I am sick of this car! 2002 model with 54000miles on the clock and the engine blows up! Pile of sh**e i dont want it back! Renault reckon its a four figure sum to repair it and to make matters worse its stuck in Clapham, cambridgeshire and i live in manchester. Ba**ard private trains £47 one way! Rip off! If anyone wants this car once its repaired feel free to make me an offer. I dont want to see it again.
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I am sick of this car! 2002 model with 54000miles on the clock and the engine blows up! Pile of sh**e i dont want it back! Renault reckon its a four figure sum to repair it and to make matters worse its stuck in Clapham, cambridgeshire and i live in manchester. Ba**ard private trains £47 one way! Rip off! If anyone wants this car once its repaired feel free to make me an offer. I dont want to see it again.
MERCEDES CLS AMG
BRAND NEW engine from me £1250 + vat.........used £750 + vat - can fit for £350.........work guaranteed as well. I can collect it from london as well.
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Count yourself lucky, at least you got 56k, mine did 16k before it blew up!! Love the way the car drives so much, though, that I cant hate it, EVER!!!
Cheers for the condolences!
Reno. cant diagnose the actual problem until Friday. No surprise there then.
All you can hear at the moment when you turn the keys is the alternator spinning! - Glad to hear that i only replaced it 2000miles a go!
Hears what happended you can all make up your own decision on what the problem is -
80mph, outside lane on the A14, she starts losing power, exhaust sounds funny and starts popping, i move across into the slow lane and put my foot on the brakes to slow down, as i do this she cuts out! WTF! Power steering goes seriously heavy and i put my foot hard down on the brakes, barely anything there, reno. said servo probally didnt work! So i let it slow down naturally from about 45mph thank f*ck i was going uphill! As i come to about 10mph right front locks up completely. Stops dead on the grass! No hard shoulder on the A14! Missis gives me s*it about it being french crap! Ring up AA! Oh and if anyone has used the AA five times in one membership term (12 months) you have to pay for any recovery after this! (Yes they have all been for my 172) - My main concern is the lock up what if this happended at 80mph?
Quote: Originally posted by Adie on 29 June 2005
Cheers for the condolences! Reno. cant diagnose the actual problem until Friday. No surprise there then.All you can hear at the moment when you turn the keys is the alternator spinning! - Glad to hear that i only replaced it 2000miles a go!Hears what happended you can all make up your own decision on what the problem is - 80mph, outside lane on the A14, she starts losing power, exhaust sounds funny and starts popping, i move across into the slow lane and put my foot on the brakes to slow down, as i do this she cuts out! WTF! Power steering goes seriously heavy and i put my foot hard down on the brakes, barely anything there, reno. said servo probally didnt work! So i let it slow down naturally from about 45mph thank f*ck i was going uphill! As i come to about 10mph right front locks up completely. Stops dead on the grass! No hard shoulder on the A14! Missis gives me s*it about it being french crap! Ring up AA! Oh and if anyone has used the AA five times in one membership term (12 months) you have to pay for any recovery after this! (Yes they have all been for my 172) - My main concern is the lock up what if this happended at 80mph?
This happened to my mk1 172. The ignition leads had totally worn out and it kept cutting out with a particular preference for doing it at speed! Because the engine stops running, so does the power steering and abs (and most other stuff!) - hence contributing to you locking the wheels maybe?
Anyway, not saying thats what it is, but it certainly rings a bell with me.
megane coupe F7R
These 172/182s sound great
Unlucky mate.
megane coupe F7R
How come these engines are sh*te? Nearly everbody who owns one on here has had a post about it being broken or having probs at some point. I though my valver was bad. Imagine what a 172 will be like in 10 or 12 years, if they make it that far.
2.0 175dci rs meggy
^^^^^^^^^^
Cambelt snap sounds like!!!
[Edited by JAMESSRICH on 29 June 2005 at 7:12pm]
Christopher
ClioSport Club Member
Z4M
im never taking mine over 4k again.
rubbish, when silly people redline their cars from cold, they deserve everything they get!!! if you threw your telly out of the window, you wouldnt complain to sony when it wouldn;t work the next time you plugged it in!!!!
cars have a limit, most cars get driven away on the back of a truck after a top gear review round the track.. i.e you can only abuse them so much!
EVO VII
my mk 1 172 has done 81k still going strong, in fact im going to a trackday at snetterton in her in late july.
the only problem ive had with it is a sticky throttle cable.
i dont drive like a fanny either but i do follow these simple rules.
let it warm up properly ( i dont mean wait till the water temp reads halfway, as its the oil temp thats important ) normally 10 - 15 mins.
Get it serviced when it needs to.
Keep it standard lol
Need advice here! Renault just came back to me, they need to remove the cylinder head to see whats wrong! £440 to find out what the problem. and there is a good chance it needs a replacement engine over £2000 with the labour included.
I havent got that type of money in the bank, Mrs American Express is going to love me. What should i do? I am half tempted to scrap the stupid car! Any advice i would be grateful!
Silver Fabia vRS
I take it its at Wests in Clapham, just outside Bedford? If you need me to do anything I can as its my local dealer and only 15 mins from my house
Id be strongly inclined, assuming its standard and has been properly serviced with Renault parts, to insist they pay.
An engine should not just die after so few miles - that is nothing short of disgraceful, especially as come selling time itll leave you with a new car and a changed engine.
sounds the same as what happened to my saxo. going down motorway bout 70mph (day after i had picked it up from the bodyshop!). engine made a funny noise exhaust popped alot. engine cut out lucky i was in the slow lane, had to drift across a slip road n came to a holt on the hard shoulder. oil and engine crap was all over the floor and smoke. apparently a piston ring or something of that kind had broke and flew through the head and basically destroyed the whole engine. damage was a new engine at a cost of £500 fully fitted by my dads mate only had 20k miles on it my old engine had 56k on it when it went. french engine again or maybe my first car syndrome where u ragg it all the time cos you can?!?! was a 1.1l though
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172beast
Not be cambelt, wouldnt loose power if it was, thered just be a bang as pistons hit valves and car would cut out instantly. Also even Renault would be able to diagnose a snapped cambelt without taking the head off lol
Sorry to say but Renault customer service wont care, out of warrenty so you not get any compensation. Your best bet is to get a 2nd hand engine off that joined yoth for whatever he quoted plus fitting, sounded like a reasonable price to me, then sell it.
MERCEDES CLS AMG
Dont even bother letting Renault do it. Its just not worth having the head taken of an engine might as well get a whole new one. The second the head comes of the bills start mounting up.
Definatly drop j3ned a message and get the AA or somehting to two the car to his workshops to do a proper job (just as good if not better than Renault).
