October 2007
the motor on the drivers side electric window has broken a local garage informed me for it to be replaced it needs to be a genuine renult clio part which will cost 171+vat and labour equating to a cost around £250+. Do i need a genuine part of would any renault or other car window motor work? Read more
Hi, I'm thinking about getting a used 6MPS, but I know that there's a new (nicer looking) 6 coming out soon. Does anyone know if there'll be an MPS, and are there any views on buying an MPS now with a new version "around the corner". Does this make for a better deal, or is this not a good idea financially?
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That's great, thanks all.
The night before last a car crashed through our hedge and caused a bit of damage and then the swines legged it. I have recovered some 'bits' and I wondered if the more canny members of this forum just may assist in identification. I have posted links, but you may glean that I struggled with this bit. I hope it works. I think I have an idea on the car, but i'll let you go first.
tia.......................................MD
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Hedge and bank made good Saturday morning.
MD
With my old car i used to wash it using sponge and water (mixed with car shampoo). Due to my disability this event used to be once every 5 or 6 months. Being a silver car it tend to hide the dirt better. The kids also help out.
Now i have a new car it will be nice to wash it now and then. Due to a stuck on aerial on the roof automatic car washes are out where they use roller brushes. Could use a hand wash places.
I can't stand for long sponging the car myself. My eldest is 12 so she can't reach the high area. Toying with the idea of buying a pressure washer to wash the car with.
Does anyone own one? What do i look for? Where is the best place to buy from cheaply. Read more
Now i have a new car it will be nice to wash it now and
then. Due to a stuck on aerial on the roof automatic car washes are out
where they use roller brushes. Could use a hand wash places.
The aerial on my car is on the roof and I never take it off to go through a car wash. It clacks about abit but has come to no harm.
You are not the first person to wash a car through an auatomatic carwash. There isn't much money in washing cars if you can't wash those with aerials.
I think a "good" Karcher hot water pressure washer is about £1,800.
My son called me last night, about 10 miles from home.
His car had given a bit of a stutter then lost power, into limp home mode.
He looked in the mirror to see clouds of white smoke so pulled over & rang good old dad.
I was just off to work so got No 2 son to tow him home.
My initial diagnosis by phone was turbo blown.
So removed the turbo today, & sure enough, the exhaust side turbo seal was alowing copious amounts of oil into the exhaust causing all the smoke.
So my question is, does anyone know of a quality turbo reconditioning service from experience. There are plenty of businesses advertised although none close to Crewe Cheshire where I live. Thanks in advance. Read more
Thanks, i'll give them a try on Monday.
Anyone know if the Citroen/Peugeot 2.0 90HDI 2003 ECU is a BOSCH Model No. EDC15C2 or different.
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Today I took out the ECU and made notes of the Numbers etc.
It is a Siemens SID 881.
Thanks for your help.
Had to replace the o/s/r ABS sensor due to a broken wire, however the ABS light is still on, is the new sensor defective, or do I need to reset anything?
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From that year onwards; it will need a scantool to erase the codes.
I'm on my first 2 diesel cars 1 for me 1 for the wife. I am careful to run them in but i've done nearly 5000 miles and it doesn't feel any different.
People have been on about diesel engines loosening up; what do they mean by this and when can you expect for it to loosen up?
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My Honda stopped using oil by about 25k (used about 4 litres over those miles). It also seems quieter now. Other than that, no appreciable difference (now at 52k).
I was always told not to use cruise control for the first 1000 or 2000 miles because its bad for the engine to run at the same speed as the engine needs to vary its revs.
Does anyone else follow this same principle? I would like to know if you can overuse cruise control; i have only done 4500 miles so far and i've started using it a lot of the time. Is it safe to do so or should i let the engine loosen up a bit?
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>>Comments?
As you know, I'm not a big believer in running in - I'm of the start as you mean to go on school of thought.
My experience running hydraulic motors in suggests (via measurements of oil usage, torque produced, and motor efficiency) to me that running in "off-design" isn't helpful. The sealing surfaces in the motors were between the tips of th gears and the aluminium bore. Under different operating conditions, the gears run in different locations, and make different wear patterns.
For most drivers, I think there's no need to modify your driving style significantly during running in. The only modification I would give to that is for habitual mimsers to actually give their new engine a bit of a trashing instead of being even more sluggish.
My reason for saying this is that OEM cylinder machining methods are vastly superior to when running in was absolutely necessary - the oil bearing properties of various types of machined finish are now better understood, and can be made using the cylinder honing tools available to engine manufacturers.
Engines which have been re-conditioned will not have this expensive plateau honed finish, and these should be run in using more traditional methods - because the pistong rings and bore will initially only fit where they touch, and the cylinder finish will not hold oil as effectively as a properly manufactured bore.
>>HJ's recommended method
I would love to see the test results which back up HJ's claim.
Number_Cruncher
Are tighter shut lines a sign of a stiffer chassis, or can you have tight shut lines and a not so stiff chassis ? Read more
Torsional regidity is extremly important. Firstly the suspesion is designed, or should be, to keep the tyres in contact with the road and upright. It cannot do this if the suspension pick up points ar moveing around in space due to lack of torsional regidity. A secondary benefit of stiff chassis/shell is that there is less of a tendency to develop squaks and rattles.
If the chassis/shell has sufficient torsional regidity then it will have sufficient beam stiffness.
When the roof removed from a normal stressed skin car to create a convertible a lot of the stiffness is lost. Useually extra strengthening will be added to attempt to replace some of the lost stiffness at the cost of adding more weight.
The opening panels add nothing to teh stiffness of the shell. A two door car will usually be stiffer, lighter and cheaper than the corresonding four door model.
When BMC as it was enterd the Maxi in the world cup rally (1970 ?) they welded up the tailgate to stiffen up the shell. If I remember correctly that doubled the stiffness.
Torsional regidity is next to godliness should be the adage of the chassais designer, along with simplicate and add lightness of course.
(I think that 'simplicate and add lightness' came from Tommy Sopwith, famous WW1 aircraft designer)
Browse
Friend had a similar issue on a Megane Scenic. Auto Electrician said that they were renowned for it and that it needed the genuine renault part as it was "programmed" in to something behind the steering wheel - ECU maybe?
Friend opted for the cheaper option which was to get him to rewire it someway so that the driver window now worked but the passenger one didn't.
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