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LIQUID YELLOW AVOID is back
- Thread starter R-Sport.
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what happened to it for those who don't no
Iirc
Ph1 172 engine
Disabled person adapted clutch
no cup packs and I'm sure something was really badly bodged on it
cheers knuckles
To be fair it doesn't say that it has cup packs this time, and all the clutch gubbins may have been removed.
But I'd expect to be told if I was buying a 182, that it didn't have a 182 engine.
The car still probably drives fine and would make a good purchase at the right price, it's just a case of making people aware they are not buying what is advertised.
I wonder if the seller even knows the history?
Vehicle Report
Customer - Andrew Morley
Vehicle - Renault clio 182 - VO54 FFZ
Mileage - 32160
Mr Morley recently visited us so we could inspect a knocking noise coming from the front suspension, during conversation with Mr Morley he asked if we would cast our eye over the entire vehicle whilst it was in the workshop and see if the vehicle was mechanically sound incase of any future problems he may encouter with the vehicle (brakes, ball joint etc etc)
On first glance the car is in very good condition bodywork wise, the liquid gold paintwork was a factory option (cira £1100) and certainly offers the wow factor!
Unfortunatley for Mr Morley the bodywork is the only good thing we found with the car.
After removal of the engine undertray the starter motor heatshield was found sitting on the undertray, not where it should be! - a strange inital problem we thought! On inspection of the heatshield it seems to have been damaged, repaired poorly and then not fitted back onto the car properly (impossible to do without unbolting the exhaust manfold from the cylinder head).
starter motor heatsheild image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view¤t=fcf4a305.jpg
We also found a wheel speed sensor had been fitted very poorly to the OSF inner half shaft bearing, this certainly was an after market part, what was it doing there?
driveshaft sensor image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view¤t=45cfd0b7.jpg
We traced the wire back through the bulkhead into the vehicle and to our surprise found a very bizzare installation under the passenger footwell carpet and strange moddifications to the foot pedal on the drivers side
passenger footwell installation image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view¤t=70927ad3.jpg
clutch pedal moddification image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view¤t=83640b0f.jpg
chain mechanism behind clutch pedal image - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view¤t=625bcf4a.jpg
After a bit of investigation we found the car had been installed with an electronically activated "twin clutch" aka - the vehicle at some point had been moddified for disabled user.
The problems highlighted thus far are relativley easy to rectify, removal of the motability unit we estimate at approx 3 hours, a new starter motor heat shield is £48 and takes 1.3 hours to fit.
On further inspection of the engine bay we found a few relativley major issues - the main one being that this 2004/2005 182 (F4R 738 engine) car has been fitted with a 2001 engine from the older 172 (F4R 730/2/6 engine)
as you can see from the following images -
note the raised breather tube in the middle at the back 172 engines had this, 182's did not - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view¤t=047ec81c.jpg
To compare, a 182 engine looks like this - http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/Fredmrsclio/?action=view¤t=182engine.jpg
date sticker on the rear of the block (VO54) ending in 01 - http://s200.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/axxnxxdxxy/Clio 182 Inspection/?action=view¤t=20982ca8.jpg
Without doubt this car VO54 has been fitted with the incorrect engine and isn't worth anywhere near market value
I ramble on for a bit longer, but you get the idea
Be interested to see where that car was adapted and when. Also surely the logbook would have needed to have been changed to say when the engine was swapped and that must be traceable date wise. Wonder if the modification and engine swap match up?
