Have some black smoke and 20% loss of power, but only after the 1.9dci espace warms up a good bit. When cold all seems fine. So have spent the past week checking all the fuel lines and taking live data for each injector and all various parameters like fuel temps etc. After about 10 trips I...

hi there... sitting in an awkward situation. seems cambelt has had better days.. does the K7M 710 bend valves if the belt strips its teeth?? motor is turning over but cam is standing still..don't hear any funny noises though.. (wifes car):surprise:

Hi Guys I need to bleed my cooling system as I believe there is a air lock. I understand there is 2 bleed valves but unsure where these are located. Can anyone help please. Thanks Stu

Hello and thankyou to the people who have time to read this. My 1.6 16v clio,s timing belt has shredded. Has it caused damage to my valves or is it luck of the drawn that my valves are ok.

can any one tell me iff the valve on my 2L petrol auto mark 3 renalt espace can be adjusted and iff so what are the valve gaps for inlet and exsorst settings are please

Hi All Just thought I would post this as there are many threads that seem to fade out just when getting to the nitty gritty of the problem. So here goes Symptoms: 1. Renault scenic 1.5dci showing "check emissions" showing on dash intermittently but getting more frequent. 2. There appears to be...

I have a Renault Megane ,05 1.616 valve. could anyone tell me how to prime the valve lifters. Please help...

Hi there I am from south africa,looking for help for 1 of my friends with his Renault megane 1.6 16v rxe 2000model.All 16 his valves are bend,but the timing belt is not broken,does anyone have an idea why this happened,maybe the tensioner pulley that went slack or what other explanation can...

I have a 2003 Renault Senic with bent valves. The original problem was accessory belt pieces went into timing belt area and jumped timing belt teeth and bent valves. Since then it has bent valves twice when all timing marks are perfect "timing has not moved at all" . It has bent the valves both...

Hi all, im new to the forum and this is my 1st post so sorry if i go on a bit:crazy: I had my cam belt & tensioner replaced a few days ago along with the water pump. Yesterday i broke down due to a sudden loss of power and when the recovery came out they said that the cam belt had either...

my 03 1.9 dci has a lack of power up to around 4000rpm ,i have just been looking at it and found a air valve under the egr valve only has 1 pipe on it ,it looks like it should have one on the other end of it ,i cant see any pipes hanging anywhere ,the pipe that is connected runs to a t piece...

hi guys, i think im going to buy a new egr valve in the next month or so. a quick question though,when i went to pick my laguna up from the garage the other day.the guy there told me it's not just a case of buying and fitting a new egr valve...i would need to clear the old settings otherwise...

Here we go, my first post. Forgive me if this has been answered before, I haven't managed to find the full explanation as yet though. Ok, a bit of background, the car had developed quite a bad misfire, so I changed the oil, spark plugs and coil pack, but still had the problem I pulled off a...

Hi I am a new Renault owner and new to the forum:d Last week i purchased a 2001 2.0 Scenic and me and my partner fell in love with the car. I done a bit of research on the site and read up about the common noisy dephaser pulleys. So i booked the car in to have new cambelt and dephaser pulley...

Hi all I have recently bought a 1.4 16v megane. It has full service history but no history on a cam belt change so I thought I would change it. All went well apart from the camshaft pulleys where very slightly out but I got it to fit, I thought this would be ok as it seemed to be running ok...