Sorry, this is a bit of an essay! Basically, I think my drivers side electric window has packed up or is about to (goes down but not up!). As my car is nearly out of warranty I'd like to get this sorted quick, but I think it might be an intermittant problem, and by the time I get to Renault on Monday it may have started working again... Any ideas what might be wrong with it?
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So I got into the car this morning, started it up, flicked the windscreen wipers on and nothing happened! Looked at the dash, Serv light was on. Thought "aha, this happened once before". So I turn the engine off. Start it up again and everything is working fine, windscreen wipers work as normal, no Serv light. So I drive off, thinking it is just another little glitch.
Oh, and I also noticed the fuel gauge had dropped by one mark, which I was quite surprised about, but hey, you expect that sometimes.
Anyway, driving along for a while and I notice the fuel gauge has gone back up to full. Fine. It doesn't seem the most accurate thing in the world anyway.
A bit further on I start to get a "clicking" noise from the passenger side footwell. Intermittent, about 4-5 clicks in quick succession every now and again, the kind you get from relays turning on and off, but everything seems to be working fine.
The clicks start to annoy me after a while, so I start playing with all the in car electronics turning stuff off and on to see if it stops... no joy until I put the drivers side window down. Went down fine, but refused to come back up
Ah-ha, of course, there is always a click when you use that. Spent a little while messing with the window button and eventually I persuade it to go back up.
The clicking stops for a while and when I get home, I think, hmm, just try it again, so drivers window goes down, but wont come back up again - I should have known that would happen, and not messed with it until during the week when I could take it into Renault:nono:. Anyhow, eventually managed to get the window to come back up by pressing and holding the "down" button :S
So I'm thinking, Monday morning, into Renault, explain the problem, get them to fix it, warranty job, sorted. The thing is, it's bound to be one of these damned intermittant problems and by Monday it will have probably have gone away, but my warranty is due to run out at the end of the month (doesn't exactly fill me with confidence).
So I guess, two questions, has anyone else had similar problems? and if so what was wrong? / what was done to fix it?
Secondly, will the car have logged this fault in the computer somewhere so that Reault can find out what when wrong and why? how long will these logs be kept for?
Oh, it's a 52 plate 172 full fat, and the passenger window works just fine!
Read on....
So I got into the car this morning, started it up, flicked the windscreen wipers on and nothing happened! Looked at the dash, Serv light was on. Thought "aha, this happened once before". So I turn the engine off. Start it up again and everything is working fine, windscreen wipers work as normal, no Serv light. So I drive off, thinking it is just another little glitch.
Oh, and I also noticed the fuel gauge had dropped by one mark, which I was quite surprised about, but hey, you expect that sometimes.
Anyway, driving along for a while and I notice the fuel gauge has gone back up to full. Fine. It doesn't seem the most accurate thing in the world anyway.
A bit further on I start to get a "clicking" noise from the passenger side footwell. Intermittent, about 4-5 clicks in quick succession every now and again, the kind you get from relays turning on and off, but everything seems to be working fine.
The clicks start to annoy me after a while, so I start playing with all the in car electronics turning stuff off and on to see if it stops... no joy until I put the drivers side window down. Went down fine, but refused to come back up
Ah-ha, of course, there is always a click when you use that. Spent a little while messing with the window button and eventually I persuade it to go back up.The clicking stops for a while and when I get home, I think, hmm, just try it again, so drivers window goes down, but wont come back up again
- I should have known that would happen, and not messed with it until during the week when I could take it into Renault:nono:. Anyhow, eventually managed to get the window to come back up by pressing and holding the "down" button :SSo I'm thinking, Monday morning, into Renault, explain the problem, get them to fix it, warranty job, sorted
. The thing is, it's bound to be one of these damned intermittant problems and by Monday it will have probably have gone away, but my warranty is due to run out at the end of the month (doesn't exactly fill me with confidence).So I guess, two questions, has anyone else had similar problems? and if so what was wrong? / what was done to fix it?
Secondly, will the car have logged this fault in the computer somewhere so that Reault can find out what when wrong and why? how long will these logs be kept for?
Oh, it's a 52 plate 172 full fat, and the passenger window works just fine!
