Clio oops I did it again... Adey's Clio 200 EDC

[Adey]

120miles, no faults ffs

 

[Adey]

I went ahead and swapped the TCU this afternoon. Really easy job to do tbf.

and then it went from bad (though fine for 150miles) to worse.

Though the car initially showed no faults, as soon as I started to drive I noticed it showed D (for drive) instead of the actual gear..... then it swapped a few gears and dropped into limp. Looks like the TCU is for a lesser version even though it looked externally the same.

So what to do.... might as well separate the original TCU and fit a new capacitor

Swapped it in, reset everything and took it for a test drive. All good so far, but that said it was already behaving.... not sure if its a placebo effect but the shift feels a lot cleaner and when in sport mode its banging through nicely. Will see how it plays out and if I can get a refund on the china town TCU.

 

[DaveL485]

Fascinating info.

 

[Steve Swan]

Fascinating info.

Fascinating not the Adjective I would have chosen, still it would have begun with an F, so that's something..

 

[Renny 5]

I feel for you Adey…. Sounds like a nightmare, really hope your sorted for CSF! I wanted a mk4 Clio rs before the megane but was told about issues like this, I don’t know if the mk4 megane rs ph1’s will have the same issues down the line.