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182 Cambelt change: need manual/guide
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ITB'd MK1
What would I know? Only do 10 a month
Exactly. And you stick £250 in your back burner every time I expect!
Seriously though, for the people that need a garage to do this, the people to take it to are the likes of GDI, Fred etc etc. They know exactly what they are doing, unlike Renault, and you get (I presume) a warranty and a pretty stamp in your service book. I wouldn't trust Renault, or any other main dealer for that matter, to do a 100% pukka job. Unfortunately, for every good technician they have there is always a poorer version knocking about in the workshop!
HOWEVER, you still haven't told me what the problem with aftermarket tools are. If they fit, and you lock the flywheel whats the issue??? If I was doing as many as you guys I would get the Renault kit, but for a one off job, the Laser kit IS FINE!
Now lets stop bickering like children!
By the way, for a bit of light hearted entertainment, i'll tell you about the fun I had at Subaru once!
Took my Impreza for a cambelt as I wanted to keep the dealer service history. When it came back it was rattling its t1ts off. Had a quick look to find a 13mm spanner left on the intercooler. Took it back up the road just to see what they would say! I didn't tell them about the spanner. They took it into the workshop to have a look whilst I had a brew and sat in the showroom cars going "brum brum".
Anyway, half an hour later the technician comes in and tells me he's got bad news. The engine apparently has "probably spun a shell because I didn't let it warm up!". I was told it needed a full strip and rebuild.
Obviously I told them I would think about it and never went back to a Subaru main stealer. Kept the spanner too, which was Snap On. Nice!
And another:
My friend took his 4.4 V8 X5 to BMW as it was running like a bag of cr4P. They charged him £150 for "diagnostic work" and told him the inlet manifold gaskets were leaking and all 8 coilpacks needed replacing. Total charge around £1500.
I replaced the MAF for £50 and it fixed the problem.
AVOID MAIN DEALERS AND FIND A SPECIALIST YOU CAN TRUST!
Seriously though, for the people that need a garage to do this, the people to take it to are the likes of GDI, Fred etc etc. They know exactly what they are doing, unlike Renault, and you get (I presume) a warranty and a pretty stamp in your service book. I wouldn't trust Renault, or any other main dealer for that matter, to do a 100% pukka job. Unfortunately, for every good technician they have there is always a poorer version knocking about in the workshop!
HOWEVER, you still haven't told me what the problem with aftermarket tools are. If they fit, and you lock the flywheel whats the issue??? If I was doing as many as you guys I would get the Renault kit, but for a one off job, the Laser kit IS FINE!
Now lets stop bickering like children!
By the way, for a bit of light hearted entertainment, i'll tell you about the fun I had at Subaru once!
Took my Impreza for a cambelt as I wanted to keep the dealer service history. When it came back it was rattling its t1ts off. Had a quick look to find a 13mm spanner left on the intercooler. Took it back up the road just to see what they would say! I didn't tell them about the spanner. They took it into the workshop to have a look whilst I had a brew and sat in the showroom cars going "brum brum".
Anyway, half an hour later the technician comes in and tells me he's got bad news. The engine apparently has "probably spun a shell because I didn't let it warm up!". I was told it needed a full strip and rebuild.
Obviously I told them I would think about it and never went back to a Subaru main stealer. Kept the spanner too, which was Snap On. Nice!
And another:
My friend took his 4.4 V8 X5 to BMW as it was running like a bag of cr4P. They charged him £150 for "diagnostic work" and told him the inlet manifold gaskets were leaking and all 8 coilpacks needed replacing. Total charge around £1500.
I replaced the MAF for £50 and it fixed the problem.
AVOID MAIN DEALERS AND FIND A SPECIALIST YOU CAN TRUST!
If you mean me, i've always been Mad Scientist on all the forums I lurk on. Mainly as I am!
Don't see the irony though.
Reason for thread? Needed a guide/manual as I didn't fancy guessing the torque of a friction fit crank pulley.
ITB'd MK1
problem with aftermarket tools = there is NO cam pulley locking tool available, and if you dont use one when you torque the cam pulleys, the timing WILL move. Typed that more times than i can remember on here
No there isn't. And I didn't use one as I didn't remove the cam pulleys. I have seen no evidence on here or anywhere else to show why this is required. Maybe there has been occasion where the timing ends up off because people haven't done this (procedure 1) as the guide. I don't see how though. Procedure 2 works and my car (actually I bought it for my GF TBH) is running perfectly.
172 cup & 182
Done the job now, thanks anyway activ.
Tom
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Fabia vRS
Where do you find the links to these Renault documents? I'm trying to gather as many as I can. It's a shame you can't buy a Haynes manual for the Clio 172
PM me your e-mail and I'll send you all the ones I've collected over time. I have about 6 or 7 different ones.
ITB'd MK1
Where do you find the links to these Renault documents? I'm trying to gather as many as I can. It's a shame you can't buy a Haynes manual for the Clio 172
refit is reverse of removal
OR not LOL
