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I used some tar and bug remover from Tesco - £1.99 for a spray bottle iirc

Great series, great cars! Good luck to him!

Was behind you in silver 1.poo as you were gunning it towards the Thornaby/Ingleby turnoff. Was a darker blue car, with silver painted bullets.

write up your exact formula...

Yup - great place to start! Lot of people have and they're in a good price bracket at the moment!

I've no idea - though have recently switched to Avast's freebie - runs effortlessly in the background. Had a few probs with AVG's updating and scanning.

Think that second pic looks alright actually. I'm no expert (and probably wrong), but I think a polarising filter would cure up a bit of that light glare from the first pic, or having a less shiny car ;)

If you've got any meths - use that and it gets rid of all the grease, stops the wipers smearing.

Stuck my head under the wheel and counted 16 teeth on less than one half of the ring - so I'm fairly sure it'll have 44 teeth, unless there's only a scattering of teeth on the other half of the ring. Have pulled the ABS fuse out for now until I can get it repaired.

If it's not too much trouble, could you get that part number? It's for a 1.2 16V, if it's a choice of 26 or 44 then it'll be a 44 tooth version.

Yeah I'm pretty sure it is too. That's why I told them where to go; but I don't have the required skills to do it myself...

How big / expensive a job is it to get these replaced at a garage? Renault quoted £300 for a new driveshaft as "you cannot buy the rings seperately, so it needs to be a whole new shaft"...?

Renault have quoted £300 to fit a new driveshaft, as the rings cannot be bought seperately. Load of b****cks I presume.

Cheers for all the nods in the right direction guys - both CV boot joints are fine, got the wheels off and found the n/s front ABS ring is indeed cracked. Is this a big / expensive job to get done? With three letter searches not working, I don't really want to search here for "Fix cracked...

I remember the Excel95 one - Hall of Tortured Souls.

Yeah i need to get someone who knows what they're looking for to look at it before trusting a garage to try rip me off ;)

Now that's what confused me..! I've got some pics too, but will wait a few days to get the best ones sorted.

Was about to post exactly the same spotted thread :)

Extreme, although I couldn't tell you the difference.

Looking out for some alloys, so hopefull can get some on soon. Couple of scratches to tidy up (and ABS to fix) and it'll be fine.

Oh believe me it wont! I have no idea what a car's supposed to look like underneath ;)

Even though it works perfectly normally until the little lights come on, then not at all? Will still get it checked at the service and see.

Hmm - gets more weird by the minute. At slow speeds <50mph, the lights are not on and the ABS works fine. After going more than 50mph the lights come on and the ABS doesn't work at all. I'm guessing this is likely to be a sensor / electrical problem, rather than mechanical.

The ABS has now failed entirely - wheels just lock up under heavy braking. Will see what Renault think the problem is, then find somewhere to fix it.

I've just encountered the same problem over the last few days. I'm not really too bothered about the ABS not working, don't really need it - but if it's going to cause more damage to the car, then will get it fixed.

What about going for that Dell Monitor that was posted on HUKD a while ago - very good price for a 24", 10,000:1 contrast ratio (excellent) - full 1080p HD compatible too. See if I can find the linky....

Have you got a gun yet?

Ahh, that's the problem with not reading properly! I'll see what they say when they come to service it next week.

I doubt that this is related to the ABS problem; but, this morning when filling up the washer fluid I noticed that the circled nut was loose and I had to tighten it back up. I'm guessing it's quite an important nut and holding something together, so it shouldn't be loose? (stole someone...

Well I thought that but I've read a lot of posts of people complaining that the ABS and SERV lights are on, but a quick jiggle of the wires under the seat knocks it off. I tried an emergency stop earlier, from about 20mph and it felt normal, the problem only seems to be from slow speed.