UPDATE;
Had my car serviced 4months ago cambelt kit, aux kit etc etc carried out by Renault themselves, just want a full Renault history.
Done my normal 6000mile oil filter and oil change just in time for holiday trip to Scotland, so my car had all new fluids all topped up ready for the journey of me my girlfriend and son.
1073 miles later car didn't miss a beat and managed 430 miles to my tank! impressed me that's for sure, joys of cruise control at 68mph
Anyhow, finished work one day and met my girlfriend and son, on the way home i asked my boy what car he wants to go in.. he loves the Clio so he said green car
anyhow typical my girlfriends been teaching him the diamond on the car means it always breaks haha cursed me. Got up the road, accelerating 3rd gear. thud! no power, clutch in and hazards on and engine off. Manage to pull over and first thing i looked for was an oil leak.. no oil leak! few. noticed my auxiliary belt was frayed and knackered. this couldn't be why my car would now longer not start, car was spinning over but nothing happened. anyhow called my dad up to be towed home, realized i had lent my tow eye to Kam for his track day! ooops. bonnet off and towed it by the torque arm for the engine, it worked
weekend come, bonnet up, compression test begins. spark was there, fuel was priming but 0 compression. no compression at all on all 4, so we got the endoscope out to check for piston damage and nope all seemed okay, which only could mean the valves were open slightly giving no compression. Realized after this time i could see a gap so i could view the timing chain was in one piece, bingo! saw something that shouldn't be there, possibly the aux belt??
not a happy bunny we call Renault up saying car was done now 4 months ago and its got no compression.
few calls later they found out the aux belt failed and got pulled into the timing cover and skipped the timing out by a tooth!! they set it all up again and started, no compression so off come the head at Renault.
so no the head got send off to be rebuild as as suspected valves were bent but apparently no piston damage. head had been built with new valves etc, on the car again fitted with all new parts yet again and apparently runs perfect!
Collecting it tomorrow, glad it was done under warranty and not my own pocket, even threw in a new exhaust clamp for me. its been over a week now and damaged my back at work which means i cant drive anyway and signed off work, bummer.
sorry for long story but its an update, pics to follow
