Hi guys, new here and I have read through a few threads that discuss a few of the issues I'm having but none seem to have a definite answer.
The first issue is a knocking sound when letting off the throttle, now there's a massive thread on here, mine is 99% coming from the back of the car, I read some said possible boot catch so I tried a fix mentioned using electrical tape but it's still there, it's pissing me right off.
Renault said it's a heatshield does that sound likely? It happens on lift off and changing gear and happens all the time whether cold or fully warmed up.
The other issue is a very creaky clutch pedal, is that anything to worry about or does it likely need just greasing up or something? It's really noisy and makes a noise even when lifting off clutch as the pedal keeps moving up and also got an accelerator pedal that makes a loud clicky sound and doesn't go all the way down smoothly, so you sort of push down it goes down sort of stops near the end and then needs pushing a bit more to go down fully (not smoothly)
Another thing I noticed was fluid pissing out from under the car, it was on the passenger side. The exact location is where the sill is (nearest front passenger wheel) and in about 30cm (looking under car), fluid looked clear and didn't have any particular smell.
The last thing is while on a ramp I noticed previous owner removed centre box, now people have said it makes a flat spot worse, I've not driven a 200 with the centre box in place so don't know how bad it is normally. All I do know is that aboput 2500rpm the car does nothing then suddenly moves forward.
I normally red line the gear changes where possible so won't be near 2500rpm but sometimes in slow moving traffic I'm in that rev range and it pees me off. Anyway has anyone had a rolling road before and after? Does removing the centre box lose power or is it a case of simply changing where the power band is slightly?
Thanks for any replies and sorry for a long winded post.
The first issue is a knocking sound when letting off the throttle, now there's a massive thread on here, mine is 99% coming from the back of the car, I read some said possible boot catch so I tried a fix mentioned using electrical tape but it's still there, it's pissing me right off.
Renault said it's a heatshield does that sound likely? It happens on lift off and changing gear and happens all the time whether cold or fully warmed up.
The other issue is a very creaky clutch pedal, is that anything to worry about or does it likely need just greasing up or something? It's really noisy and makes a noise even when lifting off clutch as the pedal keeps moving up and also got an accelerator pedal that makes a loud clicky sound and doesn't go all the way down smoothly, so you sort of push down it goes down sort of stops near the end and then needs pushing a bit more to go down fully (not smoothly)
Another thing I noticed was fluid pissing out from under the car, it was on the passenger side. The exact location is where the sill is (nearest front passenger wheel) and in about 30cm (looking under car), fluid looked clear and didn't have any particular smell.
The last thing is while on a ramp I noticed previous owner removed centre box, now people have said it makes a flat spot worse, I've not driven a 200 with the centre box in place so don't know how bad it is normally. All I do know is that aboput 2500rpm the car does nothing then suddenly moves forward.
I normally red line the gear changes where possible so won't be near 2500rpm but sometimes in slow moving traffic I'm in that rev range and it pees me off. Anyway has anyone had a rolling road before and after? Does removing the centre box lose power or is it a case of simply changing where the power band is slightly?
Thanks for any replies and sorry for a long winded post.