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If there's massive play in a wheel bearing the discs side movement will continually push the piston in the caliper back, meaning every time you break you effectively have to pump the piston back out before it even touches the disc. Would be worth giving the wheels a shake, could also be air in...

To be fair mate it would probably be cheaper to get someone to diagnose it for you! Missfires are generally pretty easy to diagnose, and throwing parts at it is such a massive waste!! You need 3 things for each cylinder to work, fuel (so injector pulse and working injector) spark and...

Also the plastic trim on the inside of the boot lid rattles and sounds similar! Lol at this thread, hundreds of ideas of things that's could fall off your car, must fill people with confidence!

And if you are unlucky enough to get a bad one, you can look forward to forking out minimum 4 figure sums every time it stops!!

Would never ever buy a common rail diesel car, I like to think I know what I'm doing and aspects of it still baffle me... And the bits I do understand I can't test due to lack of equipment, it's a joke!!

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Easiest way to see if it's cup setup is look at the abs ring on the front driveshaft cup ones are maybe 10mm fat compared to the skinny one on std 182's

Huh? Can't see how compressing it would make it fracture like that, was all nice and free in the hub flange when I took it out, so I wouldn't have thought that was the case. I reckon it's just shite luck and flawed metal. I refitted the shaft with a new nut(both genuine) and out of curiosity...

I did wonder about that, the parts not subject to any rotational force as its broken half way down the spline, so it's purely been pulled apart, I'd have thought the nut would strip before the shaft broke even if it was over tightened, well that's what I'd hope would happen anyway. It looks to...

Lol at the suggestions as to how it's happened. I'll put them all in the letter to renault!

Makes 3 of us!! Nobody I've spoke to has even heard of it!

This happened literally doing a u turn in the road, never hit anything, no bumps, nothing.. Can honestly say I've never seen any driveshaft snap there before, it's not even particularly stressed, it's only holding the bearing together! The casting is flawed looking at it, to say ive lost faith...

I was joking with the what's wrong with it lol! I've seen 2 1.8t's (in passats funnily enough) spit its innards out, the other oil pump failures also on 1.8s have all been caught in time and only damaged the turbos. Not seen a diesel do that yet.. Like you say low on oil.. Them lease cars are so...

So what's wrong with it then, lol! Yeah, done loads of oil pumps on the 1.8's now!

Agreed!!!!

You shouldn't have!! It's like cambelt gustapo on here! It's good for the registered traders on here as people are too terrified to take them elsewhere. Yes it's not the simplest engine in the world but no more complicated than the zetecs with no keyways and vvt and you don't hear half the...

I'm a jag specialist too, the ajv8 (the aluminium v8 they've used since year dot... Albeit timing chain is timed up in a very similar way to the f4r, with free spinning pulleys and the like. Intact the vvt and chain setup on that engines a hell of a lot more complicated than a f4r, so he'll be...

I have a rs192 on my 182 also.. Hated it with the decat.. Loud annoying wet fart.. Put the cat back on it and it's just right! Much quieter with just a bit of an exhaust note.

I think that's a bit of a bad thing to say.. Provided you have the tools, and you're a decent mechanic, you'll figure it out.. Provided all the locking tools line back up after its been rotated, the tensioner is set correctly and all the bolts are tight, your on to a winner. People make the...

I'd be interested to see it when it's apart if it's managed to hammer a spark plug out!!

I don't know if this was ever answered.. But no, it wont fail an mot like that (I'm a tester) before, it wasn't even testable, under the new regs the speedo will fail if it's 'obviously defective' There's no call to drive the car for mot purposes, so theres no way for the tester to fail it. It...

Re the bumps in the roof you were talking about, when they've been front ended they tend to fold at the weak points which are either side of the sunroof

Even on the 1.2? I know 1*2 have that, but unless I'm very much mistaken my 1.2 didn't, as I had to buy one when i put the 2.0 in... I'll have a look tommorow though, hopefully it is that simple!

One for the clever boys ;) Have a 1.2 16v (the early one, ecu on the back of inlet) in at the moment.. Haven't really gone through it yet but had a quick look.. It's a non start, won't crank or do anything other than a relay in the engine fuse box buzzes and goes mad. I determined that it was an...

Lol, same side aswell... Impressed! I'll order them up from Renault, bit of discount :) Cheers though

Oh are they!! Never noticed that before, that's actually a good idea on renaults part! Top man.. Can stop worrying then, provided the other side don't fall out before I can get round to doing it lol

Danny already answered this ;) sometimes the bulbs two filaments short together and back feed each other

Basically, it looks as though the flange where the manifold bolts to the cat, the holes where the bolts go through have corroded and enlarged enough to let one of them pull through? I always thought the manifolds were made out of fairy decent steel!? Never seen one like that before.. If so what...

Cheers, No worries :)

That's me mate! Live in Romford and work in Rainham so always around that area!