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So, another Clio day and another part or two to replace. As many of you know, the interior of most of these cars are showing signs of wear and tear. Steering wheels, trims, door cards etc. Amongst one of the annoying items is the gear knob. Mine was worn out almost completely and as I hate...

Hello everybody. My name is Dan and I have a Clio Williams, which I've owned for about six years. I've had quite a few Renaults since learning to drive in the 90's: Renault Clio RT 3 door (was less than 30k miles) Renault Clio 1.8 16v Mk1 Ph1 in Tungsten (about 30k miles as well) Renault 5...

As it is a 182 you can check for air leaks by taking the air feed off from the airbox to the throttle body and with the engine running put the palm of your hand over the intake to the TB. It should stall. If not, air is getting in from somewhere else and it is just a cast of checking the pipes...

Yea lol I read that too :) I have seen loads of people with this same problem, which I will post up pics of how I correct, hopefully tomorrow :)

Lol yea sheared driveshaft or tripod joint. Has happened to me too.

Car: 2004 Renault Clio 182 FF Cup Pack Symptoms: Low idle Hesitation Poor power delivery Kangerooing Waffle: I picked the car up about 4 weeks ago knowing it needed a dephaser and cambelt change as it sounded like a diesel. Parts and tools ordered. It also had a poor idle and was too low at...

And me...it's nice when people post solutions they found, which seems to be a rare occurrence.

Mine is standard. So it should be 900rpm? 800? How low does it go?

Just so I am clear, I think my idle should be from 950-1000rpm on a typical day with a warm engine, at standstill. Correct?

Ahhh ok, so it was deep in water. Mines only a bit damp from messing about with the washer pumps. I'll look elsewhere first, thanks for the fast reply.

Thank you! I read somewhere a fellow had issues where the bottom pins got wet causing some kind of issue with the FBW throttle cnotrol.

Hai!!!!! I wonder if anyone has a pic of the wiring under the skuttle panel near the washer bottle please? Apparently there is a plug back there that can get wet and cause idle issues. It feeds through to the bulkhead on passenger side. Typically, I had all that apart yesterday fixing stuck...

Bad earth Coolant temp. sensor Random wiring issue

Resurrecting a thread here, apologies, but before I start taking my car to bits again has anyone else had this issue with the wiring behind the washer bottle getting wet and causing a poor idle?

Yay! I'm clevor! Thanks.

Same here. All of the above changed except throttle body and HT leads, which I've cleaned. Compression test came back fine, 1 & 2 were a bit lower at 160ish dry tested, and 195 / 203 wet tested. Replaced injector 4 as it failed resulting in really bad misfire, and pre-cat lambda which has...

Well, going to get the punctured tyre looked at tomorrow and replaced if needed so my track day tyres will be in usable again. Got May 19th to think about so need to get sorted anyway :)

Just what I needed, thanks!

Would I be correct in saying, due to the difference between the cable throttle system, and the 182 wireless throttle control, there is no ISCV on the 182? Or separate TPS? Just a throttle body housing with a little motor in it to operate the butterfly...?

Do a compression test. Good compression will rule out the timing or bad valve possibility. Also, get an error code for the EML light if possible. See what it says and go from there.

Any solution so far?

So, the car is now misfire free and running well. No more dephaser noise and it feels smooth to drive. I replaced injector on piston 4 and it cured the mifire completely. Was only £39 or so for a new injector at ECP, so all good. If I were to do this job again, and I probably will as I am...

I didn't even know you were rolling in a 182 tbh! Or I did, and forgot lol.

Live and learn eh. If valves are bent I'll get this here spare head I have ported and polished and pop that on and buy/borrow the renault tools.

If I were to do it again, which I probably will, I would do it differently. But I don't see the point in the pulley locking tool, the one I got didn't fit anyway. Bear in mind I had to do the dephaser as well and I had to slacken the pulleys on exhaust side to assist with tensioning the top side...

Update: Timing was out by a little. It must have slipped or something when I was tightening stuff, and the tool bent. So, I reset the timing. It is still flashing emissions light so I fitted a new coil and crank sensor. No effect. I'd already fitted new sparks. I then ran the car (which...

It was rough yes. It started misfiring badly on the way to work and all the way home. I decided to overhaul the car as I knew the dephaser was noisy and needed doing and belt was almost 5 years old. I have used my ITB'd mental Williams as a daily car since. Huge fun tbh lol. The thing is that...

I did think this but they are marked on the HT lead and the coilpack for convenience so unlikely :) I used to use the flywheel on the F7R as a marker too but in this case I can't see it still. F7R seems to be easier to see the flywheel inspection bit. I took the airbox off completely too. I am...

I locked the crank using the pin, with the crank pulley marker pointing exactly mid way between the two ridges at one o'clock, roughly speaking.

No, but I can tomorrow. It got too late to do any more work and I was getting tired. I'm going to recheck the timing, and do a compression test as well tomorrow. But to be honest, if the valves have hit the pistons and bent I'll probably break the car for parts or just get another engine as I...