Recent content by DaveL485

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...

Naughty naughty NAUGHTY car. Turbo failure, and of course, when it failed I was 5 laps in to a track day. A £600 track day. At Monza. In Italy. 1000 miles from home. Full write up when I finish seething about it.

I've opened pandora's box on this car now, one handbrake cable was seized solid so I fitted a new one. Now working well. Next up the wiper linkage was flapping about, and turns out was broken. I stuck it back together with some of the glue from @Sparkie and WOW that stuff rocks! Glued the...

I fixed the washer jets I fixed the horn, needed a new compressor Tried to refit the wheel centres - fail - powdercoat thickness from the refurb is too much and I will need to sand them back on the edges - ballache! Then I just thought - feck it lets go for geo alignment, and as the place I...

Now returned to its owner, back on the road :)

Just take your time, you'll be fine. I did a roof skin, and put it upside down on an airbed while I picked it apart from the back.

Never known a rear diff or prop to go, the box itself will manage up to about 300 brake before it throws in the towel usually. The issue with these is that although they look like the 2wd UN1 with a viscous coupling strapped to the back, inside they are quite different in a number of ways...

Clean off the loose rust, paint with Bilt Hamber Hydrate 80, then prime with Bonda rust primer. Very good combo.