Recent content by Martin_172

Unreal. I was convinced I was missing something as its very rare you get stuck on something as simple as a 1.2 16v!

4th throttle body installed, car is good as gold. the mind boggles, #Renault

get a tool thats like a hair comb that straightens those fins, but given its new then absolutely send it back for a replacement, but if it was already fitted to a car id just straighten them

Yeah there is apparently a reset procedure of disconnecting the battery, reconnecting, turning ignition on for 30 seconds, off for 30 seconds then it relearns over a few driving cycles, but i think it might be internet Chinese whispers as there is no relearn process on the diag machine for the...

That was only on an early mk2 clio, 2004> and all twingos had the later engine with the ECU in a sensible place!

The plot thickens. original throttle body was sticky and clicking thru its motion - replaced it and binned it the replacement felt nice, but now seems it doesnt want to auto close (sticking at 46% and causing a high revving, when it does finally close it stays slightly open causing a 1500rpm...

Pouring with rain today but i did get some diagnostic time inside the car! (not under the bonnet!) Im getting an active code that wont clear for Motorised throttle unit control values outside limits. and i can see some historic codes that have cleared and not returned after a few cycles and...

No I don't think I was on those ones! i remember the days where there was meets almost weekly! There was also a Falkirk meet in front of the, now migrant hotel that's always on the news 😂

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