Recent content by Ro172

Blue 182 on the A12 between Chelmsford and Colchester. I was in the blue Alfa GTA.

I have the same problem. It's driving me nuts. Did you figure out what the cause was?

Snap! Was half a sleep this morning.

I recently got my belts changed. Soon after that the pulley started playing up. Cost me another 900 to replaced the pulley and another set of belts. Wasn't pleased.

When I bought my car, I got a Green Flag warranty. Its lists all the parts covered. Recently the dephaser pulley went. My warranty lists timing gear as covered, not pulleys. I argued with the warranty company that even though it’s called a pulley, it is in fact a gear as it has teeth, driven by...

Does anyone have the telephone number for Renault UK techincal department? If you go on their site you've got to fill in a load of questions, and they try flogging you stuff. I just want to speak to a real person.

I had the same problem as you described. The engine would turn over fine, but wouldn’t start. It turned out the chip inside the key was damaged, and it wasn’t disarming the immobilizer. Now I just use the spare key, and it works fine.

I've got an imported one. Seen another driving 'ull.

Cheers for that. I'll have another look :)

I recently purchased a second hand standard air filter box for 172 II. This is to replace the induction kit fitted by the previous owner. Looking at the underside of the box there is two air inlets. Still in place is an air feed pipe that runs between the passenger head light and battery...