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Welcome. Belts are a bit of a pig of a job and you ideally need to understand floating pullies and how tension affects timing on a none symmetrical belt

@Dr Jekyll much much better :cool:

As above really, pretty in depth customer service task breaking a car and selling bits. If you just want it gone 99p no reserve and make sure you reiterate several times it needs to be towed away

great thread, love the approach to, clean and sort stuff but leave functional so first time it rains you won't decide to not use the car.

Lovely....but get them wheels cleaned ;)

for the earth straps, clean up the bolts and the bolt holes too not just the straps and mating faces. I fell foul of that, fixed starting issues for a couple of says then came back and it was due to the bolts themselves doing a lot of the contact for a good earth

yeah looks like the little shield for the alternator

lol, there is no such thing as a perfect car or a finished project ;-)

Great track, need to get back and glad you're ironing out or working around the issues! Top day out with the father too, keep trying convince my pa have a go

Mark's aint bad, prefer mine though, he's just better at taking pictures ;) I am also completely bias :cool:

Should be a nice thing to recommission. Same recommendation here too, both my cars got to @MicKPM at diamond, he's just finished recommissioning the aircon on my phase 1

Low miler too, the car, presumably not the woman

Air con fixed and blowing ice cold with new condensor etc, airbag lights all clipped out for the recaros and new hella headlights fitted. She's getting there! Cheers to @MicKPM as ever, top fury spannering!

yeah 100%, none genuine injectors are a huge no no! lol!

they are very lumpy on idle from factory but as you have had the car from new presume this is different from the 'normal' lumpiness for you to flag it mine was a two pronged issue really, an injector went down simultaneously so cured big misfire by swapping injector then HT lead swap fixed it fully

as above, available new still from Renault parts direct, you want item number 2 on the diagram, NSF

if it makes you feel any more confident, my daily 182 is on 217k miles, used every day, does a couple of trackdays a year and is on original engine and gearbox. i just maintain it by the book and apart from a niggle now and again (most recently brand new spark plug leads breaking down and...

Mileage isn't an issue, there's cars on one 300k about with no problems and as they're cheap too repair bar major rust issues it's always viable imo

welcome back, sorry you weren't fully cured of Cio-itis

already got 2x of those though chap and in all honesty the mk2 in more road oriented trim just drive better so know for fact if i sold the oddy i would regret it