Recent content by Martin_172

Picked it up from the garage, drove perfect the full way home, stalled it outside the house and went to re start it and it done this, turned it off, then started again to film the video, went to get the diagnostic machine, running normally no codes found. runs perfectly on 4 cylinders when...

Cant see the throttle body when its doing its 4500rpm revving as I cant replicate it, I've tried to dummy an emissions test on the drive but couldn't get it to do it. the MOT tester said he thought possibly an air leak, ill attack the engine bay with a can of brake cleaner when I've collected...

I've got a problem with my sisters (no!) Twingo 1.2 16v currently, pretty much identical mechanically to a mk2 1.2 16v Clio. she's owned it for years, gave very little issues, it went for an MOT last month, the test station abandoned the MOT as during emissions it started uncontrollably revving...

Apologies I've not worked on a 172 for years, I done a compression test on a 197 last week and had to remove the throttle body which is why it was fresh on my mind!

Open the throttle or remove the throttle body for your compression test. The induction noise was the first thing I noticed at idle on my RSI when I lost compression on 2 cylinders.

Im sure it does upto 99 folders (CD's) and it definately does upto 99 tracks per folder as im sure mine has a 16gb flash drive thats almost full!

Thats the boy, it was available on the mk3 clios, but works on the update list in a mk2. yeah as far as i know no expert menu on the model with the screen on the face, you want the unit without a screen that uses your big screen on top of the dash

M1144 on my 197 too, fantastic road pad and fairly good on track too. As above EBC are junk

Yeah that screen is fine they are all the same, just yours isnt displaying everything. Get yourself an update list CD player and ebay aux cable or Renault TunePoint (read from a usb stick etc) and you are good to go

Do you have the top screen on top of the dashboard with the clock? if so you will need an update list head unit with no screen, that will have the AUX option in the menu. If you have the screen above then the wiring is all the same so will work as normal. You then just plug the "ebay" aux...

I fitted febi inner ARB bushes in my RSI and they were worse than the originals by the 2nd MOT, couldn't believe it! When it's a Kent of a job to fit them, fit and forget, go power flex 😂

Really cool project, what did you do when fitting the cams with regards to the VVT system on the 133 cams? Dephaser etc?

Anti rotation links, I had similar on my 197, had no play at all in mine, swapped them, problem solved!

must be either oil leaking somewhere or an oil breather disconnected, I'm not familiar with the 1.2 tce in the mk4 but have a look at the oil breather pipework, see if any are disconnected

Was this where the video was filmed of the 172 chasing Fred in the 1.2 Dynamique?