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Renault Clio 1.5 DCi 2001 - Faulty injectors - Fixed #

Posted by Sean Connelly on February 13, 2008, 12:43 pm
Message modified by board administrator November 27, 2009, 3:53 pm

Hi,

This one came in for combustion gasses leaking past injector 4. Injector was removed and new seal fitted. Engine now only running on 3 cylinders. Diagnosed injector gone faulty, by swapping it with cylinder 3.

New injector bought from diesel specialist (£150) and fitted. Now this cylinder works ok, but cylinder 3 now not working.

I've read on another forum that these injectors can go faulty after removing, but to have two go down......that must be real bad luck or are they this bad?

Renault only sell them in sets of 4 at £300+

Looks like we need to get 4 and replace this other faulty one and keep the others for stock.

If they are this crap how do you convince the customer to pay for these when all it was doing before was "chuffing" a bit.....

Cheers

Sean

Re: Renault Clio 1.5 dci, 2001 - Faulty injectors

Posted by andrew parfitt <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/ukautotalk8/info/user=UKAT5302' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 13, 2008, 7:04 pm, in reply to "Renault Clio 1.5 dci, 2001 - Faulty injectors"

yep i did exactly the same replaced one and the one next to it stooped working

i then cut open the filter and it was like a gold mine with metal particals in the botton

so then replaced pump and injectors and flushed it all out and added one of those inline magnet traps to try and make it last longer

Re: Renault Clio 1.5 dci, 2001 - Faulty injectors

Posted by Tony Sefton <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/ukautotalk8/info/user=UKAT5581' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on February 13, 2008, 8:01 pm, in reply to "Re: Renault Clio 1.5 dci, 2001 - Faulty injectors"
Tony Sefton

Hi Sean. Yes they are that Crap, It is a Liability working on them, Most garages in our area have now been bitten with these Clio DCI's. The last Garage just removed an injector to Convince themselves that they had timed it up correctly after fitting a belt kit. ( Bad idea ) They then took an injector out of another one to swap over and that started causing problems after refitting.

Another garage that tried swapping injectors about ended up buying 8 used ones and 8 new ones.

Its not a bad idea buying 4 from the dealers and keeping the rest. They will sell in the very near future. ( the last garage also found out that the Dealers could suply 4 at a better price than the Aftermarket.

Re: Renault Clio 1.5 dci, 2001 - Faulty injectors

Posted by Peter Frost on February 13, 2008, 8:24 pm, in reply to "Re: Renault Clio 1.5 dci, 2001 - Faulty injectors"
Message modified by board administrator November 27, 2009, 3:50 pm

i had a car brought in from another garage after fitting new head and wouldnt start all 4 had stoped working

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Posted by Sean Connelly on February 18, 2008, 9:04 am, in reply to "Renault Clio 1.5 dci, 2001 - Faulty injectors"
Message modified by board administrator November 27, 2009, 3:50 pm

Well lesson learnt on this one....new set of injectors bought from Renault. Second faulty injector replaced. Customer paid for the more expensive aftermarket one.

Will keep the other 3 for next time we see one of these....which I'm guessing we won't have to wait too long for!

Thanks to everyone.

Sean