Re: The Heirloom Laguna Deux
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 5:27 pm
Oh dear oh dear oh no...
First an update.
The aux belt looked decidedly tired, so I took the decision to splash out on a cambelt, water pump and aux belt change. Four hundred squiggles at the local garage for that work. The garage showed me the belts after and the aux belt was nearly about to snap. Cambelt was noticeably aged too. Most likely original. I think my uncle deliberately never got it done for my grandad in the hope it would break and get him off the road. Dementia has got to him before that happened.
The vibrations through the steering wheel were fixed by fitting new tyres. Old ones were cheap Chinese deathrings that were starting to crack up.
Next up was going to the Renault dealer and buy an evaporator temperature sensor.
This fixes the heating being stuck on full and also gets the Aircon working again. Unfortunately that's low on gas, so sounds quite horrible. Might just disconnect the pressure sensor for now and disable it completely from the climate control.
In case anyone comes across this thread from elsewhere, the evaporator sensor lives in the passenger footwell. Behind this panel
Up here
Now this brings us to today.
One problem this car had when it was under my Grandads ownership was it occasionally not starting. I cleaned up the crank sensor and also bent the pins out slightly. This fixed the problem. There is a known fault on this age Renault where the crank sensor appears to fail. Now they do fail but more often it actually is the connector. Renault released a new design connector repair kit to solve this. You can tell it as it's a blue connector rather than black.
I went to GSF car parts and ordered a new one. Unfortunately the crank sensor they supply is the wrong one for this model. The manual gearbox cars is what they supplied, while the automatic gearbox cars is the same sensor but has captive nuts welded on it. This allows the sensor to be installed the otherside. I guess the difference between a clutch flywheel and a torque converter flywheel setup.
Because of this, I decided to just bite the bullet by going to Renault and buying genuine. Off I trotted and £84 later I've got one on order to arrive on Saturday.
At this point traffic was getting heavy, so I made my way home. Not far, probably about 10-15 mins away.
Got to one of several roundabouts on the way back, accelerated over ... First gear ... secon... REVVVVV shit shit shit ... No where to pull over here .... THUMP ... We have a gear again phew.
Meh possibly just me rushing it a bit and being a bit hard on it. Set off again.
Quarter of mile later... Same thing. Drove it back in manual mode and it seems to behave itself for the rest.
BALLS
I'm just over £700 into this car now. Of course that crank sensor I've ordered is a non refundable special order too.
BALLS AGAIN
First an update.
The aux belt looked decidedly tired, so I took the decision to splash out on a cambelt, water pump and aux belt change. Four hundred squiggles at the local garage for that work. The garage showed me the belts after and the aux belt was nearly about to snap. Cambelt was noticeably aged too. Most likely original. I think my uncle deliberately never got it done for my grandad in the hope it would break and get him off the road. Dementia has got to him before that happened.
The vibrations through the steering wheel were fixed by fitting new tyres. Old ones were cheap Chinese deathrings that were starting to crack up.
Next up was going to the Renault dealer and buy an evaporator temperature sensor.
This fixes the heating being stuck on full and also gets the Aircon working again. Unfortunately that's low on gas, so sounds quite horrible. Might just disconnect the pressure sensor for now and disable it completely from the climate control.
In case anyone comes across this thread from elsewhere, the evaporator sensor lives in the passenger footwell. Behind this panel
Up here
Now this brings us to today.
One problem this car had when it was under my Grandads ownership was it occasionally not starting. I cleaned up the crank sensor and also bent the pins out slightly. This fixed the problem. There is a known fault on this age Renault where the crank sensor appears to fail. Now they do fail but more often it actually is the connector. Renault released a new design connector repair kit to solve this. You can tell it as it's a blue connector rather than black.
I went to GSF car parts and ordered a new one. Unfortunately the crank sensor they supply is the wrong one for this model. The manual gearbox cars is what they supplied, while the automatic gearbox cars is the same sensor but has captive nuts welded on it. This allows the sensor to be installed the otherside. I guess the difference between a clutch flywheel and a torque converter flywheel setup.
Because of this, I decided to just bite the bullet by going to Renault and buying genuine. Off I trotted and £84 later I've got one on order to arrive on Saturday.
At this point traffic was getting heavy, so I made my way home. Not far, probably about 10-15 mins away.
Got to one of several roundabouts on the way back, accelerated over ... First gear ... secon... REVVVVV shit shit shit ... No where to pull over here .... THUMP ... We have a gear again phew.
Meh possibly just me rushing it a bit and being a bit hard on it. Set off again.
Quarter of mile later... Same thing. Drove it back in manual mode and it seems to behave itself for the rest.
BALLS
I'm just over £700 into this car now. Of course that crank sensor I've ordered is a non refundable special order too.
BALLS AGAIN