Recent content by Davejester

Morning all, just a quick one, is the wiper linkage on a 197/200 the same as a normal say 1.2 mk3 clio? Anyone have a part number handy, and what you say is an average price used one? Regards

Petrol can and matches in the boot haha it's still running ok for now Regards

Yea been reading, helicoils are no good, timeserts are the way to go for future reference. Anyways the plug nipped up so I may have been lucky. Changed the lead and put it all back together in between the rain and it's running fine, tapping noise is gone too I'll give it till the weekend and...

Coils and plugs should be here tha morra, engines been tapping for a while, thought it was the tappets, so hopefully it's just come loose and not damages the threads. Thanks for the replies guys Regards

Typical just MOTd the car and a week later boom. Driving along happy as Larry and it starts backfiring like a racecar and idling at like 3k. Luckily a was 2 secs away from home. Plugged my code reader in and nothing(eBay job) Took the inlet off and bam one ht lead chowd to bits and the plug...

Earth mebys? regards

Haha blocked me in ya c**nt lol regards

I did try earlier, just tried again, a bit stuck for places to clamp to on the body that isnt painted but managed to find a large nut to clamp to and it turned over normally :o) it would have fired i think if it was clamped in a better place and i kept at it. So would this suggest there is an...

Thanks renmatt, I'm starting to think it's an earth fault now. Put a new fully charged battery in, cleaned the tdc sensor too to no avail. Checked the battery earth which the top of the bolt snapped off when I was removing it so relocated it and cleaned it. Now the interiesting bit haha...

Quick update, starter motor came today so I poped it in and bolted everything back up, exactly the same :mad: Should have probably done this first but i went and bought a new battery, its currently on charge we will see how that fairs. Slowly running out of ideas, any help would be appreciated...

Started after a couple of mins this morning, same old clicking, ran over to the garage and they seem to think its the starter motor too but are busy till next Tuesday, so out come the halfords pro tool kit and 3 hours later BOOM

Tried to start it before I left for work last night, made a little video to see if anyone can confirm the problem before I attempt to remove the starter motor haha

just a quick update, car wont start at all now, starter motor clicks every now and again. I have tried the spare key I have checked the fuses for damp I have earthed the battery with a jump lead Visual check of TDC, looks fairly new (dosent mean much but looks ok) I have also tried jump...

Gonna bleed the brakes tha morra so I'll have a look while the wheels off appreciate your help folks regards