Clio 172

[5teve L]

Found a 172 for sale through a mate, when you start it up it sounds like it's down a cylinder, when you rev it up it seems to clear, then it will idle for a little while & die. After it died there was still an odd noise coming from the inlet manifold or t/b area. Are there known faults in this area. The poor running may be down to fuel as it did seem very low. Just wondered if it was worth a punt for £700 with no MOT ?? It's an 03 plate.

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Steve

[groky]

Found a 172 for sale through a mate, when you start it up it sounds like it's down a cylinder, when you rev it up it seems to clear, then it will idle for a little while & die. After it died there was still an odd noise coming from the inlet manifold or t/b area. Are there known faults in this area. The poor running may be down to fuel as it did seem very low. Just wondered if it was worth a punt for £700 with no MOT ?? It's an 03 plate.

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Steve

Ph2's have an electronic tb driven by a motor and a rubber band it may be that resetting on cutout.
Seems cheap enough at that price

[Matt Cole]

Could be a dodgy injector. Could be sticking until revs / pulse picks up.

[LeeR5GTT]

we had one in at work, it was running like **** and noisey from rocker/inlet area..replaced dephaser pulley and was like new :)

[andybond]

Has it had belts done recently?

[5teve L]

Has it had belts done recently?

Don't know, I think it may be due the belts. It's just the stalling thats putting me off as I had factored the belts into the price...

Will the T/B fault show up on a machine ?

[James5]

Don't know, I think it may be due the belts. It's just the stalling thats putting me off as I had factored the belts into the price...

Will the T/B fault show up on a machine ?


Steve i have an obd2 reader you can plug in write down the codes and then google them as i lost the book, your welcome to it:agree:

[Matt@CodeRedMotorsports]

....or if it drives, drop it over to me and I'll stick my clip machine on it?