Took the car to Steve Murr this morning for him to drive and give his thoughts - confirmed exactly what I thought, then we popped out in the Raider and the difference in acceleration past ~3k revs was night and day. After talking figures on the Raider, I popped up the road to Two Techs.
Terry was only really able to spare me half an hour but turned into over an hour of his attention. He plugged the laptop in and Clip threw up a
DF080 Camshaft Shifter Circuit 1DEF fault. He cleared it then we went on a drive with the laptop connected and it threw the fault as soon as he went into the VVT range. He removed the solenoid, cleaned it, tested it and all was working fine which now means the timing is absolutely at fault. So now we have two scenarios:
The belts were fitted incorrectly, or;
The dephaser pulley is faulty
I have no choice but to have them investigate. If it's the first option, happy days, if the second, then this is where it gets tricky:
When it was done, turned over twice and put back together, the dephaser could have then done what it's not meant to and chucked everything out by a whole or half a tooth. If they take it all apart again, realign and re-assemble, the moment they turn it over, the dephaser could do it's thing again and end up in this situation again. That's 3 hours labour to pay for, and the repeat to fit another pulley. I would have to then raise it with ALS Performance who I got the kit from and argue the pulley is faulty, and I'm not sure where they stand with Renault and issuing me with a new pulley?
I'm not sure if I'm prepared to have that conversation with ALS until TT tell me what they've found, else I'm just going to get really stressed out for the whole week as they can't fit me in until Monday the 10th.
So, all in all, a bit of a stressful situation with no definitive outcome for the next 9 days
Sorry if I've got the technical info wrong, I'm not overly mechanically minded so not sure if it makes sense - Terry was doing his best to explain it all to me.
