Renault Clio throttle housing failure

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Wed 1 Feb 2006 11:02
Renault Clio throttle housing failure - IrishClio
Hi,

I wonder if you can shed some light on this. I had my 2002 reg Clio act all odd and on taking it to the main dealer was told the throttle housing had gone. This was an expensive job to replace.

Now, I just did a web search (it had not occurred to me to that first) and discovered that clios in 2002 were recalled with a throttle housing issue. But it was for 1.4 and mine is a 1.2.

So was this failure just bad luck or should I fight to have been done at Renaults expense?

Cheers.

IC

PS My other car is a scenic and the timing belt went on saturday night. I had only been serviced at a Rnault garage about 9/10 months ago and nothing was said to us about getting it looked at. There are 68k miles on the clock. Should it have been replaced at the last service? Is this just another case of bad luck or should I chase Renault on this too? Yes all pistons need to be replaced and the valves rebored - but at an independant garage this time.

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Wed 1 Feb 2006 11:53
REnault Clio throttle housing failure - cheddar
My wife's 98 Clio 1.6 used to suffer from a problem where it would not idle, the dealers immediate response was to propose changing the throttle body, they reckoned the throttle position sensor was faulty. Having read about similar issues on this forum and elsewhere I got her to use premium brand rather than Tesco fuel (it also coincided with us moving and thus having a local BP), this solved it and the problem has not returned in 3 years.

Re Scenic cambelt, I am not sure what the scheduled change is on this though it is probably 50k miles / 5 years. Therefore if the car was serviced with say 52 - 55k miles on the clock the dealer really should have highlighted that it needed doing, on the otherhand if it had 60k on the clock he may have reasonably assumed it had been done.

Nevertheless If the car is less than 5 years old and has full history it might be worth pursuing a good will contribution from Renault though this would only be a possibility if the work is done at a Renault dealer. I personally would get the work done at a dealer anyway, I reckon you would have more comeback on them if the engine is not a crisp as it was etc.

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