BBA Reman are a good company - I've sent a few ECM's to them myself but the price isn't *that* great. Granted you're happy with them and that's all that matters but to put it into context all they would've done is swap the flasher relay which is soldered to the PCB and waas proberbly fubar'd... that's an £8 component at most and 15mins work to desolder
I offer a UCH repair service which can fix most common issues along with brand new N2/N3 UCH's supplied, fitted and coded for £300 and really should populate my trader section as it seems a few CS members don't know to get in touch.
Mick
I recently had a 2001 ph2 clio with this fault, right hand indicator flashing all the time and the wipers would run then they felt like it.. What i find interesting is, when you look around the net, theyre is plenty of information about what is and isnt and can and cant be done.. it seems to me, this is the only thread i've seen that is so far off track its laughable, so heres the low down:
The Clio UCH comes in a type 1 and type 2 board, if you match the part number and the Nx build, you can simply swap a little 8 leg EPROM which has 93c66 wrote on it.. this holds all the UCH coding. BUT if you swap the 93C66 for instance from a UCH-N3 type1 to a UCH-N3 type2, you will find the remote locking will lock, but wont unlock, and in some instances, the lights may not function. This is to do with a different configuration in the UCH and the wiring loom! .. i'll tell you more about this, read on..
Mick!.. i dont mean to offend, but i seriously doubt you repair these, if you 'believe' there is a 'flasher' relay soldered to the pcb, the UCH has a processor on it, with a crystal oscillator and many cmos switches on its outputs, why on earth would a designer put a 'flasher' relay on there when the mcu can do all that and more.. No. Despite being wrong, if you had tested your theory you would have found out the relay is not the problem.. albeit a standard relay.
Reading another forum, i see some people are having related issues with symptoms such as when they press down on the drivers window switch (for one-touch models) the right hand indicator starts to flash.. Sorry, this isnt a flasher relay fault.
Now my background is specialising in 'renault fault repairs' and for the majority of people in the automotive electronics trade, you will know of my company. The reason i owned one of these clios was to work on the UCH, to find this issue and repair it. I've had repaired UCH modules that have BBA reman stickers on them, and they cannot have been repaired for indicator faults in my opinion as the effected components are not changed, however I know and deal with BBA, and they are a great company and actually have technicians that know electronics.. rather than most of your pop-up specialists that claim to have experience and be professional.
OK, so no where on any forum is the real fix, and due to nature of the repair.. no one in their right mind would give it out, but I felt a need to put this thread on track, seen as it wasn't really helping anyone. So for the technical minded of you, i'll give you 2 words, and that is the fault, and the fix.. 'Decoupling Capacitors'
..if you know what they are, change them. Job Done. (This works for virtually all input faults, indicator, wipers, chattering relays, locking, drivers window) UCH-N3 usually has only the drivers window running through the UCH, as it has the one-touch feature, the n/s window or passenger for european cars does not go through the UCH.
hi guys well what a nightmare i have had the last few weeks.. i have now found the problem why my interior light and driver window wont work and also i got issue with the indicators when i lock unlock the car some times they will flash as it locks other times they wont but anyway its def the UCH i swapped it over for another and all electrics work but of course the car woulndt start.. any idea what program i need to recode the uch or any idea which relays on the broken uch i need to change or is there anyone who can fix if for me cheaply please..
If you had this repaired at BBA, send it back.. they need to check and connect a couple of parts they moved for testing, and this is almost certainly your issue.. im sure BBA will put there hands up to that and fix it. unfortunately the interior light output is usually overlooked on testing as it isnt an output that fails.. i've made the same mistake with my own during testing. If you wonder why the int light would be on the UCH, its because its dim-out controlled, and comes on when you remote unlock the car, rather than when you just open the door.
I have approx 50 uch boards in stock, i dont sell them any more, as i can easily repair them with the fix i told you. Failing that, i gave you 2 options!!.. dont forget, match the part numbers of the UCH and swap the Eprom 93C66.. its right on the corner of the board, and an eprom programmer should you want to back up a copy of the data will cost no more than £15 for a budget one which is good enough to read 93C66.
For the rest of you that want links etc, this is my first post and i'm going to avoid unsetting the mods and admin. I will just say, you can find the clio repair on ebay, and there are companies such as BBA-reman, Renault Fault Repairs and Tachosoft that offer the repair or the information to those technically minded enough to carry out the repair work.
I hope this helps
Bil Liser (The Immo Guy)
