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Itza me here- just arrived but in need help

itza

New Member
Hi everyone I am new to this site.
I have owned my Renault Megane RT Sport 1.6 from New and it was first registered on 01-August-1997 so I have had it for 10 years.
My partner uses it for runs to the shops and to see our grand children and since we have had the car its only covered 28500 miles. :)
We have had to buy a total of 4 tyres, 1 Tail box, and for the latest MOT we put the first set of new front pads on it and changed the discs. and basically thats it.

Recently had a problem with the passenger side filling up with water in the footwells and I hope I have sorted that one out today by cleaning and blowing out the drain from the power roof area.

But I could do with some help with this next one and I did look in your archives and found someone had exactly the same problem yonks ago.
Being a pensioner I have a go at most things but my back doesn't let me do too much.

The Problem is as Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:48 am

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-NOT my car (I have a '98 Renault Megane Classic RT. About 5 weeks ago, the alarm died, so my local mechanic disconnected it, but left the remote control central locking and immobiliser working as normal). NOW my problem comes up !!It's been working fine since then, until today...

When I went to unlock it, the plip wouldn't work. I tried the spare one. It wouldn't work either, so I unlocked the driver's door using the key, the old-fashioned way. I noticed that the other doors stayed locked when I did this. I put the key in the ignition, expecting to see the red immobiliser light flashing, but instead, the yellow "electronic incident" light at the right hand side of the dash was flashing. I also noticed that the central locking button on the dash wasn't working.

I've checked that the batteries are OK in both keys, so I'm guessing I have a problem with the car's central locking electrics.

Any advice on what it's likely to be before I have to take iot to a garage for an expensive workout (The old pension takes a long time to save up for bits like this)?
How do I do this> Is removing the central locking fuse to check it likely to cause any problems with the security system? (eg. resetting it and needing me to extract the security code from my local not-so-friendly Renault dealer for entry once the central locking's working again)

Then Mick posted this ....>>> Now I am getting worried as I dont know exactly where to look for these bits my basic car engineering started with a 1959 Ford Prefect in 1963 and they were quite easy to look at.


MicKPM
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Joined: 28 Jan 2005
Posts: 360
Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:10 pm

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The Megane's are imobilised at the ECU and the Fuseboxes IIRC and the key fob tells them both to disarm when the button is pressed and the cycling code is accepted by the IR receiver which in turn opens the doors. It sounds to me like there is a problem with the fusebox as I believe it also controls the central locking and replaced the seperate central locking relay as found in the 19's. This being the case, i'd start to panic about price because I also believe that the fuse boxes are vehicle specific and a random one from a scrap yard will not do the job without a trip to your local main dealer to have them sync'd. Have you tried plugging the alarm back in to see if this cures your problem?

Chet or Chris should be able to say for sure though but I'm pretty certain the fuseboxes are vehicle specific.

Mick




Chris H
Forum Moderator

Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:10 am

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I'd have a look to make sure the receiver isn't swimming in water first tbh


My final bit which shows my lack of car knowledge! Where is the receiver what does it look like I cleared the flood from around my sunroof and unblocked the tube.?

If you can help words of one sylable would help the old frazzled brain take it all in and then I can hope to get the car up and running again without spending ££££'s. :eek:

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some bright spark will be able to help.
Many thanks :D
itza
 
We Live in Sandhurst area -thats about 4o or so miles from u (my kids and some of the grandkids live on the IOW).
 
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Done it

Hey a BIG thanks to those that gave me the will to succeed.
I looked at all of my Meganes fuses and I cleared out bunged up holes that drain water from the sunroof. but still the car stayed quiet and would not react to the key fob button. :x

Then all of a sudden the SUN came out so I pushed the car into the sun and the bodywork heated up, 8) I opened the sunroof to let some of the steam disappear. (The carpets were drying out after I vaxed up about a gallon of water from the front and back passenger wells) :)
Still nothing on the cars plipper :cry: so I went inside had a spot of lunch and called a local car electrical specialist- he has agreed to come on Tuesday am to sort the car out - then went outside to clear up all the bits and bobs I had used earlier, then gave the plipper one last try and the blooming thing WORKED. :p :p :p
Coo I wish I had threatened the car with a proffessional earlier perhaps I would have had a reaction sooner. 8)

Thank you I now have a fully working Megane sport.

Cheers

Itza :D :D :D
 
hi im new n could do with a bit of help!
does any one know were the best place 2 buy a 1.4clio rt:lol:
im wantin one for my first car n im hopin 2 make a project out of it lol:twisted:
n how do i lower them cos my mate tried doin his n said he got confused lolcos they not springs on the bak .......... cheers ..............
 
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