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Fault - blower motor regularly stops after about a minute from cold, Heater Resistor replaced with a cheap Chinese chappie (£15) today in cold and rain, but all is well again. Mosfet heating up and going open circuit I guess.

The 'big yellow taxi' looks poised to do the right thing?

Just to round this thread up, for those interested and have a similar problem..... After some more time spent, all lights and warnings now function correctly, at least for the time being. Just to reiterate, the problem was: -with ign on, pressing brake pedal caused the dash reversing light...

Did another test.... Connected the earth plate of one of the holders directly to the earth point in the boot like so. The result is that the problem goes away completely, I know I could effect a cure this way, but would rather trace the problem to source. So I still want to find where the...

I'm still on this and getting quite perplexed.... After cleaning and checking with multi-meter the bulb holder, all seems OK, dunno what I did but situation is now worse, before only one of the units gave the problem 'ghost light' on the dash, but now both do and it is brighter than before (it...

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^, Yes guys, I cleaned connectors etc, but the bulb holder assembly itself doesn't appear to come apart and I think the problem is inside the assembly Doesn't look like it comes apart - lots of plastic rivets? See pic (stock picture - not mine)

An update on this problem. Having checked both earth connections behind rear trim, they were absolutely fine, no sign of corrosion, I cleaned 'em up anyway and checked resistance to earth which was fine. To cut a long story short, it looks like the problem is actually inside one of the rear...

Sorry, I should have put my thinking head on, indicator is indeed the rear fog dash warning, this works as normal, however it comes on very dim with reverse and brake switch (I've never used the fog lights so not noticed before these before), I will check out the earths like mentioned behind...

Hey, this is most likely an earth problem, but where? When in reverse, reverse lights work as they should. as do all other lights. The dash warning light (for reverse) is dim, and also is dim when brake lights come on. Everything else on the car and dash is working AOK. So far, i've only...

So, after six years since last cam belt change, I decided to get it done again even though car has only done about 400 miles since that time! It was done last time at Diamond in Nottingham, however this time I didn't fancy a trip out there again, so I entrusted it to a local guy, a Renault...

Hey, it's 2024 and I'm still around, so wanted to do this for a long time so after considering powder coating, I decided to paint the plenium and guard myself, rattle can job, and the result I liked, and looks much better than the powdery aluminium.... So with that done and Tax and MOT, it...

This problem has been around for years I know, but surely there must be a 'solution' to the sticky finish on the RS Clio plastics, I know it can be stripped off with some trouble or even replaced, but I am looking for something that would take away the sticky 'feel' without removing or...

Indeed, I am in the same situation, my car has done about 600 (yes six hundred) miles since 2017 when last cam belt change!! also with dephaser, aux belt and water pump done at same time at specialist, and guess now due again, been standing most of time and only very occasional use envisaged in...

Hey, it's got an MOT again! - October 2023, did all of 11 miles since last MOT in February 2020. Just needed a bottom ball joint due to the gaiter being perished. Since last post on this project, the only event was the n/s quarter glass got smashed (whilst parked up and no idea how). That was...

Thanks for all the advice guys, will keep all in mind when it comes to it. I have seen some Nankang NS20, which have a similar pattern to PS3 and in my price range, anybody tried these? As for wet driving, not too bothered as rarely take the car out in the wet, and even if caught out wouldn't...