£1200 Service on the way

[fUbAr]

i'll take a pic of the pile of them later!

lol, you keep the shagged dephasers?

 

[Fred@BTM]

yeah just incase it ever becomes possible to refurbish them

 

[Rob]

Any underlying reason they go etc? i.e is it obvious when one does/doesn't need doing?

And LOL@the pile!

 

[Fred@BTM]

lack of oil changes/poor quality oil, if you want it not to fail you need to be doing the oil every 6K IMO

 

[chris_p]

£1200?! I'd expect that on my M, but on a clio? Menthal

 

[Rob]

lack of oil changes/poor quality oil, if you want it not to fail you need to be doing the oil every 6K IMO

Interesting... mine may be ok then

 

[jenic]

Interesting... mine may be ok then

Probably worth doing on the 2nd cambelt change surely?

 

[Rob]

Probably worth doing on the 2nd cambelt change surely?

I don't like spending money on things I can't see lol!

I'll probably have it done if I'm honest, just don't want to. Seems like a lot of money to spend on a car that's not worth a lot of money.

 

[kevin.s]

i must have been one of the first to have the dephaser done. well worth it as it will go sooner or later so might as well do it whilst all the belts are off anyway. it is a fairly new thing though as when i had mine done, the renault bloke said that he had worked there for 15 years and had never had to change one on an rs clio. its mainly the dci megs or so he said.

 

[Fred@BTM]

^yours had been rattling like a t**t for a while though!

 

[alanc1000]

Maybe I've only just noticed it, but I'm sure nobody user to mention the dephaser pully last year or ever before that.

It seems the last few months it's the latest thing that people go on about.

I reckon people just throw the term about because it makes them sound knowledgable. That, or the Clios are getting on a bit now any they are all going tits up at once (which i doubt, as this wasnt mentioned before regarding 172s etc).

 

[Steve]

are they giving you lube for free too?

No thats another £100 for the pleasure

 

[chrispy.clio]

go and buy 7L of renault type D coolant and than add the labour to do it, i think you'll find £50 is cheap

Where can you actually get the Type D coolant?

 

[jenic]

Where can you actually get the Type D coolant?

Renault...

 

[Fred@BTM]

GSF selll it too

 

[Jonny1*2]

I would imagine eurocarparts sell it too.

What happens if the dephaser goes just out of curiosity?