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Maybe you're right... can't remember from 4 years ago.

That's what it seems to be. A Gates kit in a Renault box !

Well I've bitten the bullet and bought a cambelt kit, an aux belt kit and a water pump all from RPD. A bit of a strange one. The aux belt is labelled up Renault with a part number etc... but the cambelt is a Gates belt with just Gates part numbers on it. Now I know Gates make the belts for...

That's very helpful... cheers. I probably do a couple of thousand miles a year at most in the car so my tyres will probably date out before they wear out ! I've always had good respect for Avon as a brand - used their F3 slicks on my modsports GT car back in the day.

I've a second set of wheels shod in Uniroyal Rainsport 5 - two tyres are excellent... two are 1mm. I've never used them so I may get two new Rainsports and try them for a bit while I cogitate on getting 4 new Pilot Sport 3s.

Fair enough... I think one of the FIAT Puntos uses them as well... but yes point taken.

Thanks Matt... that's £486 for 205x45x16 and I'm probably looking at £80 or so to get them fitted... so not far off £600 again.

Thanks so much for that... really helpful and really interesting.

... sorry a link for 205x45x16 rather than 195

OK, fair enough... but they're averaging £130-£150 fitted as opposed to £40 a pop for the Three-A... Can you give me the link to the above BTW I'm sure I'll end up with another set of PS3s anyway.

May not always be the case... certainly wouldn't be here but then I've got two lever arch folders of genuine Renault parts and service invoices for my 3 owner 80K 182 going back to the original bill of sale... and a portfolio of photographic evidence for all the work I've undertaken.

My 182 is currently shod in Michelin Pilot Sport 3 all round and they're a very good tyre. Before I relieve myself of another circa £600 for a new set, I was just interested in getting the opinions of people who've used a set of these. There's an eBay seller whose sold 123 sets of these and I...

You're right, the site's not easy to navigate but the one for our car would be the P606. There's a link to it here. https://threeatires.com/product/three-a-p606-uhp-tires/

As most of us have discovered, the lack of cars running 205x45x16 has meant rubber in that size is pretty expensive across all of the main brands. I was just interested to see if anyone has fitted Three-A tyres and what they thought of them. I know we all have opinions on budget tyres but I'm...

40K miles is still a fair old amount... we're talking hundreds or low thousands of miles here though. In my case I've done 2500 miles since I changed them 4 years ago in 2020.

As @jameswrx mentioned above, the problem is more related to the aux belts than the timing belts. Aux belt failure will take out the timing belt. A guy who runs a business specialising in Clios made an FB post a while ago advocating replacing everything within date. When I quizzed him on the...

Thanks so much everyone who's posted here... this is really helpful.

Like many of us on here now, I use my 182 sparingly. 3 years and just under 3000 miles ago I took the engine/transmission out of the car and replaced just about everything. Among the many items I replaced were all the belts. I used brand new genuine Renault ones. Now the change interval for...

I'm planning on changing the gearbox oil in my 182. Just wondering if the gearbox oil drain plug is the same as the engine oil drain plug [link below] and if not, whether anyone would have the part number for the drain plug washer as I'd like to swap that while I'm at it. Massive thanks in...

My friend with the Snap On [Solus] came over this afternoon and unfortunately it won't communicate with the ABS module on the 182 :( It'll do a code read on the module but nothing more. So I guess I'm faced with having to get RS tuner... any recommendations on what should get from Fastchip. I...

That's brilliant... thanks again so much :)

Ah of course... that makes sense. Thanks so much. @hopgop1 So sorry I didn't thank you for posting the photo above... really appreciate it :)

Ya that is different to the Renault Workshop manual alright... it's RL->RR->FL->FR... Hopefully the Snap On has something similar as I'm guessing RS Tuner is organising the pump configuration as you're doing this.

That would be brilliant... thanks so much :)

Thanks for this Martin. Were you using the Autel when you ran through the 4L ? Is the RS Tuner sequence different ? Problem is I don't have Clip or RS Tuner... just access to my mate's Snap On. Also, when you talk about the RS Tuner Bleed Sequence... is there a process they suggest doing ?

Ya I bled all four corners... actually let run for a while until I could see the new fluid coming out... I'm guessing [hoping] that air's lodged in the ABS pump (!)

I'd feel more comfortable using a scanner to activate the ABS than have it running on axle stands o_O When you get the wrong side of 50 [like me] the mad stuff I used to do as a kid seems less appealling for some reason or other. Does anyone know if the Snap On will activate the ABS ? The...

@JamesBryan I can't rule out air getting into the pump as the rear brake line running across the beam split and quite a bit of fluid leaked from it. I did exactly as you said with the pressure bleeder but unfortunately I've ended up with a very soft pedal :( I can only assume air has gotten...

@SteveC_1879 Thanks for this. I think that's what it is. I've tried locking the wheels up several times on the test drive but don't I need to activate the pump while I'm bleeding the system ? I vaguely remember doing something like this on my E46 years ago when I bled the system but the Snap...

Thanks for this. So they bled it old-skool without a pressure bleeder ?