Fours months ago i got the car,no issues was driving fine then one day when driving more than 3 miles i stoped at some lights,as i went to pull away my check ignition light came on and my car bunny hoped across the road. stoped restarted it fine ,drove it home did it again and again having to restart it each time and sounding lumpy.
So:
Took it to my friends garage and he pluged the computer in. got a code that the thottle body was faulty. so cleaned it ,still no diffrence, changed it for new one from renault ,still no diffrence. it went back again reset the codes and he changed the fly by wire control under the dash, still no diffrence. went back again,had new pugs oil filters coils tested and gresed up, and the battery replaced ,still no diffrence!.
Then i checked this web site for clues,tdc looked possible but only seems to be on the 1.6 and no info on the 2.0 as where it is and im told they dont have one?,checked the dephaser solinode,cleaned it as renault told me ,checked it could switch with 12 volts seems ok
Then. gave up went to renault ....
they clip clip tested it told me the alternator was faulty as it was failing by 1%??? also told me to change the dephaser as it seemed cam related...which i no is common, i asked why does it only happen when its warn the guy said that it was to hard to tell and to change these parts first..well thats great if your happy to splash the cash but im running out ....and im not convinced because the cars fine when starting cold,no evil dephaser tapping at all,it only starts when the cars hot then the daphaser seems to not be getting oil ,and taps ,which renault agreed but where uncertain what to do?... the only other thing i no is the new battery which was 90ah is now only 11ah so something is draining the battery?? hope iv explained this as clear as i can and hope someone has some ideas and can help me ..regards jay
