes made to the cylinder head to accommodate aforesaid tappets greater stress is put on the head gasket, which fails every 70,000 miles, I can live with that - just keep an eye on the water etc in the weekly checks ! Oh and leave the carb alone if it's running OK. So it's no ball of fire but with average rush hour speeds on the M60 at about 25mph these days, who cares?

The Renaults are UK supplied via UK Renault dealers with the UK 12 month Renault warranty followed by the UK 2nd and 3rd year dealer warranty. But T lucas does have a point.

HJ

without any history, i think £1800 - £2000 is more realistic. sorry but thats what these cars go for at a place called - Tyne Tees Motor Auctions, in north shields, its in the directories part of this website.