Recent content by DaveL485

Are we all ready for another storytime of woe and misery? Good, because I have one for you! So - I got everything done and was ready to put it up for sale. Cleaned it up, took the pics. Looking sharp. On the road, tax, insurance and MOT. All good right? Wrong. I noticed when it was up...

Remember the halcyon days when Renault built proper hot hatches...

It wont fix it, its not the cause of the issue. Apparently the kangarooing is caused by the ECU retarding the timing to try and heat the catalyst, but in a typically french style whichever bright spark programmed it did it in a retarded way that causes this kangarooing symptom. Take it to EFI...

Given what happened to me there in September I hope not!

It does, in pics and from distance, unfortunately when you get up close there is microblisters in the paint on the bonnet & roof, whoever painted it messed up with moisture in the paint I think. Not sure if I am game for shelling out for more paint myself, I have thousands in it in cash and...

Got a last minute request from the Renault Classic Car Club to fill in at the NEC Classic Car Show. Came with a free ticket so I cleaned it up and dropped it off (and yes I got the wheel centres sorted) Drives well, doesnt overheat, fluids and pressured good. Leaking some...

I've had an aftermarket set for about 10 years and never had an issue, as long as you use it properly and dont stress the horseshoe. You need the pulley lock bits.

CSF 2015 in my Renault 21 Quadra :love: Great video Sam made of the same year

Brings back memories of AOL dial up and the R21 owners club Network54 forums... good times!

Losange Passion in Montlhery, the single best Renault car show I have ever been to. Then over to Stuttgart for the Porsche & Mercedes museums, then up to the 'ring for a couple of days and finally the last night in the V8 Hotel Motorworld Region Stuttgart before heading home.

TurboRenault.co.uk - the club we started over 10 years ago to reclaim lost forum/club members from social media. The R5 GTT clubs were dying off, as was the 21 Turbo Owners Club, we amalgamated a few different places together to for TurboRenault - been growing ever since. We run with no...

Just seen this pic is missing so here it is again, as I cant edit the original post

Incidentally, on the turbo, since fitting the replacement I have done well over a thousand miles home plus given it a kicking after i got back and its fine...so the failure wasnt the car (oil feed, overheating core or whatever). It just...let go. My enormous gratitude to Matt, for taking me...

Wednesday. Woke up, had food, the plan for the day was a boat trip on the lake but that went out the window. TR chat group were helping trying to find a solution. Andy Bond found a use turbo 2 hours east, so messaged the ebay seller and said I wanted to collect today. They said OK and Roger H...

nday. Drove Cov to Verdun, via Reims. No issues, all went swimmingly. Monday, Reims to Monza, through Switzerland. We wanted to take a break through Switzerland and pulled in to some services a few miles after border control (where we were waived through without stopping). I took a...