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This happened to my 172 except it would'nt lock, the whole boot lock needed replacing, wasn't to expensive. Renault charged me about £60 for the part, if you can find one in a breakers yard it will be cheaper. I then took it to a car electronics place and they charged me about £30 to fit it.

I dont know that much about car problems except the ones that have happened to me. My 172ff was doing this every now and again, turned out to be a loose battery connection. Could also be a flat battery. Not sure if this helps just thought it was worth mentioning.

This may be a dumb question but are you resetting the trip computer every time you set of? Mine showed the same read out for weeks untill I realised it needed resetting every journey. My 172 gets 35 round town and 40ish at 80mph on the motorway. Its 5yrs old with 54k on clock.

This happened to me the other week, both key fobs were fine, turned out to be a loose connection on the battery. Also check your fuses. Not sure if this helps, just thought I would mention it.

I got my brake pedal switch done at a independant renault specialist, only cost me £37 quid, renault dealers make there prices up of the top of their heads.

Ive got the same thing happening, I got it looked at and the diognostic said it was brake pedal switch, I got that fixed and its still showing warning lights, the garage did another diognosic and the computer said there was nothing wrong. They are out of ideas! W.T.F!

Thats what I thought, the T/C does work it's just crap. Back to the garage it is. Good job it cost me less than £40, dread to think what renault whould have charged me!

Yes it was displaying a fault code on the diognostic computer. But they diddnt hook it up when they were replacing the brake pedal switch. The T/C useless anyway, all's it does is stop the wheels spinning, I can do that myself with throttle control.

Yesterday I had the 172 in a local Renault specialist to get the brake pedal switch replaced because the T/C warning light kept coming on when im on the motorway. I've just driven down the M1 and it came on again! Is it because the fault code needs canceling, or is it because its still broke?

The cup racers have the same rear spoiler, the pics I've seen of the road version has a smaller one, like a 182 cup. Cup Racer for sure.

I did mate, same problem.

Where do I start? The other day I came out of the shops and the car would not unlock with the key fob. I unlocked it manually and this set the alarms off, key fob would not switch it off, even though the light on the key was flashing. Eventually it reset itself after 5mins and pressing the...

Gonna make me look more carefully when crossing the street!

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1096821006 Hope this one works

My work computers gone wrong Sorry!!!

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http://www.west.../motorised_mayhem.htm Check this out!! Poor B**tard crossing the street!

If you have the service book (the red one) It should be on the inside of the frount cover.

Heavy foot and no skill!!

OK nice one for that, its way bigger than 10mm, its about an inch so it will probably fail. Someone in my office has just told me that I can get someone to repair it while im at work. Cheers for replies.

Its kind of in my view, its just a bit below my eye line.

Is a inch long crack in the windsreen an MOT failure? My MOT is up at the end of November and in the last few months I have not seen a single window repair bloke in any of the supermarket car parks. I know that the repair is free, I just havn't seen one, will the car fail its MOT if I leave it?

I had a spare set given to me when I bought my car but I do know from other peoples threads that the rear ones are about £50 each, not sure about the frount ones. Someone on hear will know though mate.

It will most probably be your shocks/dampers. They fail all the time, it sounds like you've lost some fluid out of them, they will need changing mate. I just changed my rear ones today and I could not believe how much they were leaking. My 172FF was bouncing over bumps and sliding out on...

Nice one for all the info guys Im changing them 2morra. Can I do it with a standard jack? as I have nothing else.

Then burn the dealership down! I refuse to let Renault anywhere near mine. There muppets in Nottingham!

Sod it then, i'm just gonna change em without a torque wrench, i'm sick of bouncing over bumps and sliding round corners! Went sideways round a roundabout the other day, scared the sh1t out of some bloke waiting to cross, and it was in the wet, with a car beside me, nearly hit him. Wasnt...

I spoke to GDI today and they told me that the rear dampers need 80-90nm of torque on the bottom nut, and the top one just needs tightening as much as it will go. They also said that the wheel nuts need 100nm of torque and that its realy important to torque them up, because its feckin...

My mates got the Milltek systems on his 182 cup, its not that much louder than standard but it has alot more bass, makes it sound meaner. Plus the tail pipes fill the bumber recesess perfectly, the standard ones looked like pea shooters in comparison.

Will that not screw up the handeling? 105NM it should be done to. Won't mess it up going over or under but its good practice don't bodge anything Is that the top or bottom nut or both?