Replacement transmission shift module Clio RS

[Sash]

4 hours to fit a TCM… are they including all their tea and lunch breaks in that time..?
I’m sure mine only took about 2.5 and that was with 2 separate programmings as the first one didn’t work.

Not that it helps you but my car is still on its original clutches at 237,600 miles. Unless it’s contaminated and slipping (which you’ve proved it’s not) it doesn’t need replacing.

 

[Adey.]

Tcu swap is easy. Im still yet to try my Chinese supplied tcu since flashing it with my ph1 tcu software.

 

[GtirHil]

I checked my bill. it was actually $2,800 for the TCU. I paid $1,200 for the loom. It goes from the TCU to the two clutch servos. BUT I paid $1,170 in labour to diagnose and install the TCU and the loom. I agree about being unreasonably slow - I originally told them when I was cross that I could physically replace the TCU in under an hour. Without a lift.

I'm curious about how flashing the Chinese TCM goes. I see a real business opportunity!

Thanks Sash. Wow, that is quite the mileage. Did I see that yours is used for learning to drive? As I said to them, when I drilled holes and looked in the bell housing, I was amazed by how good it all looked in there. Touch wood! They only judge the clutch by how it looks using the TCU-based diagnostics. I read somewhere that PWM functions are usually the first to go, and the clutch actuators are PWM. So they are likely asking a madman whether somebody else is sane ... I wonder how many engines have been dropped and the clutches replaced when they were perfectly good?

 

[Sash]

I checked my bill. it was actually $2,800 for the TCU. I paid $1,200 for the loom. It goes from the TCU to the two clutch servos. BUT I paid $1,170 in labour to diagnose and install the TCU and the loom. I agree about being unreasonably slow - I originally told them when I was cross that I could physically replace the TCU in under an hour. Without a lift.

I'm curious about how flashing the Chinese TCM goes. I see a real business opportunity!

Thanks Sash. Wow, that is quite the mileage. Did I see that yours is used for learning to drive? As I said to them, when I drilled holes and looked in the bell housing, I was amazed by how good it all looked in there. Touch wood! They only judge the clutch by how it looks using the TCU-based diagnostics. I read somewhere that PWM functions are usually the first to go, and the clutch actuators are PWM. So they are likely asking a madman whether somebody else is sane ... I wonder how many engines have been dropped and the clutches replaced when they were perfectly good?

Yes, it’s been a learner car for 8 years now. Still on original everything engine and gearbox wise apart from the TCM. This was replaced 4 years ago at 140,000 miles. It took a fair while to diagnose properly as no one else had really experienced this issue yet!

Those that fire the parts cannon will have replaced clutches prematurely for sure.

 

[GtirHil]

I only got about 135,000 km before the TCM died. I think that the hottest periods here kill them quickly. They just roast on the end of the gearbox. Frankly I see NO reason to think that PCBs will like those temperatures. They should have isolated as much of the electronics as possible.

 

[Sash]

I only got about 135,000 km before the TCM died. I think that the hottest periods here kill them quickly. They just roast on the end of the gearbox. Frankly I see NO reason to think that PCBs will like those temperatures. They should have isolated as much of the electronics as possible.

You’re right.
Mine started to fail in summer but only when the ambient temperature reached over 28° which being England didn’t happen very consistently being that it worked absolutely fine in the cooler temps meant it can’t have been the clutch that almost everyone told me it was!

 

[Brigsy]

Heat also kills the continental engine ecu on megane 3 rs, coincidence i guess but maybe not as well engineered as sagem etc.

Anybody found out what breaks in the tcm yet?

 

[Sash]

Heat also kills the continental engine ecu on megane 3 rs, coincidence i guess but maybe not as well engineered as sagem etc.

Anybody found out what breaks in the tcm yet?

@Adey. knows I think… capacitor? Don’t hold me to that.

 

[Adey.]

No I don't think it is, or there are multiple failures modes. The capacitor swap didn't fix mine but apparently has for others