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Is that boot held on with a cable tie. 😂

Backfiring and lack of power indicates a misfire, this could be caused by any number of things but usually Injectors, Coil pack or spark plugs. Do you have any misfire codes? If the second sensor is the same as the 1*2 it doesn’t do anything to the fuel trim and is just there to confirm the...

Was indeed the coil pack, seems to be running fine now. Also kudos to euro car parts for installing the cables the wrong way round.

So swapping the injectors didn’t resolve my issue. At this point I was getting a bit confused as the coil pack seemed to be fine on the multi meter. So I decided to do another compression test, This came back with 200psi ish across all cylinders. However cylinder 2 whilst it got to the same...

White oilyness is just part of these engines in my experience. Only advice I’d give on the gearbox is remove the plastic bung before you drop the oil just incase it won’t come out.

It was annoying me so pulled the inlet off to take a look at the injectors. Certainly looks like cylinder 2 injector could well be my issue as it’s more rusted than the others. The likes of ecp want £70 for an injector or an eBay special for £30, I don’t particularly fancy either option...

So took it for a test drive and noticed it’s down on power and feels like it’s misfiring. Played around with the HT leads and narrowed it down to cylinder 2. Swapped the spark plugs over just in case but same result so figure it’s one of two things the coil pack or an injector. The injectors...

Best thing and worst thing about cheapo clios is how cheap the parts are. Engine fully stripped down for the belt and water pump change. New pump and belt installed. Engine built back up and first run, always a nervy moment no matter the number of times you’ve done it. Took me a second to...

Happened across this which might explain the colour change.

I’ve got the Milwaukee one runs off the standard batteries.

Gearbox oil changed, getting the plastic bung out was a complete nightmare, stupid design. But the existing oil looked decent so has been changed at least once in it’s life. Then swapped the plugs, cylinder one was full of rust which not ideal but dry so I suspect some water had got in there...

Stripped off the scuttle panel to get to the top mounts and was met with a nice pond and a blocked drain. Pretty amazing amount of dirt in there so it must’ve been blocked for a while. Got to say I’m impressed with the generally lack of rust but wire brushed a few bubbly spots and gave it a...

Moving on I ordered a new thermostat off eBay for £17 and picked up a bottle of type e coolant. At some point this has had a coolant change to red coolant so when I uncovered the thermostat It was a bit powdery. Coolant dropped some went in the bucket most went on the floor. Cleaned up the...

I’ll be honest I’m not really sure why I’m making this thread as it might not go anywhere but maybe it's interesting to someone. Whilst my beemer was out of action I picked up this 1.2 mk3 as a cheap run around, The paintwork is awful but mechanically it is in pretty good condition and also...

Need to plug it in and have a look at the live data when the faults happening ideally.

Do they not put the Coshh sheets on the bottle any more that will tell you if there is a difference beyond the colour.

Got sick of buying Karcher/Nilfisk because they keep breaking. So picked up one of these today and so far first impressions it is excellent, really well thought out design and plenty of power...

Yeah admittedly you do get a lot of mongs when it comes to selling Clio parts. Amount of people that seem shocked at 20yr old parts having rust on them makes me chuckle sometimes.

If it’s just a ticking sound then that’s fairly typical of the d4f in my experience, I had one from brand new and they’re a bit of a tappy engine at the best of times.

Anyone used parts from Febi Bilstein stuff before, need a thermostat for the 1.2 and its either that or starline from ecp.

Yeah I noticed a lot of hidden rust on the ones I cut up recently outside of the usual places.

I’ve broken a fair few now and you can easily make a decent profit even if you sell stuff cheap. Latest one I paid £400 for the car and made 3-4k off the parts.

Looks like they’ve used the wrong bolt for that tensioner, should’ve at least added a washer to it.

Sawzall made short work of the Clio shell like cutting through butter.

That’s pretty cool

Yeah we’ve got all new Ford stuff recently and it’s pretty crazy how much it records, travel length of the pedals, gear changes etc.

It’s been like that for a while on all our work vehicles, you get flagged up on a board in hr if you drive the vehicles too fast etc.

Knife fwends.

If it is close to £22k then it’s very compelling but somehow I can see it being into the 30k region.