Recent content by TheBandit

You can also tap into the squib connector to install CC. (I don't have a squib with black cruise wire from the clock ring)

https://cliosport.net/threads/k-tec-renault.850256/ Join the club by the look of it

Currently day five of the estimated seven, good to see some things are going to plan though. The fob was an relatively easy fix! Could have tested it using diode mode 👀

Keys are programmed to the UCH I think? The immobiliser ring just checks the key on behalf of the UCH. Maybe even the BCM too - *full kit to replace:

I tried FetLife for belt experts but they redirected me here. Pulleys all in line and no obvious damage, PAS pump and tensioner idler have slight movement to them. My spare PAS pump also seems to have this movement, waiting on replacement tensioner to check that. To me it seems the belt is...

@Brigsy If EPAS doesn't feel right then electro hydraulic was next on the list. Just like EPAS, lots say its perfect and others need higher output alternators etc to keep up with its demand... And the units themselves are huge aren't they - makes sense in a stripped track car but for road not so...

SKF tensioner kit and 5PK belt comes in at £120. Better thank paying £200 for the 'genuine' plus extra belt, that seems to be SKF anyway. (PMS sell it at least) I may live in the south but maybe I was northerner in another life I love me a bargain. And this just arrived: 2.5 turns lock to...

@MAXRUNDOWN That's a much better write up, I think I was just happy to not have PS fluid pissing everywhere. Cup PAS pump placement is so much better than standard! All this being said I am collecting the parts to run dci EPAS rack. The kit is much better than a failing pipe but I don't think...

@MrBlonde Kits great, easy to fit if you have the engine out but massive PITA if you are doing it in situ. The main pains where: I had to undo the two small pipes on the rack to get spanner access to the HP line My HP line union was seized so had to run an angle grinder through it and bend it...

I wish everything @Brigsy says was legally enforceable. It would save everyone on the forum a lot of time.

The horseshoe tool for the cams is the most important to get genuine if money is tight. This set is £200 on eBay right now, might be worth shooting Ozzy or Dann a message and see if you could borrow - would be cheaper in the long run and know the tools are bang on

A non-genuine tool must still line up with the same keys/locations to a genuine one. Looks like this one? Which I hope it isn't as it's for the wrong engine. Do you have a link to where you bought it?

And so it begins. Do you have those manuals you said you had?

Appreciate the advice! Would rather be safe then sorry

@YorkshireKyle sounds ideal I was thinking new belt, while I'm there pull the tensioner apart to see if it's seized then maybe a new idler. Does that sound stupid? I'm a bit loathed to spend £180 on the genuine kit (and more of going 5pk) but I'm also not a big fan of engine blowy-uppy.