2002 Renault Clio Extreme from UK and Ireland - Comments

Further to my last comments posted 23 October I publish my findings.

During the past few days I have dismantled various parts of my 54 plate Clio to try and solve the 'SERV' n 'Airbag' light puzzle.

After testing all the airbags pretentioners and wiring I got a friend to Diagnose the problem with a pug in diagnosis.

This showed: Fault 9044 Trigger Line configuration permanent incoherent.

I have now telephoned Renault quoting this code who have told me they don't list this error!!

Can any body help me before I burn this little car!!

I bought a 2001 Renault Clio Sport 1.2 16v in August.

Recently the car kept cutting out and would not pick up speed. Then the engine management light came on so I took it to a Renault Dealer today and they told me they had to fix the MAP Sensor and the Fuel Injection Loom! Total cost of £450!

Have just been to collect it, and the car seems to be much better as I drove it home, but after reading all the other comments I'm not getting my hopes up!!

Hi.

I have a 2001 y plate clio expression, and I am on my fourth crank sensor, I have also had to replace the coil pack, both common faults it seems!

The most worrying problem I have had is the ECU and loom, firstly this began to stall the engine at around 3200 revs, really convenient on the motorway, and then it started the bouncing revs at tickover followed by stalling if you don't keep the revs high. The RAC couldn't diagnose the problem, but the Renault dealer could! shorted out ECU and wiring harness has water ingress due to rubbed wires. the bill stands at £818

i am really not happy as this seems to be not only a dangerous fault, but also a common one that renault uk is well aware of.

How do I contact VOSA and Watchdog?

You can get it sorted cheaper than £818, and with it being 6 years old I doubt you would have a leg to stand on unfortunately.

Well well well it seems as thought the people at Renault are doing nothing about these problems. I am staggered by the material on this site and I only browsed to find out some information on crankshaft sensors. My wifes 98 Clio Biarritz cut out on me this morning at a busy roundabout up a hill which pleased the hundreds of commuters queued up behind me. The RAC were brilliant and the guy seemed to think that it might be the cs sensor as it was turning over, but not firing up. He towed me home so now I have a pretty useless car on the driveway and unless I pay a garage a shed load of money to pick it up and fix whatever it maybe then it will stay on the driveway. By the sounds of it this could cost me many trips to the garage and much money. All in all I am probably one of the lucky punters out there because the car has given me 9 years of pretty trouble free motoring apart from the last 18 months and the car has still only done 65,000 miles. It aggrieves me to think that all these problems are being ignored by the corporate fat cats. I think I am going to ditch the car because the cam belt went last year which costs me £650 and its just gone through the MOT which cost me another £250. I strongly suggest that every single person on this site writes to the head office as someone has kindly provided the details in an earlier thread, copying in VOSA and Watchdog because this is the only way that these greedy tossers will sit up and take notice. Pester pester and pester I find will always work and eventually they will have to answer letters because they have a corporate responsibility to do so. Taffy.

I have a 2002 1.2 Clio 16V.

The past month my elec. Warning light has been coming on. Especially when slowing down, for roundabouts/traffic lights etc. This follows by the car stalling, and struggling to maintain power, unless I rev to high kingdom come... The electric light eventually goes out, and the problem repeats soon afterwards.

I took the car to my local Renault Dealer last week and after a diog. was told that the Wiring loom and absolute manifold pressure sensor needed replacing at nearly £500.

All seemed fine after the work was carried out, and 4 days later, the light came on again, and the same symptoms.

I have re-booked the car to be looked at, and have been told the the initial diog. will be free, but I have also been told that if the problem they find is unrelated to before, then it will cost me more money. So fingers crossed, it's the same problem, as the work is guarenteed. I am completely annoyed at the situation, as I am yet again going to be without a car, and after reading the posts on here, am not the only one in this situation... My car is not under warranty, so I can't really afford to keep paying for the same problems to be fixed.

I have a 2003 1.2 16v dynamquie, which I like except for the little coil light which flashes on most days for the past two weeks and causes the engine to miss-fire and cut out, and today was no different, the engine cut out at the petrol station and wouldn't start again so the good ppl at the AA had to tow it back to my favourite place the Renault garage.

Has anybody actually fixed the fault for good because since 05 I have had 2 throttle bodys replaced, and countless number of faults cleared, which seem to fix the problem for a day or two.

I have read with interest the comments from the beginning of November concerning the 'cut out' problems with Renault Clios. I own a piece of rubbish known as a Renault Megane Cabriolet convertible. Over the last six months it has had 3 pressure switches fitted and is now back in the garage awaiting another investigation to figure why the same problem has arisen again.

WARNING - I wouldn't trust Renault UK as far as I could p** in the wind It goes like this. Your beef is with the dealership and in reply the dealership will blame Renault UK. In fact if you do get in touch with Renault expect nothing in return as they will fob you off with excuse after excuse. We have your money -- so much for after sales service. Warning number 2. Check VERY CAREFULLY the wording parts guaranteed. After having having a part replaced under warranty the replacement part that failed 2 days later was not!!! Strange, but true.!!! Two weeks later that part has failed. So now what.

I think now is the time for Renault to be held accountable for shoddy service, shoddy workmanship and unreliable parts.

If there is anyone else out there who feels as I do - make your views known.

Hi People.

I have a 1999 T Reg 1.6 RXE Auto.

I've had the car for 5 months...

OK, the first two weeks of me owning the car it was bliss.

Then the nightmare became reality!

My car pretty much does the same as most of you guys...

It'll gain / drop revs like hell... and cut out (stationary or on the move!!)

I've had a new coil pack, Cleaned out the spark plugs / HT leads.

Put loads of WD40 around the engine and put some redX in...

Had a new catalytic converter (the one crumbled and I was getting 20MPH tops)

Utter rubbish... still getting problems.

I'm off to view a seat ibiza diesel tomorrow (Hope to god my car does not cut out when the guy test drives mine...)

I hope we just do a sweet deal there and then and get rid of that crappy made car.

I hope the rest of you guys don't suffer for that much longer.

OH! I do agree, I think this does need reporting now. I think these posts are more than enough to back up this major problem now.

Never buying Renault again…

I own a Clio 172 Cup model, and I have had a light come up on the dashboard, which in the handbook suggests I have 'water in fuel'. It mainly comes up if it's damp or wet, but even so I've been noticing drops in power where the throttle response is poor and feels flat and lifeless, whereas when it was running OK. It's very responsive on the throttle. Any ideas anyone? I would really really appreciate any help.

please email Gezboyes@hotmail.co.uk

Thank you.

I recently bought a 52 plate 1.2 16v Clio extreme. Now I wish I hadn't. The bearings went 1st on the front, then I had the same problems as everyone else. The engine management light came on; it would not start for a while; I had new sparks plugs put in; also a new starter motor. This was fine until summer went and the rain came; my car leaked and stained the seats, and now they are horrible. I've tried taking to a Renault dealer to have it serviced. I had them check the roof, but there was nothing they could do. Just taken it to another garage nothing they can do. the electrics are another problem, power steering doesn't work some times along with the speedo that doesn't work at all! Clio is a joke.

Any help would be grateful email me at:

sirdonaldtrumpthekool@hotmail.com.

Hello

i have a clio 1.4 16v auto

when I start my car it will drive OK for a few minutes then the gearbox light comes on and the car drives in limp mod, i turn the engine off then on and its OK, but it does this three times every time I drive the car, but then its fine. does anyone have this problem or know whats wrong??

I have a 03 Clio dynamique billabong, and for the last month have had nothing, but problems. An orange coil light comes on in the dash and my car loses all power, and the accelerator stops working. It then randomly revs and revs, but the car still won't budge. Sometimes another warning light accompanies the orange electrical fault one and the car sounds more like a tractor then won't start at all. It's been in garage several times and cost me a small fortune, and the problem continues to return! does anyone have any ideas on what it could be?? advice really needed before I get ripped off by the garage again!!! : (

I purchased a Clio 1.2 16v dynamique for my partner about 6 months ago. The car was initially fine then the problems started. Firstly the the car started to mis-fire and run lumpy on on start up and once warm it was OK? I decided to get it checked over by a Renault specialist. They kept it for 3 weeks to see if they could solve the problem. But they changed all the possible electrical parts to see if they could resolve it (with out charging me) thank god. But they could not find the fault. They spoke to Renault and they were told that the Head gasket may be the problem and would require changing. I felt that this was an extreme and we decided to use the car as it was. With in a month the mis-fire got worse and the car was un driveable. I knew that if I had a head gasket problem it should show up on a compression check. I decided to check the compression myself and made up a special extension pipe to check compression and found that No 4 cylinder had low compression? This gave me a reason to remove the head. I removed the head and found that the exhaust valves were not seating and thus losing compression. I re seated the valves and checked the head. After rebuilding the engine the engine initially ran fine. Then the engine started to mis-fire again? This time I ran the engine in the Dark and found that one of the spark plug cap was arking on to the engine body. I replaced the coil pack and now the engine is as good as new. I spoke to an engine specialist and they told me that if the valve clearances are not kept correct then this could have caused the valve problem. The 1.2 16v engine has manually adjustable valve adjusters and some time these are not adjusted correctly during servicing and this could have cause the initial problem? Add this to the coil pack problem made the car a nightmare.

I own D4F 1.2 16v engine in my proton savvy. even though this is not renault clio, but the engine is the same with renault clio. a numbers of savvy owners here (malaysia) also facing the very similar problems with clio such as engine power loss, rev up and down, coil problems, etc. no matter what car it is, as long as it has renault D4F 1.2 engine in it, the nightmare is there.