Who here owns a Renaultsport?

Skeeter said:
Ah, so the Aux belt is 5 years? Woo. I was worried it was due soon, but I got until 2015 :)
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Whilst the service book indicates 5 years there general consensus is to do it at 3 years. Some people saying that Renault have changed the interval to 3 on their computer systems.

Do a little bit of research, but this is essentially why I asked the question in the first place :p
 
I was told the same about the cambelt, that Renault had changed the service interval to 36k rather than 72k.

Turned out to be yet more CS rubbish. Its likely people might have assumed the aux belt is half the years of the cambelt because its half the miles?

Mine isn't getting changed till 2015 regardless.
 
Skeeter said:
I was told the same about the cambelt, that Renault had changed the service interval to 36k rather than 72k.

Turned out to be yet more CS rubbish. Its likely people might have assumed the aux belt is half the years of the cambelt because its half the miles?

Mine isn't getting changed till 2015 regardless.
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Yeah I don't know tbh :confused:

Going to ask TDF when they put my new exhaust on.
 
There was 2 going but I missed them, both sold now. There is an older one, but he is wanting the same amount. Though unless you want pops and bangs the old ones do the same job, don't they?
 
I've got the latest one, but as I'm not a chav I haven't used it for the over-run map :p. Main reason I bought it was for diagnostics instead of CLIP. It's been quite good actually - using it I diagnosed a set of error lights as the brake light switch needing adjusting, and when I had a misfire it told me which injector needing replacing.

Sods law says I'd get an error light come on the day I sold it, so I'm keeping it aslong as I've got the car!
 
Unless I read it wrong on ClioSport, the only problem would be that it's currently locked to my car so you'd need to pay Fastchip the €98 unlock license to get it working with your car... and then that locks it to your car so it'd be another €98 unlock license to get it back working with my car. Mental maths puts €196 at about £150 which is just crazy :eek:.
 
Loan it to 5 people at £20 a time and that means you have the funds to get yourself an unlock code to put it back on your car, plus a bit of profit.

Although I'm not sure if the same licence for a car can be used more than once on the same car? I.e. the code you used initially could be reused when you get the tuner back?
 
For the RSTuner i think you need a new code for each car its used on as it locks to the car on which it was last used, so the original owner of the RSTuner would need a code to unlock it to be used again on their car after people had finished borrowing it.

On my RSTuner (a really old one), there is no initial code as it comes unlocked. It pairs with the car on first use. What the unlock code does is remove this pairing so it can be re-paired with another car. Unless something has changed in a more recent version, there is no code for the owner to enter again once others have used it.
 
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reading all the threads about an rstuner made it fairly obvious to me. IMO its about the same cost to buy new, within reason, as it is used and then unlock, and then a map file.

its £180 or so brand new I think. if you add a map file on top of the new unit.

most used ones on CS seem to go for £100 or so, then €96 for unlock plus i think its €29 for the standard 98 RON map. Which works out at about £200
 
It never used to be so expensive, back in the day when I bought mine the maps were free and the unlock code a reasonable price. Think I went through 4 or so maps on my car as they were updated on the site. With the prices now, it doesn't make sense to buy a secondhand one. Am I correct in thinking a map comes as part of the purchase price, its not an addional cost above buying ther box itself.
 
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