Recent content by Neal 19 16v

Right, this is what I'm wondering. Are the 3rd party tools really inferior or is it just that the people who have bent them just didn't know what they were doing and would have bent a genuine one if they'd done it the same way?

Aye fair enough, and I can see how that would happen if you try and do up (or even loosen) the pulley bolts without using the pulley locking tool. I just don't understand how it happens when it's done correctly.

From what? The tool is essentially a flat plate of a given thickness defined by the cam slots. As far as I can make out the genuine tool is the same outline shape as the 3rd party tools, which means the only possible variable which could lead to a 3rd party one bending where the genuine one...

OK, so it's the horseshoe bit that apparently bends? The thickness of the tool is determined by the slot in the end of the cam, so what super modulus steel are renault using for theirs which can resist bending where 3rd party ones cant? Anyway surely that tool is not actually meant to take any...

I'm not risking anything, my belt doesn't even need to be done. Just interested/want to understand why there is a 'risk'

which bit bends?

OK, something I've been wondering for a while... It's been said so many times that you must use the genuine Renault timing tools, everything else is crap. Genuine Renault or don't bother etc. Can someone please explain exactly why this is the case though?

I just came on to post the same thing, passed just before 8. Didn't look badly damaged so not a huge impact.

One other thing to note about a towbar mounted carrier on a clio is that the towbar is rated to a noseweight of 75Kg. You need to bear in mind that this means 75Kg load straight down on the towball. A bike rack cantilevered off it is a very different prospect though and in effect you are...

The swan neck bit plugs in, the the bike rack mounts to that like any other. I decided not to go for this type because I felt that if there was any small amount of play in the interface, the bike rack would wobble all over the place. Wouldn't be an issue for a trailer as it has wheels on the...

Does it have red wheels (iirc) and a loud exhaust, and being given death everywhere it goes? If so, I've seen a couple of times too, I'm on the ex-RAF base at Locking, it's been around the estate here and along the A371.

I recently fitted a towbar to my ph1 172 for a bike rack. Easy to fit, took me about an hour and a half, plus wiring, another hour or so. Bought it from PF Jones, £100 all in. I got the Bosal one but there are other make available, all 'much of a muchness' There is also one from a Polish...

There's no way I can get it, nowhere to put it for starters.

http://auctions.trents.co.uk/vehicle-list/details/2005-renault-clio-renaultsport-182-16v-1998cc-petrol-manual-3-door-unknown-at-charles-trent-ltd-charles-trent-ltd-poole/197558?x=0&type=0&memr=0&make=RENAULT&trns=0&fuel=0&catc=0&dist=0&sort=0&srch= Has a cliosport sticker in the back window

I bought some headlight protectors cheap but they dont fit like the ones on my 19, which just hook under the headlight and clip over the top, 1 piece. The clio ones hook over the top but at the bottom there is just 2 holes, where I gather there should fit some plastic clips to attach under the...