Faults:

I owned my Renault Clio Expression 1.2 16V for 5 months before my first experience of the engine management light or electrical fault light came on. Within a minute, the engine had cut out and I had broken down in the middle of the road. It seemed that this time after leaving it to cool down for a few hours, it allowed me to drive it home very slowly.

After a trip to the garage, no faults showing up on their silly machines, and them telling me that I've been ragging the hell out of the engine as an excuse/reason for the fault light - it left with new tires and a unnecessary bill.

A few months passed however with no problems. Then on a busy evening I was driving with my boyfriend on the Blackwall tunnel approach; busy road, lots of traffic, crawling in first gear and the light comes on and again the car shuts down. After checking under the bonnet etc, by chance we found that if you rev the hell out of the engine in neutral, the light goes off and you can continue with your journey. However, now I know this trick, it seems that the light fault problem is happening more frequently and it is quite embarrassing having to rev the car so loud when stuck in traffic. It's probably happened to me around 30 times in the last two weeks.

It is in the garage today, and all they have done is plug it in and now fit a new mapping sensor.

From all the previous posts though, it sounds like this probably won't work, so I'm fuming it cost me nearly £300. We'll see!!! If it happens again, I might try that electrical tape on the wires trick that I read on previous threads.

Kalin.

General Comments:

It's cheap to run, however I'm not sure that's the case once all the garage trips are added together.

Faults:

Engine cutting out after driving through a puddle. Unbelievable and endless diagnosis of problems with the computer in the engine and wear to the wires, due to the 'tamper proof box'. I am over £1200 into a garage bill, and the problem is not yet over. I need a new computer, which has to be re programmed by Renault and a lot of wires have needed replacing. I understand that MANY people have had the same problem, and it is not until Renault have had a certain number of complaints, then they won't contribute to the repairs. Has anyone had any luck?

General Comments:

Slow, and one problem after another.

Faults:

Here we go again, usual orange light, no revs, juddering, conking out, etc etc etc. Wish I had found this forum 2 weeks ago!!!

I have just reported this issue to Watchdog, please can you all do the same thing and hopefully we can get Renault something about their crappy little car!!!

Faults:

Well what can I say, I am at the stage of wanting my car to go on fire. I have had it 2 and half years now and my problem started 6 weeks ago... the car is misfiring. Chugging away, pulling back on me when trying to drive, and the revs are dropping.

I had had the ignition coil pack replaced, spark plugs replaced, oil change (which garage suggested and also the air filter), been on a diagnostic tuning thing at the garage, and nothing can be diagnosed... I'm fuming.

What else can I do? I am not spending loads of money on my heap of junk in-case it's not sorted. I am really angry now.

General Comments:

Useless piece of crap.