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Keep the dephaser. Buy the jenvey kit direct from jenvey. I quite like the ec1 ecu, I will hopefully be able to supply a kit soon for that ecu because as far as I'm aware TDF don't deal with clios any more. ARP bolts yes. 421's yes on stock pistons or 422's if you replace the pistons for forged...
Yep that dephaser is f**kED!
To add further salt to the wound, if you'd come over to me in somerset you'd have saved £99 and had the dephaser and oil and filter changed at that price.
But they should've heard that and advised it needed changing.
That won't be the cause. The MAF will not be anywhere near maxed out and cause limp mode. From what you've said it sounds like yours is seeing excessive boost pressure or even abnormal burn/knock detection and is shutting down to prevent damage. You want to look at live data and see what...
Official guidelines are 12k 12months for oil and filters. 36k or 3 years for the aux kit, 72k or 5 years for the timing belt.
Don't give it any revs. Doing that should start it each time, it's a weak pressure regulator leaking out the pressure from the pump over time.