Miguel 4747
New Member
Recently i had a coil go, replaced it, then a week later two more went so i thought 'Renault can have it back as it still has one months warranty left'. They had it and replaced the coils, i picked it up and on my way home i noticed there was a rattling sound under load and on the overrun. It sounded like it was coming from my K-tec backbox so i had it taken off at a local garage and they found it was fine and suspected it was the cat. Got the Vee back to Renault yesterday, they spent 8 hours stripping out the exhaust and all the cat parts. It seems every part of the cat inside has been barbecued, loose parts rattling inside everywhere, they suspect the faulty coils have caused fuel to burn through it, even though the car has never driven more than a few minutes with one down.
The garage have ordered all necessary parts from France (retails at over £3500!!!) and given me a roller skate to drive for what could be a few weeks. I feel lucky that i still have warranty cover, although the garage said they would expect renault to cover anyway given that it only has 16200 miles on the clock.
This has made me more keen than ever to change my coils to trophy ones because a bill like this in a year or twos time would ultimately ruin my joy of this car, and certainly end my ownership. Renault at Canterbury have been superb thusfar and have said they can't imagine any further damage could have occurred, if anyone thinks something else could have been affected, please, please let me know.
The garage have ordered all necessary parts from France (retails at over £3500!!!) and given me a roller skate to drive for what could be a few weeks. I feel lucky that i still have warranty cover, although the garage said they would expect renault to cover anyway given that it only has 16200 miles on the clock.
This has made me more keen than ever to change my coils to trophy ones because a bill like this in a year or twos time would ultimately ruin my joy of this car, and certainly end my ownership. Renault at Canterbury have been superb thusfar and have said they can't imagine any further damage could have occurred, if anyone thinks something else could have been affected, please, please let me know.