Most likely the master cylinder seals failing. Does your pedal still feel normal? Take your car to place you know has to honour their warranty that they set before they carry out the job. That way, you have some piece of mind that your protected if your cam belt isn't set correctly.
Yes still the same brakes work fine , clutch fine too !
That's an odd one. It could be a minor leak from the master cylinder, but because you still have fluid. You wouldn't notice any problems in breaking until the seals completely go. As no air will be able to pass through your break lines as fluid is always there in the lines and it's leaking, technically plugging the leak with it's own fluid. I hope it less serious than that for you. I hope I'm completely wrong and it's something simple.
Main dealer is best otherwise its a case of looking at feedback from the garage you select! Ask yourself this though its way cheaper to let the main dealer do it & its all done properly (water pump & water pump belt, cam belt usually get done at the same time as the main timing belt). Main dealer will cost around £1000 (most of this is labour time parts are around £250). Independent will cost about £500-600ish (inc parts). If the main dealer breaks the engine obviously they have to fix or replace at their cost so should do it right but an independent if they break it is less likely to do so & will go down the legal route regardless of warranty offered otherwise it will bankrupt them to repair-replace your engine!
Thanks mate for your response and i kind get what you mean about going to a main dealer but from previous experience even them the suppose to be well trained Mechanic can destroy your car !
hi mate , i did top up the brake fluid now the sign in dashboard not showing up at all , the car will go on Monday for a timing belt and they will look at the leak for a potentiel master cylinder replacement !
i c`ant afford a main dealer bill and to be honest with you i don`t go with any dealer unless i get Ferrari or Lamborghini
Good luck buddy hope it all goes ok & works well after!
£300 was very reasonable, miraculous even, but I don't think you'd have recourse anywhere after 3 years.
Captur might be easier to access the area to do the cam belt change hence why its so cheap. On a Mk3 or newer Megane its very labour intensive due to how many other parts in the way! As for warranty if a main dealer changes the cam belt then they get the timing wrong so the engine is destroyed you will find eventually (might take some time due to how much it will cost them to put right!) Renault will replace or repair at their cost which is why its a good insurance policy to get them to do it if you are not sure about doing it yourself.
^^ I think that "warranty main dealer" bit is true but only if the car has a full Renault service history up to that point, and indeed onwards to the point of failure if it's later but within 1 year. Otherwise they will always have a "get out" and say that something else that should have been done on a service has caused the failure.
Exactly. The warranty will mean nothing if the car itself is outside of it's warranty. The warranty would be directly with the dealership, which 99% of the time are franchised. I know from my own experience. I took my Captur back and to multiple times for an EGR related problem. The last time I took it to my main dealership, Renault themselves authorised the work. But the dealership didn't want nothing to do with the work anymore as they were annoyed that I went directly to Renault to honour the warranty on the car, but the car was out of warranty by a few months at that point. This was because of the dealership messing me around. In the end, I bit the bullet and just purchased an EGR and replaced it. Problem solved.
My 64 plate Megane 1.5 dci 400000 miles. Just had a quote from local independent, member of the Good garage scheme. Belt, water pump, and new tensioner. Fitted £340 inclusive. I'm in the Scottish Borders.
Sorry 40000 miles not 400000.
