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Oops I did it again... Adey's Clio 200 EDC
- Thread starter Adey.
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Adey.
ClioSport Club Member
Good point, and on top of that I have had no undertray on since working on it so cooler again 🤔
Sash
ClioSport Club Member
A Yellow One
Mine always used to fault when the ambient air temperature was above 20°c
Adey.
ClioSport Club Member
hmm. I may just carry on and swap out the TCU then.
Adey.
ClioSport Club Member
So I did the above, I went ahead and swapped the TCU this afternoon. Really easy job to do tbf.
and then it went for bad (though fine for 150miles) to worse.
Though the car initially showed no faults, as soon as I started to drive I noticed it showed D (for drive) instead of the actual gear..... then it swapped a few gears and dropped into limp. Looks like the TCU is for a lesser version even though it looked externally the same.
So what to do.... might as well separate the original TCU and fit a new capacitor
Swapped it in, reset everything and took it for a test drive. All good so far, but that said it was already behaving.... not sure if its a placebo effect but the shift feels a lot cleaner and when in sport mode its banging through nicely. Will see how it plays out and if I can get a refund on the china town TCU.
and then it went for bad (though fine for 150miles) to worse.
Though the car initially showed no faults, as soon as I started to drive I noticed it showed D (for drive) instead of the actual gear..... then it swapped a few gears and dropped into limp. Looks like the TCU is for a lesser version even though it looked externally the same.
So what to do.... might as well separate the original TCU and fit a new capacitor
Swapped it in, reset everything and took it for a test drive. All good so far, but that said it was already behaving.... not sure if its a placebo effect but the shift feels a lot cleaner and when in sport mode its banging through nicely. Will see how it plays out and if I can get a refund on the china town TCU.
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Adey.
ClioSport Club Member
Its been mentioned by someone else who had a similar issue, changed them out and cured it. Its also noted by the ford folk as an issue (they run a visibly the same tcu and similar getrag box)
The capacitors are used to jump the voltage to around 40v from 12v for shifting of the gears as far as im aware. They do die with age and with heat.
Adey.
ClioSport Club Member
Don't want to jinx it so not saying too much, but did nearly 2 hours of driving in traffic at 22+degrees (must get AC sorted next as that's gone warmish)....
Defo think its shifting better, like cleaner and crisper.
Not sure if I mentioned before in the thread but I bagged some trophy front shocks with 3k on them and around a year old. Decided to order up some matching trophy rear shocks through Kam Racing so will be giving the suspension a little refresh. Its on Cooksport springs on the original, now 114k old cup shocks. Should tighten things up a little all being well
There are 3 factory setups available that I can tell, Standard, Cup and Trophy, all with different part numbers
Defo think its shifting better, like cleaner and crisper.
Not sure if I mentioned before in the thread but I bagged some trophy front shocks with 3k on them and around a year old. Decided to order up some matching trophy rear shocks through Kam Racing so will be giving the suspension a little refresh. Its on Cooksport springs on the original, now 114k old cup shocks. Should tighten things up a little all being well
There are 3 factory setups available that I can tell, Standard, Cup and Trophy, all with different part numbers
Daz.
ClioSport Club Member
Clio 200 RS EDC
I have/had low mileage Trophy shocks and cooksport springs.
Front end is fantastic on this setup - sits perfectly.
I DID have cooksports on the rear but one snapped, so I ordered some more and had to stick standard trophy springs on the rear - I've ended up leaving the trophy springs in for now as it sits so nicely and feels no different to me to the cooksports!
Front end is fantastic on this setup - sits perfectly.
I DID have cooksports on the rear but one snapped, so I ordered some more and had to stick standard trophy springs on the rear - I've ended up leaving the trophy springs in for now as it sits so nicely and feels no different to me to the cooksports!
