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And another update!
I was driving it earlier and when I accelerated from low revs in third gear at light throttle and it had a big cough. Went ok after that but just stuttered once.
Anyway, when I got home I changed the plugs, leads and coil pack. Whilst it hasn't made any difference in...
Sorry, bit of a delay.
Just to update things a bit here. I borrowed the coil pack from a friend's 172 for a couple of days and it didn't make any difference to how the car ran. When I removed mine, I did notice that it was quite badly cracked, and there was evidence of corrosion, so I've...
As I say, plugs and things are on the list, as they're easy and are service items anyway so, without knowing when they were last done, changing them is probably not a bad idea.
On the coil pack and lead fronts, what is the deal with new ones? Presumably buying from Renault is going to see my...
1st lambda has already been changed, but that didn't make any difference unfortunately.
Plugs have been ordered, not leads though. I was thinking of doing them, as I don't know when they were last done, so it's probably not a terrible idea, but not really sure what to go for with those.
Plugs-wise I've ordered some from a Renault dealer as I got them for a decent price. They're the NGK Platinum ones that people seem to talk about in threads I've seen.
Is it easy to test the injectors?
I should also add that I plugged a friend's RS Tuner into the car and it didn't come up with...
Hello guys and gals.
New to the forum and have a question. I've done some searching on this, but so far not managed to find anything that quite matches my symptoms. My '53 Clio 172 Cup seems to suffer from a rather poor idle, enough to make the car shake quite badly at times.
Generally the car...