Recent content by Stoatinacoat

This. Mine failed it's MOT on washers not working (of all things!) so asked the bloke if they had to be there and he said the same so I took it home, pulled them out and sent it in with two holes in the front bumper. Passed but got an advisory note saying "Headlight washers removed".

I believe the cup uses a different radiator, possibly shared with a diesel Clio? Don't need to squeeze an aircon rad in the cup.

Mine did exactly the same thing and it was the thermostat. Renault want nearly £30 for one which I thought was taking the piss so got one from local factors for £7 with the gasket and it works fine. For now. You'll lose a bit of coolant changing it although I didn't check how much. Maybe a...

Change the fluid first! It may save you a lot of time, money and ruined hands. Even my completely mullered pump that had tuned all the fluid black and sounded like a supercharger responded well to a fluid change.

I did but mine needed doing anyway. I think you can buy the belt on it's own for around £23 or the whole kit for £72 which is what I did. Comes with tensioner and bottom idler pulley which is a bit of a faff to change as you'll need to lift the engine up a bit but if it was me and it had done 3k...

Careful when you do the pulley bolts back up, they don't need to be super tight and I snapped one of mine :( The torque settings are all listed here somewhere. When all the bolts are out of the pump it still feels like it doesn't want to come out. To be honest I lost my temper a bit and smashed...

Can also leak out of the pump itself which should be easy to spot.

You must have small hands! I don't even know how you can get the slam panel off with the bumper in place but there you go. If it's a new belt you don't have to take it off entirely which saves some hassle. You can just drop it off the alternator pulley :) Jubilee clip goes around the spring you...

I would say so. Looks like a leaking radiator to me anyway.

Probably the PAS pump. Was on mine. Fluid change helped it but it was utterly shagged by the time I decided to do something about it and the fluid had turned black.

It's not quite as simple as it sounds. I would definitely take the bumper and headlight off as a bare minimum as I don't see how you could get it out otherwise as it goes through the headlight hole? Maybe no aircon? Once you're at that point you may as well take the slam panel off as well - two...

I was quoted around £600 for belt and dephaser by Ren7oaks who should be local to you. Obviously this includes aux belt kit as well. Dunno how much for fluids etc but I wouldn't pay someone to do that anyway.

Could pop the bumper off and have a look at the rad easily enough. Mine went on the N/S bottom corner which is apparently quite common for whatever reason and easy to see once it's exposed. Have a look for a build up of shite on the thermostat housing and any leaks on the stat to rad pipe...

Mine did this and it turned out to be a small radiator leak which was very difficult to see until it got worse as then the coolant could be seen dripping off the bottom of the bumper after ragging it. Now it's doing it again to a much lesser extent because the thermostat gasket is dying and it's...

For the benefit of anybody searching this in the future this is now SOLVED. I can't seem to change the title to that though... After much arsing around and pumps/tensioners/belts it turned out to be the crank pulley. Even though it looked ok another one was fitted to see and the problem went...